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Video of the Day: Kids react to Kony

Watch what kids have to say in response to the Kony campaign. http://youtu.be/x-mzeZ6fQcE?hd=1

Joseph Kony, Invisible Children and gullible minds

Joseph Kony is a relatively unknown name unless you're among those who follow news that ended... six years ago. Perhaps breaking "olds" would be the more suitable name for the entire #StopKony/#Kony2012 campaign.

The Kony 2012 controversy: my opinion

For those who are not aware, recently a documentary on Youtube has gone viralĀ accumulating over 11.5 million views in only 2 DAYS! It is...

#PrayforParis and the Politics of Slacktivism

I'm going to be brutally honest here: I havenā€™t changed my Facebook profile picture to "support France and the people of Parisā€ and I...

Blogger of the Month, November 2014: Eddy Gu

As Youth Are Awesome's Section Editor for Current EventsĀ and November's Blogger of the Month (BOTM), it is apparent that Eddy Gu continues to make...

2012’s Best YouTube Hits #Rewind-YouTube-Style

Quite a lot has passed in the last year: from the Kony controversy to the release of the Hunger Games movie, theĀ London Summer Olympics,...

Video of the Day: What if ET is out there?

If you can muster up half an hour to watch Kony 2012, then surely you can give up 19 minutes of your life to...

Youth Week Event: Children and War

War is... Gore. Panic. Confusion. Fear. Unjust. There has been quite a lot of talk and hurly-burly around the Kony 2012 campaign launched by Invisible Children...

Have you forgotten already?

Yeah, I know there's issues being raised with the Kony campaign by Invisible Children and what not, but have you already forgotten about the...

The issue we should be focusing on: Stopping the explotation of child soldiers

Kony 2012 has the whole world in a flurry- going viral with over 1.2 million hits in two days, trending on Twitter and filling status updates on Facebook.

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