Avaaz means 'voice' in a number of different languages and what it means in every language is hope. The brilliant organizers of this powerful, relatively new international web have reached a level that few could have hoped for just a year ago. They are now flush with 13 million members and 2.5 million of whom have joined in just the last 30 days. No other activist human rights organization and instrument for change can boost such figures.
Avaaz.org has 194 countries with members. The nations with the biggest participants are Germany, France and Brazil - all having over a million.
Even more reason to celebrate Avaaz.org's existence is that they are having great success in mobilizing people and winning victories for good. In their recent email they present to their participants a "snapshot of the last few weeks."
-five million of us stood up to the ACTA and SOPA Internet censorship bills, helping to put SOPA on ice, and putting ACTA under threat, with the President of the European Parliament and Germany, Poland and many other countries reconsidering their positions.
-smuggled $1.8 million worth of medical supplies into Syria when no one else could, and raised $1.5 million more in donations, while our citizen journalists provided much of the world media's information and images.
-generated thousands of news articles on 20 different campaigns.
-our sex trafficking hotline generated information that will result in a major set of arrests this week (can't say which country yet).
-raised over 4 million dollars/euros/yen online to supercharge our work, and are growing our staff team like mad to keep up with the need.
-ran over 40 campaigns, took over 10 million actions and told 25 million friends about campaigns we care about, on everything from deforestation in Brazil to the Murdoch scandal in the UK -- and made a serious impact on many of these.
That is all in a month's work! They refuse to accept funds from any governments nor corporations and they rely on the people for their resources. They have a dedicated team of extraordinary and passionate people working on our behalf. Their reach, success and abilities are simply amazing.
Click here to join Avaaz.org and become a part of the millions of people from around the world coming together to be create change.
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