September 2009
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The Action Factory and the Avaaz Global Wake Up...
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Spectacular images of all our Global Climate Wake-Up Call events around the world are flooding in.
Everyone here at the Avaaz Action Factory feels very moved by the countless videos, reports and links received! This was the first time Avaaz members have gathered shoulder to shoulder in our communities across the world. Everyone who participated in 2,000 events on five...
Merkel's Train Tour!
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On Tuesday, September 19th, current chancellor Merkel was on the (rail)road: her election campaign trip took her from Bonn to Berlin via Koblenz, Frankfurt, Erfurt and Leipzig. And at every stop, Avaaz members were awaiting her and reminded her with banners (“Climate chancellor wanted”), windmills, white suits and green hard hats of the fact that German voters...
August 2009
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Monday the 3rd and Wednesday the 5th of August,...
Green Jobs now! We completed two actions this week: 1. An action around Angela Merkel’s opponent for the chanclery of Germany. 2. A meeting with the German Environment minister and a dance act. More details on the actions: 1.On Monday, we launched our German elections climate campaign performing a stunt outside the place where the main opponent of Angela Merkel for the Chanclery of...
July 2009
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G8 Strip-tease: It's getting hot in here...
Wednesday 8th July, Rome:
The Avaaz Action Factory in Europe today carried out it’s 6th and most adrenalin-filled action so far: a spectacular ‘Strip Mob’! I challenge you to think of anything quite like it : 15 people danced and chanted while taking their clothes off at the Spanish Steps in Rome, during a maximum security time – the G8 summit.
Why on earth…? To...
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WatchSweden Takes the EU Presidency Seat - 1 July, 2009
We take to the streets with clean graffiti encouraging bold Swedish leadership on climate policy within the EU, and meet with the Swedish Ambassador to Berlin Ruth Jacoby to present a petition with over 500 signatures from around the world.
June 2009
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WatchSuperBama & WunderMerkel
Pariser Platz, Berlin
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Watch
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Factory Team
Cameron Dron - United Kingdom
Joseph Finlayson - United Kingdom
Anastasis Giannousakis - Greece
Laura Grainger - Australia
Jennifer Helfrich - United States
April Hillman - United States
Anna Keenan - Australia
Sara Svensson - Sweden
Benoit Kubiak - France
Emma Lilliestam - Sweden
Blaine O’Neill - United States
Hansha Sanjyal - Nepal
Somah Prosper - Cameroon
Sandra Toepke -...
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Anna K
So why am I in the Action Factory? Because one day way back in April, I got a phone call from Ben from Avaaz saying ‘Hey, I’ve got a crazy idea… you want in?’.
Needless to say, I said yes, and 4 weeks later we had started with an action at the MEF in Paris, then on to Bonn for an intensive 2 weeks of the UN conference. 3 weeks after that and I find myself in Berlin in...
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April
Hi! I’m April Hillman from Vermont in the United States. Last fall, I spent my first semester of college at Castleton State College, and then headed to Washington, DC for the second semester to do the Greenpeace Organizing Term. This fall, I’ll be starting my sophomore year at the University of Vermont. I plan on double-majoring in Environmental Science (concentrating in Conservation...
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Anastasis
Ya Sas! My name is Anastasis, I’m from Greece. I think another (sustainable) society and another world are possible and I’m here to help the youth climate movement in achieving this (cuz we’ll definitely win!).
Apart from activism, I like foreign languages and music (mostly Arabic and Turkish traditional). I’ve been—among other things—a PhD student in Chemical Engineering, a DJ, and I’ve taken...
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Cameron
Campaigning on Glasgow’s streets.
Hi, I’m Cameron, a student studying history and economics. I’m rather pessimistic about stopping climate change, but I think it’s important to try and stop it, rather than be part of a self-fulfilling prophecy. I also think it’s important for people to engage politically with the issue, which is why I think Avaaz are a particularly...
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Blaine
That’s me with my grandparents at the beach in Santa Monica, CA.
Oh. Hi.
I’m Blaine O’Neill, 19 years old and soon to be a third-year at Swarthmore College in the United States—originally from California. I spend a lot of time studying biology, architecture, environmental studies, and how all of these spheres inherently intertwine. I will be in Copenhagen this upcoming...
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Laura Grainger
G’day! I’m Laura, from Tasmania, Australia!
Old growth forests, plants and animals excite me, which is what got me into environmental activism a few years ago. I’m 20 years old and travelling the world, but climate change really threatens everything I’m passionate about: from biodiversity to human rights to snowboarding. The more things I experience, people I meet, reports...
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Emma
I’m Emma, originally from Gothenburg, Sweden. I’m studying Linguistics and Scandinavistics parallel to the Action Factory, making me the most stressed of all our climate fellows. I’ve been studying Social Environmental Science and social anthropology way up North in Sweden. I’m the one who brought the keyboard, the guitar and the djembe into the house, and I wrote songs...
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Leon
Ohai! My name is Leon White, a New Zealander living in Berlin and a member of the awesome Action Factory this summer. I’m 26 and I have travelled a lot, and the places I saw, the people I met and the things I have been lucky enough to do remind me every day of how important it is to preserve a stable planet for our children. So I’m doing this to ensure we leave a peaceful and plentiful...
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Joe
Almost the only normal photo of Joe there is.
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My name is Joseph Alfred Lalvani Finlayson (long name I know.) This is because my parents were a bit modern and decided to give me my mum’s last name as a middle name. I like it.
I study philosophy at the University of Leeds in the UK. I only got into climate activism recently because I was previously under the pernicious influence of...