Peace for the Soul
2024-03-29T10:37:37Z
Rosmarie Heusser
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Please help save the Capybaras of Colombia
tag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2024-02-01:5143044:Topic:464646
2024-02-01T20:03:51.795Z
Rosmarie Heusser
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<p><span style="caret-color: #121213; color: #121213; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">This furry friend, famous across the Americas, is perishing. Can you take a moment to help</span> <strong style="caret-color: #121213; color: #121213; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">save the capybaras from the loneliest death of all?</strong><br style="caret-color: #121213; color: #121213; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"/><br style="caret-color: #121213; color: #121213; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"/><span style="caret-color: #121213; color: #121213; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">Rampant agriculture in Colombia has shattered their home. And now, more vulnerable than ever,</span> <strong style="caret-color: #121213; color: #121213; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">they're suffocating in a relentless heatwave</strong><span style="caret-color: #121213; color: #121213; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">, with no water or shade, dropping like flies.</span><br style="caret-color: #121213; color: #121213; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"/><br style="caret-color: #121213; color: #121213; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"/><strong style="caret-color: #121213; color: #121213; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">The silent suffering of the capybaras is out of the radar</strong><span style="caret-color: #121213; color: #121213; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">. And if we don't escalate their plight now, the local authorities wont swing into action in time.</span><br style="caret-color: #121213; color: #121213; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"/><br style="caret-color: #121213; color: #121213; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"/><strong style="caret-color: #121213; color: #121213; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Add your voice and share this campaign to save the capybaras in Colombia</strong><span style="caret-color: #121213; color: #121213; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">. Once we rally half a million voices, we'll join forces with artists, ngo’s and the media, to pressure the authorities into saving this furry soul.</span><br/> <br/> <strong><a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/capybara_alert_1_0/?copy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/capybara_alert_1_0/?copy</a></strong> <strong><em><br/></em></strong></p>
<p>Thank You❣️</p>
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Very urgent campaign — Gaza's last hope!
tag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2024-01-16:5143044:Topic:463920
2024-01-16T20:14:22.534Z
Rosmarie Heusser
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<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12360201258?profile=original" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img class="align-full" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12360201258?profile=RESIZE_710x"></img></a> <strong>The South African government just urged the International Court of Justice to order an immediate ceasefire for Gaza</strong>, alleging Israel is committing genocide. But Netanyahu's government looks set to fight tooth and nail to delay a decision.<br></br> <br></br> As millions of innocent people trapped in Palestine hold their breath, hoping for a quick…</p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12360201258?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12360201258?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a><strong>The South African government just urged the International Court of Justice to order an immediate ceasefire for Gaza</strong>, alleging Israel is committing genocide. But Netanyahu's government looks set to fight tooth and nail to delay a decision.<br/> <br/> As millions of innocent people trapped in Palestine hold their breath, hoping for a quick verdict, <strong>we have an urgent mission: persuade our governments to support South Africa’s push to end the bloodshed.</strong><br/> <br/> Wherever you are, whatever your political views, if in the next 24 hours, we, citizens of the world, unite to unleash a cascade of national support to halt the bombing over Gaza, <strong>we have a chance to help stop what an expert UN Panel warned could be a “a genocide in the making”. It might be the last one. <br/></strong></p>
<p><strong>Thank You for adding your name! <br/></strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/sa_icj_case_loc/?copy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/sa_icj_case_loc/?copy</a></strong></p>
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Stop forcing women and girls into sex for water!
tag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2024-01-13:5143044:Topic:463904
2024-01-13T19:15:32.385Z
Rosmarie Heusser
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<p><strong>It's beyond horrifying: Experts say that every day, tens of thousands of women and girls are forced into sex for a few litres of water. Women's lives are being shattered -- and yet, in most places, this vile exploitation is completely legal. Now, brave women's rights groups in Kenya are pushing for a law to end this abuse and they've asked…</strong></p>
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<p><strong>It's beyond horrifying: Experts say that every day, tens of thousands of women and girls are forced into sex for a few litres of water. Women's lives are being shattered -- and yet, in most places, this vile exploitation is completely legal. Now, brave women's rights groups in Kenya are pushing for a law to end this abuse and they've asked for our help. Let's all join, and help end this terrifying practice against vulnerable women and girls!</strong></p>
<p><strong>Thank You for signing this urgent Petition:</strong> <a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/sextortion_loc_nd/?copy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/sextortion_loc_nd/?copy</a> </p>
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∼ Dear Friends around the World ∼
tag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2023-12-28:5143044:Topic:463059
2023-12-28T20:52:07.038Z
Rosmarie Heusser
https://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/RosmarieHeusser
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<p><span style="caret-color: #202124; color: #202124; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">We’ve spent the last few weeks thinking of you -- the people that make this movement.</span><br style="outline: none !important; caret-color: #202124; color: #202124; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"/><br style="outline: none !important; caret-color: #202124; color: #202124; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"/><span style="caret-color: #202124; color: #202124; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">We’ve been reflecting on all the work we’ve done together this year: the millions of signatures to pressure leaders, the heartfelt messages to decision makers, the public actions and deliveries, the donations we made to save lives. </span><br style="outline: none !important; caret-color: #202124; color: #202124; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"/><br style="outline: none !important; caret-color: #202124; color: #202124; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"/><strong style="outline: none !important; caret-color: #202124; color: #202124; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">It’s because of you that this movement is creating the kind of change in the world that none of us could ever achieve alone.<br style="outline: none !important;"/></strong><br style="outline: none !important; caret-color: #202124; color: #202124; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"/><span style="caret-color: #202124; color: #202124; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">We wanted you to see our faces, hear our voices, and, hopefully, feel our gratitude for the role you play in Avaaz –</span> <strong style="outline: none !important; caret-color: #202124; color: #202124; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">so we made this video. For you. Here it is below</strong><strong style="outline: none !important; caret-color: #202124; color: #202124; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">:</strong></p>
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<p><span style="caret-color: #202124; color: #202124; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">Legendary activist and author, Joanna Macy, once wrote: “</span><em style="outline: none !important; caret-color: #202124; color: #202124; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear.</em><span style="caret-color: #202124; color: #202124; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">”</span><br style="outline: none !important; caret-color: #202124; color: #202124; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"/><br style="outline: none !important; caret-color: #202124; color: #202124; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"/><span style="caret-color: #202124; color: #202124; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">In a world that can feel completely insane and off balance, it makes sense to want to give up or only focus on our own needs. But we didn’t do that this year. We joined together in campaigns. We put our names and voices to causes far beyond ourselves.</span> <strong style="outline: none !important; caret-color: #202124; color: #202124; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">We stood up for our planet, for others facing horror and hunger, for animals</strong> <span style="caret-color: #202124; color: #202124; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">who lack the words to speak for themselves.</span><br style="outline: none !important; caret-color: #202124; color: #202124; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"/><br style="outline: none !important; caret-color: #202124; color: #202124; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"/><span style="caret-color: #202124; color: #202124; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">It might feel like a small thing to be a member of Avaaz, something you may barely think about.</span> <strong style="outline: none !important; caret-color: #202124; color: #202124; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">But the campaigns, the direct aid, the advocacy that happens through Avaaz would not exist without you, because Avaaz is the sum total of all of us</strong><span style="caret-color: #202124; color: #202124; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">: regular people around the world united in our hopes and dreams for a better world, combining our efforts for a bigger result.</span><br style="outline: none !important; caret-color: #202124; color: #202124; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"/><br style="outline: none !important; caret-color: #202124; color: #202124; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"/><span style="caret-color: #202124; color: #202124; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">We are those ordinary people Joanna Macy is talking about, and</span> <strong style="outline: none !important; caret-color: #202124; color: #202124; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">when we act together, we are acting with millions. </strong><br style="outline: none !important; caret-color: #202124; color: #202124; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"/><br style="outline: none !important; caret-color: #202124; color: #202124; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"/><span style="caret-color: #202124; color: #202124; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">The Avaaz staff deeply hopes this video brings you a smile. It’s just a little thank you, a little gift. The real honoring of your contributions is of course, that we’re already deep at work to make sure 2024 is an even more impactful year where together, we can help create a more balanced and just world.</span><br style="outline: none !important; caret-color: #202124; color: #202124; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"/><br style="outline: none !important; caret-color: #202124; color: #202124; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"/><span style="caret-color: #202124; color: #202124; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">With deep appreciation,</span><br style="outline: none !important; caret-color: #202124; color: #202124; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"/><br style="outline: none !important; caret-color: #202124; color: #202124; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"/><span style="caret-color: #202124; color: #202124; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;">Nell, Fey, Alice, Christoph, Sam, and the rest of the Avaaz team</span></p>
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Stop Deep-Sea Mining
tag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2023-12-07:5143044:Topic:462092
2023-12-07T20:51:55.896Z
Rosmarie Heusser
https://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/RosmarieHeusser
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12310847477?profile=original" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img class="align-full" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12310847477?profile=RESIZE_710x"></img></a> <strong>An other urgent Petition to sign! —</strong> <strong>Please help stop this insanity — Thank You!…</strong></p>
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<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12310847477?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/12310847477?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a><strong>An other urgent Petition to sign! —</strong> <strong>Please help stop this insanity — Thank You!</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/deep_sea_mining_norway_lec/?tZMcCab&v=502594604&cl=20994047064&_checksum=034a7e51eaa67ec14e54a44acdee05b00089f6e90d030ad05dbca6ed7ea48180" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/deep_sea_mining_norway_lec/?tZMcCab&v=502594604&cl=20994047064&_checksum=034a7e51eaa67ec14e54a44acdee05b00089f6e90d030ad05dbca6ed7ea48180</a></p>
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Ceasefire now - Stop this war!
tag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2023-10-29:5143044:Topic:460776
2023-10-29T20:51:08.850Z
Rosmarie Heusser
https://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/RosmarieHeusser
<p>Please add Your name, Thank You❣️</p>
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<p><a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/call_for_sanity_81/?copy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/call_for_sanity_81/?copy</a></p>
<p>Please add Your name, Thank You❣️</p>
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<p><a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/call_for_sanity_81/?copy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/call_for_sanity_81/?copy</a></p>
Israel/Palestine stop that war on children!
tag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2023-10-14:5143044:Topic:460394
2023-10-14T21:30:34.343Z
Rosmarie Heusser
https://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/RosmarieHeusser
<p>Please sign this urgent Petition, Thank You!…</p>
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<p>Please sign this urgent Petition, Thank You!</p>
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Ban Octopus farming!
tag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2023-03-31:5143044:Topic:452666
2023-03-31T20:34:10.978Z
Rosmarie Heusser
https://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/RosmarieHeusser
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<p><em><strong>∼ Please sign this urgent petition,</strong></em> <strong>THANK YOU! ∼</strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/ban_octopus_farming_loc/?cZMcCab" rel="noopener" target="_blank">https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/ban_octopus_farming_loc/?cZMcCab</a> …</strong></p>
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<p><em><strong>∼ Please sign this urgent petition,</strong></em> <strong>THANK YOU! ∼</strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/ban_octopus_farming_loc/?cZMcCab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/ban_octopus_farming_loc/?cZMcCab</a> </strong></p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/11018673089?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/11018673089?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-center"/></a><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/11018675690?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/11018675690?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-right"/></a></p>
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Putin's silent victim
tag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2023-03-22:5143044:Topic:451955
2023-03-22T20:30:40.790Z
Rosmarie Heusser
https://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/RosmarieHeusser
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/11001635664?profile=original" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img class="align-full" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/11001635664?profile=RESIZE_710x"></img></a> Russian troops are destroying Ukraine's environment--leaving behind more than 50 billion dollars in environmental damages. <strong>If You believe that the severe destruction of our precious Mother Earth should be a crime,</strong> <strong>join our petition demanding laws against ecocide,</strong> starting in Europe and creating a ripple effect to protect…</p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/11001635664?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/11001635664?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a>Russian troops are destroying Ukraine's environment--leaving behind more than 50 billion dollars in environmental damages. <strong>If You believe that the severe destruction of our precious Mother Earth should be a crime,</strong> <strong>join our petition demanding laws against ecocide,</strong> starting in Europe and creating a ripple effect to protect nature in the entire world!</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><em><span style="caret-color: #202124; color: #202124; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -moz-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #efefef; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;"><a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/make_ecocide_illegal_loc/?cZMcCab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/make_ecocide_illegal_loc/?cZMcCab</a> </span></em> <br/></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><em>∼ Thank You! ∼</em></strong></span></p>
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Bring Ukraine's stolen Children back home
tag:peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com,2023-02-27:5143044:Topic:445793
2023-02-27T21:00:14.943Z
Rosmarie Heusser
https://peaceformeandtheworld.ning.com/profile/RosmarieHeusser
<p><strong>Again an urgent Petition to sign, Thank You</strong>❣️…</p>
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<p><strong>Again an urgent Petition to sign, Thank You</strong>❣️</p>
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