Invisible Children is an organization that began when three young men from San Diego traveled to Africa and discovered that a great injustice was taking place in Uganda. A war has been raging for over two decades between the government of Uganda and a rebel group called the Lord's Resistance Army. The LRA is led by a man named Joseph Kony, who for decades has been abducting local children and forcing them to fight for his army. Invisible Children is dedicated to raising awareness about this issue, encouraging the world's governments to take action and allowing the "invisible children" to come home.

The Rescue is an event taking place this Saturday, April 25. In 100 cities around the world, people will "abduct" themselves and peacefully march to a specific location in each city. These people will stay at this location until a celebrity, politician or other "mogul" shows up with media coverage to "rescue" them. The idea is that once this story gets all over the news, Americans and others around the world will be unable to ignore the plight of the abducted Ugandan children.

You can watch a 36-minute film about the crisis, see a map of events and read up on the entire plan here: http://therescue.invisiblechildren.com/en/

You can also see videos of attendees on YouTube asking for people of influence to come to The Rescue: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=come+to+the+rescue

Invisible Children is affiliated with Causecast and all of us here will be attending the Los Angeles rescue: http://www.causecast.org/org/invisible-children
Source(s):
http://therescue.invisiblechildren.com/


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