Fwd: Thank you for your donation to Avaaz -- I'm giving $ 100 monthly to launch this crucial revolutionary evolutionary step towards world Net democracy: Rich Murray 2012.09.30

[Rich Murray-2]

Fwd: Thank you for your donation to Avaaz -- I'm giving $ 100 monthly
to launch this crucial revolutionary evolutionary step towards world
Net democracy: Rich Murray 2012.09.30


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From: Avaaz.org <[hidden email]>
Date: Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 9:12 PM
Subject: Thank you for your donation to Avaaz
To: [hidden email]


Thank you for supporting people-powered media!

We are close to making this a reality. Please help us to spread the
word and send the following link to friends or forward the original
email below.

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/avaaz_becomes_the_media/?dty

Best wishes,

The Avaaz Team

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Dear friends,

Imagine if there were one website we could open with our morning
coffee that felt like walking onto the global town square -- a
one-stop shop with reliable news, insightful analysis, and
inspirational storytelling that for the first time offered solutions
and a way to take action on the issues we most care about!

Now imagine if 16 million of us were behind this cutting edge site --
that’s a bigger circulation than the Washington Post or the Times!
It’s a bold goal, but we've spent months shaping the concept and
recruiting an initial team of top journalists. Now the Avaaz Daily
Briefing is nearly ready to launch.

Old media is beholden to corporate owners and advertisers and its news
is often cynical and disempowering. The Daily Briefing will be owned
by us and driven by us -- people-powered media for a better world. If
just 20,000 of us chip in a small amount today, we can roll it out and
hire the best editors, writers, infographic geniuses, and developers.
Click to help Avaaz become the media:

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/avaaz_becomes_the_media/?dty

Earlier this year, an astonishing 97% of the Avaaz community voted for
this idea in our annual poll. Last week, we took it for a test drive
and the response was fantastic! For the first time ever, our movement
became the media -- together we countered the mainstream "Muslim Rage"
coverage by sharing a post that responsibly contextualized the Muslim
protests and challenged Newsweek's sensationalism.

It’s mind-blowing to think how this project could evolve. If just
20,000 of us donate today, here’s what we’ll do:
Staff up the tiny team currently running the Daily Briefing. Some of
the world’s most experienced and talented journalists and media pros
have approached us to come aboard because they are tired of corporate
and conflict journalism and can see how a 16 million-member media
machine can strengthen our democracies and help change our world.

Build the world’s best technology so community and democracy rule.
With cutting edge crowd-sourcing and citizen journalism tech builds,
we’ll all get to produce content and vote things up and down so that
stories are featured based on merit and relevance to us.

Tell the good news. Instead of bombarding us solely with stories that
portray the horrors of humanity and the destruction of our planet, the
Daily Briefing will investigate and showcase inspiring stories of hope
and courage.

Give a voice to the untold stories. Avaaz members have funded critical
citizen journalism to break media blackouts in hotspots of repression
across the world. Now, the Daily Briefing will offer an avenue for
voices and issues that are ignored by corporate-owned media.

Provide world-class analysis and political entrepreneurship. Daily
Briefing staff will cut through the language that alienates us,
instead providing solid analysis and new paths to confront the biggest
challenges of our time.

Click here to donate and help launch the Daily Briefing:

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/avaaz_becomes_the_media/?dty

The march of democracy that is sweeping our world is remaking many of
our old institutions. For 5 years now, we have worked together to
reform politics across the world -- and it is working. But politics
and media are two sides of the same coin -- one cannot change without
change in the other and we are governed as much by media as we are by
governments. It's time to take them both back.

With hope,

Ricken, Dalia, Maria Paz, Alice, Antonia, Ari, Heather, Wissam and the
whole Avaaz team

PS - In case you're mulling it over, here are 11 more reasons to
donate to the Avaaz Daily Briefing :)

Reason 1 – Daily Briefing is Avaaz 2.0

It’s a whole new dimension of the product Avaaz has been putting out
for years. We are already the most successful, viral online community
ever -- this will take us to the next level.

Reason 2 – Daily Briefing is Independent, Impartial and Trustworthy

Avaaz has always been totally independent, taking no money from
governments or corporations, ensuring that our voice is exclusively
determined by the values of our members and not by any large funder or
agenda. Now, 100% of the Avaaz budget comes from small online
donations. This means that the only editorial agenda for the Daily
Briefing is the people's agenda, and we will not shy away from
speaking truth to power.

Reason 3 – Daily Briefing is People Reviewed, Approved and Powered

The team will create and maintain feedback and testing mechanisms to
ensure Avaaz members exert quality control over the Daily Briefing and
are always able to hold us accountable for producing the highest
quality content possible.

Make a donation here: https://secure.avaaz.org/en/avaaz_becomes_the_media/?dty

Reason 4 – Daily Briefing Sees Deeply and Explains Simply

The Daily Briefing will communicate the most incisive and empowering
understanding available of world events. But our team will remain
fiercely faithful to the principle that important public debate should
be accessible and engaging for all citizens. No matter how complex the
issue, there is a simple, concise and engaging way of explaining it.
This never means dumbing down, it means seeing deeply in order to
explain simply.

Reason 5 – Daily Briefing is Briefing and Equipment for the Citizen

The Daily Briefing will always treat readers like prime ministers and
presidents -- they’re busy, they make critically important decisions
about how to spend their time and they deserve to have the most
important and most relevant information and analysis.

Reason 6 – The Daily Briefing is Not News, it’s Better

It represents, in part, a return to the soul of journalism --
campaigning journalism that upholds the public interest and holds
power accountable.

Donate now: https://secure.avaaz.org/en/avaaz_becomes_the_media/?dty

Reason 7 – Avaaz has No Bureaucracy

Avaaz is a massive network of citizens, but our organization is
absolutely tiny -- just 55 full time campaigners with operational and
technology support. Most large, global NGOs have hundreds or even
thousands of staff. Our small size means we have no time for red tape,
layers of management or being focused on anything but getting results.

Reason 8 – Avaaz is Regularly Audited and Fiscally Responsible

There's a lot of fear out there about misuse of donated money. Most of
the fear is misplaced –- most organizations are filled with good
people trying to do good things. With Avaaz you can be sure -– partly
because we're required by law to be audited every 12 months. This
audit thoroughly checks every aspect of our books and financial
practices. We've been audited 6 times since we launched and every time
been given a squeaky-clean bill of health (for details, click here).

Reason 9 – Avaaz has a World-Class Team That Does Outstanding Work

Campaigning, advocacy and social change are serious and demanding
business – the more competent the team, the more impact our donations
have. Avaaz has always attracted some of the best campaigners and
advocates in the world. Many of our campaign directors joined us after
being CEOs of successful advocacy organizations and most have degrees
from the top universities in the world. Our Daily Briefing team will
be made up of top writers, journalists and editors.

Donate now: https://secure.avaaz.org/en/avaaz_becomes_the_media/?dty

Reason 10 – Avaaz is Political (this really matters)

Most charities offer tax deductibility for donations. But this means
that they are, in a way, partially taxpayer funded and governments use
that to place a very thick set of rules on what they can and can't do.
Chief among them is restricting what they can say to criticize,
support or oppose a politician. Avaaz is very rare in that our
donations are not tax-deductible, leaving us 100% free to say and do
whatever we need to to get leaders to listen to people -- which will
be crucial to keeping the Daily Briefing independent, impartial and
trustworthy.

Reason 11 – Like Avaaz, the Daily Briefing Will be the Only Operation
of its Kind -- Ever, Anywhere

Avaaz is the world's first and only multi-million member, high-tech,
people-powered, multi-issue, genuinely global campaigning community.
No other movement can rapidly mobilize large-scale, coordinated
democratic pressure in over 193 countries within 24 hours. Now, the
Daily Briefing could be our next step in record breaking if we become
the most read and shared global, non-profit, people-powered news
website -- ever, anywhere. But it can only happen if 20,000 of us chip
in what we can today.

Make a secure donation to power the Avaaz Daily Briefing:
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/avaaz_becomes_the_media/?dty

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Name: Rich Murray
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Date: 10/01/2012 00:11
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