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KONY 2012 from INVISIBLE CHILDREN on Vimeo.
So far 3,530,673 people from countries all over the globe have pledged support. The world is responding. Policymakers are hearing your voice and are starting to take a stand in support of ending LRA violence. In just the last two weeks, two bipartisan resolutions supporting the effort against the LRA have been introduced into Congress.
Together, the House resolution (http://bit.ly/AoO9eo) by Congressmen Royce and McGovern and the Senate resolution (http://1.usa.gov/GTXVNc) authored by Senators Coons and Inhofe, have already gained over 67* bipartisan co-sponsors. Today, the UN and AU announced that the four LRA-affected countries would cooperate in a regional task force targeting the LRA. This is momentum that must be sustained.
Please continue to reach out to your leaders. If they have not already signed on to the KONY 2012 resolution, encourage them to do so by writing to them, attending events, and signing up for local lobby meetings (HERE: http://bit.ly/wd8aEk). If they have already signed on, then thank them. They need to know that we stand not just behind them, but beside them, in the fight to end LRA violence and rehabilitate abducted women and children.
And coming next week: the release of KONY 2012: PART II. This is the video that takes you deeper into the story and the solution.
*As of March 24th, 2012 the House and Senate resolutions have a combined 76 co-sponsors
"The man arrested was Patrick Komakech, who just two years prior had come to the United States with a missionary he met in Uganda named Conrad Mandsager. Mandsager founded a group calledChild Voice International, which works to rehabilitate child soldiers around the world. He brought Komakech to the U.S. for a bicycle ride across Iowa, sponsored by The Des Moines Register, to help spread the word of Kony’s evil deeds in Uganda.
Though Komakech said he had dreams of attending a U.S. university, he ultimately returned to Uganda and allegedly conspired to replace Kony as the principle opposition to Museveni’s regime. After his arrest, he and 10 others, including a journalist, were accused of treason over their alleged efforts to raise an army against Kony that would also fight the Ugandan government. A reformed child soldier himself, Komakech had previously been granted amnesty in Uganda, but that was revoked after he allegedly helped establish a training grounds for a rebel group called the Popular Patriotic Front."
Judging from the rest of the article, this does not seem like a productive arrest by any means. At all.
