Blog Updates and inspiration

“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” + Isaac Newton Isaac Newton didn’t know it, but he wrote that quote to appeal almost exclusively to the view we hold about Invisible Children alumni. Since the beginning of Invisible Children, we have seen hundreds of people come through these […]

In Gulu, Uganda, there is also movement. Friday saw more than 150 people gather to hear lectures from different contributors to the peace process. Religious leaders, local officials, academics, NGO representatives and others joined together to talk about their experiences, their unique perspectives, and their shared hopes for peace. The continued conflict in neighboring countries […]

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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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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

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, […]