In the wake of an explosively popular online documentary, the Kony 2012 movement will be sweeping through Vancouver with a social-media campaign more than 20,000 strong.
A Facebook event called KONY 2012 — Cover the City Vancouver B.C. is urging Vancouverites to collect “posters, banners, stickers, whatever we can get hold of” and to put them up “until you can’t turn a corner without seeing his name.”
Kony 2012 aims to promote international awareness of Ugandan war criminal Joseph Kony, in the hopes of forcing foreign powers to intervene and arrest him.
A documentary of the same name has more than 36 million views on YouTube, and dozens of high-profile endorsements from celebrities, among whom are Ryan Gosling and Oprah Winfrey.
Invisible Children, the charity behind both the movement and the viral video, has chosen April 20 for the worldwide poster campaign that prompted the Vancouver event.
Ben Brown-Bentley, co-organizer of the Vancouver event, told Metro that he thinks its impact will be “far beyond the original goal of Invisible Children.”
“(Kony 2012) is paving the way through social media for many more movements addressing other important world issues.”
Local news from metronews.ca/vancouver
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