Make the Invisible Visible #KONY2012
#KONY2012 is creating a movement never seen before and is finally making the invisible, visible around the world.
Technology now a days can be such a huge game changer in our lives, community, and the world. Technology allows invisible people to become visible. Some people really dislike this idea because you feel vulnerable, while others embellish this idea and use it to become exposed and recognized. However, people neglect the true power of social media in which it enables a tiny seed of thought to grow into a vast movement of change that will make an impossible idea become possible.
So what is my point? I was browsing on facebook and I constantly see this video about “KONY 2012″ pop up in my newsfeed. I read the comments saying “how this movement is awesome”, “the invisible children will be seen”, “let’s make KONY famous”, and so on and so on…so I click on it and was immediately memorized. (If you haven’t watched it yet, the video is down below. But here is a quick over view to get you up to par.)
Who is Joseph Kony?
Joseph Kony is the world’s worst war criminal. In 1987 he took over leadership of an existing rebel group and renamed it the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).
The LRA has earned a reputation for its cruel and brutal tactics. When Joseph Kony found himself running out of fighters, he started abducting children to be soldiers in his army or “wives” for his officers. The LRA is encouraged to rape, mutilate, and kill civilians–often with blunt weapons.
The LRA is no longer active in northern Uganda (where it originated) but it continues its campaign of violence in Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, and South Sudan. In its 26-year history, the LRA has abducted more than 30,000 children and displaced at least 2.1 million people.
What is the goal of KONY 2012?
Invisible Children is a non-profit organization reaching out to the community, celebrities, and the world in order to finally expose KONY. Invisible Children has been working for 9 years to end Africa’s longest-running armed conflict. U.S. military advisers are currently deployed in Central Africa on a “time-limited” mission to stop Kony and disarm the LRA. If Kony isn’t captured this year, the window will be gone.
This movement wants to ensure two things happen within 2012 and to make people like YOU aware of what is happening.
1) That Joseph Kony is known as the World’s Worst War Criminal.
2) That the U.S. military advisers support the Ugandan Army until Kony has been captured and the LRA has been completely disarmed. They need to follow through all the way and finish what they have started.
So what we can do to help is make KONY “FAMOUS”!
Invisible Children’s KONY 2012 campaign aims to make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice. In this case, notoriety translates to public support. If people know about the crimes that Kony has been committing for 26 years, they will unite to stop him.
Secondly, we want Kony to be famous so that when he is stopped, he will be a visible, concrete example of international justice. Then other war criminals will know that their mass atrocities will not go unnoticed or unpunished.
Please watch this video and please share it with as many people as you can in order to do your part in ending this inhumane criminal.
