Brother, I understand your frustration and shortcoming[s] regarding the various splinter groupings of Gambian organizations both at home and abroad. This is not a new phenomena and will never get resolved as long as we keep dwelling on personalities instead of 'the group,' knowing well, that amongst us, are rabble-rouser, provocateurs and the apathetic masses within the group/organization. Is it not true that our African brothers and sister in the USA encounters the same organizational dysfunction, if not worst, especially churches? Each of us must start a new chapter of trusting, caring, maturity, respect and sincere dialogue within our immediate family and friends, and then to the outside groups/organization in order for us to be whole and complete. In the absence of this, we'll be discussing this issue again in 2011. I believe recent events in Gambia and Yahya Jammeh in general, is a blessing in disguise for us to change the equation afflicting Gambians, whereby, we resign and sink our citizenry to false hopes, apathy, anonymity and depersonalization. My suggestions are: 1] As disenfranchised Gambians, we must organize/coalesce the different groupings under one umbrella with branches all over the world 2] We must start working inside the 'system' [i.e.] selecting, empowering and electing our own progressive leaders that would serve our collective interest 3] We must engage in a critical and diagnostic analysis of our current conditions by analyzing what went wrong? and where do we go from here? 4] We should extend invitations to the various opposition party leaders and APRC regime, to attend the upcoming ALD in DC, whereby we'll demand voting rights for Gambian's living abroad; instead of watching from the sidelines, we'll become participants in the process.This is the only reason why Jawara and hence Yahya Jammeh do not give a hoot about what we write or say from abroad. We must start using our $, #, DM, KRONA and email power to vote our interest I will elaborate more on this.... any suggestions, add your dime to this worthwhile endeavor peace ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------