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You're probably seeing this video pop up on your Facebook News Feed right now, but in case you don't do Facebook or Twitter, I'm going to share this video with you to help raise awareness. It's a 30-minute video, just so you know.
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I just finished watching it, incredibly powerful. Now I need to find a way to get me one of those Action Kits. Fuck not having money.
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Yeah, the main website doesn't seem to be loading for me so I can't get one right now, but I definitely plan on getting one.
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I don't want to sound like an idiot, but it's amazing how many people have never heard of the LRA, or how little people know of the circumstances in Uganda/Central-Africa, yet when they see this video they conceive a big-picture in their minds of the situation.
I'm not sure whether killing the leaders of LRA will solve anything, as the problems are much more complex in Africa.. They do not rise from single persons, as the whole society around those people is rotten to the core. All kinds of atrocities take place in those countries by many different sources, even the governments are more than often corrupt and oppress their own peoples. LRA in the other hand, I must agree, is completely unjustified group of people who call themselves rebels, yet in reality their rebellion is just mindless slaughtering of people. Something should be done. I just wonder whether the whole group is so embodied to Kony, that if he'd be trialed or killed, the whole group would cease to exist.

I wholeheartedly hope that this campaign, will increase social awareness in the US and in Europe. The best thing that this campaign could achieve in my opinion, is that the news media would revert back to the core ideas of what reporters are supposed to do. They ideals of medium seem to have changed in the past decades, and instead of trying to report the injustices of the world, the goal to maximize the entertainment value of the news seem to have taken the priority. That is the core problem why so many people are unaware of world politics. If people show, that they truly are interested in real issues, maybe the news media will change. Or maybe i'm just too idealistic.
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We can't just wade in and solve other countries' problems!

...Oh wait...
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Jake wrote:We can't just wade in and solve other countries' problems!

...Oh wait...
But you can just wade in and pretend to solve other countries' problems
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Kony: Putting the "infant" back in "infantry" ...too soon? But I mean what are Uganda do about it?
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30 minutes is too long for a lot of people (including me) to pay attention to. They needa make a "Kony in 30 seconds" video and they'd get way more people on board with whatever it is.
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tl;dr

Seriously, Can someone just sum up with the hell this is. Everybody has been going on about it.
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Boni Boy Blue wrote:tl;dr

Seriously, Can someone just sum up with the hell this is. Everybody has been going on about it.
This Kony dude has an army of around 30,000 enslaved children in Uganda, surrounding area, and has evaded capture for years. This one dude wants to 'make him famous' and have everyone put up posters and tweet and shit about him, in order to get the attention of famous people and influential legislators in the US in order to convince our military to keep taking action, in order to apprehend him. Currently we have 100 'advisers' in Uganda, I believe. I think that covers most of it.
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Is he keeping them alive so that they can be in his army?

And also this Invisible Children company is after a lot of money. Don't support them in any way. Make people aware of the enslavements by all means, but dont give anything to the organization itself, the little money that actually goes towards the cause goes to the wrong place as well.
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for those who don't want to watch the whole 30 minutes :

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its all about awareness. the more people know about injustice in the world, the better we can fix them. and that includes Occupy Wall Street. shit thing is that news outlets aren't reporting on things that matter, just things that will boost ratings, but you all knew that.
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after watching this i'm glad i'm a skeptic and non-impulsive. im actually still curious and skeptical of everything.
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