Kony2012

#Kony2012 from Advocacy to Militarisation « The Disorder Of Things Although the attention spike and mainstream media attention on #Kony2012 has receded, not least thanks to Jason ‘Radical’ Russell’s own brush with infamy, the implications of muscular-liberalism-as-social-media-experiment continue to unfold. My feed at least continues to be peppered with anger towards Invisible Children from informed activists and scholars (although Norbert Mao, for one, takes a much more positive view and Jason Stearns makes a few qualifications of the anti-case worth reading). On Saturday, CEO Ben Keesey and ‘Director of Ideas Development’ Jedidiah Jenkins (formerly ‘Director of Ideology’: yes, really) released a short teaser video promising a sequel to #Kony2012 and declaring that the campaign was “working”. But what does the Resolution actually ask for? Having reaffirmed previous declarations, it: Now that’s a rather curious formulation of “diplomatic efforts”. All of this sets a brutal precedent. Like this: Like Loading...

Kony 2012: what's the real story? | Politics Since Monday, more than 21m people have viewed this film – made by an American charity called Invisible Children – about the plight of children in Uganda at the hands of the warlord Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lords Resistance Army (LRA) guerilla group. His group is said to have abducted 60,000 children. With its slick Hollywood production values, the film has been an almost instant viral success, dominating Twitter worldwide and having one of the fastest ever take-offs on You Tube. The hashtag #stopkony has had hundreds of thousands of tweets, and millions of people now know something about Uganda and what is happening to children there. We've reported on the video here: Kony stands accused of overseeing the systematic kidnapping of countless African children, brainwashing the boys into fighting for him, turning the girls into sex slaves and killing those who don't comply. This Tumblr page is collecting criticism of the project and this blog sums up a lot of the questions. 2.05pm:

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Startups, This Is How Design Works – by Wells Riley Kony: What Jason did not tell the Invisible Children New York, NY - Only two weeks ago, Ugandan papers carried front-page reports from the highly respected Social Science Research Council of New York, accusing the Ugandan army of atrocities against civilians in the Central African Republic while on a mission to fight Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). The army denied the allegations. Many in the civilian population however, especially in the north, were sceptical of the denial. The adult population recalls the brutal government-directed counterinsurgency campaign, beginning in 1986, which evolved into Operation North, the first big operation in the country that people talk about as massively destructive for civilians, and which created the conditions that gave rise to the LRA of Joseph Kony and, before it, the Holy Spirit Movement of Alice Lakwena. Young adults recall the time from the mid-1990s when most rural residents of the three Acholi districts were forcibly interned in camps. No amnesty Escalation

What is KONY 2012? Inside the campaign that stopped the world KONY 2012: The campaign poster by Invisible Children which has been shared by thousands across social media. Picture: Twitter Source: PerthNow The leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, Joseph Kony, left, pictured in 2006. Picture: AP Source: AP IF you've accessed Facebook, Twitter (#stopkony), Buzzfeed, Google or dial-up in the past 48 hours, you'll know about KONY. But what do you know about KONY? KONY 2012 is a half-hour documentary, backed by Invisible Children, that's tapping into the power of viral media to reach a global audience. Scroll down to watch KONY 2012 Over a period of nearly 30 years, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army has abducted children and forced the boys to kill their parents and turned the girls into sex slaves. Who is Kony? The aim of KONY 2012 is to make the man famous, "not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice". Is KONY cashing in? But not everyone has fallen in love with KONY 2012.

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On Kony2012: In Defense of the Armchair It is quite possible that there remains nothing new to say about Kony2012. This thirty-minute video, narrated by Jason Russell, co-founder of the non-profit organization Invisible Children, aims to rally mass awareness and support for the campaign to capture Joseph Kony, leader of the Lords Resistance Army (LRA). But Kony2012 is, after all, the gift that keeps on giving. Its tally includes an unprecedented humanitarian social media coup with close to ninety million YouTube views, a mind-boggling number of (re)tweets, and various Facebook-related milestones. According to its supporters, Kony2012 may be a giant leap towards rallying the youth of the United States to seize their asserted destiny as global agents of change, in this case, by bringing an end to the horrors wrought by the LRA in central Africa. I don’t know if this initiative will make a difference. I am not a Congolese villager.

Ugandans hit back at Kony 2012 campaign Updated Mon 12 Mar 2012, 1:29pm AEDT Ugandans have criticised the viral Kony2012 video, saying it is yet another neo-colonial campaign that portrays Africans as powerless to help themselves. The 30-minute film was produced by an American advocacy group and aims to raise awareness about wanted war criminal Joseph Kony, the head of the Lord's Resistance Army, and the plight of child soldiers in central Africa. It has been watched and passed on by tens of millions of viewers on YouTube, but has been criticised as simplistic and inaccurate. Kony left a path of destruction and mass murder for more than 20 years, but he is no longer in Uganda and has not been for six years. Writing on his blog, Ugandan journalist Angelo Izama said "to call the campaign a misrepresentation is an understatement". Another Ugandan journalist fighting back via social media is Rosebell Kagumire. Her video argues against what she calls yet another neo-colonial campaign aimed at saving hapless Africans.

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Online Portfolio von Jan Ploch – Webdesigner, Grafikdesigner aus Hamburg Not a Click Away: Joseph Kony in the Real World In 2006, I flew with a group of journalists and United Nations officials to a remote village in Garamba National Park in eastern Congo, just on other side of the South Sudan border, for a meeting with Joseph Kony and the leaders of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). The meeting was to be held in a designated staging ground – a neutral space, deep in the forest, created by the UN as part of yet another protracted peace agreement between Kony and the Ugandan government. When we arrived, dozens of heavily armed LRA soldiers emerged from the forest and took their places among the stacks of rotting food that had been delivered to the clearing as an enticement and sign of goodwill. The LRA soldiers, dressed in camouflage pants and European football jerseys, spoke to no one and refused any attempt to address them. Of course no one was killed or arrested that day. Kony was, of course, the main attraction. Kony 2012 wants both. The most common defense of Kony 2012 is that it raises awareness.