Kony 2012

By: Jocelyn Arends

An 29 minute video has taken the world by storm. Kony 2012 was released earlier last week in effort to raise awareness of the war lord and leader of the African rebel group the LRA Joseph Kony to make him as the video says “famous”. This effort will try and stop Kony and his rebel group from Uganda from kidnapping children from their homes and making the girls into sex slaves and the boys into child soldiers. The children are demanded to kill their parents and put into a camp where the conditions are not suitable for any child.

The video starts out as a way to connect a person. The way Facebook and the Internet connects all of us. This creates so many new opportunities for the world to bond and come together to stop different epidemics or causes that are happening throughout the world. If the Kony2012 campaign works then it will change the way everyone looks at the human history forever.

The video shows first, the journey of the Jason Russell and how he wants his son Gavin to live in a world that he can be proud of. It explains the journey of Russell as he finds a Uganda boy named Jacob. Jacob told Jason Russell and his friends exactly what was going on and even explained to them that he had seen his own brother murdered because he was trying to escape. At that moment Russell promised Jacob that he would do everything he could to catch Joseph Kony and stop the rebel group the LRA. This promise was made nearly ten years ago and in those ten years Russell was finding ways to get Joseph Kony’s name out there. Now he knows exactly what to do. In order to get the American Government to deploy American forces to Uganda, they must have the command from the citizens. In order to get the command from the citizens, they must raise awareness. And in order to get awareness, they must make Joseph Kony famous. So just like an election campaign, the corporation Invisible Children are creating posters, stickers, wristbands, and several other techniques to make Kony famous. Once they make him famous, the issue will not be ignored by the U.S. Government and small numbers of U.S. troops will be deployed to Africa to catch Kony. Once Kony is caught, the mission will be complete but right now is the awareness period. Right now there have been millions of views of the video on youtube and there has also be a “Cover the Night” arranged for April 20, 2012. On this night, in every city there will be thousands of people putting up posters, flags, and banners of Kony2012 and when everyone wakes up the next morning, they will know who Joseph Kony. That is the plan for the corporation “Invisible Children,” get Joseph Kony captured. You can help too! Just go to www.Kony2012.com and watch the video on www.youtube.com and search Kony 2012.