Alexis Ong: Occupy Singapore failed miserably because we're in Singapore

Tue, 10/25/2011 - 04:58 — Anonymous In case you haven't heard, Occupy
Singapore was a raging failure. Not only did nobody – well, almost nobody
-- show up to its Facebook event at Raffles Place, but online coverage of the
organizers' failure reveals that Singaporean netizens have moved beyond
trademark cynicism into a sensational predatory froth. Even worse, a local
blog claims that people who signed up to go to the Occupy Raffles Place
protest ended up at a jokey promotional event called Occupy Ben and Jerry's
Chunkfest.Food versus politics, for many Singaporeans, is an easy decision.
Even an Occupy KL event in Malaysia managed a respectable 200-strong turnout.
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