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What a way to make a buzz! See, Singapore's SlutWalk organizers have been given a police permit. Oh yes, no hassle at all to get this permit. But now, they're fighting NOT to have to use it.
D'oh.
Then why the hell did they bother to apply it?
So that they can later on create a publicity by refusing NOT to use the police permit?!?!
SlutWalk Singapore, you are so complicated...
They may have been given a police permit, but Singapore’s SlutWalk organisers are now fighting to not have to use it.
“No one (who has organised similar events in the past) has had to apply for a police permit before, and we feel it’s important to not set a precedent for other events in the future to do this as well,” one of the organizers Cher Tan, 24, told Yahoo! Singapore on Tuesday evening.
The freelance graphic designer is one of seven women aged between 21 and 55 who came together to advance the SlutWalk cause in Singapore.
On 8 November, however, the organisers were told by the Singapore Police Force (SPF) that they needed a separate permit. Unaware of the exemption clause, one of the group's members then went ahead to apply for the permit.
Sunday’s event will be “carnival-style” with performances, speeches and informational booths, without protests or formations, unlike those done in events such as Pink Dot, explained Tan.
Tan also told Yahoo! Singapore that organisers, on Monday, wrote to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs Teo Chee Hean, Law Minister K Shanmugam and the Ministry for Community Development, Youth and Sports to seek help in waiving the need for a permit. They have yet to hear from any of them.
SlutWalk Singapore will be held this Sunday at the Speakers’ Corner of Hong Lim Park, alongside SlutWalk events happening in Hong Kong, Bangalore and Mumbai. Click here for more information, or visit their website at http://slutwalksg.com.
Singapore - Protest-averse Singapore will allow a "SlutWalk" rally against sexual violence to be held this weekend, police said on Wednesday after a public squabble between the authorities and organisers.
"A permit has been approved," a police spokesperson told AFP.
The organisers had insisted they never needed a permit in the first place but police said the global nature of the movement and expected presence of foreigners made it necessary.
"SlutWalk Singapore has been granted the police permit, but we have sent in an appeal to Home Affairs Minister Teo Chee Hean to have it waived," they said on their Facebook site.
SlutWalks have been held in dozens of cities around the world, including Toronto, Auckland and Wellington in New Zealand, New Delhi, Philadelphia, Seoul, Sydney, Washington, Paris and Berlin.
Cape Town and Johannesburg also held SlutWalks.
Alex Au, a social critic and gay rights activist, ridiculed the police reaction to the SlutWalk, saying in a blog that "maybe our senior civil servants can’t get past the word 'slut' and have begun to hyperventilate".
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Yahoo! SlutWalk Singapore is so sexy?! Heh.
What a way to make a buzz! See, Singapore's SlutWalk organizers have been given a police permit. Oh yes, no hassle at all to get this permit. But now, they're fighting NOT to have to use it.
D'oh.
Then why the hell did they bother to apply it?
So that they can later on create a publicity by refusing NOT to use the police permit?!?!
SlutWalk Singapore, you are so complicated...
They may have been given a police permit, but Singapore’s SlutWalk organisers are now fighting to not have to use it.
“No one (who has organised similar events in the past) has had to apply for a police permit before, and we feel it’s important to not set a precedent for other events in the future to do this as well,” one of the organizers Cher Tan, 24, told Yahoo! Singapore on Tuesday evening.
The freelance graphic designer is one of seven women aged between 21 and 55 who came together to advance the SlutWalk cause in Singapore.
On 8 November, however, the organisers were told by the Singapore Police Force (SPF) that they needed a separate permit. Unaware of the exemption clause, one of the group's members then went ahead to apply for the permit.
Sunday’s event will be “carnival-style” with performances, speeches and informational booths, without protests or formations, unlike those done in events such as Pink Dot, explained Tan.
Tan also told Yahoo! Singapore that organisers, on Monday, wrote to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs Teo Chee Hean, Law Minister K Shanmugam and the Ministry for Community Development, Youth and Sports to seek help in waiving the need for a permit. They have yet to hear from any of them.
SlutWalk Singapore will be held this Sunday at the Speakers’ Corner of Hong Lim Park, alongside SlutWalk events happening in Hong Kong, Bangalore and Mumbai. Click here for more information, or visit their website at http://slutwalksg.com.
Singapore - Protest-averse Singapore will allow a "SlutWalk" rally against sexual violence to be held this weekend, police said on Wednesday after a public squabble between the authorities and organisers.
"A permit has been approved," a police spokesperson told AFP.
The organisers had insisted they never needed a permit in the first place but police said the global nature of the movement and expected presence of foreigners made it necessary.
"SlutWalk Singapore has been granted the police permit, but we have sent in an appeal to Home Affairs Minister Teo Chee Hean to have it waived," they said on their Facebook site.
SlutWalks have been held in dozens of cities around the world, including Toronto, Auckland and Wellington in New Zealand, New Delhi, Philadelphia, Seoul, Sydney, Washington, Paris and Berlin.
Cape Town and Johannesburg also held SlutWalks.
Alex Au, a social critic and gay rights activist, ridiculed the police reaction to the SlutWalk, saying in a blog that "maybe our senior civil servants can’t get past the word 'slut' and have begun to hyperventilate".
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