Avaaz

[Bastian]

Hello.

I suppose that you've heard about Avaaz, a NGO, claiming 15 million members, and promoting (cyber)activism for five years.
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avaaz

Avaaz was created by (among others) Ricken Patel, who is, according to French Wikipedia, a former consultant for the International Crisis Group, UN, Rockefeller Fundation, Havard University, Gates Fundation, CARE International...
_http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricken_Patel

They regularly tackled subjects like global climat change, or (last months) war in Syria, with a pure MSM point of view...

Any insight about them ?

 

[Joe]

You've summed it up already:

Avaaz was created by (among others) Ricken Patel, who is, according to French Wikipedia, a former consultant for the International Crisis Group, UN, Rockefeller Fundation, Havard University, Gates Fundation, CARE International...

They regularly tackled subjects like global climat change, or (last months) war in Syria, with a pure MSM point of view

 

[Bastian]

In an article (in French) by Dominique Guillet (of Kokopelli seeds preservation organization) about Avaaz as a pro-war propaganda organization :
_http://www.liberterre.fr/liberterres/meta-mafia/avaaz.html

there are links to articles discussing Avaaz, for instance this article :
_http://abundanthope.net/pages/Ron_71/What-is-Avaaz-org-and-why-does-it-claim-Climategate-is-misinformation_printer.shtml

or this report (in 4 parts) :
_http://wrongkindofgreen.org/2012/09/10/avaaz-imperialist-pimps-of-militarism-protectors-of-the-oligarchy-trusted-facilitators-of-war/
_http://wrongkindofgreen.org/2012/09/11/avaaz-imperialist-pimps-of-militarism-protectors-of-the-oligarchy-trusted-facilitators-of-war-part-i-section-ii/
_http://wrongkindofgreen.org/2012/09/18/avaaz-imperialist-pimps-of-militarism-protectors-of-the-oligarchy-trusted-facilitators-of-war-part-i-section-iii/
_http://wrongkindofgreen.org/2012/09/24/imperialist-pimps-of-militarism-protectors-of-the-oligarchy-trusted-facilitators-of-war-part-ii-section-i/