POLL: Is the 'Kony 2012' Video Beneficial?
This week anyone who has been online has probably felt bombarded by friends asking them to "spare 30 minutes to watch this amazing video" but we want to know, do you think the video accomplishes what it set out to do?
Uganda is probably a country many people from Patch don't hear about and don't think about very often. The country on the other side of the world has a population of around 32 million, lower than that of California. This week however Uganda, and more importantly Joseph Kony, have been the topic of difficult conversations. The nonprofit organization Invisible Children released a 30-minute video showing a view of the war in Uganda that the is being waged by the Lord's Resistance Army. According to the video the LRA is taking children from the rural villages and making the girls sex-slaves while the boys are trained to be child soldiers. "Critics here said the video glosses over a complicated history that made it possible for Kony to rise to …
Mary MacDonald
6:07 pm on Sunday, March 11, 2012
They are being flagged by multiple readers Jim, probably because readers don't like that you are calling me names in them. I haven't deleted any of your comments on this thread. more ›