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Even though this is in the Netherlands and not the US, it's still a little bit of good news , and I'll take any good news I can get.
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Dear friends,
Something fantastic just happened. The Dutch Trump, Geert Wilders, who was leading in the Netherlands' election race right up to the last moment, was just defeated!
Wilders had promised to close all mosques, pull the Netherlands out of the EU and ban the Koran. After Brexit and Trump, the whole world was watching to see if the far-right would continue its terrifying rise.
But in the end, the Dutch people struck a beautiful blow against Trumpism. The tide just turned against the global spread of fascist politics. And our movement was right in the middle. How?
20,000 marchers, 500km on a bus, 5 million views, 300,000 reached with newspaper ads, and a community united against hate.
Click to say Thank You to the people of the Netherlands
Just before the election, we helped mobilise 20,000 people onto the streets to march together to celebrate the Netherlands’ long history of openness and tolerance.
Dutch Avaazers hit the campaign trail in a giant orange Unity Bus. Three days before the election, many voters still hadn’t decided which way to cast their ballot! So we went up and down the country handing out flowers, listening to people and encouraging them to vote against hate. Then we emailed and texted over half a million people to get out the vote!
When we found out a key thing driving people away from Wilders was his love of Trump, we made a hilarious spoof video of Trump endorsing Wilders. It went crazy viral in hours, and 5 million people had watched it before the elections!
But that wasn’t all. We then targeted the key areas where Wilders had potentially strong support with full-page newspaper ads, spoofing the Hollywood hit La La Land to show how Wilders would turn the Netherlands into Trumpland!
Finally, today we took to the streets in The Hague, Paris and Berlin to celebrate and send a strong warning signal to Le Pen in France and the AfD in Germany that we are coming to stop them in elections there.
With the threat of hate spreading everywhere, the world needs our 44-million-strong global community like never before. Together, we’ve built the most powerful civic campaigning movement in history, and with that power comes responsibility. Responsibility to rise against hate, to defend the values of unity and tolerance that make us strong. But most of all, the responsibility to dream of a better world. And this week, the Netherlands has taken us one step closer to that dream.
In hope and celebration,
Emma, Alice, Christoph, Anneke, Lisa, Oscar, Mike, Spyro and the whole Avaaz team
SOURCES:
A Trump bump to reorder European politics? Not so fast.
Analysis | A Trump bump to reorder European politics? Not so fast.
Geert Wilders’s anti-immigration party does worse than expected in the Dutch election
http://www.economist.com/news/europ...-politics-emerging-netherlands-geert-wilderss
Dutch Leader Claims Victory Over 'Wrong Kind of Populism' in Election
Dutch Leader Claims Victory Over 'Wrong Kind of Populism'
Avaaz is a 44-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 or Twitter.
To contact Avaaz, please do not reply to this email. Instead, write to us at www.avaaz.org/en/contact or call us at +1-888-922-8229 (US).
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Dear friends,
Something fantastic just happened. The Dutch Trump, Geert Wilders, who was leading in the Netherlands' election race right up to the last moment, was just defeated!
Wilders had promised to close all mosques, pull the Netherlands out of the EU and ban the Koran. After Brexit and Trump, the whole world was watching to see if the far-right would continue its terrifying rise.
But in the end, the Dutch people struck a beautiful blow against Trumpism. The tide just turned against the global spread of fascist politics. And our movement was right in the middle. How?
20,000 marchers, 500km on a bus, 5 million views, 300,000 reached with newspaper ads, and a community united against hate.
Click to say Thank You to the people of the Netherlands
Just before the election, we helped mobilise 20,000 people onto the streets to march together to celebrate the Netherlands’ long history of openness and tolerance.
Dutch Avaazers hit the campaign trail in a giant orange Unity Bus. Three days before the election, many voters still hadn’t decided which way to cast their ballot! So we went up and down the country handing out flowers, listening to people and encouraging them to vote against hate. Then we emailed and texted over half a million people to get out the vote!
When we found out a key thing driving people away from Wilders was his love of Trump, we made a hilarious spoof video of Trump endorsing Wilders. It went crazy viral in hours, and 5 million people had watched it before the elections!
But that wasn’t all. We then targeted the key areas where Wilders had potentially strong support with full-page newspaper ads, spoofing the Hollywood hit La La Land to show how Wilders would turn the Netherlands into Trumpland!
Finally, today we took to the streets in The Hague, Paris and Berlin to celebrate and send a strong warning signal to Le Pen in France and the AfD in Germany that we are coming to stop them in elections there.
With the threat of hate spreading everywhere, the world needs our 44-million-strong global community like never before. Together, we’ve built the most powerful civic campaigning movement in history, and with that power comes responsibility. Responsibility to rise against hate, to defend the values of unity and tolerance that make us strong. But most of all, the responsibility to dream of a better world. And this week, the Netherlands has taken us one step closer to that dream.
In hope and celebration,
Emma, Alice, Christoph, Anneke, Lisa, Oscar, Mike, Spyro and the whole Avaaz team
SOURCES:
A Trump bump to reorder European politics? Not so fast.
Analysis | A Trump bump to reorder European politics? Not so fast.
Geert Wilders’s anti-immigration party does worse than expected in the Dutch election
http://www.economist.com/news/europ...-politics-emerging-netherlands-geert-wilderss
Dutch Leader Claims Victory Over 'Wrong Kind of Populism' in Election
Dutch Leader Claims Victory Over 'Wrong Kind of Populism'
Avaaz is a 44-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 or Twitter.
To contact Avaaz, please do not reply to this email. Instead, write to us at www.avaaz.org/en/contact or call us at +1-888-922-8229 (US).
Me, too. I worry about my parents and other friends and relatives. This whole budget is an assault on everyone except him and his billionaire cohorts. Gutting the EPA, killing all manner of research, education programs, children's programs. If any of this stuff manages to get through, it will kill the economy. People will be spending every dime on health care, if they even have any money to spare. This whole approach seems like a campaign for total chaos.
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On the one hand, Western/Northern Europeans, or at least their leaders,generally seem slightly more enlightened, liberal and moral than their US counterparts across a whole range of issues. And yet periodically all these supposedly enlightened countries have racist candidates that appear on the scene and get serious chunks of the vote.
Debatable, but I do wonder if Europeans should cut back on the amount of immigration, because as a practical matter they need to make sure none of these parties take over.
Debatable, but I do wonder if Europeans should cut back on the amount of immigration, because as a practical matter they need to make sure none of these parties take over.
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Just looked. THe Freedom party in the Netherlands only got about 10% of the vote so not that bad.
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Considering a German leader is the last, best hope for a truly free and tolerant world, the irony is incredible.
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