Friday, March 9, 2012

KONY 2012

If you do not know, KONY 2012 is a campaign to stop/arrest/capture the militarian leader in Uganda Africa, Joseph Kony. This is now a viral video made by Jason Russel. This campaign is to try to stop Kony who kid knaps children from their families. Sometimes makes the children kill their family members. He takes the children and makes them into child soldiers and warriors and makes them fight in a war that isnt necessary. He isnt fighing in this war for a purpose, but just to mantain his power. Kony also makes girls fight and they are held as sex slaves. Kony gives the children to choice weather they want to fight or not. This movement has a website www.Kony2012.com , that you can go on and pledge for free to say that you believe in this movement. This campaign is appart of the Invisiblechildren, where they try to get theese "invisible children" noticed so people know what is going on and are aware of what is going in other countries. They want Kony to be a house hold name that everyone knows. On April 20th to April 21st (over night) people will be gathering in the cities near them all over the country they will be doing what they call Covering the night. This is where they will go and hang up bill boards, and posters thats say KONY 2012 so that eveyone is aware of who is, and what he is doing. Also on the Invisible childrens website you can purchase the Action Pack that has posters in it that say KONY 2012, and another poster that shows the Republican and Democrat signs together which is showing that this is something we can all agree on, that we have to stop. Also in the kit it comes with braclets. You can also buy theese braclets sepreratly in a pack that comes with 2 braclets for $10. Theese braclets say KONY 2012 and have there own custom ID number on each one that you can regester online. You can donate, also buy shirts too, to help this movement. In the viral video they say it expires on December 31st, 2012. Meaning they want/need to capture KONY before the year is over. The video is getting so many views. 2 days ago I watched it for the first time and it had roughly 7 million views. Yesterday I made a video respose to it om youtube and checked it again, it has roughly 38 million views. Today I went to watch it again and it had roughly 60 million views!! That is crazy! I definitly suggest watching this and helping join against stopping Kony!! Thank you for reading! #KONY2012

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