平成30年10月29日月曜日

The murder of Jamal Khashoggi

Jamal Khashoggi was beheaded and chopped into pieces with a bone saw, possibly under orders from "moderate" Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman -- who also whips dissidents and bombs children in Yemen. It's time he pays. Arms deals are our biggest leverage over Saudi, and leaders are considering ending them right now. Let's add to mounting international pressure -- and get justice for all of the Crown Prince's victims:

Jamal Khashoggi was beheaded and chopped into pieces with a bone saw, possibly under orders from "moderate" Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman -- who also whips dissidents and bombs children in Yemen. It's time he pays. Arms deals are our biggest leverage over Saudi, and leaders are considering ending them right now. Let's add to mounting international pressure -- and get justice for all of the Crown Prince's victims:
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Dear friends,

Jamal Khashoggi walked into a Saudi consulate hoping for a permit to marry the love of his life -- instead, he was beheaded and chopped into pieces with a bone saw.

It's a horrific crime -- and the outrage sparked by it could be exactly what we need to make lasting change in Saudi Arabia.

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has projected an image of a softer Saudi -- while bombing Yemeni children, locking up human rights bloggers...and now likely ordering the grisly murder of a journalist. He's a monster, not a moderate.

Finally, our leaders are taking notice. Germany just announced it would suspend arms sales to Saudi until the truth about Khashoggi is revealed. Arms are the world's biggest leverage over Saudi and pressure in the UK, France and Canada is mounting. If they and others follow suit, it could force Saudi Arabia to make real changes -- and maybe even push out the Crown Prince. Add your name, let's show them the world has had enough:

End arms deals with Saudi Arabia

It's crazy that it's taken this murder to make the world wake up to Saudi brutality. But while Mohammed bin Salman has cracked down on dissent and dropped bombs on Yemen, our governments have kept selling him arms, taking his billions, and giving him red carpet treatment everywhere he goes. He's been untouchable.

Now things seem different. Even in the US, Saudi's staunchest ally, hard right-wing hawks are calling for changes, with multiple bills on the table that would impact arms sales. The pressure is getting through, with media reporting secret meetings by Saudi's ruling elites to consider the next move.

This is the moment to strike. For Jamal Khashoggi, for tens of thousands of innocent Yemenis, for jailed activists and journalists -- let's end Saudi's reign of terror. Add your name to call for justice:


End arms deals with Saudi Arabia

Our community has rallied against the Crown Prince's bloody reign in Saudi Arabia time and again. We even got the EU Parliament to support an arms ban -- but governments didn't listen. Now they're listening. Let's seize the opportunity to put an end to the devastating arms sales.

With hope and determination,

Bert, Danny, Risalat, Rosa, Will and the rest of the Avaaz team

MORE INFORMATION:

Khashoggi death: Saudi Arabia says journalist was murdered (BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-45935823

Saudi Arabia Considers Replacing MBS over Khashoggi Murder (Morocco World News)
https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2018/10/255782/saudi-arabia-replacing-mbs-khashoggi-murder/

Germany halts arms deals with Saudi Arabia, encourages allies to do the same (The Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/10/22/germany-its-allies-well-halt-future-arms-sales-saudi...

U.S. Announces Penalties Against Saudi Arabia for Khashoggi Killing (Haaretz)
https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/u-s-announces-penalties-against-saudi-arabia-for-khashoggi-death-1.6590392

Turkish officials: Saudi dissident was killed, dismembered and removed from the embassy in boxes (VICE News)
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/j53ajy/jamal-khashoggi-turkey-embassy-killed-dismembered

Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression (The Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/jamal-khashoggi-what-the-arab-world-needs-mo...

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I am terrified

I'm terrified. A fascist who threatened to kill 30,000 'leftists' is now Brazil's president. He won as rich companies illegally spent millions to flood Facebook's Whatsapp with fake news and hate speech -- until the country trusted a racist homophobe more than anyone else. Facebook CEO Zuckerberg could have stopped it and informed users. He didn't. We can't allow this to happen anywhere else -- sign now and we'll plaster our call outside Facebook's HQ:

I'm terrified. A fascist who threatened to kill 30,000 'leftists' is now Brazil's president. He won as rich companies illegally spent millions to flood Facebook's Whatsapp with fake news and hate speech -- until the country trusted a racist homophobe more than anyone else. Facebook CEO Zuckerberg could have stopped it and informed users. He didn't. We can't allow this to happen anywhere else -- sign now and we'll plaster our call outside Facebook's HQ:
Sign now
Dear friends,

I am terrified.

A fascist has just been elected President of Brazil.

Jair Bolsonaro said he'd prefer a dead son to a gay son and threatened to kill 30,000 leftists and bulldoze the Amazon. And weeks ago, almost nobody wanted to vote for him. How could this happen?!


Facebook's WhatsApp.

CEO Zuckerberg watched silently as rich companies illegally spent millions to flood the messaging platform with fake news and hate speech -- until the country trusted a racist homophobe more than anyone else. Zuckerberg could have stopped it and informed users. He didn't.

If we don't act now, this could be replicated everywhere. It's on us to use this moment to shame Facebook into taking responsibility for fake news and hate speech spreading on its platforms -- sign now and Avaaz will put our call on huge billboards outside Facebook's headquarters!


Click here to sign

Whatsapp is a fake news paradise: it's fully encrypted and nobody knows what's going on. In Brazil, it was only after millions of pieces of fake news content had been spread that journalists started to notice! But there is a way out: convince WhatsApp to introduce fake-news filters that can be activated by users, alerting them to potential disinformation.

For this to work the platform will need to allow users to make encryption optional, a solution that experts say would work both to protect democracy and our privacy.

The amount of fake news currently spreading on all our social networks is creating a global crisis that impacts us all. On Facebook, tens of millions of fake accounts are created every day. When it comes to Youtube, a top-level engineer decided to quit after finding out its algorithms are pushing people to watch extremist, racist, and conspiracy content.

That's why we need to become the movement that fights back -- urging social media platforms, starting with Whatsapp, to stand up for citizens, democracies, and real information.

Click to sign below -- before more fascists use social media to turn us all against each other.


Click here to sign

Avaaz is fighting fake news and disinformation across the world. In Brazil, our "Elves" group exposed one of the largest disinformation networks in the country and got it taken down. But it was too little, too late. Social media algorithms have vast power over our societies, and they're force-feeding us poison right now. For the sake of everything we love, let's clean them up, before it's too late.

With hope,

Christoph, Fadi, Emma, Alice, Rosa, Ricken, and the rest of the Avaaz team

MORE INFORMATION:

The three types of WhatsApp users getting Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro elected (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/25/brazil-president-jair-bolsonaro-whatsapp-fake-news

WhatsApp has a fake news problem—that can be fixed without breaking encryption (Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/whatsapp-doesnt-have-to-break-encryption-to-beat-fake-news.php

India WhatsApp 'child kidnap' rumours claim two more victims (The BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-44435127


Avaaz is a 47-million-person global campaign network
that works to ensure that the views and values of the world's people shape global decision-making. ("Avaaz" means "voice" or "song" in many languages.) Avaaz members live in every nation of the world; our team is spread across 18 countries on 6 continents and operates in 17 languages. Learn about some of Avaaz's biggest campaigns here, or follow us on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.

You became a member of the Avaaz movement and started receiving these emails when you signed "Community Petitions Site" on 2016-08-14 using the email address iphone108@gmail.com.
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平成30年10月26日金曜日

Khashoggi

Jamal Khashoggi was beheaded and chopped into pieces with a bone saw, possibly under orders from "moderate" Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman -- who also whips dissidents and bombs children in Yemen. It's time he pays. Arms deals are our biggest leverage over Saudi, and leaders are considering ending them right now. Let's add to mounting international pressure -- and get justice for all of the Crown Prince's victims:

Jamal Khashoggi was beheaded and chopped into pieces with a bone saw, possibly under orders from "moderate" Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman -- who also whips dissidents and bombs children in Yemen. It's time he pays. Arms deals are our biggest leverage over Saudi, and leaders are considering ending them right now. Let's add to mounting international pressure -- and get justice for all of the Crown Prince's victims:
SIGN NOW
Dear friends,

Jamal Khashoggi walked into a Saudi consulate hoping for a permit to marry the love of his life -- instead, he was beheaded and chopped into pieces with a bone saw.

It's a horrific crime -- and the outrage sparked by it could be exactly what we need to make lasting change in Saudi Arabia.

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has projected an image of a softer Saudi -- while bombing Yemeni children, locking up human rights bloggers...and now likely ordering the grisly murder of a journalist. He's a monster, not a moderate.

Finally, our leaders are taking notice. Germany just announced it would suspend arms sales to Saudi until the truth about Khashoggi is revealed. Arms are the world's biggest leverage over Saudi and pressure in the UK, France and Canada is mounting. If they and others follow suit, it could force Saudi Arabia to make real changes -- and maybe even push out the Crown Prince. Add your name, let's show them the world has had enough:

End arms deals with Saudi Arabia

It's crazy that it's taken this murder to make the world wake up to Saudi brutality. But while Mohammed bin Salman has cracked down on dissent and dropped bombs on Yemen, our governments have kept selling him arms, taking his billions, and giving him red carpet treatment everywhere he goes. He's been untouchable.

Now things seem different. Even in the US, Saudi's staunchest ally, hard right-wing hawks are calling for changes, with multiple bills on the table that would impact arms sales. The pressure is getting through, with media reporting secret meetings by Saudi's ruling elites to consider the next move.

This is the moment to strike. For Jamal Khashoggi, for tens of thousands of innocent Yemenis, for jailed activists and journalists -- let's end Saudi's reign of terror. Add your name to call for justice:


End arms deals with Saudi Arabia

Our community has rallied against the Crown Prince's bloody reign in Saudi Arabia time and again. We even got the EU Parliament to support an arms ban -- but governments didn't listen. Now they're listening. Let's seize the opportunity to put an end to the devastating arms sales.

With hope and determination,

Bert, Danny, Risalat, Rosa, Will and the rest of the Avaaz team

MORE INFORMATION:

Khashoggi death: Saudi Arabia says journalist was murdered (BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-45935823

Saudi Arabia Considers Replacing MBS over Khashoggi Murder (Morocco World News)
https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2018/10/255782/saudi-arabia-replacing-mbs-khashoggi-murder/

Germany halts arms deals with Saudi Arabia, encourages allies to do the same (The Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/10/22/germany-its-allies-well-halt-future-arms-sales-saudi...

U.S. Announces Penalties Against Saudi Arabia for Khashoggi Killing (Haaretz)
https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/u-s-announces-penalties-against-saudi-arabia-for-khashoggi-death-1.6590392

Turkish officials: Saudi dissident was killed, dismembered and removed from the embassy in boxes (VICE News)
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/j53ajy/jamal-khashoggi-turkey-embassy-killed-dismembered

Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression (The Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/jamal-khashoggi-what-the-arab-world-needs-mo...

Avaaz is a 47-million-person global campaign network
that works to ensure that the views and values of the world's people shape global decision-making. ("Avaaz" means "voice" or "song" in many languages.) Avaaz members live in every nation of the world; our team is spread across 18 countries on 6 continents and operates in 17 languages. Learn about some of Avaaz's biggest campaigns here, or follow us on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.

You became a member of the Avaaz movement and started receiving these emails when you signed "Community Petitions Site" on 2016-08-14 using the email address iphone108@gmail.com.
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平成30年10月25日木曜日

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