Sure, they only use ~20% of donations for overhead--including admin/salary costs. But of the 80% that goes to "charitable work," most of that gets sucked up in film production costs--which is why Kony 2012 is actually a pretty damn good production. Only 30% actually makes it to Uganda/Africa, and most of that get's absorbed by the corrupt military.

Lessons posted:
the whole sensation here has absolutely nothing to do with the issue at hand. everyone knows there are horrible warlords committing horrible atrocities all over the world, and in africa in particular, and a factual 30min documentary about one of them would be ignored by everyone. it's this manic participatory facebook message that's gotten them whatever, 5 million views in the past 24 hours, not the politics. people are just watching it because facebook

very astute analysis. who do you work for?

One of their partners and donators is Chase Community Giving who awarded them $1million as a prize for winning a contest that was mired in controversy and accusations of fraud. This organisation is part of J.P. Morgan Chase Foundation who are also listed as one of Invisible Children’s network of supporters. This organisation is also owner of Chase Military, an organisation that offers loans, mortgages and insurance to soldiers that are to be deployed abroad. J.P. Morgan have also used foreign military interventions in the past to secure investment opportunities such as in Afghanistan with the full support of the US Government. Further ties with Uganda include their recent investment in Ugandan agribusiness and their ties as broker and adviser to Heritage Oil, whose operations are expanding into the border of Uganda and the Congo where the LRA are currently based. Situating these operations with their support of Invisible Children in the past year, it seems that J.P. Morgan are very interested in Uganda’s assets and are looking for means to foster business-friendly awareness of Uganda’s problems for their own benefit. Military intervention would do nothing but bolster J.P. Morgans profitmaking opportunities in the region.

babyfinland posted:

Lord’s Resistance Army are Christians. They are fighting the Muslims in Sudan. And Obama has sent troops, United States troops to remove them from the battlefield, which means kill them. That’s what the lingo means, “to help regional forces remove from the battlefield,” meaning capture or kill.

So that’s a new war, a hundred troops to wipe out Christians in Sudan, Uganda, and — (interruption) no, I’m not kidding. Jacob Tapper just reported it. Now, are we gonna help the Egyptians wipe out the Christians? Wouldn’t you say that we are? I mean the Coptic Christians are being wiped out, but it wasn’t just Obama that supported that. The conservative intelligentsia thought it was an outbreak of democracy. Now they’ve done a 180 on that, but they forgot that they supported it in the first place. Now they’re criticizing it.

Lord’s Resistance Army objectives. I have them here. “To remove dictatorship and stop the oppression of our people.” Now, again Lord’s Resistance Army is who Obama sent troops to help nations wipe out. The objectives of the Lord’s Resistance Army, what they’re trying to accomplish with their military action in these countries is the following: “To remove dictatorship and stop the oppression of our people; to fight for the immediate restoration of the competitive multiparty democracy in Uganda; to see an end to gross violation of human rights and dignity of Ugandans; to ensure the restoration of peace and security in Uganda, to ensure unity, sovereignty, and economic prosperity beneficial to all Ugandans, and to bring to an end the repressive policy of deliberate marginalization of groups of people who may not agree with the LRA ideology.” Those are the objectives of the group that we are fighting, or who are being fought and we are joining in the effort to remove them from the battlefield.

http://newsone.com/nation/casey-gane-mccalla/rush-limbaugh-defended-joseph-kony-and-lords-resistance-army/

I guess the hilarious thing about that is that Uganda is a massively majority christian state. muslims are like 10% of the population. The places they attacked in South Sudan are Christian/Animist as the bbc always calls them. And of course the LRA doesn't believe in anything like western christianities beyond extreme hick freestyle stuff

Also their name follows that cold war african rebel group naming continuum that makes them sound much more important and focused than they are.

LRA is a rape and pillage religious militia gang and not a real military thing, I spose everyone here knows that. If Uganda was more of a functioning state and the acholi ethnic group wasn't historically the lowest ethnic group on the totem pole of the country, they'd probably be sorted out by now. Give africom a few years and the ugandan army will probably be decent and motivated enough to stomp them out. They already chased them out of the country a few times. Who knows what will follow.

This is a reallly good bit of propaganda psy ops whatever you want to call it. i've never seen as much of a pro and con response in such a short time to something like this before

Edited by Myfanwy (March 8, 2012 00:34:15)

I definitely agree! When I was reading this article, I couldn’t help but think Inivisible Children isn’t the be all-end all and that they probably know themselves that they cannot fix all of the problems with the LRA and Africa. But the important thing is they are using social media to spread the word about something that has been flying under the radar for so long. I was someone who knew nothing about Kony, and now I do. And because I am compassionate, I want to contribute in some way. I think that is the most powerful thing: getting individuals to want to do something about it.

http://justiceinconflict.org/2012/03/07/taking-kony-2012-down-a-notch/

Myfanwy posted:

shennong posted:
what happened to laurent nkunda aynawy

He's being indefinite detentioned in a military prison in Rwanda. I wish I could lead a dramatic breakout and find some glory with him

is there any confirmation hes still alive? im surprised they didnt just kill him

Ironicwarcriminal posted:
http://demandnothing.org/making-the-invisible-visible/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=making-the-invisible-visible

One of their partners and donators is Chase Community Giving who awarded them $1million as a prize for winning a contest that was mired in controversy and accusations of fraud. This organisation is part of J.P. Morgan Chase Foundation who are also listed as one of Invisible Children’s network of supporters. This organisation is also owner of Chase Military, an organisation that offers loans, mortgages and insurance to soldiers that are to be deployed abroad. J.P. Morgan have also used foreign military interventions in the past to secure investment opportunities such as in Afghanistan with the full support of the US Government. Further ties with Uganda include their recent investment in Ugandan agribusiness and their ties as broker and adviser to Heritage Oil, whose operations are expanding into the border of Uganda and the Congo where the LRA are currently based. Situating these operations with their support of Invisible Children in the past year, it seems that J.P. Morgan are very interested in Uganda’s assets and are looking for means to foster business-friendly awareness of Uganda’s problems for their own benefit. Military intervention would do nothing but bolster J.P. Morgans profitmaking opportunities in the region.

my eyes grabbed on to "Chase Military" before the rest of the post and i momentarily panicked