joseph kony 2012 - an interesting way to force change
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joseph kony 2012 - an interesting way to force change
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03-08-2012, 04:35 PM
This was linked to on the "Yahoo News" section of my "My Yahoo" page and I watched it. Very touching and effective video. It's also on the front page of "The Huffington Post". I knew a little bit about Kony, but I didn't know about the organizations working to get him arrested. The video convinced me to give them some help. I hope it works.
03-08-2012, 04:43 PM
I ran this by my 15 year old this morning and he says "I've already researched all of that." But he did say he'd read there were better charities for children in Africa.
I'm not sure about this group, Invisible Children, they have a 3 star rating at Charity Navigator and when it comes to overseas work I like to stick with 4 star groups like Save the Children and World Vision.
03-08-2012, 04:57 PM
The charity work is important, but what the video spurred me to do is contact congresscritters to try to keep support going to get Kony arrested.
03-08-2012, 04:58 PM
(lots) more to read here
http://s3.amazonaws.com/www.invisiblechi...iques.html Thank you for reading this and doing further research about Invisible Children and Kony 2012. In response to this explosion of interest about the Kony 2012 film, there have been hundreds of thousands of comments in support of the arrest of Joseph Kony and the work of Invisible Children. However, there have also been a few pieces written that are putting out false or mis-leading information about these efforts. This statement is our official response to some of these articles and is a source for accurate information about Invisible Children’s mission, financials and approach to stopping LRA violence. (etc)
03-08-2012, 10:12 PM
Grace62 wrote: My 16-year old watched, after sharing it with schoolmates he started a new Facebook page "Kill Koney". Somewhere north of 35,000 people joined in the first half-hour. It's easy to see why the first thing despots like Assad do is shut down access to social media sites.
03-09-2012, 01:17 PM
Grace62 wrote: my 18 year old reacted similarly and told me to watch the film. my thoughts: reminded me of the anti-apartheid fervor of my own youth. i think it's good that my son was moved and any light show on the issue is good however A. i thought the film spent too much time on the journey of activism of the white, priviledged filmmaker B. i wondered what my son and others would be spurred to do besides posting to facebook and perhaps a night of political vandalism on April 20 (and does my son understand the possible consequences of participating) C. when i saw the Invisible Children website had so much to sell i wondered where the money was going D. it's all gone so viral that multiple reports in the news point to an oversimplication of a very complex problem and a smidgen of annoyance from people in Uganda and elsewhere working on the issue like i said, shining a light on this person's atrocities is important but it remains to be seen if this is more than the passing flavor of the minute. |
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