Much more recently, I co-founded Avaaz and Get Up, which inspired the creation of Purpose.
Avaaz now has ten million members and GetUp is the largest political group back home.
Avaaz is a global political action group, organizing petitions and campaigns on mostly left-of-center issues.
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Meanwhile, campaigners are continuing to press for a last-minute cancellation, including non-profit action group Avaaz.
Avaaz has welcomed the news and described it as "a huge victory for 20, 000 people" who signed the petition.
The petition was launched on the Avaaz online campaign website last month by the brother of a worker who killed himself earlier this year.
"Obama's statement was not smart or strategic, " said Wissam Tarif, a Lebanon-based activist with Avaaz, an international group providing humanitarian aid to besieged Syrian communities.
Activist group Avaaz said it handed the government a petition with nearly two million signatures collected online from people in dozens of countries demanding a total veto.
The charities have urged members of the public to sign petitions by Avaaz and 38 Degrees to support their call for a ban of dumping chemicals at sea.
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It is one instance in which mass public pressure has clearly influenced the politicians, with almost a million people on the Online campaign site Avaaz demanding an end to discards.
Through almost one million actions, seven campaigns, 30, 000 phone calls, investigations and countless stunts and legal tactics, Avaaz claims it has played a lead role in stopping Murdoch from buying over 50% of UK commercial media, of which BSkyB was the crown jewel.
FORBES: After UK Scandal, Media Activists Gunning For Rupert Murdoch
FORBES: After UK Scandal, Media Activists Gunning For Rupert Murdoch
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