Invisible Children Campaign Screening Angers and Puzzles Many in Northern Uganda - A report by Al Jazeera English:
A charity hosted a local screening of Kony 2012’s campaign video in the town of Lira to invite people’s reactions and comments on the video. Here’s what some of them said before the puzzlement and confusion of the viewers turned into anger and rocks were thrown at the screen:
To one of the victims of Kony’s brutality, arresting Kony sounds right but the promotion methods applied are highly offensive. “If people in those countries care about us, they will not wear T-shirts with pictures of Joseph Kony for any reason. That would celebrate our suffering.”
“They are some kind of people, they are some kind of NGO who are […] trying to mobilize funds using the atrocities committed in Northern Uganda.” More comments followed until locals pelted the screen with rocks.
This is one video you should watch and share especially with those mistaking Kony 2012’s campaign as a harmless, well-aware movement to “help” Ugandan people.
More #occupywallstreet wisdom. Via Evan O’Brien.
on the backs of slave labor and stolen land.
“Our situation as Black people necessitates that we have solidarity around the fact of race, which white women of course do not need to have with white men, unless it is their negative solidarity as racial oppressors. We struggle together with Black men against racism, while we also struggle with Black men about sexism.”
-The Combahee River Collective
