[Reblog] Let’s Talk About Kony 2012
13 years ago
Love is the spirit of this church, and service is its law.
This is our great covenant: To dwell together in peace, to seek the truth in love, and to help one another. Have you seen the Kony 2012 video? If not, you’re missing a perfect example of a vibrant social justice effort that stops unfortunately short of Unitarian Universalist principles. Produced by an advocacy group targeting Joseph Kony, the violent rebel leader of the Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), for arrest and prosecution, the 30 minute video does a great job creating awareness about a compelling social justice issue and making us feel there’s something we can do about it (which is to join their media campaign). So what’s the problem?
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Plus the video that sparked this KONY thing was taken place in 2006 :/