Thursday, March 8, 2012

Kony, we are all Africans (video)

TheWorld.org (PRI); Mark Memmott (The Two Way, NPR.org); Wisdom Quarterly

KONY 2012 YouTube Campaign aims to stop infamous Uganda militia leader. If only the world could stop our own American warlord, B.S. Obama, and the racist Republican cronies who want to replace him with a lot more of the same.

More than [39] million people have watched the video “Kony 2012″ on YouTube this week. The video is about Joseph Kony, infamous leader of the Ugandan guerrilla group, the Lord’s Resistance Army. The new video is introducing Joseph Kony to a lot of people, but it’s also generating a lot of criticism. More

(NPR) The hashtag term #stopkony has been trending on Twitter all day, Reddit.com has been deluged with posts about Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony, and he's suddenly the subject of a quickly growing number of blog posts and news stories.

All, apparently, because of an activist group's quite successful effort to have its latest video about atrocities done by Kony's Lord's Resistance Army go viral.

The organization is Invisible Children, and the 30-minute video is indeed a powerful piece of work. It skillfully tells the tale of Kony's army, which as NPR's Michele Kelemen has previously reported, "has been terrorizing Uganda and surrounding nations for decades ... [and] has specialized in kidnapping children and forcing them to fight."

Last October, President Obama announced he was sending 100 U.S. troops to central Africa to train and advise militaries that are trying to track down Kony and his fighters.

According to The Daily Dot, on Tuesday night Invisible Children's video "exploded across multiple Web communities," More

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