Blog Updates and inspiration

We want you to be as informed as possible about MOVE:DC. Every ounce of information we have can be found on our website but sometimes you just want to watch a video to learn all the hows & whys (provided above). And sometimes you want the staff writer to write a blog about the details […]

We have written about The Buried Life multiple times. One could assume that we’re obsessed, and we wouldn’t necessarily counter that claim. They recently posted the below list on their Tumblr and it’s swept through our office like wildfire. Read, be enlightened, weep, smile, sigh, and pass it on. 19 Things To Stop Doing In […]

Hannah Jones is, admittedly, one of my best friends. More relevant than that to this blog post, however, is her dedication to Invisible Children and her willingness to sacrifice to end LRA violence and secure justice for Joseph Kony. Hannah is one of 5,000+ attending MOVE:DC on November 17. She is making the journey across […]

Over 9,000 flights have been cancelled, subways are closed, people have emptied grocery stores, boarded up their windows, and generators have been purchased. Hurricane Sandy is bringing the wind, predicted to reach upwards of eighty miles per hour by tonight. Damage has already begun, starting from North Carolina and moving up through Maine. The worst […]

I have so much work to do. But I absolutely have to put it all on hold so I can write a blog post (read: write a love letter) about Taylor Swift. My love affair with Taylor begin in 2006 with her song Tim McGraw. Life-changing, I tell you. Since then, I have memorized every lyric […]

Last Thursday evening, Congolese humanitarian Dr. Denis Mukwege narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in his hometown of Bukavu in southeastern DR Congo. Returning home from a visit to Europe, a group of four to five gunmen took Dr. Mukwege’s daughters hostage and killed one of his bodyguards. Capturing the attention of humanitarians worldwide, Dr. Mukwege’s work with Physicians for Human Rights and […]

Horlick High School is officially on the MOVE. After our Midwest Roadies visited the Racine, Wisconsin school to screen our new film, the students got so pumped about MOVE:DC that the principal helped to arrange an overnight field trip to Washington DC for the November 17th event. The 56-passenger deluxe motor coach has been chartered, […]

Tony, a Legacy Scholarship Program (LSP) student, reflects on what he learned during his internship with the Invisible Children film team in Uganda: It’s been a very wonderful journey for me since June 21st, 2012 when I started my internship with Invisible Children Uganda’s (ICU) Dream Factory 2. I have learned a lot of about […]

If you’ve never heard of Diego Stocco, it’s about time you emerged from the rock you’ve been living under to check this out. Stocco is a visionary for creative instruments and sound, and since he started putting the two together, he has been unstoppable. Check out these ridiculously awesome instruments below and watch the video […]

Do Washington DC marches have any real impact? Great question. Let’s discuss. It all began with a man named Jacob Coxey. Feeling defeated during the economic depression of the 1890’s, the Ohioan business man led approximately 500 men to the capital in 1894. They demanded work from the government,  but were arrested for “walking on […]