Dear Avaazers,

Afghan intelligence just informed us that suicide bombers targeted an Avaaz event in Kabul.

Thank god we had changed the location, so they couldn’t find it. But this comes on the heels of news last week that Israel just banned some of our campaigns, while the Palestinian Authority had detained our staff. Last month, we heard that Saudi Arabia had blocked our website, as has China.

We’ve been targeted by terrorists, sued by mega-corporations and smeared by media barons. Syria’s state-controlled media called our campaigner the ‘most dangerous man in the world’, and our site is cyber-attacked virtually every single day…

…and that’s how we know we’re doing something right. You only get attacked when you matter, and we do.

Our team regularly has to decide whether to face these risks and fights, or run from them. And every time we know that we can be fearless, because you are. Any other kind of funder would run, and that’s why we only accept one kind of funder: you.

Darknesses are rising in the world, the fight is getting tougher. But you know what they say about when the going gets tough! Click below to become an Avaaz sustainer , and for the cost of a cup of coffee per week, keep our movement strong and fearless, now more than ever:

This is Avaaz’s moment. We’re everything that the rising violent ethno-nationalists and corrupt mega-corporations are not. We’re global, hopeful, humanitarian, democratic. We are the change we wish to see, and the fight for that change is on more than ever — we need to rise to it.

Avaaz runs many fundraisers for many causes. But to sustain our campaigning on climate, forests, human and women’s rights, peace and wildlife conservation, democracy and much more, we rely on small weekly donations from a small number of us to keep the whole thing going.

This funding is absolutely essential – it maintains our website and technical infrastructure, our security, and supports the tiny Avaaz team. I’m incredibly grateful for those Avaazers that make this entire movement possible for the rest of us.

I see the impact of our sustainers every day – how ambitious we can be, how many challenges we can take on at once, how deep we can go into each campaign. There are many things that make Avaaz possible, but our precious sustainers are at the top of that list. So even if you can’t become a sustainer now – I hope you’ll join me in feeling gratitude for those who can!

With hope and gratitude,

Ricken and the Avaaz team.