Joseph Kony: African Union brigade to hunt down LRA leader. The African Union has announced that it will form a 5,000-strong brigade to hunt down Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), believed to be hiding in the jungles of central Africa. The brigade will be led by Uganda and include troops from the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Sudan, the countries that have been ravaged by LRA raids. "We need to stop Kony with hardware – with military hardware in this case. Leader of ‘Kony’ video group Jason Russell to focus on health. ASSOCIATED PRESS March 19, 2012 7:50PM This Jan. 15, 2007 photo shows Invisible Children co-founder Jason Russell speaking at the 19th annual Martin luther King Jr., All People's Breakfast in San Diego.
Russell, the co-founder of the Invisible Children charity behind the "Kony 2012" video was detained March 15, 2012, by San Diego police and hospitalized after running through streets in his underwear and acting irrationally. (AP Photo/San Diego Union Tribune) MANDATORY CREDIT, NO SALES, ONLINE OUT, NO ARCHIVING, SAN DIEGO COUNTY OUT, TV OUT, MAGS OUT, NO FORNS, TABLOIDS OUT, WIDE WORLD OUT, COMMERCIAL INTERNET USE OUT ** storyidforme: 27640221 tmspicid: 9984908 fileheaderid: 4572431 SAN DIEGO (AP) — Jason Russell may be the most public face of Invisible Children, the nonprofit group he co-founded to stop African war atrocities.
'Kony' creator Jason Russell exhausted, dehydrated, wife says. "Invisible Children" filmmaker Jason Russell, the creator of the viral "Kony 2012" video who was detained by police last week in San Diego, was suffering from "extreme exhaustion and dehydration," his wife said in a statement.
Russell, 33, was taken into custody Thursday afternoon by San Diego police after neighbors reported him running naked in the streets of the Pacific Beach neighborhood, pounding his fists on the sidewalk and shouting incoherently. Police took him to a mental health facility for observation. Police responded to "several callers [who] reported that the male removed his underwear and was nude, perhaps masturbating," according to the police statement. By the time police arrived, the man was wearing his underwear. Kony 2012 campaign sparks backlash. The “Kony 2012” campaign to capture a Ugandan warlord has sparked a backlash in the country and in the United States.
Some experts say the video over-simplifies the regional conflict and is patronising towards the people it is meant to help. Emira Woods of the Washington-based Institute for Policy Studies said: “The overall message of video – that Americans, young, well meaning, can change the face of history – I think strips away understanding that is critical in 21st century of Africans, of people taking their destiny into their own hands.” Ugandan authorities are also up in arms over the video that has gone viral on the internet, because they say the situation on the ground now is completly different. Ugandan Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi said: “This is an account of a historical fact but that is not coming out. Open letter to Jason Russell CEO of Invisible Children Inc on KONY2012. By Amber Ha Jason Russell, Bobby Bailey and Laren Poole, pose with SPLA soldiers Dear Jason Russell, After being bombarded with your KONY 2012 crusade, I have no choice but to respond to your highly inaccurate, offensive, and harmful propaganda.
I realized I had to respond in hopes of stopping you before you cause more violence and deaths to the Acholi people (Northern Ugandans), the very people you are claiming to protect. Firstly, I would like to question your timing of this KONY 2012 crusade in Uganda when most of the violence from Joseph Kony and the LRA (The Lord’s Resistance Army) has subsided in Uganda in the past 5 years. This grossly illogical timing and statements on your website such as “Click here to buy your KONY 2012 products” makes me believe that the timing has more to do with your commercial interests than humanitarian interests. Secondly, I would like to address the highly inaccurate content of your video. Secondly, and more importantly, it is offensive to Ugandans. A 'Kony 2012' Creator Defends the Film - News. What Kony 2012 can teach us about ourselves.
KONY 2012 SCAM... Bankers Outsmarted by Millions of Young Activists? My response to KONY2012. Dear Kony2012 Haters. Kony 2012: Invisible Children Campaign Pressures U.S. Government To Capture Joseph Kony (TAKE ACTION) Joseph Kony is not exactly a household name in the United States.
Of course, few rebel leaders in sub-Saharan Africa are -- even ones like Kony, whom the International Criminal Court branded a war criminal. But one American filmmaker is determined to raise Kony's profile, for the express purpose of bringing him to justice. Documentarian Jason Russell is shining the spotlight on Kony, who is the leader of the vile Lord's Resistance Army, a notoriously bloodthirsty group in Uganda that, in an effort to destabilize the government, turns young Ugandan girls into sex slaves and young boys -- more than 30,000 of them -- into cold-blooded killers in his force.
When the U.S. Así te ha manipulado el vídeo de Kony 2012 >> Trending Topics. Al grano, que ya se ha dicho mucho sobre el vídeo de Kony 2012: Kony es el meme de internet intencionado más grande que hemos visto hasta la fecha.
El primer gran triunfo de la propaganda memética. Entre la versión de YouTube, la de Vimeo y los vídeos que espontáneamente se han subtitulado pronto cumplirá los 100 millones de visualizaciones. Según Visible Measures, es la campaña de vídeo con el crecimiento más rápido de la historia (ha tardado menos que Susan Boyle, en llegar a los 70 millones de visualizaciones). Más aún: recaudó 5 millones de dólares en las primeras 48 horas. (vía The Atlantic) Para entenderlo hay que saber que la palabra meme la inventó Richard Dawkins (sí, el señor que ahora anda peleándose con obispos) hace 35 años para nombrar todas aquellas unidades culturales que los humanos nos pasamos el día contagiándonos los unos a los otros.
"Hemos hecho 10 documentales antes que este, y los hemos mostrado en institutos y universidades desde 2006. Kony 2012: ¿denuncia desinteresada o reducción del activismo al negocio y la frivolidad? African Critics of Kony Campaign See a 'White Man's Burden' for the Facebook Generation. Guest post: Joseph Kony is not in Uganda (and other complicated things) - By Michael Wilkerson. Click here to see photos of the evolution of the LRA.
Thanks to an incredibly effective social media effort, #StopKony is trending on Twitter today. The campaign coincides with a new awareness-raising documentary by the group Invisible Children. Former FP intern Michael Wilkerson, now a freelance journalist and grad student at Oxford -- who has lived and reported from Uganda -- contributed this guest post on the campaign.
-JK.