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"voice" or "song" in several languages |
 Avaaz.org is an online community for global citizens to take action on urgent
global issues, from climate change to global poverty to the crisis in the Middle
East. Our mission is to
ensure that the views and values of the world's people shape global decisions.
We use the latest technology to empower people to directly contact key global
decision-makers, corporations, and the media when there is an urgent opportunity
to make a difference. Avaaz.org was co-founded by MoveOn.org Civic Action and
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On Friday morning, Paul Wolfowitz
-- President Bush's key architect of the Iraq war, now president of the
World Bank and self-styled fighter of corruption -- was caught red-handed in
a corruption scandal of his own. He pushed a huge pay raise for his
girlfriend, and hid the facts from his organization and the world.
He's got to go. GONE!! See hereThe World Bank's board, made up of our
governments from around the world, is now deciding whether Wolfowitz should
keep his job. An immediate, massive, and global outcry could make the
difference. Our petition is three words long: "Sack Paul Wolfowitz."
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George Bush's
hand-picked president of the World Bank has been exposed as corrupt.
Click here
to tell the World Bank board to sack Paul Wolfowitz.
We will send the petition to the global media and the the World Bank
board as soon as we reach 50,000 signatures--and we'll send it again every
time we add another 50,000. A huge response could focus the world's
attention and end Wolfowitz's career at the World Bank.
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When Paul Wolfowitz was a top official in President Bush's Department of
Defense, he was one of the Iraq war's biggest backers. When the war became a
fiasco, instead of firing Wolfowitz, Bush gave him a promotion--to president of
the World Bank. At the Bank, he vowed to make corruption his top issue--but
alienated the world by delaying aid packages to India, Kenya, and other
countries without consulting the bank's Executive Board.
Now we've learned that he didn't practice what he preached.
Wolfowitz's girlfriend was a senior World Bank employee. When he became
president, the Bank's ethics rules would not allow him to keep her on staff
under his supervision. So he transferred her to the US State Department--but
kept her on the Bank's payroll, and gave her a US$60,000 pay raise. Her salary
rose to US$193,590, higher than Condi Rice's. What's more, it appears that
Wolfowitz hid the evidence of what he'd done.
Fighting corruption is a key to ending poverty. But there can't be one standard
for the rich and powerful and a different one for everybody else.
The 24-member board of the World Bank, which uncovered Wolfowitz's corruption
through a special investigation, is now deciding his fate. Bush is likely
pulling strings to help Wolfowitz keep his job. It's time for global public
opinion to weigh in--which means it's all up to you.
Click here now to sign the petition, and then send this email to ten friends:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/sack_wolfowitz/
In hope,
Ricken, David, Iain, Lee-Sean, Galit, Graziela, and the whole AVAAZ team
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