Today my sister emailed me and she said, "Do you know who Kony is? Have you heard about him?" I told her that I didn't, that I had heard snippets on the news all week but I really didn't know who he was. My sister shared a video on facebook that I am about to share with you.
Not only did this video touch my heart, but it made me realize just how global our world has become. I'd never thought of it before. Never before have we all been so connected and so able to make a change just by being a part of the whole.
Please watch this video and I hope it touches your heart and your mind just as it did mine.
I'm signing the pledge. I want to make Kony as famous and as well-known as George Clooney and Angelina Jolie. I want my voice to be heard. But mostly I want Joseph Kony to be found and arrested and tried for his crimes against humanity.
I'm very touched by noble intentions, but not very optimistic about the outcome of such intentions.
ReplyDeleteI believe good things come from within. Africa should learn to solve its problems with its own efforts and not depend on foreign interference/ help.
Globalization is an illusion; it's more a matter of corporations. Most of us, ordinary people can hardly practice even the "charity begins at home" command.
DUTA - Many people have commented your feelings to me. I couldn't help but to be touched by what I saw in that video. Whether or not Africa learns to solve it's own problem is no fault of those poor children. I do believe that good things happen when brought out into the open, so hopefully bringing awareness to this situation and to Joseph Kony will help to bring about his capture and will deter others from doing the same or worse.
DeleteSuch a horrible man. I'm glad that more people will be made aware of the horror of child slavery/soldiers. There should be a huge bounty on him.
ReplyDeleteI so agree Pondside. Hopefully he will be stopped in 2012.
DeleteSame here. People like him have no place here. This video had been named as the most viral documentary by TIME.
ReplyDeleteI've watched about half this video and now have to get ready for work. I will definitely finish it over the weekend. Thank you for sharing this, sweetie. People need to see this!
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