KONY 2012

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Everyone, if you see this and can spare 30 minutes or so, please watch this video and spread the word on it. The video below explains everything.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc[/youtube]

Literally JUST watched this (and reposted on fb) then seen it on my tweetdeck posted by WP.

If we're(US) going to get involved with other people's(country's) business this should be it/what we do..

here's an interesting blog from a second year Poli Sci student about Invisible Children:

http://visiblechildren.tumblr.com/

i have mixed feelings and i am sitting on the fence for this one.

So you have mixed feelings? Then allow me to make things clearer:-

http://s3.amazonaws.com/www.invisiblechildren.com/critiques.html

I won't stop you if you don't wanna support KONY 2012 nor will I force you to support it. But I hope you atleast read the link above this message and reconsider.

i'll back the film, if you watch the whole thing you'll see they have not only helped victums but put a warning system in place to warn and evacuate villages the lra are planning to attack. what more could "film makers" do?
years ago a friend played a documentry for me that was basicly the start of all this, and they don't cover the impact of the lra in this film(kony2012) the kids you see sleeping are running for there lives, that should never be the case for any place on earth, and it has been that way for over 2 decades?

i will offer this view, many people are calling this film one-sided, and she gives the best view:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLVY5jBnD-E[/youtube]

what this film hides(and is the reson for peoples critisium) is that the children and people are returning home and need after war aide, not war relief

On the surface it looks like a good cause, but I'm pretty sure there's more to it than what the video implies.

If WP's scaling makes this too hard to read, click here for the full size version (click to zoom).

[img][652:2900]http://i.imgur.com/K3mgn.jpg[/img]

^^ Fascinating.

hahaha that picture is great.

Ugh. It just reeks of neocolonialism and white man's burden from the pity porn to the lack of Ugandan voices. I feel ill.

I got bored 10 min into it.
Things are f'd up everywhere.
Not much anyone can do about it.
Welcome to earth.

Couldn't bring myself to watch it after the first few minutes.
If it's about a crazy African war lord, I don't want to know about your kid.

Another interesting thing about the Kony film (TL;DR: People in Uganda say it's bulls**t)

I pretty much 100% agree with Charlie Beckett on this one:

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/2012/03/09/why-i-think-the-kony-2012-campaign-is-wrong/