All are welcomeYouth Quake“Should Singaporean Youths be Allowed to Vote at 18?” VideosThe Workers’ Party Youth Wing is pleased to invite you to participate in the first of our YouthQuake Forums and partake in a discussion on how youths in Singapore can be encouraged to adopt and carry forward a refreshing new agenda on voting age. This forum session seeks to educate, empower, and unite young people to bring youth-centric issues into the forefront of public discourse. It aims to provide an opportunity for youths to share their insights and opinions on promoting a vote@18 agenda in Singapore.The first YouthQuake Forum will be held onDate: 3rd May 2008 (Saturday)Time: 1400 hrs – 1600 hrs. Please be seated by 1345 hrsVenue: 216-G Syed Alwi Road #02-03In order to assist us in the organisation of this forum, kindly indicated your participation with the Workers’ Party Youth Wing @ youthwing@wp.sgThe speakers for this event are:Choo Zheng Xi: Zheng Xi will be speaking on the pros and cons of a vote @ 18 agenda.Anne Tan: “A vote @18 agenda is more than a political issue. It’s a core social issue.”Khairulanwar Zaini: Khairulanwar will be touching on the double standards adopted in Singapore of doing national service @ 18 while voting @ 21.Speaker profiles:Choo Zheng XiChoo Zheng Xi is a second year student at the NUS Law Faculty. He was the youngest speaker to make his case at the Speaker’s Corner, taking to the soapbox in 2000 at the age of 14. His activism has since refined but he is no less passionate about youth involvement in the public sphere. Zheng Xi organized Myanmar Peace Awareness Day on all local campuses on August 2007. This involved public forums, red ribbon and armband distribution, and public petition signing. He is also the owner and Editor of TOC (www.theonlinecitizen.com), a local online news and social commentary website with an established readership. He is currently involved in a blogger’s project to craft a position paper on deregulation to be submitted to the government. He looks forward to a day when youth involvement in public discourse will be the norm rather than the exception.Anne TanAnne is 17 this year. Formerly from Methodist Girls’ School (MGS), she is currently in her first year at Anglo-Chinese Junior College (ACJC). In MGS she represented the school in a variety of debating competitions. Now in ACJC she has continued her career as a debater and has already represented ACJC at the National Debating Championship. She is the second daughter of Eric Tan, the WP East Coast candidate in the 2006 General Elections.Khairulanwar ZainiKhairulanwar Zaini is willingly defending the nation although he would be glad to be deprived of the honour for the next remaining ten months. He remains a silent sideline observer of the socio-political landscape in Singapore, sporadically becoming outraged at certain political developments and even more sporadically writes about opposition development at (http://burningrepublicstate.wordpress.com). A liberal at heart, he awaits the day a Singaporean politician will campaign on themes of hope and love.