Do you know who Joseph Kony is? Have you seen the t-shirts, posters, signs and banners reading "KONY 2012″ ? Have you heard of Invisible Children? More importantly… Have you seen this video?
Especially if you have children, I feel like this really hits home.
E! News wrote this article on the video yesterday. Also 20 different "celebrity culture makers" (including Angelina Jolie, Mark Zuckerberg, Oprah Winfrey, Taylor Swift and Ryan Seacrest) have all been called upon by the Invisible Children campaign to help bring awareness to this issue. HERE you can click and scroll down to the bottom to see the rest of the celebs and how to message them, talk to them, and get together with them to help.
In the spring of 2003, three young filmmakers traveled to Africa in search of a story. What started out as a filmmaking adventure transformed into much more when these California boys discovered a tragedy that disgusted and inspired them to do something- a tragedy where children are both the weapons and the victims.
After returning home to the United States, they created the documentary "Invisible Children: Rough Cut," a film that exposes the tragic realities of northern Uganda's night commuters and child soldiers.
They launched this video campaign just this week by Invisible Children Inc., a San Diego-based nonprofit that produced a half-hour documentary that aims to ramp up international pressure to arrest Kony. The militia leader is wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of committing war crimes.
The video quickly went viral; more than 32 million people had watched it on YouTube by this morning. The phrase #stopkony is trending on Twitter as celebrities such as Rihanna and Zooey Deschanel urge their online followers to watch the video.
The campaign argues that Kony must be made so famous that global pressure will stay on for the U.S. to continue its quest, helping governments in the region to track him down. It plans to paper cities with Kony posters on April 20, hoping to making the guerrilla leader a household name.
"If the world knows who Joseph Kony is, it will unite to stop him," says the Invisible Children website, which seeks donations and urges visitors to sign a petition calling for Kony to be brought to justice.
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
Burke, Edmund
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