By Jon Bjornn. Is KONY 2012 really a good idea? After a day of ignoring all my classes and researching the implications of the LRA and Joseph Kony I’ve probably changed my mind about this whole thing five different times. The biggest thing I’ve learned is that nothing is quite as simple as it seems, and […]

By Trevor Antley. After a YouTube video by the humanitarian group Invisible Children explodes across social networking sites, activists — and many not usually drawn to civil activism — are taking a sudden and passionate interest in the conflicts of central Africa. The full marketing campaign, dubbed “Kony 2012,” intends to raise awareness of Ugandan […]