[FM Discuss] Looking for Circumvention tools

[Edward Cherlin]

We might want to talk to them about the Circumvention book, including
the Farsi translation.

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From: Ricken Patel - Avaaz.org <avaaz at avaaz.org>
Date: Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:38 AM
Subject: What happened after I signed the petition?
To: "echerlin at gmail.com" <echerlin at gmail.com>

Dear friends,

Here's a quick report back on recent campaigning at Avaaz. Our
community has grown like wildfire and is becoming really extraordinary
-- the pace and impact of our advocacy is intense. In just the last 8
weeks, we've run 9 major national and global campaigns on issues
ranging from climate change to Iran to Guantanamo. Much more remains
to be done on all these issues -- but together we're contributing in
powerful ways. Here are some highlights from the last 8 weeks:
[snip]
Iran Protests - our community rapidly responded to the election crisis
in Iran with an opinion poll to gauge the views of ordinary Iranians,
a petition to world leaders to withhold recognition of the new
President until the crackdown on protests ceased, and a fundraiser to
support technology that would allow Iranians to freely access the
internet. The rapidly deteriorating security situation has made it
difficult to conduct the poll (final word on that coming this week),
but the technology fundraiser has raised over a hundred thousand
dollars to support the best tools for Iranians to access the internet
and communicate freely. The situation in Iran remains uncertain, and
we will continue to both support freedom of expression and oppose
those who would exploit this crisis to justify military action against
Iran.
[snip]
The petitions, fundraisers, rallies, and lobbying campaigns our
community is doing are having an incredible impact. Avaaz has grown by
50,000 people a week and is now almost 3.6 million engaged citizens in
every country of the world -- and we're truly global - operating in 14
languages our community has 25,000 members in Singapore, 35,000 in
South Africa, 130,000 in Italy, 50,000 in Mexico... There hasn't
really been a community like ours before, able to rapidly and
effectively mobilize people power all over the world to the greatest
needs and concerns of all human beings -- it's a reason for hope.

It's also an exciting journey -- looking forward to taking on the next
8 weeks, and 8 months, and 8 years together!

With hope,
Ricken, Alice, Pascal, Ben, Veronique, Paul, Graziela, Brett, Raluca,
Luis, Raj, Milena, Paula, Iain, Taren, Margaret and the whole Avaaz
team.

PS - To see some of the highlights of Avaaz campaigning in 2007 and
2008 and leave a comment, click here:
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/report_back_2/

To contact Avaaz, please do not reply to this email. Instead, write to
us via the webform at http://www.avaaz.org/en/contact. You can also
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