Department of Culture

Avaaz is inviting you to join a million people from around the world in sending a message to President-elect Obama.

Avaaz has built a huge wall near the White House in Washington DC where they are posting signatures from their online petition and personal messages from around the world. They’ve also asked Obama to personally receive the petition from a group of Avaaz members. They are hoping for 1 million signers and messages to Obama. Sign on at the link below and forward the link to others:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/million_messages_to_obama/

From the Avaaz email promoting this action:

“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.”