We're helping to shape history!

Dear friends, We did it!!!! Hours ago, the EU Parliament overwhelmingly voted in favor of the most ambitious regulation ever drafted to end the era of toxic social media. We're still in shock.  We were up against some of the most powerful corporations in the world. But we were louder. Donating in the thousands, flooding key decision-makers with messages, delivering powerful solutions in meetings, and publishing groundbreaking investigations showing the harms caused by Big Tech: the Avaaz community has helped shape history this week, together with other awesome groups out there fighting alongside us and brave lawmakers who decided to listen. We're not done yet, but if EU lawmakers stand strong in further negotiations, this could be the first wave of a cascade of new laws all over the world that finally put people before platforms and their profits: whenever Facebook, Youtube or TikTok would harm our societies at scale - from making dangerous disinformation go viral to spreading harmful content to kids or misusing our personal data -- our democracies would be able to ensure they take responsibility. 🎉 Join the celebration by retweeting the Avaaz tweet here or posting on Facebook here Social media has brought powerful innovation to our societies. But for too long they have been  able to evolve with literally just one goal: maximizing their profit, even if that meant radicalizing our societies, delegitimizing science or a rise in teen depression. Now, thanks to this regulation which some have called a new constitution for the Internet, we can demand a future where technologies are shaped around common values, and protect our fundamental human rights, instead of exploiting our weaknesses. Also, with so much disillusionment around politics, this regulation has shown Europe at its best. With almost all the demands from citizens, experts and civic society organizations landing in some way in the text just voted including: Detoxify the algorithm-- make the platforms take responsibility for the harms they cause to our societies, like the viral spread of dangerous disinformation;   Big sanctions -- Face fines up to 6% of their global income, yes we're talking billions of dollars here, if they don't fix their systems; Open the black box -- Allow independent auditors, researchers and civic society to scrutinize their actions and uncover their wrongdoings; Stop surveillance ads -- Ban the exploitation of children's data, and our political beliefs or gender choices, to target us with ads. 🎉 Join the celebration by retweeting the Avaaz tweet here or posting on Facebook here For over four years Avaaz has been on the forefront of the public push to force social media platforms to tackle the harms they create. From the EU, to the US, or Brazil, we have reported on disinformation and its scale, commissioning polls on its harmful effects, evaluating platforms' efforts to tackle them, and identifying their failures. None of this would have been possible without the Avaaz membership. It was a huge shared effort. But it paid off. And now we're making history. With deep excitement and determination, Luca, Sarah, Christoph, Joana, Nadia, Andy, Rosie, Luana, Camille, Barbara, Sam and the rest of the Avaaz team More information: Big tech's approach to COVID-19 disinformation is flawed, campaign group says (Euractiv) Social networks still failing to tackle COVID-19 misinformation, report claims (Euronews) The People's Declaration - a huge coalition of civic society organizations that fought with us Towards a Paris Agreement for Disinformation - Event organized by Avaaz with the EU Commission, MEPs and social media platforms How the Democracy Action Plan can become an effective tool against disinformation (Media Laws)

Avaaz is a 69-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. To contact Avaaz, please do not reply to this email. Instead, write to us at www.avaaz.org/en/contact . 27 Union Square West Suite 500 New York, NY 10003

Conscious Relationship 6 Days Course

Hello Lovely People!

First, respond to FAQ - Singles are welcome too but book quickly. You are all welcome for tomorrow FREE demo at 6.30 and of course 6 days course from Tuesday.

Our main intentions are to guide you on how to love better what is one of the primary purposes of Tantra ( Life ? )

We want to empower, to improve, to bring back the spark, a never-ending honeymoon and more and more unconditional Love to your present or future relationship.

We introduce you to a conscious relationship, which uses our union's power to create even more Love for ourselves and our Beloved.

Thankful of the techniques of modern Tantra, we guide you to: liberate from the conditioning, what you didn't choose, we guide you to heal from the past wounds that are affecting our lives, we guide you to expand in Love and grow in ecstasy.

For more info, join the events, check the website, and do not hesitate to ask the questions

https://www.facebook.com/events/993022024974416

Michal Kali Griks
http://tantramovement.com

FREE Taster of Conscious Relationship workshop. Connection Event

Let us give you the taste of the 6 days retreat that we will share with you from Tuesday.

We introduce you to a conscious relationship, which is about using the power of our union for creating even more love for ourselves and our Beloved.

Thankful of the techniques of modern Tantra, we guide you to: liberate from the conditioning, what you didn't choose, we guide you to heal from the past wounds that are affecting our lives, we guide you to expand in Love and grow in ecstasy.


As a single, as a couple, join us!
https://www.facebook.com/events/2066157273564888

Michal Kali Griks
http://tantramovement.com

Sacred Sexuality Masterclass Youtube Video

Hello Lovely People!

Here we give you one of the masterclasses that would be one of the subjects of next week, 6 days retreat in person.

We would go to other subjects that we also focus on following masterclasses.

1. Chakras in Love - ready for you to watch in this YouTube playlist

2. Sacred Sexuality

3. Conscious Relationships. (It's coming!)

During those 6 days,we would focus on experiential teaching of the practice that may change your life and future or present relationship.

You may learn it all and more also at our online course when you cannot attend us live.

All links are in descriptions of below-linked playlist "Tantra For Couples Free", where you may benefit from more transformative videos (subscribe!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6HyVDSrnR8&list=PL8M5t5cY3plb3rZ5RG_p-xN81mvMsU2W5&index=4

Details about the retreat and Free taster this Friday, you will find in Tantra Movement facebook events.

Happy to share with you so much 💜

Trisha Croft

lightoflemuria(dot)com.au

Michal Kali Griks
http://tantramovement.com

Unfriend Wildlife Criminals

Facebook just won't unfriend wildlife criminals! From selling caged baby cheetahs cowering in terror to advertising endangered pangolins' scales – these crimes are all happening right under Facebook's nose. While the company claims it is taking action, experts say it is clearly not enough. So add your name now to turn this into a huge PR disaster and force Facebook to hunt down illegal wildlife trade! Dear friends, Traffickers have turned Facebook into a global marketplace to advertise their illegal wildlife trade -- from caged big cats wide-eyed with fear to ivory from endangered elephants.It's a massive problem – researchers have uncovered private wildlife trafficking groups with more than 20,000 members and Avaaz researchers found over 150 suspicious Facebook posts in just two days!We know that public pressure can push the company to take action on major crises. So if we take a million voices to their headquarters and create a PR disaster, they can no longer hide or say they're doing enough. Together, let's demand action by pushing these crimes from the online shadows into the light fueled by Avaaz members' outrage across the world!

Facebook just won't unfriend wildlife criminals! From selling caged baby cheetahs cowering in terror to advertising endangered pangolins' scales – these crimes are all happening right under Facebook's nose. While the company claims it is taking action, experts say it is clearly not enough. So add your name now to turn this into a huge PR disaster and force Facebook to hunt down illegal wildlife trade! SIGN NOW Dear friends, Traffickers have turned Facebook into a global marketplace to advertise their illegal wildlife trade -- from caged big cats wide-eyed with fear to ivory from endangered elephants. It's a massive problem – researchers have uncovered private wildlife trafficking groups with more than 20,000 members and Avaaz researchers found over 150 suspicious Facebook posts in just two days! We know that public pressure can push the company to take action on major crises. So if we take a million voices to their headquarters and create a PR disaster, they can no longer hide or say they're doing enough. Together, let's demand action by pushing these crimes from the online shadows into the light fueled by Avaaz members' outrage across the world! Stop wildlife trafficking on social media! Illegal wildlife trade is a multi-billion dollar business that is torturing animals, endangering species, threatening entire ecosystems, and creating fertile ground for the start of the next pandemic. Social media platforms are offering these criminals quick and easy ways to fuel their greed and expand their market.  Facebook needs to urgently enforce and strengthen their policies, which already prohibit selling endangered animals, and fully cooperate with law enforcement. While they have taken some action – like removing accounts and joining an anti-wildlife trafficking coalition – experts say this is not making a real dent in traffickers' reach. There is no silver bullet to fix this problem. But effective policy changes including smart tech solutions and cooperation with law enforcement would go a long way! Join the call now to push Facebook to tackle illegal wildlife trade on its platforms and ask regulators to act: Stop wildlife trafficking on social media! Avaaz has called out social media companies for bad behaviour many times before, and our community has stood against senseless animal cruelty for over a decade. Now let's band together to make illegal wildlife trade extinct! With determination,  Ruth, Luis, Anneke, Kaitlin, John, and the entire Avaaz team More information: "The black-market trade in wildlife has moved online, and the deluge is 'dizzying'" (National Geographic) "Unregulated by U.S. at home, Facebook boosts wildlife trafficking abroad" (Mongabay) "Scientists' warning to humanity on illegal or unsustainable wildlife trade" (Biological Conservation) "Illegal Wildlife Trade" (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service) "Two Clicks Away: Wildlife Sales on Facebook" (Alliance to Counter Crime Online)

Avaaz is a 69-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. To contact Avaaz, please do not reply to this email. Instead, write to us at www.avaaz.org/en/contact . 27 Union Square West Suite 500 New York, NY 10003

The most important message YOU have to send today

Dear friends across the EU, Big Tech threatens so much that we hold dear. Each day brings fresh revelations - of social media platforms spreading toxic climate misinformation to millions, stoking hate and division that tear at the fabric of our democracies, and even fueling genocide.Only bold action can protect us now. Which is why all eyes should be on the EU, where lawmakers are on the cusp of historic, world-changing legislation - the Digital Services Act. This could be a gamechanger, reining in the power of Big Tech, defending against disinformation and putting people before the platforms and their profits. But only if they listen to what the people they represent want.So it's time to tell EU lawmakers to deliver regulation that keeps people safe.This is where you come in. Avaaz has identified the key politicians who can deliver this once-in-a-generation opportunity -- now we need to inspire them to stay strong against Big Tech lobbying! Send your personal message now and Avaaz will deliver it to them directly in a beautiful personalised book of letters that urges them to defend us against the dangers of Big Tech.

Dear friends across the EU, Big Tech threatens so much that we hold dear. Each day brings fresh revelations - of social media platforms spreading toxic climate misinformation to millions, stoking hate and division that tear at the fabric of our democracies, and even fueling genocide. Only bold action can protect us now.  Which is why all eyes should be on the EU, where lawmakers are on the cusp of historic, world-changing legislation - the Digital Services Act. This could be a gamechanger, reining in the power of Big Tech, defending against disinformation and putting people before the platforms and their profits.  But only if they listen to what the people they represent want. So it's time to tell EU lawmakers to deliver regulation that keeps people safe. This is where you come in. Avaaz has identified the key politicians who can deliver this once-in-a-generation opportunity -- now we need to inspire them to stay strong against Big Tech lobbying!  Send your personal message now and Avaaz will deliver it to them directly in a beautiful personalised book of letters that urges them to defend us against the dangers of Big Tech. Send a personal message now! We're up against some of the most powerful corporations in the world -- who've launched "the largest ever effort to lobby the EU". But we have something they don't - you! Our movement has won campaigns on the strength of a single, heartfelt letter before -- imagine what hundreds could do. Let's write from the heart to these leaders calling for them to meet this historic moment head on. Click below to inspire a leader -- you'll get all the help you need! Send a personal message now! You may worry that your letter won't change anything. But if there's one thing Avaaz has learned it's that facts and figures don't win our greatest victories -- it's single moments of authentic human connection. An inspired letter from Avaaz helped unlock compensation from fashion giant Benetton for the victims of a factory collapse in Bangladesh. Amnesty International, one of the most effective and important human rights groups, started by writing heartfelt letters to free prisoners. And our entire movement was built on the power of inspired emails! Now we face a new challenge -- defending against the danger of Big Tech and building a better, more humane internet. Click below to inspire a leader, and you'll be given everything you need to write a letter to them. Send a personal message now! With hope and determination, Andy, Luca, Barbara, and the rest of the Avaaz team

Avaaz is a 69-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. To contact Avaaz, please do not reply to this email. Instead, write to us at www.avaaz.org/en/contact . 27 Union Square West Suite 500 New York, NY 10003

We all did this

Dear Avaazers, I'm writing this from Glasgow, full of hope, grief and pride. After a campaigning marathon from Avaaz and many other inspiring activists, youth leaders, indigenous people and some governments, the deal signed at UN climate talks keeps our fight for survival alive -- just. We secured some crucial victories in the battle to save our future, though the agreement still falls far short of what's needed. But what fills me with hope isn't about what governments agreed. It's what we did together, with thousands of activists and determined negotiators from countries on the climate frontline, to defend our beautiful planet and our people. Just look at what we got done…  Ten awesome things we did together at COP26 Long before the talks began, Avaaz was funding incredible indigenous leaders to come to Glasgow and make their voices heard. They didn't get everything they wanted, but the final text secured some important language on indigenous rights, and a recognition of the role indigenous cultures have in guiding our response to climate change. And we also funded negotiators from developing countries and youth activists to come to the talks! We rolled into town on the back of a series of hard hitting ads in Australia, Italy and Canada, all key power brokers on climate finance, demanding they unlock the talks and save lives by stumping up the 100 billion dollars that rich countries have promised but not yet delivered. ... and on day 1 of the talks, we launched one of the fastest growing campaigns we've ever run -- a clarion call for climate justice in partnership with four inspiring youth leaders: Greta Thunberg, Vanessa Nakate, Dominika Lasota, and Mitzi Tan. It reached 1.8 million signatures by the end of the talks! Together we got it all over the media just as world leaders were in town for the summit, and then we turned it onto a thirty page action plan that governments used in negotiations! Then our actions team took the media by storm with a powerful rally to "End Climate Betrayal". Avaazers in Glasgow showed up on short notice and held up many of the letters in the photo... and the event gave voice to inspiring young people and indigenous leaders from all over the world to deliver a powerful call for real action, not empty words. We partnered with parents groups fighting for their childrens' wellbeing, and helped get inspiring mothers all over the media calling for an end to fossil fuels. Here are six of these brave mothers delivering their call directly to Alok Sharma, the president of the conference. Meanwhile, a crack team of researchers teamed up with analysts from other great organisations to track toxic disinformation narratives that could derail climate action or harm climate activists. When Brazilian trolls started spreading lies about an inspiring indigenous activist who helped open the talks, we investigated, and issued an alert to the media to call out the lies and correct the record. Our advocacy team got busy writing our dream text for the deal, and shared it with literally hundreds of government officials and negotiators, persuading them to champion crucial action to keep climate safety within reach. Our work was particularly helpful to developing countries on the climate frontlines who had smaller delegations at the talks. And when former US President Obama rocked up to meet youth leaders, we teamed up with them to greet him with a wave of pressure. We demanded he keep a crucial promise he made 12 years earlier in Copenhagen to deliver billions in climate finance to vulnerable countries, putting the issue firmly in the spotlight. Meanwhile, the actions team joined up with an amazing group of artists and "Little Amal", a 3.5 metre tall puppet symbolising child refugees, who came to the talks to meet youth activists delivering our movement's campaign. Just look at this amazing photo! Then as the negotiations reached crunch time, we turned up the heat on the blockers. When the US pushed back on keeping a crucial promise to deliver money to vulnerable countries, we published a hard hitting ad in the FT and delivered it to US Secretary of State John Kerry. Check it out! And the media interest the ad created helped further raise the pressure for a breakthrough on finance, lending critical support to vulnerable countries at a key moment in negotiations. It all culminated in a compromise deal that saw governments agree to rapidly increase their efforts to limit warming to the crucial target of 1.5 degrees, and deliver billions more in life saving money for countries on the frontline of the climate crisis. For the first time, there was a formal recognition of the need to reduce coal, the filthiest energy source, and to cut the trillions in taxpayers' money propping up fossil fuels. But it's nowhere near enough. That's where the grief comes from. Glasgow could and should have done much, much more. People are already dying in climate disasters, and beautiful habitats are already being lost. Right now, we're on track for at least 2.4°C of warming, enough to create a global catastrophe that will be measured in extinctions of amazing plants and animals, forced displacements, and unimaginable human suffering. We need an utter transformation in the scale and ambition of climate action. And we're going to get it. All over the world a powerful movement is rising. We're not alone. We're getting stronger and more powerful every day. And that's thanks to everyone who joined campaigns, funded our movement, showed up at protests, and made sure their voices were heard to secure the future we dream of, one where we live in peace with our planet. We won't give up until we've made that dream real. So from the bottom of my heart, thank you. Bert, with the whole Avaaz team in Glasgow and around the world. Further reading on the COP26 outcome and the road ahead: COP26: New global climate deal struck in Glasgow (BBC) Cop26: the goal of 1.5C of climate heating is alive, but only just (The Guardian) Was COP26 successful? Here's how climate summits make a difference (CNN)

Avaaz is a 65-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. To contact Avaaz, please do not reply to this email. Instead, write to us at www.avaaz.org/en/contact . 27 Union Square West Suite 500 New York, NY 10003