Invisible Children advocate visits campus Monday
The Center for Peace and Justice will host Akol Sylvia – one of 16 Ugandans showing Invisible Children’s newest film, KONY 2012, around the country – at 8 p.m. Monday, March 12, in the Cap and Gown Room.
Sylvia has lived through a brutal conflict in Uganda and is now advocating on behalf of the three countries that are still terrorized by Joseph Kony’s rebel force, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). An Invisible Children scholarship student and who is attending college in Uganda, Sylvia had friends who were abducted from their school by the LRA.
The 24-minute documentary, KONY 2012, explains the importance of civic engagement and tells youth how they can help stop the man who is arguably the worst war criminal in the world.
Invisible Children is encouraging students to use social media to engage influential culture makers and policymakers during KONY 2012. Students will also be encouraged to set up or attend meetings with their members of Congress. Invisible Children believes that, whether Republican or Democrat, arresting the world’s worst war criminal is something we can all agree on.
For more information, contact the Center for Peace and Justice at ext. 2686.