Aftermath of AWARE saga

Extracted from SIngaporeDaily.net

Weekly Roundup: Week 19

Posted by singaporedaily on May 9th, 2009

We at Singapore Daily wish all our readers a Happy Vesak Day

“I’m on page 73.”
Thio Su Mien

“the defining moments of this whole episode — one side being about Shut-Up and Sit Down, and the other side being about Stand up and Speak Out.”
Mathia Lee

“The battle for Aware should be seen instead as a struggle over how – not whether – to insert faith-based values into public life.”
Cherian George

“Economic growth should benefit all Singaporeans, not just the rich and well-connected.”
Avery Chong, Gerald Giam, Nathaniel Koh, Watson Chong and Yaw Shin Leong

“The thrown chair could have killed somebody.”
Lim Hwee Hwa

This week’s roundup and recommended reads after the break.

AWARE Takeover Aftermath
- TOC: AWARE: Lessons from a fiasco [Recommended]
- …thrills, spills & flatliners: FUNDIES, EXIT… STAGE LEFT
- still me.: Asian societies and the Chinese Gentry
- The Wayang Party: Aftermath of Aware EGM: Time for some house-keeping
- Youth.sg: AWARE: a case study in respect
- Alice Cheong in Wonderland: Moving on from EOGM
- Singapore Alternatives: Lesson from AWARE SAGA - Defending our National Core Values
- Sgpolitics: An open letter to new AWARE president Dana Lam and her team
- God’s in his heaven, All’s well with the world: I am AWARE, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore
- Mr Wang Says So: Thank God the Christians Were Defeated
- Singapore Dino: “Feminist Mentor” Thio Su Mien’s gang thrown out of AWARE
- My Little Corner: AWARE saga is finally coming to an end
- Singapore Life and Times: RIP
- Blowin’ In The Wind: Singapore women’s group routs anti-gays, media goes to town
- The Wayang Party: Aftermath of Aware EGM: How Josie and team manage to play the media card the wrong way
- Dee Kay Dot As Gee: The Aware Saga - Time to repair the damages
- ALVINOLOGY: Alvinology goes to the AWARE EGM
- Illusio: An issue of statements I
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: AWARE : One Saga, Many Lessons…
- Yawning Bread: Lessons for the PAP from the Aware EOGM
- Sgpolitics.net: My response to the ST article: “Process, pluralism, protection”
- The Wayang Party: ST ploy using the Aware saga to justify shameless PAP gerrymandering via the GRC
- TOC: Letter to TOC: Aware - readers’ views
- groundnotes: How to win an EOGM and lotsa friends
- Chemical Generation Singapore: An Insidious Thiology
- Nomed Letters: Our Evil Gains from the AWARE Fiasco
- The Wayang Party: If you think good won over evil in AWARE, you better sit down, take a stress pill and think it through again!
- Tricia: I’m a hooligan and proud of it
- The Christian Post: What the ‘Aware Saga’ really is (and what it is not)
- Angry Doctor: On the same page?
- …thrills, spills & flatliners: FUND RAISING SHOUT OUT
- Mathia Lee: Things I’ve learnt from the AWARE saga [Recommended]
- Siew Kum Hong: What I took away from 2 May
- Talkiew: The Christian Post find offense in secular nature of our Society
- As My Life Is: Speak Out and Stand Up!
- Writing-Yoga-Living: Already Plotting Next Move
- TOC: The government’s strategic intervention in the Aware saga
- Sgpolitics: Political parallels of the AWARE saga
- The Wayang Party: Why the civil activism shown in the Aware saga will never be replicated in politics
- Mr Wang Says So: Steeplejacking: The Internal Crisis of Christianity?
- Illusio: Inquiring minds want to know: Caine Teo and Ape Communications
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: More than just a Mentor…
- Singapore Kopi Tok: In the Name of Christianity
- Almost Infamous: The Authoritarians - AWARE Edition
- catherinelim.sg: Fallout of the Aware saga: A letter to concerned parents
- Empty Vessel: A response to Ms Catherine Lim
- catherinelim.sg: The Aware controversy - The Real Casualty
- Mathia Lee: AWARE’s Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) : Re Homosexuality, anal sex, pre-marital sex
- The Wayang Party: MOE succumbs to intense lobbying to suspend Aware’s CSE
- The Wayang Party: The CSE controversy: Let us be guided by pragmatism and scientific evidence
- The Wayang Party: LEAKED: Appeal to Prime Minister on values of marriage and family
- Tampines Court enblc/anti-enbloc: Has MOE lost it’s mind?
- Scholar at Large: AWARE and the secular conscience [Recommended]
- Glass Castle Blog: The future of Singapore’s feminism
- irreligious: Ringside seat at Aware EGM [Thanks Terence]
- Me and my thoughts: Aware - the last word
- Today In Singapore: Bulletproof Your Exco
- naif’s journal: The ‘i’m on page 73′ game [Thanks Jerome]
- Yawning Bread: Education Ministry suspends AWARE’s sexuality education program
- The Wayang Party: The AWARE steeplejackers and their deep connections to Joel’s Army and American dominionists [Recommended]
- Almost Infamous: Josie and the DBS Credit Card Boycott
- Singapore Life and Times: Silvery tongue
- defragment.me: Stop feeding the fear mongers
- Project Lucy: Let’s have an omelette for gaiety [Thanks Project Lucy]
- The Lycan Times: CSE and the role of MOE
- Sex sells, so does Politics: How an IT guy will teach school sexuality programmes

AWARE Weekend Special
AWARE Aftermath
- The Bosonic State: The Aftermath of the AWARE War
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: AWARE is saved; It is all over?
- Siew Kum Hong: We won :)
- Sam’s thoughts: AWARE restored
- Feed Me To The Fish: Why PAP leaders cannot match up to Braema Mathi
- Everyday’s Life in a Snapshot: Pastor Hong, hongkan liao lah!

AWARE EGM at Suntec
- Sayoni Speak: AWARE EOGM Results - Old Guard Returned (Singapore)
- TOC: Josie Lau and team resign from Executive Committee
- Sgpolitics: Josie Lau’s team removed, and a new leadership at AWARE has been voted in!
- TOC: Voted out but still willing to contribute
- The Wise Old Owl: AWARE EGM…Bravo to 1414 brave women!
- Motion Pictures: AWARE EGM 02 May 09
- TOC: Aware members demand: “Account for our money!”
- TOC: Chaos - “Shut up and sit down”
- The Wayang Party: Thio Su Mien asked the crowd to show her some respect during Aware EGM
- ADRENALYNNE: Aware egm starts
- The Wayang Party: LIVE from Suntec: AWARE EGM, 2 May 2009
- TOC: More than a thousand turn up for Aware EOGM
- The Wayang Party: Photo Gallery: AWARE EGM, 2 May 2009 (before the EGM outside the hall)
- the DEATH of A MILLION is JUST A STATISTIC: 65% Vote of No Confidence at AWARE EGM
- TOC: Aware EOGM - Damien Chng’s photos [Pics]
- TOC: AWARE victorious and rejoice [Vids]

AWARE’s Comprehensive Sexuality Education
- Warblings Of A Little Bird: AWARE Takeover: Not a debate between gays and fundies, but between bigotry and the 21st century

Christians Speak Out
- inter alia: Gwee Li Sui’s notes: to praise or not to praise?

General Discourse
- Yawning Bread: John Dorhauer on the steeplejacking of AWARE
- Illusio: Aware’s new events management company
- Singapore Life and Times: The Other Page
- You paint the morning sky with miracles in mind: Aware and the Press
- Alamak: Today, Singapore tore up the Twitter-sphere with #awaresg being…
- My Note Book On The Web: AWARE EOGM : Twitter, Twitterfall and Twitpic the new media world