I watched the Obama-McCain debate tonight, while chatting on AIM with my ITP classmates.  Rather amusing indeed, the best part was when both candidates compared their accessories collection. “I HAVE A BRACELET TOO!”  Are bracelets from military families the new yellow ribbons or flag pins? Show your patriotism with an “I HAVE A BRACELET” T-shirt.  [...]

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 on [...]

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.

Avaaz.org’s Ricken Patel on BBC World’s HARDtalk from lee-sean on Vimeo.

So this is what I have been up to for the last 3 days. Editing and subtitling, animating the graphics, and programming beats for the intro/outros. Hope you all enjoy and feel inspired to go take the climate change pledge at Avaaz.org!

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