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 | Ousting Guinea's Brutal Junta In spite of moves to encourage Guinea’s military leaders to step down, the junta is still clinging to power. The tense situation in Guinea threatens to spiral into inter-factional fighting or a counter-coup. Any further violence could destabilize the region. Years have been spent establishing a fragile peace in neighboring Sierra Leone and Liberia. If Guinea blows, these fledgling democracies could also be at risk. Ricken Patel, the executive director of Avaaz.org, presents arguments in favour of the E.U. using their political weight to end the violence in Guinea. (The New York Times) - Oct 25, 2009 |
 | Eight reasons to sanction Guinea Over the past few days over 125,000 citizens from across the world, have signed an Avaaz.org petition calling for targeted sanctions on Guinea's military regime. Too often, the world has stood by and watched as countries have collapsed into violence and chaos, necessitating long and costly interventions to rebuild peace. On Monday, the European Union has the chance to impose targeted sanctions on Guinea's military regime to help end the violence and repression. In this European Voice article Ricken Patel, executive director of Avaaz.org, lists eight reasons in support of imposing sanctions to end the brutality in Guinea. (European Voice) - Oct 23, 2009 |
 | Bin Laden sports 'I love Guantanamo' T-shirt in US ad The advertisement campaign aimed at shutting the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is being run at Farragut North metro station, one of the closest to the White House, and in the Washington Post daily newspaper. Avaaz believes Guantanamo is a potent symbol for the "war on terror" torture excesses of former president George W. Bush and that Al-Qaeda plays on this fact to pull in new members. (AFP) – Sep 29, 2009 |
 | There Will Be Bells -- the Global Climate Wake-Up Call There will be a lot of noise around the world on Sept. 21st when people all over the globe -- from New York to Guatemala to Dakar -- join together in a Global Climate Wake Up Call. Organized by the amazing folks at Avaaz, Oxfam, Greenpeace and 350.org, the Global Wake-Up Call will see people from all walks of life get together in public places to sound the alarm and urge our political leaders to stand up and take bold action at the Copenhagen Climate Treaty. (The Huffington Post) - Sep 11, 2009 |
 | Climate groups dismayed by G20's lack of interest "This is a crisis of leadership. The rich-country G20 leaders -- especially Merkel and Obama -- set themselves a deadline for a climate finance proposal, and then slept right through it," said Ben Wikler of Avaaz. "Until the US, EU and Japanese leaders wake up and put together a serious climate finance plan, there will be a 150 billion dollar pothole on the road to Copenhagen," he told reporters in Pittsburgh for the summit. (AFP) - Sep 25, 2009 |
| 'Flash mobs' send world's politicians climate wake-up call The protests were planned as a "wake-up call" for world leaders in advance of the United Nations summit on climate change in New York on Tuesday. Participants in so-called "flash mobs" held up mobile phones synchronized to sound alarms at the same local time, 12:18 p.m., a time chosen because it corresponds with Dec. 18 — the 18th day of the 12th month — and the last day of expected climate treaty talks in Copenhagen, Denmark. (CBC News) - Sep 21, 2009 | |
 | The fiercest battles for a climate deal are fought online From campaigners TckTckTck and Avaaz to the UK climate secretary's office and the UN, organisations are using the web to harness people power on a scale not seen since Obama's famous digital election strategy. It's not hard to see why. (The Guardian) - Sep 22, 2009 |
 | Reuters: Climate activists phone blitz Prime Minister Environmentalists converged on parliament on Monday and chanted "tick! tick! tick! tick!" to symbolise a wake-up call to world leaders ahead of December's U.N. climate summit in Copenhagen. (Reuters) - Sep 21, 2009 |
 | Suu Kyi verdict widely condemned "Aung San Suu Kyi 's detention today on spurious charges removes any shred of legitimacy" of the government, said Ricken Patel, director of an online campaign network called Avaaz.org. (UPI) - Aug 11, 2009 |
 | Europeans Demand Tighter Sanctions on Myanmar Regime “Citizens across the globe are asking world leaders to hold this brutal regime to account,” said Ricken Patel, director of an online campaign network called Avaaz.org. “Aung San Suu Kyi ’s detention today on spurious charges removes any shred of legitimacy.” (The New York Times) - Aug 11, 2009 |
| G8 - Strip Mob for Cooler Climate In Rome today, a “Strip Mob for Cooler Climate” took place on the Spanish Steps in order to send a message to Silvio Berlusconi to keep his clothes on and get to work on the serious problem of climate change. (CNN) - Jul 8, 2009 | |
 | House Passes Climate Bill The Avaaz Climate Action Factory, the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, and the Energy Action Coalition hold a rally to urge the House to pass the climate bill. (The Wall Street Journal) - Jun 27, 2009 |
 | Cuba inside, shutdown outside Not being here at the Port of Spain Summit of the Americas has not stopped Cuba from being the centre of attention of leaders inside and outside of the conference. (BBC) - Apr 19, 2009 |
 | It's not easy being green - guardian.co.ukEU recovery plans are focusing on environmental investment and manufacturing, but the road is strewn with obstacles"There are alternatives. Green MEPs, led by Claude Turmes, a Luxembourger who co-drafted the EU's climate change policies, are pressing for a genuinely eco-friendly economic recovery programme for the post-crisis era. Turmes has warned that, unless Europe gets its collective act together, it risks being left behind by Obama's America, China and even Japan."A similar message has come from Nicholas Stern, author of the British government's agenda-setting report on climate change. And from Avaaz, the internet-based campaign, which is telling this weekend's summit via millions of emails that the US is moving with more clarity and purpose than the EU and that China, the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, is committing a third of its huge stimulus programme to green investments." (The Guardian) - Feb 25, 2009 |
 | Voice of America - Group Seeks to Mobilize Global Political Action Through Internet "We still have a massive democratic deficit in the world today and the technology revolution that has been sweeping the globe has allowed people to connect across borders like never before and that is what we are doing. We are trying to connect up this huge global community to be able to take action rapidly and effectively when moments of opportunity on these issues present themselves." (Voice of America) - Apr 28, 2008 |
 | The Economist, “Wakey-wakey: Electronic activism is stirring citizens into life, whatever leaders might think” Whatever might unite or devide them, George Bush, Vladimir Putin and the other leaders of the G8 nations will have afresh topic for small talk, and perhaps serious talk, when they meet in Germany this summer. They and their underlings will all have been bombarded with emails from every country in the world urging them to take faster action on climate change - in a campaign mounted by Avaaz.org, a new web based protest movement. (The Economist) - Feb 15, 2007 |
 | Asahi Shimbun: NGO convinces Prime Minister to develop mid-term goal At a preparatory meeting, the Environment Minister Kamoshita pulled up an Indonesian newspaper, the Jakarta Post. Faces of Prime Minister Fukuda, the president Bush and Prime Minister Harper appeared, covering the entire back page of a special section on the Bali negotiations. Under their faces, read the line "No targets, no icebergs, just global disaster coming soon, world don't give in".It was an ad of Avaaz.org Minister Kamoshita reacted: "Japan is regarded as resistance power by the world. Can we get away with this?"Why don't we propose an emission target?" asked the Chief Cabinet Secretary, a comment that was seconded by the Environment Minister and Foreign Minister. This talk convinced the Prime Minister to develop a national mid-term goal. |
