Avaaz is an internet based petition that confronts some of the world's issues by giving a voice to the masses. At present avaaz is trying to aid the Iraqi government, which is being pushed to surrender control over its oil reserves to multinational corporations and this for the next 30 years! Recently they helped pushing Paul Wolfowitz out of the world bank.

Check it out at

http://www.avaaz.org/en/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWyJJQbFago