TL;DW
Didn't have 30 minutes to watch the video? Let me sum it up for you.
1) A man name [1] Joseph Kony is a leader of a rebel group called the [2] LRA in Central Africa.
2) Kony uses his army of rebels to abduct children from villages. The children (mostly boys) are then forced to hurt or kill their loved ones or friends. The girls are used as sex slaves for the rest of the rebel army.
3) The year 2012 is the year Kony will be taken out of the picture. By spreading this video and other media across the nation, the people/news/government will remain focused on Kony.
4) The goal of this whole movement is to make Joseph Kony famous. By tweeting/contacting [3] celebrities and calling [4] government officials you are helping spread the word about Kony.
TL;DR Joseph Kony is bad...and you need to tell everyone you know
Links for the lazy:
[5] Info on Kony2012
[6] Kony2012 Website
[7] Invisible Children Facebook Page
--Personal Edit: Seeing that this is, and probably will be the highest comment, can I just encourage you to bookmark the video and watch it sometime later. The way the filmmakers made this video is truly breathtaking. I know you're probably busy right now, but just some time later today just give yourself 30 minutes to watch this video and perhaps share it. Stay classy fellow redditors.
Making Things Easy For You:
Obviously since you're short on time let me even make it easier on you. Here is the list of celebrities and government officials Kony2012 wants you to tweet. Just click on their name and hit tweet. That simple. Man, look at you go future starter.
[8] Lady Gaga
[9] Bill O'Reilly
[10] Bill Gates
[11] Ben Affleck
[12] Ellen Degeneres
[13] Rick Warren
[14] Justin Bieber
[15] Rihanna
[16] Steven Colbert
[17] Warren Buffett
[18] Taylor Swift
[19] Bono
[20] Rush Limbaugh
[21] Tim Tebow
[22] Ryan Seacrest
[23] George W. Bush
[24] Condoleezza Rice
[25] John Kerry
[26] Bill Clinton
[27] Mitt Romney
[28] Kay Granger
[29] Harry Reid
[30] Stephen Harper
[31] Ban Ki-Moon
[32] Patrick Leahy
So it took a guy to make a video for people to actually notice this? It's been happening since the 80s and not much has changed since.
I don't see alot of people making an effort to do something about this other then flooding my twitter and youtube comments with #kony2012
Yes this is sad, but what are people doing now to change it?
Ive been knowing about this for ages
Hipsters get mad that people know i love that people know about this is great.Stop being such a hipster
Ive been knowing about this for ages i lived about it in school. only 30% of the cash from invisible children goes to the cause.
Annnnd this Kony2012 thing did nothing. Like I knew it would.