I hope you've all heard about the new movement spreading across social media sites like Twitter, FaceBook, YouTube, Tumblr, and others called Kony 2012. (As Christians, I think we should stay updated with things like these.)
If you have. Good.
If you haven't. Read on.
Kony 2012 is a campaign started by the Invisible Children, a nonprofit organization, that plans to stop a man named Joseph Kony by making him famous and drawing government attention to him.
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Joseph Kony is the head of a Ugandan guerilla group called the LRA (Lord's Resistance Army) an army that uses young boys as soldiers and girls as sex slaves. Over time, he has kidnapped an estimated 20,000 children for this purpose. Often, he makes the children kill their own parents so that they have no home to go back to. He has also been the instigator of many crimes against Ugandan civilians, including murder, rape, and facial mutilation.
The Kony 2012 movement became popular when a video by Jason Russel exposing his crimes was released on YouTube on March 5, 2012. Eight days later, the video had over 77 million views .
(You can view the video here by clicking on the thumbnail beneath the text.)
(You can view the video here by clicking on the thumbnail beneath the text.)
The video exploded over the internet literally overnight with the support of celebrities like Bill Gates, Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Nicki Minaj, Christiana Milian, and Kim Kardashian behind it.
The Kony 2012 movement plans to culminate on April 12, 2012, with an all night poster campaign. I've decided to join several of my friends in Kona, Hawaii, who are doing it. All night, we'll be putting up posters like these:
My own personal opinion is that the idea of bringing justice to Kony is a good cause. However, the movie oversimplified a few things. For example, I don't like the way the movie, or the campaign makes him sound like the personification of evil. He's not. He's human.
He needs prayer.
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