Invisible Children Gets a Critique (perhaps for good reason?) You be the judge!
Sound off about the Displace Me event by responding to the article critiquing IC here:
http://dc.metblogs.com/archives/2007/05/a_random_dc_pro.phtml
Friday, May 04, 2007
Monday, April 30, 2007
Meet the Millennials!
Invisible Children introduced me to a generation I had not seen in action until last year's Global Night Commute and this weekend's Displace Me event! I was impressed... Meet the Millennials!
Of course, if you're a sceptic... you could read this paragraph...
"...but youth of any generation are usually idealistic, naive, and trying to figure out their own lives based on little experience with anything beyond their own limited world. What's new? America's obsession with pop culture, its children, the future and other themes of books such as these make for ocassional interesting reading, if one takes them with a large grain of salt. To elevate them to something more is a serious mistake. They are as much a product of the current culture as a study of it."
BUT... If you think these kids are just another generation looking for an identity... well, they may be searching for it in some very selfless ways... I'll tell you this... there wasn't anyone my age there but me. I'm 32... and I was the oldest person I could find there by 5 years!
They are considered 76 million strong in North America (depending on your date ranges) and well, I think the movie Invisible Children should tell you a bit what they are passionate about (it was made 2 years ago by a 21, 22 and a 26 year old). More than 70,000 of them turned out this weekend in 15 cities around the USA to dance peaceful drum circles and erect cardboard cities in solidarity with enslaved suffering child soldiers in Northern Uganda. That really says something... I wonder what international policies this age group will pursue (and vote in) as they age????
At this point (2 years from its founding) Invisible Children Inc. now schools and supports more than 500 refugee and at-risk children in Northern Uganda and has developed economic development opportunities through the creation and sale of these braclets.
Meet the filmmakers (Laren Poole, Bobby Bailey and Jason Russell)
Meet some of the Millennials who have joined the Invisible Children movement:
Millennials:
http://myspace.com/definenecessity
http://thoughtsalongtheway-jenway.blogspot.com
See the Millennial's comments on the IC DC myspace page!
PICTURES FROM THE DC Invisible Children Displace Me Event:
Of course, if you're a sceptic... you could read this paragraph...
"...but youth of any generation are usually idealistic, naive, and trying to figure out their own lives based on little experience with anything beyond their own limited world. What's new? America's obsession with pop culture, its children, the future and other themes of books such as these make for ocassional interesting reading, if one takes them with a large grain of salt. To elevate them to something more is a serious mistake. They are as much a product of the current culture as a study of it."
BUT... If you think these kids are just another generation looking for an identity... well, they may be searching for it in some very selfless ways... I'll tell you this... there wasn't anyone my age there but me. I'm 32... and I was the oldest person I could find there by 5 years!
They are considered 76 million strong in North America (depending on your date ranges) and well, I think the movie Invisible Children should tell you a bit what they are passionate about (it was made 2 years ago by a 21, 22 and a 26 year old). More than 70,000 of them turned out this weekend in 15 cities around the USA to dance peaceful drum circles and erect cardboard cities in solidarity with enslaved suffering child soldiers in Northern Uganda. That really says something... I wonder what international policies this age group will pursue (and vote in) as they age????
At this point (2 years from its founding) Invisible Children Inc. now schools and supports more than 500 refugee and at-risk children in Northern Uganda and has developed economic development opportunities through the creation and sale of these braclets.
Meet the filmmakers (Laren Poole, Bobby Bailey and Jason Russell)
Meet some of the Millennials who have joined the Invisible Children movement:
Millennials:
http://myspace.com/definenecessity
http://thoughtsalongtheway-jenway.blogspot.com
See the Millennial's comments on the IC DC myspace page!
PICTURES FROM THE DC Invisible Children Displace Me Event:
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