平成30年5月27日日曜日

A Chernobyl in the Amazon

Justice is finally in sight for the indigenous who've suffered cancer and chaos after Chevron's Amazon Chernobyl toxic spills.
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After oil giant Chevron dumped billions of deadly chemicals in the Amazon, Indigenous families in Ecuador were devastated by cancer and death. But a vote in days could bring justice and hold companies to account for their crimes -- if we persuade just one more big investor to vote for an end to the Amazon's Chernobyl. We've got 48 hours -- Sign now! 
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Dear friends,

Oil giant Chevron dumped billions of gallons of deadly chemicals in the Ecuadorian Amazon, leaving behind rivers full of toxic waste, decimating wildlife and spreading cancer and death in indigenous communities. 

They've never cleaned it up! But Chevron's impunity could finally end if we persuade just one man to do the right thing

Chevron's top stockholder is a US retirement fund whose chair has challenged corporate abuse before, and his customers are part of this community! If we flood him with support in the next 48 hours he could tip a historic vote -- at Chevron's shareholder meeting in days. Add your name now: 

Join the Call for Justice for the Amazon's Chernobyl

The battle between Chevron and Ecuador's indigenous people has been waged for decades, becoming a landmark case globally. Over 20 judges in Ecuador and Canada, including the Supreme Courts of both countries, have sided with the Ecuadorians in their pursuit to hold Chevron to account for dumping toxic waste in the water that people drink.

A win against Chevron could open a new era where major corporations are finally held accountable for their crimes!

That's where investor powerhouse Vanguard and its powerful chairman comes in. Vanguard owns a large share of Chevron, and has just recently voted against management on climate-related resolutions at ExxonMobil, criticising executive pay at Viacom and pushing big banks on gender diversity. With Chevron's shareholder meeting in days, over 30 major investors are already calling on the company to settle the case. 

Vanguard Chairman Bill McNabb is a father of four who's called on CEOs to be a "force for good." Getting him on board could tip the balance toward a majority vote against Chevron's recalcitrant management! Add your name now and we'll deliver our appeal directly to the chairman, right before the meeting

Join the Call for Justice for the Amazon's Chernobyl

Avaazers have campaigned against Chevron before, delivering letters to US senators, and filing legal briefings in court cases with partners. This is an incredible opportunity to get Chevron to finally clean up its toxic mess ... and open up a new era of investor-driven social change!

With hope and determination,

Joseph, Pascal, Mike, Alice, Emma, Ricken and the entire Avaaz team

More information:

Shareholders Push New Chevron CEO For Answers on Ecuador
http://csrstrategygroup.com/shareholders-push-new-chevron-ceo-for-answers-on-ecuador/

Tell Chevron's New CEO to Finally Clean up Ecuador! (Amazon Watch)
https://amazonwatch.org/take-action/tell-chevrons-new-ceo-to-finally-clean-up-ecuador

In the Vanguard: Fund giants urge CEOs to be 'Force for Good'
https://www.ft.com/content/a28203d8-067d-11e8-9650-9c0ad2d7c5b5

Investor Letter on Risks from Ecuador Litigation
http://www.newground.net/Chevron-Investor-Letter-2018.pdf

Exxon Mobil loses support of a powerful voice in climate change policy
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/31/investing-power-vanguard-votes-against-exxon-mobil-on-climate-change.html

Chevron's "Amazon Chernobyl" in Ecuador: The Real Irrefutable Truths About the Company's Toxic Dumping and Fraud (Huffington Post)
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-donziger/chevrons-amazon-chernobyl_b_7435926.html

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平成30年5月16日水曜日

Palestinian Lives Matter

Israeli troops just massacred 60 unarmed protesters in Gaza. It's time for the world to declare that Palestinian lives matter!
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Israeli troops just massacred 60 unarmed protesters in Gaza, and shot 1300 more. Israel is now led by one of the most brutally racist regimes on the planet -- it's time for the world to declare that Palestinian lives matter, and rally behind sanctions on Israel:
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Dear friends,

Israeli troops just killed 60 unarmed protesters, and shot 1300 more. 1300. They do it *gleefully* -- you can watch a video here.

It's a massacre -- another installment in 50 years of brutal racist military repression of the Palestinian people.

Other states have faced sanctions for far less. Sanctions on South Africa helped free its black people, it's time for sanctions on Israel to free the Palestinians. It's time for the world to rally behind sanctions on Israel:   

Sign the Petition: Palestinian Lives Matter! 

Israel has marched steadily away from reason and peace and towards the far right. A member of Parliament called for the beating of Ahed Tamimi, the young Palestinian girl who slapped a soldier after her cousin got shot in the face -- and the Defence Minister himself threatened punishing her entire family!

Israel's many enablers will knee-jerk accuse Avaaz and our many Jewish staff and leadership of hating Jews. But our team and our members love the Jewish people, as we love all people. The Holocaust was real, the Jewish community has long been horrifically oppressed and still faces anti-Semitism worldwide.

Many of those who founded Israel wanted it to be a beacon of a better way. But their vision has been betrayed, and Israel has come to be led by a brutally racist and repressive regime -- it deserves the world's condemnation. Not just in words, but action:  

Palestinian Lives Matter - Sanction Israel!

Virtually every other tool has been tried, for decades, to encourage the Israeli regime to treat Palestinians better, and they just keep treating them worse. Targeted sanctions, covering things like Israeli blood diamonds, a boycott on arms sales (Israel sells weapons to some of the world's most brutal regimes) as well tech and cultural sanctions (like banning Israel from sporting events and the Eurovision song contest) may finally affect the calculus of the regime. 

Two of the most dishonest and dangerous leaders in the world today are Donald Trump and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu. Like extremists everywhere, they dream of a world where sensible people lose their judgment and are pulled into two warring camps, one of which is led by them. Let's show them it won't work -- that ordinary people won't be sucked into their hate and propaganda, and that we can still see racism and brutality for what it is, and respond. That they can't take our humanity from us, and we won't let them succeed in taking freedom and dignity from the Palestinian people. 

With hope and determination,

Ricken, Christoph, Emma, Fadi, Pascal, Rewan, Fatima, Diego and the entire Avaaz team

PS - Almost 75% of the Avaaz membership has voted for this campaign, with only 8% opposed. Believe it or not, in a sign of how bizarrely powerful the Israeli far-right lobby is, it is illegal in many countries, from the US to France to Israel itself, to call for a boycott or sanctions against Israel, for any reason whatsoever. Backed by an overwhelming vote of our membership, Avaaz, for the first time, openly and proudly refuses to obey these laws, which violate our basic human and constitutional rights to free expression and democracy. We will challenge them in our legislatures and defeat them in our courts.

More information:

The Guardian view on Gaza shootings: stop killing unarmed civilians (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/14/the-guardian-view-on-gaza-shootings-stop-killing-unarmed-civilians

South Africa recalls envoy to Israel over 'violent aggression' on Gaza border (Times of Israel)
https://www.timesofisrael.com/south-africa-recalls-envoy-to-israel-over-violent-aggression-on-gaza-border/

Gaza braces for second day of violence as Palestinians hold funerals for 59 killed by Israeli forces (The Telegraph)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/15/gaza-braces-second-day-violence-palestinians-hold-funerals-59/


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平成30年5月14日月曜日

隐私权政策和隐私控制设置方面的诸多改进

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之所以做出这些更新,是因为欧盟即将实施新的数据保护条例,同时我们也希望藉此为世界各地的 Google 用户提供更加细致妥善的服务。
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平成30年5月11日金曜日

Next steps to stop Trump's disgusting plan

Thanks for taking action to save the elephants from Trump!

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Dear friends,

Trump just quietly changed the law -- AGAIN -- to let bloodthirsty American hunters murder elephants in Africa and bring their heads home as trophies!

He tried to do this before -- but after massive public pressure, including a 2-million-person Avaaz campaign, Trump put this disgusting plan "under review".

Now, months later, he's trying to sneak it past us. It's all a sick gift to people like his son, who notoriously shot and mutilated an elephant.

We can't let them get away with it. Let's quickly build another mega-petition and in days Avaaz will deliver it to a summit of Africa's elephant nations telling them to stand up to Trump. Sign now:

Stop Trump's disgusting plan & save the elephants!

Under pressure, Trump himself called this policy a "horror show" just a few months ago. But now with the dust cleared and eyes elsewhere, he wants to reward elephant-killers like Trump Jr, letting anyone join the slaughter and bring home elephant body parts as souvenirs, even as ivory poaching threatens to wipe these amazing creatures out.

Trump officials say they'll only lift the ban on trophy imports on a "case by case basis" but experts say it's almost impossible to stop poaching when wealthy Americans are shooting elephants for fun. The only way to save elephants from extinction is to stop killing them, and reduce demand for their body parts.

When Trump tried to do this months ago, the public shut it down. We can do it again. Let's make sure that when African elephant nations meet in days, we can send them a giant call for the US to drop this disgusting plan. Sign now and share with everyone!

Stop Trump's disgusting plan & save the elephants!

Time and time again, our movement has rallied for elephants. We've pushed for ivory bans, funded undercover stings against poachers, and pushed for even greater protections. Now we need to come together for these amazing creatures again.

With hope,

Danny, Bert, Sarah, Spyro, Mike, Fatima, Ricken, Emma, and the rest of the Avaaz team

MORE INFORMATION

Trump Administration Makes Elephants Fair Game for Hunters as Trophy Ban is Lifted (Newsweek)
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-sparks-outrage-among-wildlife-conservationists-after-quietly-lifting-ban-833749/

Elephant trophy decision faces pushback from some Trump allies (The Hill)
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/377471-gop-torn-on-elephant-trophy-ruling-as-trump-stays-quiet

Trump administration wildlife council mostly hunting advocates (ABC)
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-administration-wildlife-council-hunting-advocates/story?id=53803070

Trophies from elephant hunts in Zimbabwe were banned in the U.S. Trump just reversed that (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2017/11/15/trophies-from-elephant-hunts-in-zimbabwe-were-banned-in-the-u-s-trump-just-reversed-that/?utm_term=.5f4ba3bca7a0

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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 or Twitter.

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平成30年5月3日木曜日

Save the bees — we won!!!

Dear amazing Avaazers,

We just won a total ban on bee-killing pesticides in all 28 EU countries!!!

This fight took 7 years and I am so, so proud of our movement right now! We've been cited in hundreds of articles the last few days with media calling Avaaz a "catalyst" of the outcome.

And that outcome is MASSIVE. It's not just a global tipping point to save the bees - it bans the world's most common insecticides, pressing industry to develop a whole new model of non-toxic agriculture!



We faced the biggest chemical corporations in the world and used every trick in the book - from a 5 million-strong petition, to crowdsourced funding for scientists, to tracking down ministers on an airport runway.

Here's the crazy story of how we did it - have a look and let's take this win global...

We built the largest petition for the bees ever

-- over 5 million strong and delivered it with Avaaz's 5 meter high mascot, Bernice, who has travelled the world to the key decision making moments, grabbing the media's attention every time.



We flooded key ministries with calls directly from their voters

...for seven years! And in the last weeks, the push was so strong that, in Germany and Sweden, the ministers responded to us publicly on social media. And in Cyprus the Minister replied directly to Avaaz member Nicolas.

We took over the official EU public consultation

The under-the-radar consultation was having a minimal response, then Avaaz members mobilized, and the count went from just 9,000 to 66,000 submissions in just four days, even crashing the system for a day!!



We funded the science and brought it to decision-makers

To counter the many studies funded by the chemical companies, nearly 150,000 Avaazers worldwide have donated more than 2.5 million Euros (!!!) for bees campaigning and research! Together we supported seminal independent studies by top experts and made sure they were seen by key players before the vote. Finally the official EU scientific body, EFSA, came out supporting the ban.

Dave Goulson, Professor of Biology, Sussex University: "Friday's vote was a fantastic victory for science and for the environment; Avaaz members should be proud of the role they played in bringing this about."

We brought pro-ban farmers' voices to the politicians

One of the key arguments to delay a vote was that farmers had no alternatives to these chemicals, and were anti-ban. So Avaaz staff brought organic and conventional pro-ban farmers together behind an open letter that debunked that notion and published it across the EU -- from La Libre in Belgium, to Dagens Nyheter in Sweden. Even Italy's biggest farming union joined!

Alison Waugh, farm worker in Scotland, said: "My future career depends upon the survival of the industry, and ultimately, it depends on bee and insect survival. What you have done is great!"



We worked closely with the European Commission

Keeping the officials ambitious was key to winning the ban. So when rumours emerged that the sugar industry was lobbying to water down the ban, we reminded European Commission President Juncker of his promise to be the "bee's man", delivered the campaign directly to Juncker's cabinet, and blanketed a Brussels-based website with ads. And when the vote came in the Commissioner for health tweeted in celebration with Avaazers!!

Avaazers went country by country to push for a ban

France

The campaign started in 2011, when one million Avaazers emboldened France to lead the way with their own ban. And we kept calling for France's leadership government after government until Avaaz found a partner in French bee champion and Environment Minister Nicolas Hulot, who in this last stretch has been at the forefront of the EU-wide fight to ban neonics.



After Friday's vote, Minister Hulot said: "This is good news for bees but also good news for humanity. The paradigm is changing and I want to pay tribute to the strong citizen mobilisation to push this through!"

Germany

Winning in Germany was our next battle! Over the years Avaazers have tirelessly delivered our call for a ban to three successive agriculture ministers! At one point the ministry had to set up a special email address because the volume was so high. In the final push, we ran an opinion poll that showed the ministers of agriculture and environment that voters from their parties were behind a ban, and it worked! Germany finally swung behind the ban!

UK

For years the UK was a blocker, with a former Environment Secretary even calling Avaazers' messages a "cyber attack". But last year, after Avaaz and partners supercharged national campaigning, the UK became a champion for the bees! The word was that no other topic had generated the same kind of correspondence to MPs by their constituents!

Once the three biggest European nations were on board, smaller countries like Ireland, Luxembourg, Austria and Slovenia joined. But it still wasn't enough...

To win a qualified majority we needed Spain and Italy to join

So in the last few weeks we went all out to win in both:
  • We ran opinion polls showing 87% of Spaniards and 78% of Italians wanted a ban;
  • We took out ads in major newspapers El Mundo and Il Sole;
  • We sent a barrage of personal messages to the Ministers on Facebook and Twitter, and delivered the opinions of farmers and scientists;
  • And we spoke to politicians and officials day after day, right up to the very morning of the vote. In fact it was an Avaaz staffer that told a member of the Cabinet in Madrid that Spain had voted yes -- we were so all over it we broke the news to him about his own government's vote!
Spanish MP Juan López de Uralde (Unidos Podemos/EQUO) said: "None of this would have been possible without the mobilisation of millions of people who put the pressure on governments to get it done."

But we didn't stop there, we also went hard in the Netherlands, Greece, Poland and other smaller countries...

Netherlands

Just weeks before the vote, in the Netherlands three Avaaz members started their own national campaign to save the bees that quickly went viral, and was backed by 10 of the most prominent scientists in the country, two former ministers and even a princess! We then ran an opinion poll showing almost 80% of Dutch voters were behind a ban -- and delivered the campaign directly to the country's Agriculture minister. The minister took the petition board to "hang it up in the hallway"! Then, two days before the vote, the Netherlands came out in favour of a ban!



Greece

In Greece, we sent our massive petition to the Minister of Agriculture with organic honey made in his birthplace, and thousands of members sent him emails and tweets directly. Then, the day before the vote, we secured a front-page splash in the most widely read pro-government newspaper, and called everyone we knew, including the Vice Minister, to get the Minister on the phone. We finally reached him, hours before the vote, just as he was getting off a plane, and when he learned that the ban could depend on Greece - he immediately committed to supporting it!

"The public concerns, about the impact on bee populations in Greece and Europe, have been too strong and long-standing for us to ignore."
-- Vangelis Apostolou, Greek Minister of Agriculture & Food

"A petition from the global movement Avaaz, signed by almost 5 million in favour of banning the bee-killing pesticides, was a catalyst in the outcome of the decision."
-- Efsyn -- national Greek paper

Only minutes before the vote, we knew we had 13 countries on board, but were still unsure we would win. When we heard almost all of our target countries had voted in favour Avaazers came out in droves in Brussels to celebrate.



It's been a massive effort for years to get this win. Partners like PAN, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and SumOfUs have campaigned hard alongside our community, and we've worked hand in hand with amazing scientists, beekeepers as well as key politicians and civil servants who championed this cause.

Today, we celebrate together. This ban feels like a substantial shift from pesticide based intensive farming towards a new exciting model of agroecology, where food production happens in harmony with nature, not against it.

But we cannot sit on our laurels now -- we must bring this win to the US and Canada who will consider similar bans this year. Plus we have to keep vigilant in Europe -- Bayer and Syngenta have a dangerous legal challenge in the European Court of Justice! We have to keep fighting worldwide if we want to protect our land from desertification and our precious biodiversity from collapse.

But our movement was built for this kind of fight... and this amazing campaign shows that if enough of us speak out together, and we are smart, we CAN get our governments to protect the public good. So thank you, thank you, thank you, and watch this space for the next call to action on the next battlefield!

With love and joy,

Alice, Antonia, Emma, Ricken, Lisa, Iain, Nell, Pascal, Nick, Camille, Francesco, Daniel, Rene, Luis, Oscar, Spyro, Julie, Marie, Olivia, Joseph, Nick, Mia and the whole Avaaz team

The bees story, and Avaaz's role, have been mentioned in hundreds of articles. Here's a small selection:

EU member states support near-total neonicotinoids ban (BBC)
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43910536

EU Moves to Full Ban on Pesticides That Harm Bees (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/04/27/world/europe/ap-eu-europe-bees-.html

EU agrees total ban on bee-harming pesticides (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/27/eu-agrees-total-ban-on-bee-harming-pesticides

EU votes to ban bee-harming pesticides (The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/bee-harming-pesticides-eu-ban-vote-environmental-threat-harm-latest-news-a8324981.html


Avaaz is a 46-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 or Twitter.

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.
To ensure that Avaaz messages reach your inbox, please add avaaz@avaaz.org to your address book. To change your email address, language settings, or other personal information, contact us, or simply go here to unsubscribe.


To contact Avaaz, please do not reply to this email. Instead, write to us at https://www.avaaz.org/en/contact/?footer or call us at +1-888-922-8229 (US).

平成30年5月2日水曜日

Show Mum your ♥️ with gifts she’ll ♥️.