Too bad really, I was pretty pumped about students coming together for a great cause and making their voices heard in places that matter. That's life I guess! The really sad part is that the exploitation of children that has been going on in Uganda and South Sudan will continue without action from the rest of the world or even awareness on the part of moral and caring people.
I asked my students to make a post over the break expressing their plans and ideas regarding the Invisible Children organization's KONY2012 campaign. Not a single person made a post. Hmmm. I suppose I'll take that silence to mean there isn't enough commitment to even discuss an important humanitarian issue. That means there certainly isn't enough commitment to take real and lasting action. But if that were not enough to give me serious doubts about involvement in this movement, the actions of Jason Russel force me to make the unfortunate decision that the school, my classes and I will not participate. Read here. http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/jason-russell-san-diego-invisible-children-kony-2012-142970255.html
Too bad really, I was pretty pumped about students coming together for a great cause and making their voices heard in places that matter. That's life I guess! The really sad part is that the exploitation of children that has been going on in Uganda and South Sudan will continue without action from the rest of the world or even awareness on the part of moral and caring people.
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Marlene Marlowe
18/3/2012 06:30:43
Actually, over the break I checked your website several times and got lost in it looking for the place we were supposed to post, I asked anyone if they knew but no one even knew we were supposed to post except me I guess, not to brag. I also heard about the incident with the co-founder of Invisible Children, and I really don't know what to say except this.
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Rebekah Stanley
18/3/2012 10:59:21
Agreed. I completely agree with Marlene. just because of some bad publicity doesnt mean we have to give up. I'm going to cover the night even if I'm the only one there.
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Nadia Halim
18/3/2012 12:27:33
I too couldn't seem to find where to post on the community page or maybe I was looking in the wrong places. But I think we should remember the original intent of the Invisible Children organization. We need to remind people not to focus on the bad publicity the organization is receiving now like Rebekah said and work towards the effort to capture Kony and save the children victimized by the LRA. Even if the media is right, that shouldn't mean that what Kony is doing is less wrong.
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Bingham
20/3/2012 23:47:08
Hey asdf, please leave your name on future posts. Hear who out? Jason Russel?
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Jarrad Thompson
30/3/2012 03:29:29
no click the asdf link
Anon
20/3/2012 12:09:04
There are plenty of people in this school willing to participate in Kony 2012, (no one could find where to post, though) and despite the recent bad publicity, HSPVA should definitely participate in Cover the Night.
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Bingham
20/3/2012 23:52:42
Please leave your name with your posts, we are all out in the open on this forum.
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Anna Waters
21/3/2012 12:28:31
Oh, THIS Community page.
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Anna Waters
21/3/2012 12:30:13
I still must say we should do a Cover the Night, if it must be, without KONY 2012 posters, but Jospeh Kony.
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Marlene Marlowe
23/3/2012 08:15:36
I saw what you wrote at the top of the page, I just wasn't sure If i had to start a new one or what....
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