[Sosfbay-discuss] [Fwd: Thanks for telling your friends!]

[Gerry Gras]

FYI,

Avaaz has collected over 13,000,000 signatures,
including mine, for a "Real Deal" in Copenhagen.

Gerry


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Thanks for telling your friends!
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:27:15 -0500
From: "Avaaz.org" <avaaz at avaaz.org>
To: gerrygras at earthlink.net



It is essential that we build numbers on our petition in the next 48
hours. Please take a minute to invite your friends, families and
colleagues to join us? Each one that joins doubles your impact on these
crucial negotiations.

Over 11 million of us have already joined the call for a real climate
deal - but this is crunch time! Let's add millions more.

Please forward this link to everyone you can:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_copenhagen/97.php?cl_tta_sign=3bb46e2f82e77bb88d202f058942bbd3

Thanks again for all you do!

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Here again the original email you can forward to your friends:

With just 2 days left, the historic Copenhagen climate summit is failing.

World leaders have begun the final hours of direct negotiations. The UK
Prime Minister has directly appealed to Avaaz to build the tidal wave of
public pressure needed to reach a deal that stops catastrophic global
warming of 2 degrees.

Click below to sign the petition for a real deal -- the campaign already
has a staggering 11 million supporters -- over the next 48 hours let's
make it the largest petition in history! The name of every signer is
being read out right now in the summit hall -- sign on at the link below
and forward this email to everyone!

http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_copenhagen/97.php?cl_tta_sign=3bb46e2f82e77bb88d202f058942bbd3

We are making history in Copenhagen. A group of young people have sat
down in the middle of the summit and begun reading the names of every
person who signs the petition for a real deal. Another group is doing
the same 'petition reading sit-in' in the Canadian Prime Minister's
office, and rumours are that more such actions will happen today. On an
emergency conference call with 3000 Avaaz members today, UK Prime
Minister Gordon Brown said:

"What you're doing through the internet around the world is absolutely
crucial to setting the agenda. In the next 48 hours, don't underestimate
your effect on the leaders here in Copenhagen"

Earlier, millions watched the Avaaz vigil inside the summit on TV, where
Archbishop Desmond Tutu told hundreds of delegates and assembled children:

â??We marched in Berlin, and the wall fell.
"We marched for South Africa, and apartheid fell.
"We marched at Copenhagen -- and we WILL get a Real Deal.â??

Copenhagen is seeking the biggest mandate in history to stop the
greatest threat humanity has ever faced. History will be made in the
next 48 hours. How will our children remember this moment? Let's tell
them we did all we could.

http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_copenhagen/97.php?cl_tta_sign=3bb46e2f82e77bb88d202f058942bbd3

With hope and determination,
Ricken, Alice, Ben, Paul, Luis, Iain, Veronique, Graziela, Pascal,
Paula, Benjamin, Raj, Raluca, Taren, David, Josh and the whole Avaaz team.

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