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Is anyone else here doing the Global Night Commute to raise awareness of the Invisible Children of Northern Uganda?

The kids of this area, on top of having to face the AIDS epidemic, poverty, and famine, have to be constantly on the run every night to escape being captured by the LRA (Lord’s Resistance Army). If they are captured, they are brainwashed, tortured and turned into soldiers to help the LRA overturn the Ugandan government. The prime target age group is between 5-12. Big enough to carry a gun, small enough to sneak into places and capture more children.

Needless to say, it’s a really horrible situation. I saw the documentary (done by 3 college students) about a week ago at my church here on campus, its really powerful. If you have the chance, seriously, check it out, and get your youth group involved. People are meeting all across the country and marching x-many miles to the nearest City Hall/Capital building and camping out on the lawn to help raise awareness.

Check it out!

http://www.invisiblechildren.com

I actually have not heard of this. I'll have to check out the site and read up on the subject. Thanks for pointing it out.

The guys who did Invisible Children are doing an awareness-raising event of some sort? I wasn't aware of this, I'll have to find out more about it. People in my area would definitely be interested.

Off topic, Lehn, your avatar is hilarious.

It's horrendous what the LRA is putting those kids through. For those interested, Far Reaching Ministries is directly involved with reaching and protecting the children in Africa if you wish to pray for them and support them.

Awesome Lehn. I became aware of this through Osakas sig. Got me supporting them too. ^^ Spread the word guys.

It's good to see awareness is trying to be brought to this subject. I've read some truly horrible stories about this, so consider my support added.

I hope I can. I am currently in the process of moving out of the dorms so I'll be driving an hour both ways on days that are back to back since it is tomorrow, but my roomate and I both want to go.

I heard about it earlier this week on some tv newscast. Annapolis is somewhat far from my location though.

A lot of kids from my town are going to our biggest city in my state, unfortunately, I can not attend but I will be writing a story of those who do go, and their experience with this.

I watched the movie yesterday in school..it really opened my eyes to see how lucky we have it here in the US.

I can't imagine what these kids are having to endure....

I think Uganda needs a lot prayer and support...


BTW the beginning of the documentary was great....when they killed the snake..hah... the rest of the doc was so serious and sad though...it almost made me cry....

this has also inspired a drawing that I am working on that I will try to pass out to the public to raise more awareness of these poor children.... (I will post it here too).

I really wish I could go....

Hey, even if you guys can't make it, there is still different ways that you can do to help support the cause:

1) Pray. Praying is possibly the biggest and best thing that anyone can do.

2) Write letters to the President/State/Local government figures to ask them to push for legislation to help get US gov. support in helping end the war and catching the LRA leaders. This is what we're actually going to be doing while at the GNC: writing letters and creating artwork that's going to be auctioned off to help raise money.

3) Donate $$$. Every little bit helps.


If you guys ARE one of the 53,218 other people doing this, make sure you check out the PDF file (http://www.invisiblechildren.com/media/pdfs/GNC_details.pdf) if you haven’t yet --- it has a schedule of the night’s events, and everything that you'll need to bring, etc.

And, more importantly, print off a copy of the legal waiver if you're a minor. (http://www.invisiblechildren.com/theMovie/updates/)

Yeah, I wanted to make it, but it looks like a the closest city is in Indianapolis, and my parents probably won't be up for a 4 hour drive for me to spend the night somewhere. Thanks for posting this though. Good for other people to know.

No.

I'm doing it! I saw the dvd probably a month and a half ago, and today I performed a 7 minute informative/persuasive speech on the topic in speech class. This is the kind of thing that really gets me, so, anything I can do to help, I'm there!

My town is planning to do a smaller event in a few weeks though..I hope that won't be too late...(at least it's in the organization process)

I just found out that a group for the Invisible Children movement is staying in the chapel of my dorm building for the night (I live in a small off campus dorm run by a church). ah! I really wish someone had told me earlier, so that I could have gone to the showing of the dvd. arg.

I'm really interrested in finding out more about the movement, I looked around the website. Guess looking into buying a dvd wouldn't hurt.

I wish I could do it but the closest one to me is about 2 hours away x_X And I can't drive yet so yeah =( Maybe I can get my friend Elizabeth to take us?

well it's over now...

ANYONE THAT WENT!!! HOW DID IT GO?! (I really really really really really wanted to go..but I had to work...I hate work..work stinks!!!!!!)

I thought it rocked. I went with my best friend, and once we got to the location, we met up with a friend who's actually interning this summer with IC as a digital artist/editor. (She shot footage of the entire night and will probably be used somehow, so if you see an interview with a short girl with dark glasses and a navy blue hoodie from MI, that would be meeeeeeee!) But, about 500 of us met up at a local church and walked 2 1/2 miles to the designated area. It was mad, we where marching in a column 2-3 wide, so we stretched on and on and on. We actually picked up a couple of other kids while walking because so many people kept slowing down and asking questions.

Once we got to the location, we all spread out our sleeping bags, and took a group photo in the evening light. After that we all wrote letters to political figures, did artwork, posed for photos, and mingled. I was shocked; I helped the girl do interviews with the staff and about 90-95% of the people there where from the high school age bracket, but we had maybe a dozen elementary school kids, probably a dozen middle-aged adults and around 60 college students. 1 Tim. 4:12 peeps, we are a mighty force to be reckoned with.

Other then that, someone brought a guitar, and our little group of singers multiplied from 5 to about 60 within half an hour of singing worship songs. We actually had the police show up and ask us to settle down because we where singing so loud....

But seriously, if you have the chance, check out the film, and its not to late to be a part of this. You can still write letters, set up donations, and hold showings of the film to raise awareness. The war has been going on for 20 years now; one night isn’t going to solve anything. A step in the right direction, but its going to take a lot more work to end this.

THANK YOU THANK YOU LEHN!!!

I hope my community does this in a few weeks that would be so awesome....

I did it. It was difficult, but totally worth it.

Hey, Lehn, did anyone yell at you guys while you were walking, because they thought you were doing an Iraq protest?

O_O wow..Osaka...that's...wow...

ChristianRonin wrote:O_O wow..Osaka...that's...wow...

Yeah, we got flipped off about 8 times on the way. On the other hand, we also had other people yelling "We're proud of you." But, we couldn't really be happy because of that since we knew they were probably saying "Way to go, protesting that war."

So, there was really no winning. Except, it was cool, because we had several people come out of their houses and ask what we were doing, and one lady even pulled her car over and got out and talked to us to find out why we were walking as we were making the three mile hike to our camp site. It was awesome. In the middle of the night, people were coming over the bridge (Under which I, Osaka, proudly slept!) yelling "What are you guys doing!?" I sort of wanted to say-- "Right at this moment, we're sleeping."

Thats hilarious, Osaka...

Found a video from the GNC in salt lake city, if anyone's interested. looks like this was a success.

ZiP wrote:Yeah, I wanted to make it, but it looks like a the closest city is in Indianapolis, and my parents probably won't be up for a 4 hour drive for me to spend the night somewhere. Thanks for posting this though. Good for other people to know.

That was my reason for not making it too.

Every student in honors english had to do a report on a human rights violation and someone chose Uganda and told us about it.

Hey, Lehn, did anyone yell at you guys while you were walking, because they thought you were doing an Iraq protest?

I can't speak for everyone, but I don't think so.... All of our signs ran along the lines of “We love Ugandaâ€

Yeah My teracher is pretty big about this he showed us a bit of the Invisible Children Movie, pretty scary.

[quote="Lehn"]I can't speak for everyone, but I don't think so.... All of our signs ran along the lines of “We love Ugandaâ€

It was a very awesome experience, though I didn't sleep well and it drizzled on us for a long time. We also had a time of worship, which was really cool because I think there were a lot of people at our location that weren't Christians, so it became an opportunity to wittness. . . either that or just annoy the snot out of non-Christians who were trying to sleep, XD, although I hope that isn't the case.

Yumie wrote:either that or just annoy the snot out of non-Christians who were trying to sleep, XD, although I hope that isn't the case.

Or some Christians who were trying to sleep.
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