Avaaz have already raised the biggest global petitions for decisive action to stop climate change and to close Guantanamo Bay prison. We’re campaigning for real Middle East peace talks and for a change of course in Iraq. We teamed up with Oxfam and Desmond Tutu to call G8 finance ministers to account on their failure to live up to their development promises. We managed to launch a campaign to sack Paul Wolfowitz from the World Bank straight away, delivered it to the board, and maybe helped get him out – we definitely helped set the agenda with lots of media coverage, and channelled what hundreds of millions of people were thinking around the world: "JUST GO!"

Lots of creative 2.0 stuff too - YouTube triumphs include “The Bank”, a comic “mash-up” of Wolfowitz as the incompetent boss in “The Office” (US version sadly…) done by the guy who made the Hillary/1984 ad. “Stop the Clash of Civilisations”, which won an award in its own right and just made the front page of YouTube – it says “You are the new superpower”. Recognition all over the place, from the Economist to German, French, Indian, Spanish and Brazilian media, I’m losing track.

If you know MoveOn.org in the US (they helped get this off the ground), you’ll get a bit of a picture of what Avaaz.org is up to internationally. Not everybody supports every campaign, but we generally seem to be going in the same direction – globalisation with a human face. Positive people-powered progressive politics, globally.

Who says petitions are just sterile anti-political protest? The Chartists didn’t think so.

Nominated by Paul, 24 May 2007

Because it gives a voice to millions of thinking individuals all over the world who otherwise feel powerless to make any impact on important world issues which affect us all.

Nominated by Corinne Hua, 28 May 2007

Avaaz is great!

Submitted by Ben, 24 May 2007

Avaaz proves that online advocacy can really make a difference; by targeting their campaigns carefully and with perfect timing I believe they've already made quite an impact.

Submitted by Guy James, 25 May 2007

Together we can make difference. Lets do it. Let our voice be heard.

sahib

Submitted by sahib, 26 May 2007

What the world needs is for people to stand together and focus on the issues that unites us as human beings. This is the message of Avaaz and what makes it such a great initiative!

Submitted by Esben Lange, 26 May 2007

Thank you avaaz community, there should be more like you!

Submitted by Reza, 26 May 2007

Through Avaaz I feel I have a voice in political issues that matter to me.

Thanks

Submitted by Eleanor, 27 May 2007

Aavaz did a good job

Submitted by ListenArabic.com, 27 May 2007

I fully support Avaaz. An innovative a forward looking initiative

Submitted by Justice Levi, 27 May 2007

Avaaz. One of the best initiatives I have seen in a long while.

Submitted by AnonymousFreak, 27 May 2007

I just took a look at the avaaz website, and it really loks like a great company. I support their goals for 100%, and so should the rest of the world.

Submitted by KS, 28 May 2007

Avaaz is a fantastic campaigning movment.It is using the power of the internet to mobilise people in a way not possible before.It allows a differant view of the world to be expressed which is not obsessed with political power and money. It hilights issues that the vast majority of the citizens of this planet agree on such as social justice and the environment.

Submitted by Paul Walsh, 28 May 2007

Avaaz gives me hope. Continue to make a difference.

Submitted by WC, 29 May 2007

i support Avaaz on every campaign. people like Avaaz give back hope that we can realy change things in "our" world.

Submitted by Stavros Rossos, 29 May 2007

If you truly care about our children's and their children's futures, join AVAAZ. Together we can make this world a fairer and cleaner place. No government has the right to dictate or take control of our earth's resources and AVAAZ brings awareness to the short sighted and underhand tactics of certain greedy governments whose ONLY goal is to gain wealth and power whilst ignoring their dessimation of the climate and the planet's environment and the destruction of the quality of life of millions of people around the world!

Your own struggling hard working lifestyle may mean you have neither time nor the energy to fight against the injustices imposed by the worlds most powerful governments but by taking two minutes to join the inovative online organisation AVAAZ, and signing the petitions, we all really can make a fantastic impact on the lives of our children and their children in years to come! Don't just think about it, sign up now! It will cost you nothing but will give you (as it has me) great hope for a better future! Thank you AVAAZ....

Submitted by Natali Hurley, 29 May 2007

I have such high hopes that AVAAZ can start creating a positive change in our world. PEACE!

Submitted by Shana, 29 May 2007

Grass roots is the only way to break through and engender change with hope: it always has been. AVAAZ brings this possibility to a place where it can become a reality. We have been waiting for such a voice.

Submitted by Roslin, 30 May 2007

cyber power = people power = AVAAZ

Submitted by Ho Yock Lin, Malaysia, 30 May 2007

no one else.. but the youth can take care of this world now.. Avaaz have shown its young/brave/committed effort to make this world a better place.. I truly support Avaaz.org to win this award. :)

Submitted by Space, 30 May 2007