Dear Avaazers,
In 2016, hate was given hope -- but now
we take it back!
From terrorism to Trump to Syria, it was a
rough year. But hidden by all the darkness filling our screens,
there's a simple, beautiful, truth:
The world has never
been in a better place. From poverty to literacy, the
rise of women and fall of deadly disease -- on virtually every
metric -- the world is better off than it's ever been. It's a
powerful reason for us all to have hope, and rise to 2017.
So to kick off the new year, here's
a video of 10
beautiful reasons to have hope -- let's share them, add our own,
and together give the world a million reasons to hope in 2017:
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Even on the environment, we're winning epic progress on
everything from historic ocean conservation to an unstoppable
revolution in clean energy!
Political
extremists and
divisive zealots thrive on fear and desperation. That's why they
try to convince us that the world is falling apart.
Master
trolls like Trump and Putin have even hired vast armies of both real
people and fake "bots" to hijack our social media with smears and
lies about how awful everything and everyone else is, except them.
(this is true! see sources below). What better way to answer them
than
a million new year's posts about what gives each of us and
all of us hope: Share this on facebook
Let's take this dose of hope, and let it fuel our
determination and that of our friends. Because in 2017, together, we
rise.
With hope,
Ricken, Pascal, Bert, Emma, Mike,
Fatima and the whole Avaaz team.
PS - This new year's
reflection feels so important, for each of us, and for a world that
is at a tipping point -- between love, hope and wisdom, and fear,
anger and ignorance. Here are 5 points of reflection that might be
useful for your reflection this year: