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How
AVAAZ kickstarted the "revolution" in Syria
Rescued from Bambuser livestream platform before they closed down - this talk was given by Avaaz campaign manager, Pascal Vollenweider in 2012.
He explains perfectly how Avaaz equipped the "citizen journalists" and gave them the tools to produce the images and narratives essential to foment the "revolutions" in Libya, Egypt and then SYRIA which has been their most ambitious project so far.
Rescued from Bambuser livestream platform before they closed down - this talk was given by Avaaz campaign manager, Pascal Vollenweider in 2012.
He explains perfectly how Avaaz equipped the "citizen journalists" and gave them the tools to produce the images and narratives essential to foment the "revolutions" in Libya, Egypt and then SYRIA which has been their most ambitious project so far.
* Unsure if he says
"Lebanon/Liban" or "Iran" at end of the video.
Amal Saad wrote a while
back:
"
International law is indifferent to the perceived legitimacy of the
state and to the form of government; both democracies and
authoritarian regimes have the right to fight insurgencies and to
defend themselves from external powers which aid the insurgents.
Either way, it falls under the domestic jurisdiction of the state.
Foreign powers are prohibited from assisting insurgents. General
Assembly resolution 2131 (XX) declares that “no State shall
organize, assist, foment, finance, incite or tolerate subversive,
terrorist or armed activities directed towards the violent overthrow
of the regime of another State, or interfere in civil strife in
another State.” This was reaffirmed by the International Court of
Justice in Nicaragua v. USA. The injured state is even entitled to
adopt countermeasures against the intervening state."
For
more reading on Avaaz please go to Wrong Kind of Green:
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