Today my 15 year old daughter came home from school, and after about 30 minutes in her bedroom, came to my room and asked, “Mom! Have you seen the Kony 2012 video?”
I hadn’t heard about it, despite the fact that the video, posted just two days ago, had taken off virally on YouTube and across social channels.
It is amazing what we can do with the technology that we have today.
KitKat and her fellow high school students talked a lot about Kony 2012 at school today. She, along with many of her friends, were moved. She is ready to support Invisible Children, purchase an action kit, and join millions of others on April 20 to make Joseph Kony a name that everyone recognizes so that the world will finally take notice and put an end to what he has been doing to children for the last 20 years.
Even before I had watched the video, I was moved by my own daughter’s determination to make a difference in her world.
If you haven’t seen this powerful video yet, it is worth your time to sit down. Ponder the world we live in now and how we can make it better for our children. For ALL children.
KONY 2012 is a film and campaign by Invisible Children that aims to make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice.
Note: I concede that there may be flaws in this campaign. While I am not endorsing it wholly, and am continuing to do some research on the subject of Joseph Kony, I do think it is worth the time to watch the video. More powerful for me than the video was the fact that it called my daughter to action. As a mother, it was quite a moment.
What do you think about Kony 2012? Are Twitter and Facebook and YouTube powerful enough to start a revolution? And is this the “right” revolution to be started?
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i watched it last night and had the same reservations. there must be HUNDREDS of similarly zealous ‘overlords’ in the world, who decided that this one should be brought to justice at this point in time? sadly, there are so MANY children not being allowed to live as children in the world today