KONY 2012

MOVE:DC as documented by Instagram

photo credit: @nicolecounts

We scoured Instagram for our favorite photos. We’ll be posting them throughout the day.


We’re going to MOVE:DC

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Collines, a university student in the Legacy Scholarship Program and the Director of Operations for Hope for Humans in Uganda is well aware of the power that advocacy has to change hearts and expand minds. She was an Invisible Children Roadie for the Frontline and Congo tours in 2011, and while she inspired many with [...] Read More


I’m going to MOVE:DC – Flannery Wasson

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Flannery Wasson is a student at the University of Arkansas who reached out to us on our weekly Livestream webcast to let us know how some students from her school have been fundraising to get to MOVE:DC. It was too incredible to not share, and she’s too excited to not interview about her MOVE:DC motivation. [...] Read More


Fruitport High School fundraising to get to MOVE:DC

MOVE:DC Great Lakes

This is the ideal situation: Our Roadies screen our new film MOVE, talk about our upcoming historical event MOVE:DC, answer any questions, give breakout sessions on youth activism, and just generally hang out with students to have quality time. This all successfully played out recently when our Great Lakes Roadie team went to Fruitport High [...] Read More


Excelsior Middle School: ever upward

Our Middle America Roadie team with Mrs. Barry

As our Middle America Roadie team makes their way across North America to screen MOVE, they made a stop in Marion, Iowa at Excelsior Middle School. The Latin meaning of Excelsior is “ever upward” and it couldn’t apply more to the outlook of the amazing students there. After initially seeing KONY 2012 back in March, [...] Read More


Beyond Politics

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Watching Mitt Romney and Barack Obama waltz around each other in a smug fact-war sparring match is a surreal experience. Suddenly, the iconography and grandeur of the political system becomes human: approachable and reproachable at the same time. The debates have been both informative and mind numbing, for me mostly numbing. I am certain that [...] Read More


MOVE trailer

MOVE

You think you know what happened, but you have no idea. Watch & share MOVE at KONY2012.com


Recap: Jason Russell on Oprah

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Our Chief Creative Officer Jason Russell sat down with Oprah for his first on-air interview since March. No question was off-limits. Did you miss the Next Chapter episode? Fear not, we’re recapping it for you with excerpts. Oprah: The purpose of the film [KONY 2012] was what? Jason: It was actually birthed out of anger, [...] Read More


MOVE: what we aim to achieve

MOVE DC

KONY 2012 showed the world that Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) must be stopped to set a new precedent for international justice and help people in central Africa find peace. In response, world leaders from U.S. President Barack Obama to UN Secretary General Ban ki-Moon made promises to help make it happen. [...] Read More


KONY 2012 campaign: the support of local leaders

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We hold the local leaders from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Central African Republic (CAR), South Sudan, and Uganda in the highest regard. Their support of our yearlong KONY 2012 campaign has humbled us and proven that collaborative teamwork and mutual respect can literally change the course of history. Abbe Benoit Kinalegu – Director [...] Read More


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