A lot of people feel powerless to communicate their ideas. "I'm not a corporation and I don't own my own magazine or news station;" and "I just don't have any say, but seeing what I have done has empowered alot of people to see that one individual can make an impact...
Grass root efforts to make Joseph Kony visible and make him real news!
Simple tools go out and change this tragic experience and rock it They changed the conversation of our culture asked who is Joseph Kony and make him news: Thousands of posters, stickers, yard signs, fliers 1000s more bracelets with a unique id number which when entered connects you with the mission to make Kony famous and geo tags posters to tract your impact in real time. The day for this to happen April 20, 2012 It's always been that the decisions made by the few with the money and the power dictated the priorities of their government and the stories in the media. They determine the lives and the opportunities of their citizens, but now there is something bigger than that: the people of the world see each other and can protect each other. It's turning the system upside down, and it changes everything. |
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We are living in a new world: Facebook world in which 750,000,000 people share ideas--not thinking in borders. It's a global community bigger than the US. Joseph Kony was committing crimes for 20 years and no one cared. We care!
We have reached a crucial time in history where what we do or don't do right now will affect every generation to come. Arresting Joseph Kony will prove that the world we live in has new rules... we are not just studying human history-- we are shaping it."
We have reached a crucial time in history where what we do or don't do right now will affect every generation to come. Arresting Joseph Kony will prove that the world we live in has new rules... we are not just studying human history-- we are shaping it."
NOTHING IS MORE POWERFUL THAN
AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME
AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME
what is this all about?Invisible Children is the plight of children in Uganda at the hands of the warlord Joseph Kony and Lords Resistance Army (LRA) guerilla group. His group is said to have abducted 60,000 children. KONY 2012 curriculum.
Social media garnered hundreds of thousands of tweets, and millions now know about the travesties of Ugandan children and what happens there. The lessons of Kony 2012 ... justified criticisms? You decide |
Kony has been accused by government entities of ordering the abduction of children to become child soldiers and sex slaves. 66,000 children became soldiers, and 2 million people were displaced internally from 1986 to 2009. Kony was indicted in 2005 for war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, but he has evaded capture. Since the Juba peace talks in 2006, the LRA no longer operate in Uganda. Sources claim that they are elsewhere. In 2013, Kony was reported to be in poor health, and some claimed he was negotiating with Kony to surrender.
By April 2017, Kony was still at large, but his force was reported to have shrunk to approximately 100 soldiers, down from an estimated high of 3,000. Both the United States and Uganda ended the hunt for Kony and the LRA, believing that the LRA was no longer a significant security risk to Uganda.
By April 2017, Kony was still at large, but his force was reported to have shrunk to approximately 100 soldiers, down from an estimated high of 3,000. Both the United States and Uganda ended the hunt for Kony and the LRA, believing that the LRA was no longer a significant security risk to Uganda.
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1620 Fifth Ave #400 San Diego, CA 92101 The hashtag #stopkony has had hundreds of thousands of tweets, and millions of people now know something about Uganda and what is happening to children there. Today, the organization that started the is destined to close its doors • Wikipedia • Long Way Gone Memories |
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Contact UsBut incredibly, everyone doesn't feel the same way. Some are hostile: toward the movement:
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