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KONY 2012 Part II: Has Invisible Children Improved Its Approach?
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2012/04/06 13:00:00
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KONY 2012, Invisible Children's controversial awareness program aimed at taking down African warlord Joseph Kony, seemed dead in the water when co-founder Jason Russell suffered a public breakdown. It looked like Invisible Children would retreat from the spotlight to regroup, and it did... for a couple of weeks. Now, just one month later, they're back with another documentary video, "KONY 2012 Part II: Beyond Famous."
This time they appear to have cut down a bit on editing costs and kicked off the video with clips of critics, then launched into a direct response, admitting they could barely keep up with the conversation. There's less filler, and the facts are, by necessity, up-to-date. However, they did block comments on YouTube and disable ratings, and they're still convinced there's a path to success, and that awareness is essential.
The narrator explains, "Invisible Children is just one of many organizations on the ground, and we are not the first. Stopping the LRA violence is possible, but it will take increased support for the comprehensive efforts conceived and led by local leaders." It goes on to describe a "multi-pronged approach": Early-warning radio networks in endangered areas, radio broadcasts and flyers telling members and captives of the LRA how to escape, and rehabilitation efforts in affected communities, and finally, combined military force from regional governments. But, the question is: are you buying it?
This time they appear to have cut down a bit on editing costs and kicked off the video with clips of critics, then launched into a direct response, admitting they could barely keep up with the conversation. There's less filler, and the facts are, by necessity, up-to-date. However, they did block comments on YouTube and disable ratings, and they're still convinced there's a path to success, and that awareness is essential.
The narrator explains, "Invisible Children is just one of many organizations on the ground, and we are not the first. Stopping the LRA violence is possible, but it will take increased support for the comprehensive efforts conceived and led by local leaders." It goes on to describe a "multi-pronged approach": Early-warning radio networks in endangered areas, radio broadcasts and flyers telling members and captives of the LRA how to escape, and rehabilitation efforts in affected communities, and finally, combined military force from regional governments. But, the question is: are you buying it?
Top Opinion
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Drachen 2012/04/07 03:36:37
I opted to go to stay stateside for a bit. I had a couple of friends who took the jobs. I never heard from them again.
I followed some of the happenings "down there" and elsewhere via SOF magazine but as time went on I quit reading/following.
c'est la vie!
There are other groups out there that are probably way more reliable & trustworthy than IC.
I don't make enough money to give it away to "questionable, overhead and management heavy" causes, foreign or domestic. I have to pinch back what I do donate these days because quite frankly the money I earn only covers about 59-60% of what it used to cover a scant 3 yrs. ago.
So, given that personal revelation I won't donate to anything that is historically corrupt. Certainly nothing to a foreign cause overly managed by cons and rooted in a country governed by bribed fat cats. It's evident the bulk of the donated money is used to "maintain" the overhead of the "organization" and the corrupt government in a party-like environment!
Meanwhile, the respective nation's citizens are getting slaughtered, kidnapped, etc.
Let the hapless UN grow some balls for once and step up. Ah... forgot... they're part of the problem.
Not my idea of good character. I'm not throwing my money towards this type of behavior.
BTW... "only the producer" making a cool $90 million annually off of the videos he's making for the "cause".
Firstly, those who donate money to a charity won't always care for how their money is spent.
Secondly, in order to bring about actual change an organization needs to spend money, right? How do you think they make these videos? They need the donations in order to keep their cause alive. I honestly don't see why it's so hard to understand the concept money fuels everything, including nonprofit organizations.
All of this because of a completely over-dramatized and over-hyped video, which flippantly bends the truth as far as it will go. Seems to me like a scam.
If people were addressing the issue you stated people would be saying the same thing about the LRA.
Basically, governments are either going to solve this problem or not. We should make them solve it. But Invisible Children is not doing that; they're making governments solve a small problem, instead of the large one.
Yes they are focused on this issue, there are other charities focusing on the bigger ones. It just so happens that THIS is the one that's gotten the most recognition lately.
It's the fault of the public that Kony 2012 has received the attention it has, not the charities'.
Charities can decide to "help" whomever they wish.
You get to choose which you support.
Don't like it? Donate somewhere else.
Or do something real, donate time.