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07 Mar 2012, 7:01 am

Everyone, if you see this and can spare 30 minutes or so, please watch this video and spread the word on it. The video below explains everything.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc[/youtube]


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07 Mar 2012, 7:25 am

Literally JUST watched this (and reposted on fb) then seen it on my tweetdeck posted by WP.

If we're(US) going to get involved with other people's(country's) business this should be it/what we do..


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07 Mar 2012, 11:38 pm

here's an interesting blog from a second year Poli Sci student about Invisible Children:

http://visiblechildren.tumblr.com/

i have mixed feelings and i am sitting on the fence for this one.


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07 Mar 2012, 11:48 pm

hyperlexian wrote:
here's an interesting blog from a second year Poli Sci student about Invisible Children:

http://visiblechildren.tumblr.com/

i have mixed feelings and i am sitting on the fence for this one.


So you have mixed feelings? Then allow me to make things clearer:-

http://s3.amazonaws.com/www.invisiblechildren.com/critiques.html

I won't stop you if you don't wanna support KONY 2012 nor will I force you to support it. But I hope you atleast read the link above this message and reconsider.


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08 Mar 2012, 10:30 am

i'll back the film, if you watch the whole thing you'll see they have not only helped victums but put a warning system in place to warn and evacuate villages the lra are planning to attack. what more could "film makers" do?
years ago a friend played a documentry for me that was basicly the start of all this, and they don't cover the impact of the lra in this film(kony2012) the kids you see sleeping are running for there lives, that should never be the case for any place on earth, and it has been that way for over 2 decades?


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08 Mar 2012, 11:12 am

hyperlexian wrote:
here's an interesting blog from a second year Poli Sci student about Invisible Children:

http://visiblechildren.tumblr.com/

i have mixed feelings and i am sitting on the fence for this one.


i will offer this view, many people are calling this film one-sided, and she gives the best view:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLVY5jBnD-E[/youtube]


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08 Mar 2012, 11:15 am

what this film hides(and is the reson for peoples critisium) is that the children and people are returning home and need after war aide, not war relief


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08 Mar 2012, 11:51 am

On the surface it looks like a good cause, but I'm pretty sure there's more to it than what the video implies.



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08 Mar 2012, 2:02 pm

If WP's scaling makes this too hard to read, click here for the full size version (click to zoom).

[img][652:2900]http://i.imgur.com/K3mgn.jpg[/img]



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08 Mar 2012, 7:48 pm

^^ Fascinating.



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09 Mar 2012, 1:44 am

hahaha that picture is great.



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09 Mar 2012, 4:08 am

Ugh. It just reeks of neocolonialism and white man's burden from the pity porn to the lack of Ugandan voices. I feel ill.



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09 Mar 2012, 6:09 am

I got bored 10 min into it.
Things are f'd up everywhere.
Not much anyone can do about it.
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09 Mar 2012, 6:47 am

Couldn't bring myself to watch it after the first few minutes.
If it's about a crazy African war lord, I don't want to know about your kid.



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09 Mar 2012, 12:05 pm

I pretty much 100% agree with Charlie Beckett on this one:

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/2012/03/09/why-i-think-the-kony-2012-campaign-is-wrong/


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