Avaaz.org is a 5.5-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 13 countries on 4 continents and operates in 14 languages.

Read their most recent report below:

Avaaz is on fire, growing like never before and winning amazing victories across the world. From Canada to Brazil to Italy to South Africa, our community is not just speaking out, we’re winning, time and time again.

Something serious is happening. Not only is our community growing by 100,000 people a week, taking more than 25,000,000 actions online, and causing a stir like never before. Not only is the level of enthusiasm and appetite we’re seeing for Avaaz sky high. We’re also winning. Time and time again.

Often we’re choosing impossible battles, with very little time to win. But the rush of sudden, overwhelming engagement of massive numbers of citizens is, issue after issue, making the difference between success and failure. From the Economist to Le Monde to Al Jazeera, the media is remarking upon our “spectacular successes” that are capable of ushering in “a political revolution”.

Here are some examples from just the last several weeks:

• Canada (420,000 Avaaz members), we just took on an alliance of a media empire and a prime minister to subvert the independence of the country’s media in their favour, and won. • Brazil (730,000 members) we took a civil society movement online and drove an anti-corruption law through congress that is putting large numbers of corrupt politicians out of a job – widely hailed as a political revolution.

• Italy (240,000) we rallied opposition to the Prime Minister’s bill to tie the hands of Italy’s corruption investigators – commentators hailed the victory as the first time in Italian history online mobilization had shifted the parliamentary agenda.

• Argentina (60,000) we surged to protect crucial glaciers from what looked like certain destruction by mining companies, and won.

• South Africa (70,000) we built a massive public outcry against sweeping new censorship powers over the press, forcing the government to alter its media regulation law.

• Germany (480,000) thousands of last-minute phone calls from our members helped stop the government from drastically cutting its aid budget.

See more details on these campaigns below this email, or click below to read more, see press clips, and leave a comment on our global live-chat tool: http://www.avaaz.org/en/global_victory_report/?vl

These were just the victories – in the last several weeks Avaaz also responded within days to the tragedy in Pakistan by donating over $1.1 million and granting it to local organizations to provide nutritious biscuits and milk to 30,000 children for 2 months, and help provide safe drinking water to over 3000 families.

In Europe, Avaaz members made history creating the first 1 million strong EU citizens initiative (a democratic mechanism in the new EU constitution) seeking to freeze all genetically modified crops pending further health and safety research.

All this in just weeks, and following other serious victories in 2010 on protecting the bans on whaling and ivory trading, establishing the world’s largest ocean preserve and much more. It’s all proof that, when citizens stick together and take smart, strategic actions, democracy works!

Gone are the days when we just voted at election time and then had to passively read the papers to see the results for the next few years. We’re entering a new phase of national and global democracy, where citizens are constantly, powerfully engaged in setting the agenda and holding governments accountable.

It’s an exciting time, a promising time for all the problems we face. It’s also a responsibility. There’s never been a community like ours — we’re almost 6 million citizens from every corner of the planet, able to mobilize at a moment’s notice. If we stick together, spread the word, and take more and more action, anything is possible. From corruption to the environment to poverty and more, what happens next, depends on all of us.

With admiration for everyone’s public service and hope for the future, Ricken, Ben, Alice, Luis, Emma, Stephanie, Alex, Milena, Heather, Iain, Graziela, Paula, David, Ben, Pascal, Benjamin, Brianna, Veronique, Giulia, Parvinder, MariaPaz, Saravanan, Kien, Yura, Vladimir, Alma and the rest of our growing team 🙂