Canada "Fox News North" Campaign -- Attempted Sabotage, Avaaz Responds

on our “Stop ‘Fox News North’” petition consisting ofThere is evidence of a deliberate andand violate an important form of democratic expression for Canadian citizens. If this is confirmed we will request a full investigation, and help toIt seems likely that the people behind this attack wanted the public to think that Avaaz is a spamming organization. TheyBut the truth, the law, and-- the largest online activist community in Canadian history -- will set the record straight, about us, and about the forces behind this attack.It's deeply disturbing that in all Avaaz's years of campaigns against US President George Bush, Burmese, Zimbabwean and Sudanese dictators, irresponsible multinational corporations and corrupt politicians, no one has ever yet stooped to this kind of tactic to undermine our members' right to express their views.We do not yet have all the facts, butand its progenitor in the US. It is precisely this kind of bare-knuckled, brazenly deceptive and often hateful political climate that Sun TV's "Fox News North" appears keen to promote.Canadians understand this, which is why, in just overas it resists the Sun TV request for access to Canadian’s cable fees.