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Massive Online Petitions Decry CISPA

The Huffington Post | Timothy Stenovec | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Avaaz, Avaaz Cispa, Video, Online Advocacy, Cispa Petition, Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, HR 3523 Act, Avaaz Cispa Petition, avaaz.org, Slacktivism, Cispa, Technology News

An online petition to stop the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) has reached nearly 800,000 signatures. The petition, launched ...

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Syria Crisis: 13 Activists Killed In Missions To Help Rescue Wounded Journalists

HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Syria Crackdown, Javier Espinosa, Syria Forces, Syria Homs, Remi Ochlik, Homs, Avaaz, Paul Conroy, Syria Opposition, Marie Colvin, Syrians, Syrian Government, Syria Crisis, Syria Violence, Syria, World News

NEW YORK -- Thirteen Syrian activists have been killed in the process of helping wounded foreign journalists trapped in Homs escape to safety over the...

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Syrian Leader Sets Referendum On New Draft Constitution

AP | BASSEM MROUE and ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Avaaz, Damascus, Video, Arab Spring, President Bashar Al-Assad, Middle East, Syrian Violence, Syrian Crisis, Homs, Syria, World News

BEIRUT — As Syrian forces stepped up their assault Wednesday on rebellious cities, President Bashar Assad ordered a referendum on a new constitu...

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Reports Detail Horrifying Torture Tactics In Syria's Detention Centers

Posted 02.09.2012

Read More: Avaaz, Syria News, Syria Detention Centers, Syria Crackdown, Video, Syria Avaaz, Syria Prisons, Syria Children, Syria Torture, Syria Violence, Syria Protests, Syria, World News

Horrific accounts of torture and ill-treatment suggest that abuse runs rampant in Syria's detention facilities, rights organizations report. Accord...

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Can Assad's "Iron Fist" Be Broken?

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Syria, Turkey, Libya, Nato, Avaaz, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Free Syrian Army, Iran, Syrian National Council, Bashar Al-Assad, World News

Is there any way to "break" the regime's so-called "iron hand" short of outside Libya-style military intervention, which is just not in the cards for both practical military and diplomatic reasons? So far, there really is no light at the end of this tunnel.

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Activists: Syria Killed Hundreds In Torture Chambers

Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Syria News, Avaaz, Syria Uprising, Syria Torture Chambers, Syria Torture, Syria Tortured Hundreds, Syria, Syria Regime, Video, World News

By BASSEM MROU -- The Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) - An activist group accused the Syrian regime on Thursday of torturing hundreds of people to dea...

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Personal Democracy Forum 2011 -- Agents of Change

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Egypt, Nancy Scola, Mona Eltahawy, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, Technology News, Avaaz, Personal Democracy Forum 2011, Mitchell Baker, Jim Gilliam, Jeremy Heimans, Alaa Abd El Fattah, Public Online Information Act, Jay Rosen, Dannah Boyd, Micah L. Sifry, Marietje Schaake, Emily Parker, Dan Gillmor, Brave New Films, Marko Rakar, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Net Neutrality, Rasha Abdulla, Technology, Andre Rasiej, pdf2011, Technology News

When dictators understand the power of social and mobile, they move toward controlling it or shutting it down. There was hearty agreement that access to the Internet should be an "international right."

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Female Genital Mutilation in Georgia, USA

Julia Lalla-Maharajh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Avaaz, Human Rights, Unicef, Female Genital Mutilation, Fgm, Senegal, Tostan, Female Genital Cutting, Molly Melching, Politics News

We can and we should be doing more. Female genital mutilation is one of the least researched, least resourced, least talked about issues that the world faces today.

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Offering Haitians Cash for Work

Alexia Parks | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Avaaz, Twitter, Haiti Earthquake, Mercycorp, Haiti, Comfort for Kids, Sudan, China, Facebook, Congo, North Korea, Impact News

The idea behind the job creation is to put people to work on useful, close-at-hand tasks as soon as possible.

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Show us your climate leader

Avaaz.org | Avaaz.org | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 350, Avaaz, Avaaz Action Factory, Climate, Climate Crisis, cop15, Copenhagen, Greenpeace, Oxfam, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Home News

The clock is ticking on climate change. In one month, 192 countries will meet at the international climate summit in Copenhagen to negotiate a new glo...

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Protests In Copenhagen: Demonstrations, Arrests And Exclusion From The Conference (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Avaaz, Copenhagen Arrests, Copenhagen Protests, Friends of the Earth, Climate Justice Action, Copenhagen Riots, Copenhagen 2009, Video, Green News

For more updates on the student-led sit-in going on at the UN conference center that has continued well into the night in Copenhagen, check out the li...

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Acronym Hell and the Path to a Global Climate Deal

Kevin Grandia | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cop-15, Avaaz, Unfccc, Greenpeace, Global Warming, Climate Change Copenhagen, Tcktcktck, Green News

We only need to look at how fast world leaders acted during the global economic crisis to see how quickly they can get things done when they have the political will.

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Show me your climate leader

Avaaz.org | Avaaz.org | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 350, Avaaz, Avaaz Action Factory, Climate, Climate Crisis, cop15, Copenhagen, Greenpeace, Oxfam, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Home News

The clock is ticking on climate change. In one month, 192 countries will meet at the international climate summit in Copenhagen to negotiate a new glo...

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Slacktivism Strikes Back

Andrew Sniderman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Avaaz, Copenhagen, Activism, Climate Change, Cop-15, Slacktivism, Green News

The activists inside the UN climate change summit are relatively few -- a robust fence and police cordon keep the majority of the tree-hugging hordes at bay -- but they put on a good show.

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HuffPost Game Changers: Who Is The Ultimate Game Changer In Politics?

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

(VOTING IS NOW CLOSED) HuffPost's Game Changers celebrates 100 innovators, visionaries, and leaders in 10 categories who are harnessing the power o...

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Let's Get Real About Copenhagen

Alexia Parks | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: #cop15, Avaaz, Bali, Copenhagen 2009, China, Barack Obama, Climate Change, Green News

Let's get real about Copenhagen. Until now, the biggest roadblock to signing the Kyoto agreement, and to making progress at

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From Here to a Global Climate Treaty

Avaaz.org | Avaaz.org | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Avaaz, Avaaz Action Factory, Climate, Climate Bill, Climate Crisis, Copenhagen, Global Movement, Global Warming, Home News

Right now Copenhagen is the most important city in the world. In just 2 short months, the city might witness the formation of a global climate treaty...

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On Climate Change: It's Not Time to Throw In the Towel

Betsy Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green Jobs, Copenhagen 2009, Hu Jintao, United Nations, Oil, Green, Climate Change, Coal, New York, Pittsburgh, Global Warming, Barack Obama, India, Tck-Tck-Tck, 350.Org, Maldives, Avaaz, Powershift, China, 1sky, Green News

We must protect ourselves against the dark vision of rising seas and temperatures, but not by numbly going through the motions with our actions and alerts. The times call for more risk-taking.

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There Will Be Bells -- the Global Climate Wake-Up Call

Kevin Grandia | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Avaaz, Sustainability, Oxfam, 350.Org, Greenpeace, Global Warming, Copenhagen 2009 Climate Meeting, Climate Change, Green News

To say that the Copenhagen Summit is a key moment in our history would be the understatement of the century. Will we continue to allow the unabated burning of dirty fossil fuels like coal and oil?

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Members of Congress Received Fraudulent Letters Paid for by Coal Companies

Josh Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011

A burst of developments Monday considerably raised the profile of the latest attempt by polluting industries to thwart environmental legislation through fraudulent mailings to Congress.

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Stripping in Rome

Avaaz.org | Avaaz.org | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Avaaz, Avaaz Action Factory, Climate, Climate Crisis, Flash Mob, G8, Global Warming, Italy, Strip Mob, Video, Rome-Italy, Italy, Home News

On July 8th Italian Avaaz volunteers and members of the Avaaz European climate action factory -- a rapid response group of youth climate activists su...

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Exxon Responds to Avaaz Spoof Ad: "We Don't Understand"

Ben Wikler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Avaaz, Carbon Emissions, Advertising, Fossil Fuels, Climate, Exxon Mobil, Exxonmobil, Exxon, Climate Change, Climate Crisis, Advocacy, Climate Bill, Video, Green News

While ExxonMobil and other fossil fuel companies now talk a good game on climate change, they're still lobbying full-force to prevent a strong global climate treaty.

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Public Pressure Made A Difference At The G20 - Here's Why

Paul Hilder | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green New Deal, Pressure, Avaaz, Unions, Green Hard Hats, Green Recovery, g20, Gordon Brown, Sarkozy, Hu Jintao, Merkel, Obama, London Summit, London-United Kingdom, United Kingdom, World News

It's far from time to go home and chill in satisfaction. But unprecedented processes have been put in motion to fix global finance.

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