Invisible Children

Earlier tonight I attended the Invisible Children screening in Hughes-Trigg Student Center Theater on campus at SMU, where I was able to hear Tony speak! Tony is the Ugandan man around whom the film revolves, and he traveled all the way from Uganda to speak with us after the movie---needless to say it was unreal. The idea of Invisible Children is to "call on the youth of the world to help their fellow youth in Northern Uganda and Central Africa." The group travels around the US, to high schools, colleges, and universities with the hopes of creating exposure to an issue of international criminal justice, that many students are simply unaware of. Being a part of the Human Rights minor program at SMU has propelled me to believe wholeheartedly the idea we have the ability to embrace as a global community, to protect each other, to individually be aware that we have the responsibility to become engaged as global citizens. As proof of the momentum the Invisible Children movement has created, an international awareness event was held last spring called The Rescue: over 80,000 young supporters slept outside for up to 6 days to rally support for the arrest of Joseph Kony, the man who is committing atrocities in Northern Uganda and Central Africa. The momentum from the event carried on to Washington D.C. and resulted in the "largest African issue lobby day in the United States."  Invisible Children is creating tangible change with a movement, something I would love to be a part of. Here is the trailer from the incredible film Tony: