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Invisible Children

Invisible Children . By: Marissa Veilleux. 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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Invisible Children

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  1. Invisible Children By: Marissa Veilleux

  2. 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. http://africanarguments.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/kony-2012.jpg

  3. 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 http://blog.georgetownvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Invisible-children-logo1.jpg

  4. 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 https://www.google.com/search?q=kony+2012+video+jacob&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=OeGfUrXJOMPJsQSXxICoBQ&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1600&bih=773#q=kony+2012+video+jacob+then+and+now&tbm=isch

  5. Results • Video was viewed by over 26 million • People tried to help support Invisible Children by putting up “Kony 2012 Make Him Visible” posters

  6. 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

  7. Joseph Kony • Leader of the organization “Lord Resistance Army” • Took over Uganda in 1986 • Violent and brutal tactics guardianlv.com

  8. LRA • Along with being violent and brutal, some things they do are: • Kidnap Children • Train young boys to be soldiers • Sexually abuse girls phillipkay.wordpress.com

  9. 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 http://s3.amazonaws.com/suite101.com.prod/article_images/large/80061710-3bc8-4a4c-a96e-859161e87e5f.jpg

  10. Come Home Broadcasts • Sent out to encourage the LRA to release combatants • Try to enforce escapes forcefully but peacefully http://invisiblechildrencom.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/helospeakers-tad-smaller-e1380570959766.jpg?w=1024&h=683

  11. 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.

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