Photo blog: Pledge hand-off
“The effort to have KONY arrested and his henchmen stopped has the support of so many young and old, as many as 3.7 million. It means that we are not alone. It makes us sure that together we will stop Kony.” – Francisco Madeira, AU Special Envoy on the LRA issue “Is there any other […]
The Details: UN press conference and pledge hand-off
This past week there was a press conference at the UN with six people who have unique perspectives on the LRA-affected region and the conflict. Jan Egeland of Human Rights Watch and Michael Poffenberger of Resolve represented the nonprofit community. Father Benoit Kinalegu and Sister Angelique Namaika represented the currently-affected region. Finally, UN Special Representative to […]
The delivery of 3,729,816 pledges
We want a future in which child abductions and mass atrocities don’t go unnoticed–starting with the atrocities of Joseph Kony and the LRA. Joseph Kony is one of the world’s worst war criminals, and I call on my leaders to support the international efforts now led by the United Nations and African Union to arrest […]
KONY 2012 and the United Nations
The UN Security Council is holding a press conference on the Lord’s Resistance Army on Tuesday, June 26 at 3pm EDT, and Invisible Children will be there representing you (watch it live online). 3,729,815 people from countries all over the globe signed this pledge: Joseph Kony is one of the world’s worst war criminals, and I call on […]
Fall 2012 team leaders have arrived
The fall season has begun here at Invisible Children (we always like to do things before everybody else), which means you can now officially request a fall tour screening of our newest film. And who better to assist you in the process than our wonderful Team Leaders. The 20 Team Leaders (TLs) for the fall […]
KONY 2012 Resolution passes House Foreign Affairs Committee
Remember when we were hounding you to hound your members of Congress about cosponsoring the KONY 2012 Resolution? Well your hounding is paying off. The U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs unanimously passed the Kony 2012 Resolution last Thursday. The resolution (H. Res. 583) is a commitment to support the international effort to end LRA […]
The warriors we call Street Teams
This past February, we sent out five teams to set up camp in major cities around the U.S. Their mission: to make Kony famous. Their strategy: to campaign for the KONY 2012 film and spread the word of Invisible Children through face-to-face interactions. We named them Street Teams, and with a wish and a prayer, […]
A place in the sun
One of the perks of having an office in San Diego is that our staff gets to surf in their downtime. Adam Finck, our Director of Programs for Central Africa and resident surf guru saw a Future Fins ad featuring two-time National Championship and two-time West Coast Championship surfer, John Mel, repping KONY 2012 on his board. […]
KONY 2012 at Mountainfilm
Every memorial day weekend, the tiny mountain town of Telluride, Colorado hosts a film festival called Mountainfilm. If I remember correctly, it was birthed from a pre-X-games love of action sports films, the kind that are a continuous slow motion montage of snow boarding flips, gnarly surf shredding, mountain biking down an erupting volcano, etc […]
$10M authorized by U.S. Congress
Sometimes – when you ask nicely – U.S. Congress makes $10 million available for protecting families at risk of LRA attacks. That’s good money. Thanks to everyone out there who called, tweeted, or met with their Members of Congress. Nice work. Check out Resolve’s blog post about it. Resolve is our partner in KONY 2012 […]