From Avaaz: Dear friends, Today could be the day we save the free Internet. We’ve flipped the White House and Congress is on the back foot. Now Wikipedia’s blackout has pushed the US web censorship bills to the top of the news. Today we’ve reached the tipping point. Let’s bury the bill for good....
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Politics/ANC-outraged-over-censored-Wiki-page-20111123 “Interfering with information undermines the very need of ,” Khoza said. Yes. Please keep your voters as uninformed as possible.
From Avaaz: Dear friends, In 24 hours, world leaders meet to discuss the global economic crisis, and banks and big corporations are sponsoring the meeting in exchange for an all access pass. This, while ordinary citizens are locked out. Let’s raise a massive petition to Nicolas Sarkozy to kick out the corporations and keep...
From Avaaz: In four days, MPs could pass an outrageous secrecy bill that undermines the constitution and South Africa’s democracy — helping the government keep wrongdoing from the people and enabling cover-ups of corruption and human rights abuses. But there are four people that could make or break this bill: the Chief Whips. Despite...
"According to the latest statement from the U.S. Treasury, the government had an operating cash balance Wednesday of $73.8 billion. That's still a lot of money, but it's less than what Steve Jobs has lying around.":
‘Corrective rape’, the vicious practice of raping lesbians to 'cure' their sexuality, is becoming a crisis in South Africa. But brave Cape Town activists have built a massive online campaign and are risking their lives to get urgent action -- and finally Minister Radebe is beginning to respond. Let's help stop these vicious rapes...
We are in the process of losing our rivers. On top of our existing water pollution woes, the government simply does not abide by standing laws and grant coal prospecting rights along our major rivers to mining companies.
From Benita: “Thanks, Emile, for the mention. This petition was individually suggested/ requested by about 100 South African members of Avaaz, says the Campaign Director Alice Jay. (I was one of them and literally drove Avaaz crazy until they took the decision to go ahead). The petition was launched amongst the 60 000 SA...
