April 2012
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An open letter to an Invisible Children...
Hopefully this serves as an open letter to all counter-movements and everyone who feels that they are “against” Invisible Children.
Hi (names redacted),
I made a decision very early not to support any counter-movements - my goal is to encourage discourse, not put down the efforts of an organization which has, despite its faults, served thousands of victims well. I find your...
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What YOU should be doing about Joseph Kony.
If you’re looking to learn more about Joseph Kony and the LRA, and develop an informed opinion, I cannot imagine a better guide than React and Respond: The Phenomenon of Kony 2012, released last week by the African Studies Association. It’ll only take you ten minutes to read and you’ll probably learn more than you did in Kony 2012 Part I and II combined. You owe it to yourself to...
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Massive riot erupts in Northern Uganda against...
From a recent article in the Daily Monitor, a Ugandan newspaper:
“At least 10,000 people gathered at [Pece War Memorial Stadium in Gulu, Uganda] to watch the Kony 2012 video. Dissatisfied with the content, the crowd pelted the organisers with stones, injuring a police officer identified as Pamela Inenu and two musicians hired to sing at the event. Police fired teargas at the crowd, and...
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Ugandans riot over KONY 2012 screening, again.
According to an Acholi Ugandan source who works as a Program Director for an NGO in Gulu:
“Invisible Children continue to have more trouble with the video and over the weekend in Gulu, as they attempted to screen the video for the public, it turned in to chaos and everyone started fighting for his life with multiple gun shots and some rioting with tear gas and ended prematurely! The...
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Controversy: Did Invisible Children provide...
According to diplomatic notes leaked last year by whistle-blower site Wikileaks, Invisible Children tipped off the Ugandan government about the location of Patrick Komakech, now under arrest for treason. Komakech had been involved in a rebel group (the PPF) seeking to overthrow the current President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni.
The June, 2009 cable, from the US Ambassador to Uganda (Steven...
