Kony 2012

#0 by Zipper (Power User) (0 mesaje) at 2012-03-08 08:27:17 (702 săptămâni în urmă) - [Link]

Kony 2012 is a film created by Invisible Children Inc which became a viral video. The film's purpose is to promote the charity's 'Stop Kony' movement to make indicted Ugandan war criminal Joseph Kony internationally known in order to arrest him in 2012.

The film has spread virally. As of 8 March 2012, the film currently has over 8.2 million views on Vimeo, and over 15.9 million views on video-sharing website YouTube, with other viewing emanating from a central "Kony2012" website operated by Invisible Children. The intense exposure of the video caused the "Kony 2012" website to crash shortly after it began gaining widespread popularity.The video has also seen a number of celebrities endorsing the campaign including Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Christina Milian, Nicky Minaj and Kim Kardashian. As part of the campaign, supporters will put up posters promoting Kony 2012 in their home towns. Invisible Children has distributed hundreds of thousands of posters in an attempt to gain wider recognition on the issue. They have also issued action kits that include campaign buttons, posters, bracelets, and stickers to help spread awareness.

Joseph Kony was born c. 1961 in Odek, a village east of Gulu in northern Uganda. A member of the Acholi people, Kony is the son of farmers. He enjoyed a good relationship with his siblings, but was quick to retaliate in a dispute, and when confronted he would often resort to physical violence. His father was a lay catechist of the Catholic Church and his mother was an Anglican. Kony was an altar boy for several years, but he stopped attending church around the age of 15. As a teenager Kony apprenticed as the village witch doctor under his older brother, Jamie Brow, and when his older brother died, Kony took over the position. He did not graduate from high school. Kony first came to prominence in January 1986 as the leader of one of the many premillennialist groups that sprang up in Acholiland in the wake of the wildly popular Holy Spirit Movement of Alice Auma (also known as Lakwena), to whom Kony is thought to be related. Their relative loss of influence after the overthrow of Acholi President Tito Okello by Yoweri Museveni and his National Resistance Army (NRA) during the Ugandan Bush War (1981–1986) spurred resentment among the Acholi, which boosted Joseph Kony's popularity.

Directed by Kony, the LRA has earned a reputation for its actions against the people of several countries, including northern Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, and Sudan. It has abducted and forced an estimated 66,000 children to fight for them, and has forced the internal displacement of over 2,000,000 people since its rebellion began in 1986. In 2005 Kony was indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, but has evaded capture.

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#1 by Zipper (Power User) (0 mesaje) at 2012-03-08 08:33:44 (702 săptămâni în urmă) - [Link]

Daca e nevoie de traducere a informatiei - o facem, insa ceea ce priveste video imi pare rau, la moment nu sunt nici o traducere in afara de cea originala-engleza. Miine ziua daca tema va fi activa am sa incerc sa fac sub spoiler cu un mic rezumat la mesajul din video de mai sus.

!!! Rog toti sa fie limitati la comentarii fara sesns sau cu nuanta rasista. Am sa monitorizez activ mesajele si orice comentariu neadecvat va fi raportat.

Am sa cer si administratiei sa fie aspru pedepsiti rau facatori.

Kony 2012

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#2 by PUISOR93 (okidoki) (0 mesaje) at 2012-03-09 09:13:29 (702 săptămâni în urmă) - [Link]