Last night, I met with Julia Bacha, Co-Director and Writer/Editor of Encounter Point, to help proofread the French subtitles for the film’s upcoming DVD release. Encounter Point is an 85-minute feature documentary film that follows a former Israeli settler, a Palestinian ex-prisoner, a bereaved Israeli mother and a wounded Palestinian bereaved brother who risk their [...]

Avaaz’s ‘Stop the Clash of Civilizations’ video has been nominated for the Best Awareness Raising Video category of the Progressive Source Awards. Anybody with an email address can vote for us online, so check out the other entries and vote for us here.

STOP THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS I was part of the creative team of the Clash video, and worked on the localization/subtitling of the non-English versions. After our video was featured on YouTube earlier this week, the number of view counts has shot up dramatically. The video is stirring up quite a buzz online! RICKEN PATEL, [...]

Avaaz.org put billboards up in Jerusalem this week. Check them out: (Above) Celebrate Shavuot (upcoming Jewish holiday) in Syria – just $390 * price for one room, double bed – depends on negotiating the Saudi Initiative 80,000 global e-activists demand Real Peace Talks Now