Avaaz.org message to Obama

Message from Avaaz.org:-
After 8 long years of Bush - a fresh start. The world is seizing this historic and hopeful moment to send a flood of global messages to Obama. Our message and the number of signers, as well as the personal messages sent, are being displayed on a large wall in the centre of Washington DC. (see pictures at right) Over the last 24 hours, the wall has been featured on the front pages of the Washington Post and USA Today (two of the largest newspapers in the US) and on CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera and many other press outlets.A massive global response is making this a major moment of unity and reconciliation between the US and the world -- let's get to a million!

I just joined this great campaign to send a global message to Obama and thought you might be interested -- here's the email about it below --
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Dear friends,
After 8 long years of Bush – a fresh start!
Entrenched interests stand in the way, but Obama's victory brings a chance for the US to finally join with the world community to take on pressing challenges on climate change, human rights, and peace.
After years, even decades of distrust, let's seize this moment of unity, reconciliation and hope to send a message of warm congratulations and invitation to work together to the new President and the American people.
We've built a huge wall near the White House in Washington DC where the number of signatures on our message and personal messages from around the world will grow over the next several hours. We've also asked Obama to personally receive our petition from a group of Avaaz members. Let's get to 1 million signers and messages to Obama! Sign on at the link below and forward this email to others:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/million_messages_to_obama/98.php/?CLICK_TF_TRACK
This is a time for celebration of democracy, but already the sharks are circling – oil companies, war contractors, conservative lobbyists, and the powerful neo-con clique that brought us the war in Iraq are furiously lobbying to dim the prospects for change. Obama has promised national unity, and these interests will ask a high price for that unity.
Let's act quickly to make sure the people of the world are heard as Obama makes crucial choices in the coming days on how to live up to his campaign promises to secure a strong global treaty on climate change, ban torture and close Guantanamo prison, withdraw carefully from Iraq, and double aid to make global poverty history. Rarely has a US President been more likely to listen to us.
We'll make the point that on most of the pressing issues faced by Obama and the American people – from the financial crisis to climate change -- we need to work together as one world to achieve change. Sign below and forward this message on:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/million_messages_to_obama/98.php/?CLICK_TF_TRACK
With hope,
Ricken, Brett, Alice, Iain, Paula, Paul, Graziela, Pascal, Milena, Graziela and the whole Avaaz team.
PS – Send us a picture of yourself for our wall - email it to obamawall@avaaz.org
PPS – Here's a link to a report on Avaaz's past campaigning – http://www.avaaz.org/en/report_back_2/
PPS - And here's a list of 10 of Obama's campaign promises that concern the world – you can find his full platform here http://www.barackobama.com/issues/:
· Reduce the US's carbon emissions 80% by 2050 and play a strong positive role in negotiating a binding global treaty to replace the expiring Kyoto Protocol.· Withdraw all combat troops from Iraq within 16 months and keep no permanent bases in the country.· Establish a clear goal of eliminating all nuclear weapons across the globe· Close the Guantanamo Bay detention center· Double US aid to cut extreme poverty in half by 2015 and accelerate the fight against HIV/AIDS, tuberculoses and Malaria· Open diplomatic talks with countries like Iran and Syria, to pursue peaceful resolution of tensions· De-politicize military intelligence to avoid ever repeating the kind of manipulation that led the US into Iraq· Launch a major diplomatic effort to stop the killings in Darfur· Only negotiate new trade agreements that contain labor and environmental protections· Invest $150 billion over ten years to support renewable energy and get 1 million plug-in electric cars on the road by 2015
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A great shift in the world - great news about Obama!

I am so pleased with the USA election results. As a passion of mine has long been diversity, this is a wonderful shift towards a better balance in the world.

I wrote about this a bit in my most recent newsletter, which also talks about how the global financial crisis may have hidden benefits for many of us. See 'Bad news can be good news'.

Silver linings

My November newsletter was all about finding the silver linings in the black clouds around us, now and always. Bad news can usually be good news, if we seek to learn. See http://www.ambitioncoach.com/62652/93328.html.