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Stop the Clash Wins Again

March 21st, 2008 · No Comments

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.

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Stop the Clash Again

March 18th, 2008 · No Comments

I worked on this video during my Avaaz days. Check it out and vote for us please!
Here is an update direct from Avaaz:
Great news — our video “Stop The Clash of Civilizations” is one of six films nominated for “Best Political Video” at the 2007 YouTube Awards. Dismantling the false clash between Islam and [...]

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Encounter Point

June 29th, 2007 · 1 Comment

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 lives [...]

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Clash of Civilizations nominated for Progressive Source Awards

June 22nd, 2007 · Comments Off

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.

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Avaaz Video Featured on YouTube Front Page This Week

May 24th, 2007 · No Comments

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, [...]

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