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I got this in my inbox this morning from Avaaz.org (My comments are in RED BOLD).
For those of you new to the blog or who do not know me personally, I worked at Avaaz for 1 year during its initial start-up phase. I’m now at Human Rights Watch, working with their China team [...]

The following letter ended up in my inbox today from Huang Jinming of the Central Committee of the Social Democratic Party of China. Their website is under construction and there wasn’t much I could find out about them online. However, their letter lays out some principled, well-reasoned arguments, so I thought it [...]

What do you think?
Burma, China, North Korea - should travelers visit oppressive countries with bad human rights records?  I read this article this morning while I was waiting at the dentist’s office.
In her April 2008 article, “See Mo’ Evil,” Outside senior editor Stephanie Pearson rebuts Nobel Prize Winner Aung San Suu Kyi’s call for tourists [...]

We won! Avaaz.org’s Stop The Clash has won the YouTube Best of 2007 Awards for best political video with 27.5% of the votes.
This is our 3rd award to date. We also won the 2007 DoGooderTV Non-Profit Video Award and a Progressive Source Award.
Thanks for the love everyone!
Peace.