Health & Fitness
Kony 2012
The leader of a child army, Joseph Kony is the world's worst living criminal. Finally, a stand is being make to capture him in 2012. Discover the fight.
Earlier this morning, I found this post on the dashboard of a social networking website:
GET INVOLVED. STOP AT NOTHING. THE WORLD MUST KNOW.
Let’s make JOSEPH KONY Famous!
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Who is JOSEPH KONY?
He is THE WORST LIVING CRIMINAL. He abducts children and makes them use guns to kill their own parents. He takes girls and forces them to be sex slaves. He calls his abducted children the Lord’s Resistance Army, AKA the LRA. He has abducted over 30,000 children and forced them to be child soldiers in Central Africa. He remains at large because he is INVISIBLE to the world. FEW know his name, even FEWER know his crimes. WE ARE MAKING HIM FAMOUS! Because when he is, the world will unite against him and demand his arrest.
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We can help make a change. We can make a difference.
I feel so inspired. I feel the need to help and make a difference. This has to happen in 2012. We can’t let him go around and keep doing this to children in Central Africa. Let’s make his name known so he can be stopped. HE CAN NO LONGER BE INVISIBLE!
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It’s not often that I spend the first half-hour of my day watching a video about Africa. I’m usually the sort to roll out of bed and fumble blindly around my bedroom before finally making it to the shower, the closet, or the kitchen. My mornings are relatively simple.
I am also not the kind of person who is brought close to tears watching anything.
Over the past few hours, a video titled “Kony 2012″ appeared in my Facebook groups and on the dashboards of other social networking websites. Without knowing what it was and turned off by the 30-minute length, I skipped over it. Finally, this morning, it appeared on my screen one more time, and I halfheartedly decided, “Eh, I don’t have anywhere to be until the afternoon. What’s half an hour?”
Whoever you are – whether you’re a parent, a student, an administrator, an educator, or just a passer-by – take 30 minutes of your day to watch one of the most powerful, relevant, current documentaries I’ve ever seen. We are raised reading history books, and we write reports on the men and women who stood against Hitler, Stalin or Castro, but the thought never occurs to us that we could someday be one of them. Sheltered by our comfortable homes and guaranteed public educations, we tend to ignore the problems in the world around us, but, truthfully, we had no choice over where we were born. We are victims of circumstance, and these are some of the worst circumstances imaginable. Still, why do we remain silent?
Right now, at this very moment, I can’t promise how I will commit myself to the cause. I can’t promise that I’ll be out there in April posting signs in the dead of night or that I’ll be running rallies. I can promise, however, that I will be getting the word out there. I’ve already started with blog posts like this.
So, readers, if you do nothing today, watch this video and speak. Show it to the students in your classroom. E-mail it to your friends. Tweet it. Post it to Facebook. Even if you do nothing more than that, you may inspire someone to join the cause. Be the spark that starts a fire.
Kony 2012.
