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Since the launch of KONY 2012, there has been an amazing show of worldwide support. Here are some of the more creative ways people have advocated for awareness and international justice. We thought we had seen it all. But then Cover the Night happened. See some of our favorites below:

Jeff Harris: 4,748 Self-Portraits and Counting from We Know Music on Vimeo. Since 1999, Jeff Harris has been snapping one photo of himself everyday. However, unlike the standard self-portrait-a-day projects we’ve grown accustomed to seeing, Harris started his with the explicit intention of not doing another me-on-the-couch compilation, but rather making the most out of […]

Africa Rising: the hopeful continent

The money contributed to TRI in 2011 built and staffed the region’s first rehabilitation center for victims of the LRA.  Here are some photos from the ground.

Jane Goodall would be proud of these Uganda gorillas.

Remember the children’s book If You Give a Mouse a Cookie? It’s a lesson in action & consequence (mouse gets cookie, mouse wants milk, mouse wants another cookie). The Queensland Gallery of Modern Art must have had that lesson in mind when they allowed the museum’s smallest visitors to partake in a sticker experiment for […]

Yesterday, December 18, 2011, representatives of the best and the worst of the 20th-century’s leaders died:  Vaclav Havel and Kim Jong-il. One was Vaclav Havel, former president of the Czech Republic and the man who, after several stints in Communist prisons, led Czechoslovakia’s revolt against the Soviet Union in 1989. The revolt is known as […]