Blog Posts on The Aware Saga up to May 4th 2009

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• The AWARE Singapore Collective
• AWARE Singapore in 300
• Be Aware

Blogs from Home Ground

• A Xeno Boy in Sg
  • May 2 – To hope till Hope creates
  • April 30 – Carafa’s Eye
  • April 27 – God’s Singaporean Son
  • April 25 – De-legitimising Legality
  • April 23 – A Peculiar Irony
• akikonomu
  • May 4 – An issue of statements I
  • April 27 – A message from Josie Lau
  • April 27 – The law of eternal return
  • April 24 – Group of 9 comes clean…
  • April 22 – What does religion have to do with anything?
  • April 16 – AWARE: a civil society primer
• Alice Cheong in Wonderland
  • May 4 – Moving on from EOGM
  • April 24 – AWARE sage: Revealing the hidden key leader & Reasons for take-over
• As My Life is: Speak Out and Stand Up! Blankanvas: aware: to find one’s voice again
• Bread Crumbs and Candy Cottage
  • May 3 – How a Little Education Can Influence Minds and Change the World: I Love Reasonable Christians
  • April 10 – Coup D’etat (or Organized Crime) of Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE)
• Cats and Stuff
  • April 26 – Some perspectives from an ex-NGO employee
  • April 21 – Working together
• Carpe Diem: BeAWARE: Keep religion out of civil society
• disjecta: A Letter to Christians
• dhamma musings:
  • May 3 – Because they care about AWARE
  • April 29 – More on the AWARE Affair
  • April 29 – Be AWARE, Be Very AWARE
  • April 28 – The AWARE Saga – A Buddhist View
• don’t look back, my friends. it’s me.: May 3 – 1414 & MORE FOR AWARE: A PHOTOESSAY OF THE MAY 2ND EOGM
• Diary of a Singapore Mind
  • May 4 – AWARE : One Saga, Many Lessons…
  • April 28 – MOE Replies on AWARE Sex Education Programme
  • April 24 – New AWARE : How to make enemies and offend people
  • April 11 – Why AWARE was ‘taken’ over…
• Flying Low
  • May 1 – Neutrality in the Classroom
  • April 26 – Stop Being Stupid
  • April 25 – The Gullibility of the Unthinking Reader
  • April 18 – A Woman’s Place
• GenieGrrl
  • May 2 – Thank goodness
  • April 22 – AWARE v the wolf in sheep’s clothing. (or, Stay away, please.)
• Glass Castle Editorial
• Jeff’s Blog
  • April 30 – AWARE Saga: Christ Is Neutral Towards Homosexuality
  • April 29 – AWARE And Obama’s National Academy of Sciences Speech
  • April 24 – AWARE: Analysis of Statements From A Representative Of New Guard
  • April 18 – AWARE Demonstration of Democracy
• Leona’s Blog
  • May 3 – Victorious Victorious – Aware has work cut out
  • April 25 – Time to close this chapter
  • April 12 – 10 things that could happen at the new Aware
• Little People Press: How things are Done are just as Important
• LundBlog: Beautiful Letters: May 3 – political activism in singapore
• Marrael: May 3 – Links and Observations on the AWARE EGM
• Misanthropic And Loving It!
  • May 5 – The AWARE EGM: My views
  • April 27 – The AWARE Brouhaha – A personal view and a PSA
• OpinionAsia: In Singapore: Surveying the responses to the AWARE Saga
• Popagandhi: Stop the AWARE Hijacking
• Random Thoughts of a Free Thinker
  • April 24 – The plot thickens
  • April 20 – We didn’t start the fire
• Salt * Wet * Fish
  • April 26 – AWARE SAGA: Of tolerance, diversity and wisdom
  • April 19 – AWARE of wolves in sheep clothing
  • April 16 – DBS credit cards, FOTF, AWARE and homophobia
  • April 15 – AWAREness in our midst
• Sam’s thoughts
  • May 2 – AWARE restored
  • April 26 – AWARE, Jihadist Sleeper and Unanswered Questions
  • April 24 – Who’s the monster?
  • April 23 – More (secret) allies to support and save AWARE
  • April 20 – Aware making me wary and weary
  • April 18 – AWARE and Information
  • April 17 – Josie Lau: Please answer your own question first!
  • April 16 – The new Adventures of Josie and the Pussycats
  • April 10 – Are you aware of AWARE?
• Sayoni
  • May 2 – Breaking News: AWARE EOGM Results – Old Guard Returned (Singapore)
  • April 24 – A tale of two events: how they have completely lost the plot
• Sgpolitics.net
  • May 4 – My response to the ST article: “Process, pluralism, protection”
  • May 3 – Josie Lau’s team removed, and a new leadership at AWARE has been voted in!
  • May 3 – An open letter to new AWARE president Dana Lam and her team
  • May 2 – Josie Lau’s team removed, and a new leadership at AWARE has been voted in!
  • April 29 – An open letter to Ms Josie Lau
  • April 26 – Countering the contradictions and poorly conceived propaganda of AWARE’s new Exco
  • April 25 – AWARE veterans set the record straight
  • April 24 – Misinformation spread by AWARE’s new Exco is deserving of the sternest rebuke
  • April 18 – New AWARE president disregarded DBS staff code of conduct twice
  • April 13 – More awareness needed about the “leadership grab” in AWARE
• Singapore Enquirer
  • May 2 – Ex-Aware panel members voice distress at ’sacking’
  • May 2 – Should faith-driven groups take over secular organisations?
  • April 24 – Petition against new Aware
• Singapore Life and Times:
  • May 3 – RIP
  • May 2 – The Other Page
  • April 16 – Toasted
• Stomp Talkback: The Hidden Hand
• Tantalizine: Be aware of morons at AWARE
• The Brotherhood: Why the AWARE cat fight is so important to Singaporean civil society?
• The Kent Ridge Common
  • May 3 – Positive ending to a semi-revolution at Suntec City
  • May 2 – News commentary: AWARE’s Extraordinary Meeting
  • May 1 – Religion in secular society and its potential problems
  • May 1 – A series of interesting developments
  • April 28 – Hanging herself by her own rope?
  • April 27 – Playing with words and a controversial precedent
  • April 24 – Dr Thio Su Mien, what can you teach the ignorant ones, really?
  • April 24 – The aftermath of Dr Thio’s revelation
  • April 22 – Notice: Join AWARE and vote
  • April 20 – To AWARE’s new exco: Please leave out religion!
  • April 20 – Inconsistencies in Josie Lau’s Television Interview
• The Legal Janitor: Christian fundamentalists love Big Government
• The Online Citizen
  • May 4 – All about Aware
  • May 4 – Letter to TOC: Aware – readers’ views
  • May 3 – Voted out but still willing to contribute
  • May 3 – Josie Lau and team resign from Executive Committee
  • May 3 – Aware members demand: “Account for our money!”
  • May 3 – AWARE: Lessons from a fiasco
  • May 3 – Aware EOGM – Damien Chng’s photos
  • May 3 – TOC’s Exclusive Videos – Aware Extraordinary General Meeting
  • May 2 – TOC “live” report: Aware EOGM – the early crowd
  • May 2 – More than a thousand turn up for Aware EOGM
  • May 1 – Perspectives: Views on AWARE
  • April 30 – Church of Our Saviour clarifies “allegations”
  • April 26 – BREAKING NEWS: Staff sent out email asking members to vote at Aware EOGM
  • April 25 – Care about AWARE: Leaders we respect
  • April 25 – Constance Singam: “That trust is gone.”
  • April 25 – AWARE veterans set the record straight
  • April 24 – “We cannot have people acting like moral vigilantes..” says AWARE’s old guards
  • April 24 – Dr Thio Su Mien’s press conference
  • April 24 – Lawy’s key role in coup
  • April 21 – Josie Lau’s interview leaves questions unanswered
  • April 20 – Josie Lau’s first television interview
• the phallus monologue
  • April 26 – What do they want?
  • April 24 – Why YOU should care
  • April 18 – Beware of Aware
• The Singapore Monitor
  • April 25 – Weekly Roundup: Week 17
• The Wayang Party
  • May 4 – If you think good won over evil in AWARE, you better sit down, take a stress pill and think it through again!
  • May 4 – CNA Talking Point: Interview with Dana Lam and Braema Mathi
  • May 4 – Reflections of the Aware EGM from a member
  • May 4 – Aftermath of Aware EGM: Time for some house-keeping
  • May 3 – Aftermath of Aware EGM: How Josie and team manage to play the media card the wrong way
  • May 3 – Photo Gallery: AWARE EGM, 2 May 2009 (Inside Halls 402 and 403)
  • April 30 – Call for ROS to step in and dissolve AWARE for breaching provisions under Societies Act (CAP 311)
  • April 29 – EXPOSED: AWARE EGM venue moved to EXPO, next to “Transformation Conference 2009″ co-organized by COOS and 40 other Churches!!!
  • April 28 – Psychiatrists debunked Dr Thio’s and COOS’s claims that homosexuality can be “changed”
  • April 27 – The AWARE saga: Time for government to respond to its ramifications to draw a clear demarcation between secularism and religion
  • April 25 – Blogger launched “Operation Leper” against AWARE new exco
  • April 25 – The crux of the AWARE fiasco is not about homosexuality or religion but the space for diversity
  • April 24 – BREAKING: Old Aware exco rebukes Josie Lau during press conference at Bishan Junction 8
  • April 24 – Press statement from AWARE old guards on 24 April 2009
  • April 24 – Did Josie Lau LIE? Contradictions in earlier DBS statement and her revelation on CNA ‘Talking Point’ that she has no plans to run for AWARE President
  • April 24 – Hostile exchange between Josie Lau and old guard Chew I-Jin during press conference
  • April 24 – COOS Pastor Shawn Tay rallying troops to support new exco at EGM in the name of “Singapore”
  • April 24 – Transcript of new AWARE exco’s press conference last night at Raffles Town Club led by Josie Lau with Thio Su Mien expressing outrage at the turn of events
  • April 24 – BREAKING: Leaked emails from COOS members showed that AWARE take-over was pre-planned in advance!!
• Tomorrow: May 3 – AWARE: a case study in respect Traces from elsewhere
  • May 4 – I salute the wonderful women and men of Singapore for standing up for AWARE
  • May 1 – AWARE – Women make up your minds
• miyagi.sg
  • May 1 – What we should be AWARE of
  • April 22 – I wasn’t AWARE but I am now
• Unwired precipitations
  • April 26 – Why the government is loving this
  • April 10 – Pharisees
• Wayang Times: AWARE News Video Summary
• Writing-Yoga-Living
  • May 3 – Post EGM – Still High!
  • May 1 – Messrs Rajah & Tann, Why? Why? Why?
  • April 30 – Aware EGM Akan Datang
  • April 24 – Why Thio Su Mien’s Stand Is Good News
  • April 24 – Great News: Thio Su Mien Behind Coup Conspiracy!!
  • April 23 – What can I say?
  • April 23 – More Aware now
  • April 19 – Josie and The Pushy Cats on TV
• Youth:sg: Caught unAWAREs: Milestones and brickbats
• Yawning Bread
  • April 29 – Identity mobilisation – a threat to society
  • April 26 – Bloggers’ maturity demonstrated in Aware saga
  • April 21 – Pirates ahoy! Gay netizens and the AWARE hijacking
  • April 12 – From now on, be wary of AWARE

From the World Wide Blogosphere

• BoingBoing – Christian Fundamentalists hijack Singapore Feminist Group
• dogemperor
  • May 3 – AWARE: Proof that sometimes the good guys win
  • April 24 – Steeplejack of AWARE (women’s org) in Singapore by Joel’s Army church
• wiqaable: media: the AWARE saga