'Kony 2012' Night Arrives at Last - Robert Wright - International. Friday night is "cover the night" night.
If all goes according to plan, when the sun rises on Saturday the landscape will have been plastered with "Kony 2012" signs by young activists determined to bring a horrible African warlord to justice. But of course, with the Kony 2012 campaign, all isn't going according to plan. The Hunt for Kony. Africa’s Steady Steps Toward Democracy. African Union launches U.S.-backed force to hunt Kony. The White Savior Industrial Complex - Teju Cole - International. The Decline of American Nationalism: Why We Love to Hate Kony 2012 - Max Fisher - International. The backlash against the misguided video campaign may say more about how American self-conceptions have changed in the last 10 years.
Left, American school children say the Pledge of Allegiance in this 1942 photo. Right, Invisible Children volunteers salute for the Kony 2012 video. / AP, Vimeo Three weeks ago, a small group of idealistic 20- and 30-somethings in San Diego tried to spark a national conversation about Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony. Their video campaign, Kony 2012, got millions of Americans talking, but about something different. Kony 2012 gives 'false impression' of Uganda, PM Amama Mbabazi says in critical video response. By Jocelyn Edwards KAMPALA — Uganda’s government has taken to the Internet to correct a “false impression” about the country it says was created by a U.S. celebrity-backed online campaign to hunt down fugitive warlord Joseph Kony.
Uganda, which is spearheading efforts to find the suspected war criminal whose global profile soared after a YouTube video went viral, wants to show the world Kony is not in the country and it is doing all it can to find him. Kony video director hospitalized in U.S. after incident. Viral Video, Vicious Warlord. My starting point is a “bravo” for film-makers for galvanizing young Americans to look up from their iPhones and seek to make a difference for villagers in central Africa who continue to be murdered, raped and mutilated by Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army.
Just in the last two months, the Lord’s Resistance Army has mounted 20 raids in Congo alone. But nobody fights more wickedly than humanitarians, so there have been a series of attacks on the video. Let me try to address some of the criticisms. Blinded by the White? - Brainstorm. I realize that some of my fellow bloggers rely on dismantling what I’ve written for their own posts, but at the risk of giving them nothing to write about (except important world events and news makers), I would like to take apart my last post on Joseph Kony as a form of white privilege, particularly the privilege of mothering while white.
Here’s what happened and here’s why I think that I was blinded by the white. My teenaged daughters became fired up by the Invisible Children “Kony 2012″ video. How 'Kony' Clip Caught Fire Online. The trouble with "crowd-sourced intervention" - Joseph Kony. Invisible Children has recently raised the global profile of Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army through its hugely successful #K0NY2012 media campaign.
The Kings of War blog calls the campaign “crowd sourced intervention.” Like Mark Kertsen, I do not intend to take aim at Invisible Children as an organization, but the group’s success makes it more urgent to debunk some of the myths now surrounding the LRA, U.S. intervention and foreign advocacy. The popularity of the viral video raises the question: Why did Washington start sending advisors to help the Ugandan army track down the notorious Kony in late 2011? Down to several hundred fighters and stuck moving between these four countries, Kony was still a monster and a danger to regional security, but his scale had been reduced. Visible Children - KONY 2012 Criticism.
Thoughts for young people from the author of Visible Children.
Since this all started two weeks ago, I’ve occasionally been criticized for the attention my blog has received on the basis that, as a university student, my opinion shouldn’t be as widely-read as it has been. I guess the logic is that because I’m a “young person”, my opinion is less valuable, or “misinformed and naive”, as Invisible Children’s PR firm eloquently described it. Actually, the best and most thought-provoking questions I’ve received came from “young people” in a series of discussions I had over Skype with students in Pennsylvania.
“What are you actually doing to help?” #StopKONY Now!!! Yes, as u MUST know by now — unless u live on another planet!!
— a 30-minute video uploaded to YouTube on March 5 by the advocacy group Invisible Children designed to rally global support for the arrest of , a Ugandan war criminal, has gone viral, with 71 million views on YouTube as I write and no doubt MILLIONS more by the time u read this. Kony is the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (L.R.A.), which started operations in northern Uganda more than two decades ago, kidnapping children by the thousands, turning some into sex slaves and brutalizing the civilian population.
Kony 2012, My Children, and Post-Colonial Sentimentality - Brainstorm. Okay, I’ll admit it.
I am happily participating in post-colonial sentimentality and white man as savior fantasies in order to support what I believe is the political awakening of my children. I get that it’s wrong, but I am also fairly certain it is far more complicated than that. I am talking, of course, of the Kony 2012 Campaign. If you haven’t seen it, click on it.
But you probably have seen it. Now there are certain facts that nearly everyone can agree upon. Childhood's End. In William Faulkner's story "Raid," set in Alabama and Mississippi in the closing years of the Civil War, a white family becomes aware of a sudden, vast, nighttime migration through the scorched countryside.
They can hear it and even smell it before they can see it; it's the black population voting with its feet and heading, so it fervently believes, for the river Jordan: "We couldn't see them and they did not see us; maybe they didn't even look, just walking fast in the dark with that panting, hurrying murmuring, going on … " Politics. Non-commuters risked a terrible fate. I met a boy named Louis who had been kidnapped by the L.R.A. at age 10.
He escaped a year later and was taken to Childers’s orphanage. With a thousand-yard stare, the boy sat on a wooden bench in a schoolhouse and told me about life under what the locals call the “Tong Tong,” or “Cut Cut” (the phrase refers to the practice of amputating hands and feet as a form of punishment). After being taken one night from his hut, Louis, now 13, said he was bound with a rope to five other children and frog-marched through the forest back to an L.R.A. camp. Invisible Children "Kony 2012" Leader Suggests It's About Jesus and Evangelizing. "A lot of people fear Christians, they fear Liberty University, they fear Invisible Children - because they feel like we have an agenda. They see us and they go, "You want me to sign up for something, you want my money. You want, you want me to believe in your God. " Kony 2012 and the Potential of Social Media Activism - Room for Debate. Representation of Women In the Media. 10 Excellent Examples of Guerrilla Marketing Campaigns [VIDEOS]
Guerrilla marketing "works because it's simple to understand, easy to implement and outrageously inexpensive," says Jay Conrad Levinson, the man who coined the phrase. Consumers have grown immune to big budget advertising, but marketers that expend a bit of time and effort — rather than piles of money — can generate effective results with inexpensive, small-scale stunts. Take a look through our gallery of guerrilla and street marketing examples, where promotions costing no more than a few dollars can have a big impact on the consumers. Let us know which you think are the most effective in the comments below.
More Marketing Resources from Mashable: - Following the Money in the Social Media Advertising Boom- How Social Media Marketers Can Convert Attention Into Action- The Future of Ad Agencies and Social Media- How Small Businesses Will Use Social Media in the Future- How Coca-Cola Created Its “Happiness Machine” [INTERVIEW] After Kony, could a viral video change the world? Kony 2012, the video campaign raising awareness about child soldiers in Uganda, is a world away from previous YouTube hits involving children, animals and popular-culture pastiche. The mainstream media were transfixed last week by a meme – an infectious idea. Hard-bitten news editors – the professionals who pride themselves on knowing what will happen before it happens – were discomfited to discover that their teenage kids knew something they didn't know.
Obama Has Ordered Combat Troops to Central Africa - Global. President Obama just gave the nod in a letter to Congress to send 100 combat troops to the central Africa to help fight the Lord's Resistance Army. Obama frames the troop moves as a follow-up to a 2008 commitment and notes that the LRA "has murdered, raped, and kidnapped tens of thousands of men,women, and children in central Africa. " The first group was deployed in Uganda on October 12 under orders to "act as advisors to partner forces tht have the goal of removing from the battlefield Joseph Kony and other senior leadership of the LRA," and Obama makes it clear that they're not there to fight:
How to catch Joseph Kony - Africa. Why We Should Take Heart From the Backlash Against Kony2012 - Rebecca J. Rosen - Technology. What is KONY 2012? Inside the campaign that stopped the world. Invisible Children, Inc. Invisible Children, Inc. is an organization founded in 2004 to bring awareness to the activities of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Central Africa, and its leader, Joseph Kony. Few in Uganda Can See Video of Rebel Leader, Kony.
Internet access was one reason. Your Help is Needed: Read a Book to Give a Book! - Outlook Web App, light version. Book drive to support Mission Hill Grammar School and Tobin Elementary - Outlook Web App, light version. Thanks for Giving a Book! - Outlook Web App, light version. Invisible Children + Resolve. How Kony 2012 campaign went viral and focused rare attention on Africa. On Tuesday, the Invisible Children organization launched a program it called Kony 2012 to draw attention to the head of the Lord’s Resistance Army, Joseph Kony, and agitate for his arrest. Skip to next paragraph Recent posts. The Soft Bigotry of Kony 2012 - Max Fisher - International. KONY 2012. Who is Joseph Kony? (3:53)