It subsequently reached the front page of the /r/worldpolitics subreddit several hours later. Press by On March 8th, hip hop artist Soulja Boy released a track to show his support for #KONY2012: On March 7th, the “Visible Children” Tumblr[15] was launched with a blog post criticizing the Invisible Children organization’s expenditures using charity dollars. Soon after the news reports, Invisible Children's CEO Ben Keesey released an official statement: “Jason Russell was unfortunately hospitalized yesterday suffering from exhaustion, dehydration, and malnutrition. No, I don’t, but that doesn’t mean that you should support KONY 2012 just because it’s something. The savior attitude is pervasive in advocacy, and it inevitably shapes programming. Within hours, an unconfirmed mobile video footage allegedly showing Russell naked in the middle of a street was posted via TMZ: The story was immediately picked up by numerous blogs like the Huffington Post, Jezebel and TMZ, as well as national news publications. The group is in favour of direct military intervention, and their money supports the Ugandan government’s army and various other military forces. July 27, 2012. Kony 2012 is a campaign to get Joseph Kony, Ugandan guerrilla group leader and head of the Lord’s Resistance Army, arrested before the end of 2012. In Australia, the turnout was reported by MSN News[32] and The Australian[34] as "fall[ing] flat," noting that only about 25 demonstrators out of 18,700 Facebook sign-ups attended the event held in Martin Place, a pedestrian mall located in downtown Sydney.

Pants on the ground!

I literally thought I was responsible for the future of humanity. 19 Feb, 2014. The Kony 2012 meme April 18, 2012 . In the original documentary film, Invisible Children instructed its supporters to take the cause to the streets on April 20th, 2012 by hanging massive banners from bridges and covering public spaces with striking red posters. 13acab12.

Still, Kony’s a bad guy, and he’s been around a while.

Only 32% went to direct services (page 6), with much of the rest going to staff salaries, travel and transport, and film production. Oldest Which can be great, except that Foreign Affairs has claimed that Invisible Children (among others) “manipulates facts for strategic purposes, exaggerating the scale of LRA abductions and murders and emphasizing the LRA’s use of innocent children as soldiers, and portraying Kony -- a brutal man, to be sure -- as uniquely awful, a Kurtz-like embodiment of evil.” He’s certainly evil, but exaggeration and manipulation to capture the public eye is unproductive, unprofessional and dishonest. Still, the bulk of Invisible Children’s spending isn’t on supporting African militias, but on awareness and filmmaking. Updated In Dallas, Texas, a group of friends bought a billboard space to hang a Kony 2012 poster and support the cause. On October 3rd, Time Magazine's Swampland blog published an interview with Jason Russell about the initiative, which he described as "Netflix meets Peace Corps meets Comic Con.". We will stop YOU #StopKONY ! In the spring of 2003, three filmmakers Jason Russell, Bobby Bailey and Laren Poole traveled to Africa to document the genocide that was occurring in Darfur, Sudan.



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