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At the beginning of the documentary we see Jason Russell tell a crowd of young people that they must STAND AGAINST WAR. By the end of the documentary, he advocates MILITARY INTERVENTION*. Perhaps we should think about this a little more deeply.

• We Got Trouble - Kony 2012 Viewed Critically [Visible Children]
• Joseph Kony is Not Uganda (And Other Complicated Things) [ForeignPolicy]
• The Visible Problem with Invisible Children
• Concerning Kony 2012 [SeetWeebly.com]
• *Barry-from-Look-What-I-Did-responds-to-Invisible-Children-Organization [The Gauntlet]
• The IC Advocacy Campaign To Catch Kony [Justice in Conflict]
• Stop Kony, Yes. But don’t stop asking questions [Independent.co.uk]
• The Problems with ‘Stop Kony’ [The Atlantic Wire]
• How Invisible Children Falsely Marketed The LRA Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act [BlackStarNews.com]
  When I confronted the administration of Invisible Children about this information, they stated in an email:
  
  • “I agree with you that leading people to believe that the war is still happening in Uganda is not ethically right. It’s something we’ve been addressing internally, focusing on getting all staff and supporters on the same page in regards to the language they use in their communications.”

Charity Review:
“Only 32% went to direct services (page 6), with much of the rest going to staff salaries, travel and transport, and film production. This is far from ideal for an issue which arguably needs action and aid, not awareness, and Charity Navigator rates their accountability 2/4 stars because they lack an external audit committee. But it goes way deeper than that.”

• On Kony2012 [DailyWhat]
• Charity Review of Invisible Children [Better Business Bureau]
• Charity Navigator

Commentary:

• Innovate Africa [You Don’t Have My Vote]
• Amber Ha [Kony 2012: Causing More Harm than Good]
• Alexander Holzbach [Facts About Invisible Children and Kony 2012]
• Shane Morris [This Has Been a Moment of Truth]
• Adam Daze [Everyone jumping on the Kony bandwagon, listen up]
• Michelle Hack Carr [I’m gonna be the dick nobody wants to hear from]
• Helen Hu [War, Debt, Oil]
• Livingstone [From Uganda]
• Erics Wanderings [Invisible Children and Joseph Kony]

Related Sources:

• Obama Supported Child Soldiers Before He Was Against Them [AntiWar.com]
• Neocolonial Scramble For Africa [Information Clearing House]
• Resolve, Uganda: US President Obama’s strategy on the LRA [UgandaWatch.com]
• Tracking Uganda’s Lords Resistance Army: The Regional Context [PatriotPost]
• The Lords Resistance Army: End Game?
• Wikileaks on Lords Resistance Army
• Lessons from Wkileaks on the LRA [Resolve.org]

The Solution?

• Private Defense and Humanitarian Intervention

Image: The Founders of Invisible Children posing with weapons with the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA). Who themselves have used child-soldiers.