Invisible Children
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Invisible Children By: Marissa Veilleux
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Founders • Founders: Bobby Bailey, Laren Poole, and Jason Russel• Invisible Children brings awareness to Joseph
Kony • They created this site to show people of the
world who he is.
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Seeking Change• Invisible Children was not very known
throughout the world• Created a video to show and tell the horrible
actions of Joseph Kony• Inform people by web and television
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Kony Video
• Created a half hour video • Showed interviews from escaped children• Shows a story of a young boy who was once
held by the LRA
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Results• Video was viewed by over 26 million
• People tried to help support Invisible Children by putting up “Kony 2012 Make Him Visible” posters
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Challenges • Grant Oyston – Made a visible children blog– Criticizes Invisible children– Money• Most goes to filmmaking not Uganda • Not many Africans on Board of Directors of I.C
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Joseph Kony• Leader of the organization “Lord Resistance
Army”– Took over Uganda in 1986– Violent and brutal tactics
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LRA• Along with being violent and brutal, some
things they do are: – Kidnap Children– Train young boys to be soldiers– Sexually abuse girls
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Women and Children• Low ranking LRA combatants • Little or no access to anything like radio
stations or television• Children relay radio messages to women to
help them escape
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Come Home Broadcasts• Sent out to encourage the LRA to release
combatants • Try to enforce escapes forcefully but
peacefully
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Works Cited• "“Come Home” Broadcasts | Invisible Children | Invisible
Children." Invisible Children. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Nov. 2013. • The Lessons We Can Learn from Kony 2012." Marketing
Week 15 Mar. 2012: 74. General OneFile. Web. 19 Nov. 2013.
• Zuckerman, Ethan. "The Internet Campaign Urging Capture of Ugandan Rebel Leader Joseph Kony May Do Harm." Internet Activism. Ed. Sylvia Engdahl. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2013. Current Controversies. Rpt. from "Unpacking Kony 2012." My Heart's in Accra 8 Mar. 2012. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 19 Nov. 2013.