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Tower: Het Strijkijzer Screen: Biggest LCD-screen in the Hague area Big thanks to Ngage Media B.V. YouTube clip provided by Jordi van Hartrop

Katie: “Want to have your mind blown? Today is April.” We are officially starting the second half of our tour, and we are realizing just how funny life can seem when you spend most of your time in a van. It’s hard to believe that we’ve been on the road for over a month, but […]

Last month, leaders from the Acholi Sub-Region in Uganda held a screening of Kony 2012. In addition to over 300 government officials, religious leaders and cultural leaders from Northern Uganda, three representatives of civil society from Dungu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, attended to open the dialogue between those formerly affected by the Lord’s Resistance […]

It would be impossible for us to tell our story in one stream of consciousness. So far, tour has been a collection of incredible moments that, on our own, feel somehow suspended or out of place- but in conversations together, we remember the heart of this journey. We are halfway through our 10-week stint, and […]

So far 3,530,673 people from countries all over the globe have pledged support. The world is responding. Policymakers 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 the U.S. Congress. Together, the House […]

We knew there would be critics. We knew there would be tough questions. We didn’t know that we would be welcomed at a lovely University in Hawaii with anti-Invisible Children flyers describing us as “Conquerors of Africa”. We opened our hearts nonetheless and Papito and Carlos spoke with conviction about our cause. When the floor […]

Today, 33 U.S. Senators introduced a bipartisan resolution condemning the violence of Joseph Kony and the LRA. It’s further proof that this is one thing we can all agree on. The Senate Resolution already has 33 cosponsors, and the House Resolution that was introduced last week already has 29 cosponsors. See? Your voices are being heard. […]

The author of this BBC article interviews people from South Sudan and DR Congo who are living in refugee camps because of LRA violence. This perspective has been largely missing from the global conversation about stopping Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army. The first-hand accounts make it clearer than ever that LRA violence must be stopped […]

This article was written by Chris Sarette, the Vice President of Business Operations at Invisible Children. He has been part of the management team here for five years. Invisible Children’s work concerns the most fundamental human rights issue—the right to live. The movement has been built on the tenet that ending the well-documented, sadistic crimes of […]

“Thank you to everyone concerned with Jason and his health. Jason has dedicated his adult life to this cause, leading up to KONY 2012. We thought a few thousand people would see the film, but in less than a week, millions of people around the world saw it. While that attention was great for raising […]