Video of the Day: Kids react to Kony
Watch what kids have to say in response to the Kony campaign.
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 viral accumulating over 11.5 million views in only 2 DAYS! It is a video that aims to bring awareness of the Invisible Children Inc.’s campaign in Uganda called “Kony 2012.” If you have not watched this video, I would highly recommend taking the…
#PrayforParis and the Politics of Slacktivism
I’m going to be brutally honest here: I haven’t changed my Facebook profile picture to “support France and the people of Paris” and I have no intentions of doing so. Instead, when I logged into Facebook on Saturday night after a few days of being away and I was met with a newsfeed of 90% red,…
Blogger of the Month, November 2014: Eddy Gu
As Youth Are Awesome’s Section Editor for Current Events and November’s Blogger of the Month (BOTM), it is apparent that Eddy Gu continues to make an impression through the way he articulates and affirms his opinions. From online controversies like Facebook’s new messaging app to interviewing youth for their perspective on the Honk Kong protests, Eddy innovates…
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, the London Summer Olympics, Psy and Carly Rae Jepsen’s off-the-charts music videos; Felix Baumgartner’s supersonic free fall, the American election… YouTube collaborated with artists to celebrate the most viewed videos of 2012, a nice rewind of the…
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 watch this video. Dr. Seth Shostak is confident that we will be able to detect extraterrestrial life within the next two dozen years. There is a lot of mathematically data that…
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 (click here to view the posts). Despite the controversy, I must agree that it had quite effectively brought to our attention the issue of child soldiers around the globe.…
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 Occupy movement? I guess no one really cares anymore, or at least, even more so than they did at the start. But here’s a short comedy directed by Wong Fu productions…
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.