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A voice that can
change the world
Voice, everyone knows, is, in Portuguese, the word for the sound or set of sounds that the vocal tract as far as the right to speak, verbal expression and the right to speak somewhere.
A voice means, therefore, enjoy the right to express.
"Avaaz" is synonymous for voice in different languages of Europe, Asia and the Middle East, and also the name of a transnational community that operates since 2007 in 15 different languages, covering four continents and a large number of nations on our planet.
Its mission is to mobilize people of all countries to build a bridge between the world we live in and the world that most people want, that is, a world of peace, brotherhood and without inequalities.(1)
For this, Avaaz mobilizes millions of people to act on urgent international causes, ranging from global poverty to the conflicts in the Middle East, concern for the environment and ethics in the conduct of public and private businesses.
Its mobilization model - via the Internet - allows thousands of individual actions, although small, can be combined into a powerful collective force.
Having the head a professional staff and volunteers around the globe, Avaaz community mobilizes signing petitions, financing ad campaigns, emailing or phoning governments, organizing protests and events in the streets, all to ensure that the values and visions of global civil society inform government decisions that affect everyone.
The results have been promising, even though the short time of community existence.
For 2015 Avaaz has chosen three principles:
· Show kindness and respect
· Seek wisdom
· Practice gratitude.
The three principles reconcile perfectly with the Christian and spiritist world view.
It is necessary and you can be kind and have respect for all people and all institutions. The feelings of kindness and indulgence, proclaimed by Spiritism, are implicit in this principle.
Deciding the issues with wisdom and seeking a balance between reason, heart and intuition, behold an unassailable proposal, if it was put into practice, it would have prevented many conflicts and human and material losses caused so much suffering in our world.
Be grateful to God, to life, to all around us it is a wise move that gives us the real dimension of what we are and how, in life, we depend on each other.
Dag Hammarskjöld, former General-Secretary of the United Nations, once said that we would never see the world forward in a sustainable way until all the people had gone through "the longest journey": the inner journey.
True enough.
How about we start this journey today?
(1) To know more about Avaaz click in http://www.avaaz.org/po/
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