Yael
Mexico City, Mexico
I joined Avaaz because I believe globalization can be more just and democratic. Avaaz.org can be the catalyst that allows people around the world to go from just caring to actually taking action to solve some of the world's biggest problems.
Do you want to be an Avaaz Member of the Week? Email your photo, name, location, and a short paragraph about what Avaaz means to you to volunteers@avaaz.org.
^ YouTube guest editor MADDOGZA (Trevor) - from Ithaca, New York
"I lived in South Africa for 4 years. This was where my dad ran Habitat for Humanity's human resource efforts for Africa and the Middle-East, and also where my mother was born. This has shaped who I am. I really just stumbled upon Avaaz, but it is exactly what I am about. TAKING ACTION. Taking action on global issues is so important to me. When I have the time, grassroots campaigns are totally my thing. One day I would like to make a difference, on a much grander scale, like Avaaz is doing currently. Let us all join together, forget our differences, and make some positive change!"
Trevor would like to quote some lyrics from "Union," by the Black Eyed Peas:
"
It takes one, just one
And then one follows the other one
And then another follows another one
Next thing you know you got a billion
People doing some wonderful things
People doing some powerful things
Let's change and do some powerful things
then you could be a wonderful thing.
"
Trevor has a video channel on YouTube, just like Avaaz does, and he was selected to be guest editor of the YT front page. This meant that he had the power to feature videos on the front page of one of the most popular websites in the world - he selected what millions of global viewers would see.
He found Avaaz's "Stop the Clash of Civilizations" video, which he loved. That video was then featured by him on the homepage, and received about 700,000 new views due to this.
*UPDATE ON THE "STOP THE CLASH" VIDEO*
Avaaz's vid has now become a YouTube viral! Here are some of the honors rolling in:
#2 Most discussed News and Politics video on YouTube, all time
#20 Most discussed video on YouTube, all time
#26 Top favorite News and Politics video on YouTube, all time
#59 Most responded video on YouTube, all time
#100 Most viewed News and Politics video on YouTube, all time
Please check out Trevor's "maddogza" channel on YouTube - you can watch his guest editor video above, or subscribe to his channel > http://www.youtube.com/maddogza
Also check out Trevor's other website: http://www.bloodsandcripsunite.com
Nicholas - Arizona, USA
"I got involved so that the relatively limited amount of time I can spend on crucial issues could be amplified by Avaaz' ability to aggregate political will on a global scale. The small efforts of thousands, unified in purpose, make a big difference"
Nicholas was the designer of our "Fire Wolfowitz" banner from this week's rally outside the World Bank.
Do you want to be featured as an Avaaz member of the week? Send your picture and a few words about why you are an Avaaz member to volunteers@avaaz.org
Iyad, Palestine
"I always wanted to do something about all the wrong and injustice that's been happening around the world. With Avaaz.org I can be active and start changing the world to be a better place to live in."
Do you want to be featured as an Avaaz member of the week? Send your picture and a few words about why you are an Avaaz member to volunteers@avaaz.org
We received a wonderfully encouraging email today from the Akashi Project
The Akashi projects works with people from different cultural and fiath communities here in the UK to explore what climate change means to us- linking 'green issues' to culture and faith.
Special thanks to Friends of Lebanon for supporting our Stop the Clash and Real Middle East Talks campaign on their site.
Cheng Nienming (pictured above) from Singapore writes:
I will do what i can, so long as i'm living on this planet. I'm sure all of us will too. But lets do it sooner rather than later. Sincerely, mingCheck out her blog here.
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Bibi Ayesha from South Africa writes:
As a child, I came across a quote, ''The only thing necessary for evil to continue is for good men to do nothing.'' As a South African, apartheid was my parents' struggle. World justice is mine. I don't have a right to live in a state of oblivion, cocooned in comfort, while others lack the basic right of freedom. I want to belong to a group that cares enough to take action.
Sarah
Munich, Germany
"I joined Avaaz to give people a voice and to show that we can change the world."
Send us your name, city, country, and a why you want to join Avaaz to volunteers@avaaz.org, and you can be featured as one of our next "Members of the Week"!
Brigitte - Los Angeles, USA
"With each passing day I grow more hopeful that I as an individual can have an impact on the issues that are important to me and my generation. Having an international forum like AVAAZ.org gives me a sense of community and inspiration as I see that change can indeed come from the ground up."
Do you want to be featured as an Avaaz member of the week? Send your picture and a few words about why you are an Avaaz member to volunteers@avaaz.org
Things are really heating up on the Stop the Clash campaign - over 40,000 Avaaz members have now signed the petition. But it's critical that we get the number of signers as high as possible before we take it to world leaders. We need to get over
60,000 - another 20,000 - and we need to use internet tools to help reach the millions of people who agree with us, but don't know about the campaign yet.
Are you registered on Digg.com? If you're already a user then please
digg the Middle East petition page here.
If you haven't heard about Digg, it's an online chart of the best stories, sites and videos on the web. After you sign up (don't worry, you can tell them not to send you unwanted e-mails), you can then "digg" pages you like, either when someone else has added them, or because you add them yourself. You can also find out which pages are the most popular with other Diggers at the moment. So, register as a digg user and then don't forget to digg our Stop the Clash campaign!!
Wakey-wakeyFeb 15th 2007
From The Economist print edition
Electronic activism is stirring a lot of citizens into life, whatever leaders thinkWHATEVER might unite or divide them, George Bush, Vladimir Putin and the other leaders of the G8 nations will have a fresh 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 e-mails from every country in the world urging them to take faster action over climate change--in a campaign mounted by Avaaz.org, a new web-based protest movement which aspires to be the biggest and broadest such organisation in a crowded field.
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