Public call to join AWARE may backfire

Public call to join AWARE may backfire

Right, this is the situation. Claire Nazar, the person endorsed by Constance Singam as president, appointed 6 new members into EXCO. It was also reported that after she joined AWARE, she had been encouraging new members to join the association. Here are excerpts of the report from ST:
Claire Nazar: Why I quit as Aware president

The irony was that Mrs Nazar had nominated six of the current remaining 11 exco members. This came about after Mrs Singam advised her to include fresh blood among the exco members who could then work with older members to ensure continuity…...

She picked them based on their credentials and 'the merit of their previous experience'. Besides, she added, 'they had expressed keen interest, and I thought they were people I could work with'.

At Mrs Nazar's urging, Ms Lau joined Aware at the start of the year. Mrs Nazar said that since joining Aware, she had made it a habit of asking women to sign up…

Before long, the new members ousted the old EXCO members and she now finds herself surrounded by the new team.


The old team now launches a counter-attack, encouraging new members to join, to oust the new EXCO. As can be seen from this report:
Old guard supporters rallying the troops

But The Sunday Times understands that more than 100 people have since signed up. Old members of Aware estimate membership to be over 600 now.

A Facebook group was even set up to canvass for new members. As of last night, 591 people have joined this group, but not all may join Aware.

An extraordinary general meeting (EOGM) has since been sought, to vote on a no-confidence motion.

In a letter to the media last Friday, new president Josie Lau noted that of the 160 signatories who asked for an EOGM, some 120 'appear to have been recruited just after the AGM in time to swell support for the requisition'.

These ladies haven’t learned a thing, have they?


My Message to the Old EXCO of Aware -

Isn’t recruiting new members YOU DO NOT KNOW, the real reason for the old EXCO’s downfall?

So by encouraging the public to join the AWARE to “oust the new team”, how do you know that the surge of new members are not affiliated, or sympathetic towards the new team?

Has not the old team been kicked in the butt by signing up new members once? Why are you repeating the same mistake?

As it is, I believe that AWARE has about 500 members or so, even before the latest surge of sign-ups. The new team depended on only about 100 members or so to be elected into office. Can’t the old team use their CURRENT MEMBERS who are not pro-new EXCO, which number about 400 plus to oust the new EXCO?

That goes about to show that the old EXCO could not even garner the support of their current members, isn’t’ it? If that is the case, then I say heck, the old team deserves to be ousted!


My message to all self-proclaimed pro-feminists (men included) –

This portion is directed to all other feminists (and pro-feminists, men included), who think they are doing the old EXCO of AWARE a favour by publicly encouraging women from all walks of life to join the coming EOGM on 2 May 2009.

Be aware (sorry for pun) that you really do not know who these Tom, Dick and Harry, or should I say, Tina, Daisy, and Harriet are. They seem so eager to join AWARE, don’t they?

My question is, by publicly encouraging them to join, how do you know that these people are not from the very groups whom you hope to oust?

I hate to say this. But in your eagerness to “save” AWARE from the doldrums, you may well be facilitating its downfall.

Are you not advertising for your adversaries as well? Isn’t it better to call your own known affiliates to join, to be sure they will support your cause, rather than calling anyone at random?

Sometimes you need to be tactical when you fight a battle. Looks like these ladies don’t know how to do it.

Ladies, like Claire Nazar who rounded up new members without doing a background check, your sites which calls upon women to join AWARE means they will join without being vetted either.

The big question is – do your really know who they are?

Why are you repeating the same disastrous mistake Claire made?

Your battle cry for more troops may well backfire.

The worst case scenario is that your opposing camp gets more than enough members to join, to the point it is enough for them to CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION such that it locks them into power for a long, long time.

Is that what you want? If not, isn’t it better to just stick to your known affiliates and encourage them to join, rather than encouraging anybody you do not know from the streets?

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