Phil Robertson
@reaproy
Human rights & labor activist, working mostly in SE Asia. FCCT Board member and chair of Programs Committee. Boston sports fan, rock & roll lover, fisherman. JHU SAIS. Cape Cod, Korat, Khon Kaen, Bangkok. Thai/Lao speaker
With apologies to Alien. Worried 😟 about what sort of monster bursts forth later!
Foreign Correspondents Club of #Thailand issued a statement on 17 July about the detention of Chinese investigative journalist Bai Zhaodong at the Bangkok Immigration Detention Center. The @fccthai.bsky.social calls on Thai authorities to not send him back to #China. www.fccthai.com/news/fcct-st...
Still registering US Democrats in #Thailand to vote in US elections! Contact me if you have questions on how to register to vote, it's critical this year to take back the House & Senate!
In the end, it didn't matter. But what's certain is FIFA ended up with egg on its face for kowtowing to the Orange Tyrant.
Very important statement by the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, demanding that #Cambodia immediately and unconditionally release the Mother Nature Cambodia 5. They have been unjustly imprisoned for far too long on bogus 'plotting' charges! #FreetheFive #MNC5 #PhnomPenh #Kampuchea
What Donald #Trump is trying to distract us from with his ongoing soap opera about the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool (swamp)...
Trump diversionary tactics as he seeks to shred the US Constitution, rights as the US approaches the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The Orange Monster and his swamp is spreading.
The Lord of the Rings meets #Trump's reflecting pool swamp in Washington, DC - just in time for the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence. This mess courtesy of the orange faced ass clown in the White House.
Latest cartoon from #Bangkok based editorial cartoonist Stephff. His weekly offering is available in the FCCT Bulletin, the club's email newsletter sent out every Monday. Sign up for the Bulletin for free, never miss an event or a cartoon! @fccthai.bsky.social www.fccthai.com/newsletter
The stripers are running! Caught this one on Middle Ground rip, Vineyard Sound, yesterday morning. They're chasing squid up and down. More than 40 boats out there pursuing them. This made for a delicious dinner last night!
Ah, #Trump's so-called 'vandal' of the Lincoln Memorial Swamp (err, reflecting pool) has been identified. Stephen Miller, you shouldn't have ;-)
Central spirit shrine at Chatuchak Plaza, right next to the weekend market. Quiet on a Thursday...
Seen at the #Bangkok Pride March on Sunday! Exactly 100% right, the #Myanmar elections were a complete and total fraud and a joke, and should not recognized by #ASEAN. #Burma #WhatsHappeninginMyanmar #BangkokPride
This Wednesday (27 May, 7 pm) at the FCCT! Everything you wanted to know about the ongoing online disinformation operations that are destroying information integrity in #Thailand. Deep South, Thai/Cambodia, politics, migrant workers all getting hit. Free & open event at the @fccthai.bsky.social.
Standing up for the 1st amendment against the Orange Monster in the US.
Happening on 14 May at 2 pm at the #FCCT @fccthai.bsky.social in #Bangkok! Challenges, resilience & successes for journalists across Asia, w/amazing correspondent panelists from #Myanmar, Nepal & Indonesia. Free & open to the public! New report from Media Development Investment Fund too!
Great pleasure to join the Australian Embassy in #Bangkok last week to mark World Press Freedom Day. Lots more work needed on this across the SE Asian region!
#Thailand's conservative establishment continuing its blatantly anti-democratic repression of progressive People's Party, coming up w/bogus reasons to politically execute 44 PP leaders. Simply outrageous & unacceptable, another black mark on Thailand's so-called "democracy" #WhatsHappeninginThailand