On April 20th 2012, YOU are invited to take part of Cover The Night.
What is Cover The Night? It is a movement created by the group Invisible Children to raise awareness on Joseph Kony's tyrant in Uganda and to end the mass murder, sex slavery and use of child soldiers. The night of the 20th of April, we will take over the town of Birmingham by putting posters, stickers and writing in chalk to make Kony's face famous. When the lights go out, we cover Birmingham for everyone to wake up to the awareness of Kony!
Its already happening all around the WORLD so lets not leave out BIRMINGHAM!
As well as make sure you watch the video:
http://vimeo.com/37119711
Pledge here and get your action pack if u want:
http://www.kony2012.com/
Invisible Children:
http://www.facebook.com/
Invite EVERYONE, the more people the bigger impact this will make.
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Who is Joseph Kony?
Joseph Kony is the world’s worst war criminal. In 1987 he took over leadership of an existing rebel group and renamed it the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).
The LRA is no longer active in northern Uganda (where it originated) but it continues its campaign of violence in Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, and South Sudan. In its 26-year history, the LRA has abducted more than 30,000 children and displaced at least 2.1 million people.
What is the goal of KONY 2012?
Invisible Children has been working for 9 years to end Africa’s longest-running armed conflict. U.S. military advisers are currently deployed in Central Africa on a “time-limited” mission to stop Kony and disarm the LRA. If Kony isn’t captured this year, the window will be gone.
We are taking action to ensure these two things:
1) That Joseph Kony is known as the World’s Worst War Criminal.
2) That the U.S. military advisers support the Ugandan Army until Kony has been captured and the LRA has been completely disarmed. They need to follow through all the way and finish what they have started.
Why are we making Joseph Kony “famous”?
Invisible Children’s KONY 2012 campaign aims to make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice. In this case, notoriety translates to public support. If people know about the crimes that Kony has been committing for 26 years, they will unite to stop him.
Secondly, we want Kony to be famous so that when he is stopped, he will be a visible, concrete example of international justice. Then other war criminals will know that their mass atrocities will not go unnoticed or unpunished.
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