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Goosebumps! 15 year old activist
@GretaThunberg
speaks truth to power at the UN
#COP24
climate talks: "You say you love your children above all else, and yet you're stealing their future before their very eyes."
SMACKDOWN ALERT: Santa tells politicians that they are on his
#NaughtyList
for climate betrayal, stating: "Here is the truth that each one of you know: If the Earth were a bank, it’d be saved long ago."
#SaveSantasHome
(and all our homes too)
To world leaders,
This is not a drill. It's code red for the Earth. As citizens across the planet, we urge you to face up to the climate emergency. Not next year. Not next month. Now at
#COP26
Greta, Vanessa, Dominika, Mitzi and
[ᴀᴅᴅ ʏᴏᴜʀ ɴᴀᴍᴇ]
👏🎉✊ The European Parliament has just made history, by passing the landmark vote on the Digital Services Act.
This can set the global standard for regulating Big Tech and protecting people online! We will defend this outcome in the next stage of negotiations.
#DSA
🌍🚨BREATHTAKING!
Last night, Avaaz lit up the New York sky with 1,000 drones creating iconic images of the Amazon. A call for urgent action to save the rainforest, this spectacle had the backing of over 9 million Avaaz members worldwide!
#AmazonGuardians
If a 2% tax on the UK's wealthiest can be the key to combat inequality and address urgent social needs, ever wonder why
@RishiSunak
is avoiding it? 🤔
Add your voice to
#TaxTheRich
#FairTaxWeek
Congratulations to the president-elect of Brazil,
@LulaOficial
! Brazilian electoral process is known for its transparency and it was no different this time. We hope his government will be of intense action in preserving the Amazon, defending democracy, and respecting minorities
⚠️URGENT: Maasai people are at risk of being violently evicted from their lands to make way for trophy hunting and elite tourism - this cannot be allowed to happen
President
@SuluhuSamia
: The world is watching. End the violence and stop all evictions now!
#StopMaasaiEviction
🌎
@GuajajaraSonia
spoke truth to power at the
#UN
: “Unless we secure the land rights of Indigenous peoples everywhere, we will lose the power to keep protecting nature. The future of the planet is Indigenous!" Join the call!
#WeAreIndigenous
#IndigenousDefenseFront
Today is
#BrexitDay
, and a lot of us feel heartbroken. Britain is leaving the EU, but we don’t have to let Brexit define Europe!
❤️Share a message of hope with the UK using the hashtag
#FromEuropeWithLove
. Tag your friends and favorite British public figures.
Every child has a name. Every child has a dream. Every child has a right to grow up.Stop the war on children and join the call to
#LetThemGrowUp
!Act now:
#CeasefireNOW
Note: This video was brought to you by a dedicated journalist and photographer. Majd
Horrific. THOUSANDS of Ukrainian children have been taken by Russia - with many sent to re-education camps to replace their love of Ukraine with "a love of mother Russia"
@JosepBorrellF
,
@vonderleyen
&
@eucopresident
- Sanction the abductors. Bring Ukraine's Stolen Children home
When Tanzanian President
@SuluhuSamia
opens
@The_EastAfrican
this weekend, she will see the voices of 3 million people calling on her to oppose the Maasai evictions. RT the image below, similar to the full-page ad, and let's make sure she sees it
#IStandWiththeMaasai
Today, at
#COP26
youth activists, parents and Indigenous leaders sent a bold message to the world's wealthiest countries. It's time to end
#ClimateBetrayal
THE PEOPLE ARE RISING👇
We beat
#Monsanto
in court! The judge even said that Monsanto was trying to stop the lobbying efforts of our members. In his words, “This is America...you can speak your mind.”
“I grew up being afraid of drowning in my own bedroom”
#ClimateAnxiety
is real - and still governments fail to act. Do you feel this too? Share your story via
#WeFeelThisToo
Roe v. Wade has just been overturned – but abortion rights activists from across the world are fighting back! Will you stand with them and add your voice? Let's make this the biggest call for reproductive rights we've ever seen! 👉
#WorldtoUS
BREAKING: Avaaz Campaign Director Fadi Quran is among 28 human rights defenders that have been arrested by the Palestinian Authority in a crackdown on peaceful protest. Read more:
🚨BREAKING: Today we launch the largest global study of
#ClimateAnxiety
in children and young people - linking psychological distress to Government inaction. The findings are alarming:
Of the 10,000 young people surveyed, 75% felt the future was frightening
#WeFeelThisToo
Outside the UK House of Commons, PM Theresa May channels Celine Dion ... and steers the country straight into a Titanic
#Brexit
disaster. Will a
#PeoplesVote
be called to avert this calamity??
#VoteDownBrexit
Right now 36 tiny babies are in a battle for their lives in al-Shifa hospital in Gaza - their time is running out.
@POTUS
@JoeBiden
: Show America is great enough to save the lives of these innocent babies. The world is watching.
#CeasefireNow
#LetThemGrowUp
It’s
#TaxDay
in the U.S. & we have a question:
Why are billionaires paying a lower % in taxes than teachers, nurses and almost everyone else?
#TaxBillionaires
Horrific. THOUSANDS of Ukrainian children have been taken by Russia - with many sent to re-education camps to replace their love of Ukraine with "a love of mother Russia"
@POTUS
and
@SecBlinken
- Sanction the abductors. Bring Ukraine's Stolen Children home
PM
@RishiSunak
– you didn’t think we would read what the UK government is arguing in court against 6 young victims of climate change
@Y4CJ_
. But
#WeAreWatching
! Stop fighting against these kids, do your part for
#ClimateJustice
NOW 🌍
On this Mother's Day, let's stand with Waorani mothers of Yasuní: President
@DanielNoboaOK
, the Yasuní forest is suffering!
Ecuadorians demand a concrete timeline to stop the oil drilling as voted in the referendum – NOW! Share & tag
@danielnoboaOK
- help spread the word!
In the midst of a climate crisis
@Total
is still pushing for a pipeline that will displace 12,000 families & destroy natural reserves in East Africa. Please ask
@PPouyanne
: is this what a "responsible energy major" does? $TOT
#OOTT
$FP
#stopEACOP
THE
#BEES
WON !! Europe just voted for a ban on bee-killing pesticides, after millions signed petitions, marched, and flooded ministries with messages. Time for the US, Canada, and the rest of the world to follow suit and BAN
#neonicotinoides
everywhere!
In the final hours of
#COP26
climate talks, our representatives have a choice: they can stand for Indigenous rights, for justice, and protect us all. Or they can rubber stamp their approval on continued abuses of Indigenous people’s lands and threaten our future.
#NoRightsNoDeal
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Our call for action from world leaders NOW at
#COP26
is going viral. Join this people-powered movement and make sure your voice is heard in Glasgow!
⚠️ URGENT message from Ukraine to
@EmmanuelMacron
,
@Bundeskanzler
and
#EUCO
:
Ukrainians are showing their bravery in this fight. The EU needs to be brave too. Will EU leaders listen to Svitlana? Will you listen to the call of Ukrainians to STOP fuelling Putin’s war machine?
⏰ The clock is ticking! We are entering the “official” last hours of
#COP27
, but we are still without a strong draft cover document📑
As
@UN
SG
@antonioguterres
stated “We are at crunch time in
#COP27
negotiations” and we have an important question for World Leaders: 🧵
The
#UAE
has launched a blistering attack on the huge city of
#Hodeidah
in Yemen, home to 170,000 kids. Watch these kids' heartbreaking appeal to the US and other governments to stop the war.
Welcome to the
@OECD
Secretary,
@MathiasCormann
! Will you stick to your commitment & rally the world behind ambitious climate action to keep us safe? FIRST TEST: Support
@IEA
’s &
@fbirol
’s
#NZ2050
to keep us below 1.5ºC. Prove your critics wrong. Don't sink Paris
#fixtheWEO
International Energy Agency director
@Fbirol
talks a good game but
@IEA
's flagship report misguides governments, underplays clean energy, & scores goals for the fossil fuel industry. Here's our
@FT
ad calling on him to put 1.5C at the heart of
#WEO2021
#netzerosummit
#WEO21
@OECD
Today Q&A with
@Total
CEO. Here’s our question
@ppouyanne
: How can you aspire to be a “Responsible Energy Major”, while planning a huge oil pipeline in Uganda & Tanzania that will displace thousands, threaten precious nature reserves + plunge us into climate
#TotalDisaster
?
#OOTT
Prime Minister
@ScottMorrisonMP
, stop blocking climate action at
#COP26
! Your shortsighted support for coal is pushing the whole world towards catastrophe. The world is watching and can see exactly what you are doing!
How can we have climate justice if the people who are suffering the worst impacts of this crisis are not being listened to?
We stand with
@vanessa_vash
in the fight for the forgotten countries of the climate crisis ✊🏿
Dear
@RobertIger
@Disney
-- in
#LionKing
Simba takes a stand to protect the circle of life. Will you take a stand to help protect 1 million species at risk of extinction?
Disney fans everywhere are calling on you to join the
@LionsShareFund
!
JUST IN! 24 hours ahead of
#IUCNCongress
, our hard-hitting ad in the
@FT
calls on President
@EmmanuelMacron
to support the goal to conserve at least half the planet.
Will he listen to the science, Indigenous people and marginalized communities and vote for
#Motion101ForHalf
?
Our forests, rivers, oceans and grasslands are in peril - worldwide, over 75% of nature is in bad shape. But this week
@EP_Environment
could vote for a law to
#RestoreNature
. MEPs: Without nature, there's no food, no water, no future - we need a strong Nature Restoration Law
"A bunch of stupid kids" "They should be out playing, not talking at the United Nations" "More learning in schools, and less activism" ... really? Sept 20. Everywhere. We all
#ClimateStrike
Jeff Bezos is worth US$122 BILLION, while a market trader selling rice in Uganda makes US$80 monthly. Guess which one is taxed at 40%? Join the global call to tax the mega-rich now.
#TaxTheRich
#TaxBillionaires
This is an all out war on children - whether it is children held hostage by Hamas or the children living in fear of bombs falling in Gaza. We need a ceasefire for children NOW!
Join the call to
#ShieldTheChildren
:
¡Resistimos!
Nuestro país no merece líderes dispuestos a sacrificar los derechos de millones de mujeres.
Deja lo que estés haciendo y tómate dos minutos para compartir nuestro mensaje con toda tu gente.
#23J
. Por todo aquello que amamos. Contra los
#PactosDelOdio
Want to know the real story behind the EU’s epic fight to rein in Big Tech that culminates TODAY? 🧵👇
It’s a real ‘David-and-Goliath’ story - a story of how Avaaz and other civil society organizations took on big Tech….and won
“I grew up being afraid of drowning in my own bedroom” -
#ClimateAnxiety
affects young people globally and
#WeFeelThisToo
Join the launch of the first global study linking
#ClimateAnxiety
in children and young people to Gov inaction on the climate crisis:
Youth climate activist
@Luisamneubauer
is right. This study shouldn't be a moment of pity, the adequate answer to this study would be drastic climate action!
#WeFeelThisToo
Politicians have forgotten how to feel. They are numb.
We are NOT.
75% of youth feel frightened by the future and 45% feel
#climateanxiety
affects their daily lives. This is the cost of government inaction.
@BorisJohnson
@JoeBiden
: Will you up your game at
#UNGA
?
#WeFeelThisToo
Todos los niños y niñas tienen nombre.
Todos los niños y niñas tienen sueños.
Todos los niños y niñas tienen derecho a crecer.
Alcemos la voz para que los dejen crecer y paremos esta guerra contra la infancia.
#LetThemGrowUp
Actúa ya:
#AltoElFuegoYA
"I have to stay alive. I don't want to be a martyr." Jean Wyllys, an openly gay federal lawmaker in Brazil said that he was giving up his seat because of death threats
Dear
@G7
- 2.7M+ people demand a
#PeoplesVaccine
. Waive patents, share technologies & pay your fair share. Lives are in your hands!
Check out our
@FT
ad and the message we brought to the beach in Cornwall calling on G7 leaders to deliver Vaccines for the World
#G7Cornwall
#G7UK
¿Te ha desaparecido un tuit nuestro? 🤔
🚨Tras una denuncia de Vox contra Avaaz, la Junta Electoral nos requirió eliminar la palabra “VOTA” de la lona anti-odio de la plaza Pedro Zerolo y de nuestros materiales en redes sociales.
The US, Earth's richest and most powerful nation, is yet to deliver its fair share of life-saving funds for vulnerable nations. Lives are on the line.
@POTUS
@JohnKerry
it's time to
#ShowUsTheMoney
at
#COP26
. Pay your fair share to unlock the climate talks and keep 1.5°C alive!
❌Gas and Nuclear are not green❌
Von der Leyen’s taxonomy could bury Europe’s Green Deal. Today we came together to tell
@vonderleyen
,
@EmmanuelMacron
and
@OlafScholz
that that we will keep fighting for a 100% clean Europe for future generations. Join us to
#StopFakeGreen
Horrific. THOUSANDS of Ukrainian children have been taken by Russia - with many sent to re-education camps to replace their love of Ukraine with "a love of mother Russia"
@RishiSunak
and
@JamesCleverly
- Sanction the abductors. Bring Ukraine's Stolen Children home
🕊️In memory of Majd Arenda (1994-2023) ✨
Recently, Avaaz had been working with Majd to share stories of hope and joy from Palestine’s youth. Tragically, Majd was killed in the very conflict his art sought to transcend. Let his legacy be our action.
#CeaseFireNOW
#LetThemGrowUp
Brazil's president Bolsonaro just accused "NGOs" of setting the Amazon forest fires -- and not the illegal clearcutting emboldened by his right-wing government?!?
Sign & RT to tell him the whole world is watching!
#PrayForTheAmazon