INVISIBLE CHILDREN / KONY 2012 IS A GLOBAL MOVEMENT ...
(Go to www.invisiblechildren.com to see the 1/2 hour video and - if possible - please donate $30, $20, $10, $5 ... whatever you can afford.)
On Monday, Invisible Children released a powerful, half-hour video on the conflict, seeking a half million viewers. By Thursday they had surpassed that goal more than sixty-fold, with well over 30 million viewers. Their viral tag lines: #Kony2012 and #StopKony, along with Uganda and Invisible Children, were top-10 trending topics around the country.
"Where you live shouldn't determine whether you live #KONY2012", the group posted to Twitter Thursday.
For more than two decades Joseph Kony and the LRA have been perpetrating horrific atrocities in remote parts of Central Africa, and nobody has been paying attention.
Barack Obama signed legislation - the Lord's Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Recovery Act (see photo below). The bill, originally spearheaded by former Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), ended up with the support or sponsorship of 267 members of Congress - more than any other piece of Africa legislation in history. Invisible Children and Resolve activists watched as President Obama signed LRA disarmament bill they had championed …
We have seen your reporting, your websites, your blogs, and your video postcards - you have made the plight of the children visible to us all," Obama said in a statement to the groups that had spearheaded the grassroots advocacy campaign, including Invisible Children.
Last year, Obama ordered a few hundred special forces to Central Africa to assist in the hunt for Kony.
"Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity." - Buddha -
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