Derek Sivers: How to start a movement
HL: Global Interactions
Sign the petition
To President Dilma Rousseff :
We call on you to take immediate action to save Brazil’s precious forests by vetoing the changes to the forest law. We also urge you to prevent further murders of environmental activists and workers by increasing law enforcement against illegal loggers and ramping up protection for people at risk from violence or death. The world needs Brazil to be an international leader on the environment. Your strong action now will safeguard the planet for future generations.
1,706,544 have signed the petition. Together let’s reach our new goal of 2,000,000
Posted: 7 May 2012
Days ago, Congress passed a catastrophic forestry bill that gives loggers and farmers free rein to cut down huge swaths of our precious forests, from the Amazon to the Atlantic. Now only President Dilma can stop it.
Timing is on our side — in weeks Dilma will host the world’s biggest environmental summit and insiders say she cannot afford to be pinned as the leader who approved the devastation of the Amazon. Dozens have been murdered for standing against deforestation. Now it’s up to us to turn up the heat and push her to veto.
We have no time to lose — she could make her decision any day. Let’s super-charge our already 1.2 million strong petition. Click below to save the Amazon and tell everyone — when we reach 2 million signers Avaaz will join forces with former Environment Ministers to deliver it directly to Dilma.
Many Awá are still uncontacted, and they are running for their lives.
‘One man has the power to stop the loggers: Brazil’s Minister of Justice.
But it’s just not his priority. Let’s push it up his list.’
— Colin Firth
VIDEO REPORT: Chad has one of the lowest rates of access to safe drinking water and sanitation services in the world. The result has been recurrent outbreaks of diseases like polio, meningitis and cholera. While access to safe water and sanitation is improving in urban areas, children in rural areas are almost always at risk from these sanitation-related diseases.
Join UNICEF correspondent Guy Hubbard as he reports on a UNICEF programme that is improving sanitation in rural Chad.
Read more: http://uni.cf/Jesux8
Can world’s ‘most threatened’ tribe be saved?
http://news.yahoo.com/worlds-most-threatened-tribe-saved-132402571.html
Earth´s Most Threatened Tribe
Read the article here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/22/brazil-rainforest-awa-endangered-tribe
Survival International´s Campaign: The Worlds Most Endangered Tribe
