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Nothing is more powerful than an idea [br][br][br]

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whose time has come now

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Right now, there are more people on facebook than there were on the planet 200 years ago.

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Humanity's greatest desire is to belong and connect.

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And now, we see each other. We hear each other.

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"Grandpa I love you!"

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"I love you!"

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"Why.. why won't it take a picture?"

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We share what we love and it reminds us what we all have in common.

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"Dug out alive and well after seven and a half days.."

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"If you believe in yourself, you'll know how to ride a bike! Watch and learn!"

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"So now technically, your device is on. Can you tell?"

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"Oh! It's exciting!"

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And this connection is changing the way the world works.

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Governments are trying to keep up.

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Now we can test the freedom.

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And older generations are concerned.

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"Many people are very concerned about tomorrow. They could get worse next year.

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The game has new rules.

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The next 27 minutes are an experiment.

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But in order for it to work, you have to pay attention.

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I can hear him!

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Ever single person in the world started this way.

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He didn't chose where or when he was born.

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But because he's here, he matters.

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Yeah! We've been waiting for you! You made it!

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My name is Jason Russell and this is my son, Gavin.

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He loves jumping on the trampoline, being a ninja, and dancing.

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What are you doing?

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Making a snow angel.

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How do you do that?

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You do this!

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And just like his dad, he likes being in movies

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Action!

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Look out! Look out people! Run! It's a bomb!

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And making movies.

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Daddy watch this!

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I think we got the video

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But he was born into a pretty complicated world.

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And as a dad, I want him to grow up in a better world than I did.

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And because of the course of events in my life, I see a way to get there.

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It has become my job.

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Who are you to end a war?

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I'm here to tell you who are you not to.

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Hey Gavin, what's up?

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Years before Gavin was born, the course of my life was changed entirely by another boy.

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And who is this right here?

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Jacob

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Who's Jacob?

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Jacob is our friend in Africa.

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It's been almost ten years since Jacob and I became friends.

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It's okay, they're nice. They're different from sharks.

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But when my friends and I first met him in Uganda in Central Africa, it was in very different circumstances.

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He was running for his life.

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Uh, you go to school here

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Yes

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That's how you know English so well?

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I know.

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How many nights have you stayed here?

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Hello

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You are making our work very difficult

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You stop that thing now

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The night I first met Jacob, he told me what he and other children in Northern Uganda were living through.

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We worry the rebels when they arrest us again then they will kill us

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My brother tried to escape then they kill him using Panga

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They cut his neck

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Did you see it?

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I saw

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We fear that if we sleep at our home that we can be abducted by the rebels

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Because our home is far away from town

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They will catch us then they will take us there in the bush

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We come here to save our life

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I cannot believe that

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You cannot believe it?

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This has been going on for years?

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If that happened one night in America, it would be on the cover of Newsweek.

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What is it that you want to be when you grow up?

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For me I wanted to be lawyer but I don't have money to pay my school fees

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So that I learn and then become a lawyer

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Hmm.

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Yes

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After spending a few weeks with Jacob, he told me something I would never forget.

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So if is better when you kill us and if possible, you can kill us you kill us

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For us we don't want now to stay

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You don't want to stay on Earth?

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We are only two, no one is taking care of us

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We are not doing to school, so

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You would rather die than stay on Earth?

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Yes

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Now, even now?

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Even now.

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How are we going to stay in our future?

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He told me more about his brother and what he would say to him if he were still alive.

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I love you but now I miss you

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So it is better when we meet

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Wa are not going to meet but we may meet in heaven

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You see?

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So it is better

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I will not talk much

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I will start something

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Because if I saw my brother once again I don't

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Hmm?

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It's okay.

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Jacob, it's okay

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Everything in my heart told me to do something

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And so I made him a promise

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We are also going to do everything that we can to stop them

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Do you hear my words?

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Yes

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Do you know what I mean?

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Yes

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Hmm?

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Yes

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We are. We're going to stop them.

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We're going to stop them

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I made that promise to Jacob not knowing what it would mean but now I do.

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Over the past nine years, I have fought to fulfill it.

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And the fight has led me here.

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To this movie you're watching.

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Because that promise is not just about Jacob or me

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It's also about you

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And this year, 2012, is the year that we can finally fulfill it

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And if we succeed, we change the course of human history

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But time is running out.

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To level with you, this movie expires on December 31, 2012

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And its only purpose is to stop the rebel group, the LRA

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And their leader, Joseph Kony

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And I'm about to tell you exactly how we're going to do it.

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So the thing is that my son Gavin has never

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I've never really explained to him what I do

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He knows I work in Africa

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But he doesn't know what the war's about

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Or who Joseph Kony is

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And I'm gonna explain it to him for the first time today

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That's what we're going

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So, Gav, are you ready?

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Yeah

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I'm gonna ask you some questions

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Okay

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And you can just look at me and answer the questions

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I'm kinda nervous

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What do I do for a job?

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Ah! You stop the bad guys from being mean

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Who are the bad guys?

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Um

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Do you know

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Star Wars people

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Star Wars people? Those are the bad guys?

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Yeah

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Can I tell you the bad guy's name?

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Yeah

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This is the guy, Joseph Kony

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He's the bad guy?

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Yeah

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Who is this?

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Jacob

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Joseph Kony, he has an army, okay?

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And what he does is he takes children from their parents

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And he gives them a gun to shoot

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And he makes them shoot and kill other people.

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But they're not gonna do what he says because they're nice guys, right?

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Yeah they don't want to do what he says

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But he forces them to do bad things

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What do you think about that?

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It's sad

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I couldn't explain to Gavin the details of what Joseph Kony really does

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Because the truth is, Kony abducts kids just like Gavin.

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For 26 years, Kony has been kidnapping children into his rebel group, the LRA

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Turning the girls into sex slaves

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And the boys into child soldiers

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He makes them mutilate people's faces

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And he forces them to kill their own parents

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And this is not just a few children

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It's been over 30,000 of them

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And Jacob was one of those children

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As if Kony's crimes aren't bad enough

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He's not fighting for any cause, but only to maintain his power

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He is not supported by anyone

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And he has repeatedly used peace talks to rearm and murder again and again

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Kony, different times, proposed peace and then just regain strength and attack

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This is the head prosecutor for the International Criminal Court

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In 2002 when the court was started, their job was

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To find and demand the arrest of the world's worst criminals

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Although there are a lot of war lords, murderers, and dictators in the world

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The perversity of Kony's crimes made him first on the court's list

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Kony's the first guy indicted by the ICC

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The crimes are basically crimes against humanity

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And war crimes committed against the civillian population

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Including murder, sexual slavery, rapes, abductions

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We need to plan how to arrest Kony

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Start to plan

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And it has to be serious

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In fact, the only way to stop Kony is to show him

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Hey, we're going to arrest you

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What do you think we should do about it?

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You should stop him

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The criminal here is Kony.

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Stop him and then solve all the problems

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We should stop who?

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Him.

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It's obvious that Kony should be stopped

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The problem is 99% of the planet doesn't know who he is

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If they knew, Kony would have been stopped long ago

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Let the world, let the international community

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Take justice to him there

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Follow him wherever he is

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First to rescue our children

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And secondly, to deliver the justice

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We are determined to cooperate with any friend of Uganda

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To ensure that this mindless killing and slaughter is ended

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When my friends and I came home from Uganda

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We thought that if the government knew, they would do something to stop him

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But everyone in Washington we talked to said

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There is no way the United States will ever get involved

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In a conflict where our national security or financial interests aren't at stake

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No administration, republican, democrat, Obama, Bush, Clinton, doesn't matter

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Would do enough because it's simply not an important enough issue

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On the radar screen of American Foreign Policy

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Since the government said it was impossible

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We didn't know what else to do

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But tell everyone we could about Jacob and the Invisible Children

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We're going to show this movie to as many people as possible

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In such a way that we can't be ignored

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And when we did, people were shocked

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And their awareness turned into action

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We started something

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A community

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I have friends that have been living in this conflict their entire life

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Fight for that, because that is what is going to change this world

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And that is what defines us

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We got creative and we got loud

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It's not over! It's not over! It's not over!

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And as the LRA began to move into other countries

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Jacob and other Ugandans came to the US

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To speak on behalf of all people suffering because of Kony

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Even though Uganda was relatively safe

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They felt compelled to tell the world that Kony was still out there

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And had to be stopped

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I'm here so proud advocating for the people who are back at home

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And this change we are going to make is going to last forever

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We built a community around the idea that where you live

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Shouldn't determine whether you live

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We were committed to stop Kony and rebuild what he had destroyed

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And because we couldn't wait for and institutions or governments to step in

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We did it ourselves

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With our time, talent, and money

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So we rebuilt schools

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The best you can offer a child is by letting them be independent

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And that was providing education

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We created jobs

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I have seen the lives of those who have been hopeless

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Now they have hope

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And we built and early warning radio network on the front line of the war

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To protect villages from rebel attacks

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So you update real-time what's happening in a war zone 8,000 miles away

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All of this was funded by an army of young people

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Who put their money toward their belief in the value of all human life

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They gave a few dollars a month of what little they had

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To a program called Tri

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And proved that a bunch of littles could make a big difference

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And as a result the unseen became visible

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We've seen these kids

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We've heard their cries

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This war must end

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We will not stop

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We will not fear

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We will fight war

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Deliver your voice

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I've talked to people from Mexico, from Canada

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From every other state that I can think of

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We're all doing this for the exact same reason

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And we're all coming from completely different places

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This is what the world should be like

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So with hundreds of thousands of people with us

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We went back to Washington DC and we met with Congressmen and Senators

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One by one

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On both sides, republicans, democrats, and they all agreed with us

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Joseph Kony's crimes had to be stopped

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Of all the problems that are out there, none is more severe than one that

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Mutilates the lives of little kids

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These young members of the Invisible Children organization

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Know that no child should live in fear of being abducted or killed

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So they were determined to become their voice

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They realized that these African children and families

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Were invisible to Washington policy makers

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So they decided to make them visible

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And what I was told would never happen

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Suddenly became possible

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In furtherance of the Congress' stated policy, I have authorized

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A small number of US forces to deploy to Central Africa

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To provide assistance to regional forces that are working toward

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The removal of Joseph Kony from the battlefield

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Sincerely, Barack Obama

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The surprise announcement came in a letter from the White House

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The US president's decision commits US troops to help

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Through advice and assistance

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Not putting Americans into combat, to help the countries of the region

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End this threat once and for all

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And that was a worthwhile investment

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We used to think that we could not do it

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And now when I see we can do it I am overwhelmed

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After 8 years of work, the government finally heard us

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And in October of 2011, 100 American advisors were sent into Central Africa

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To assist the Ugandan army in arresting Kony and stopping the LRA

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It was the first time in history that the United States took that kind of action

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Because the people demanded it

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Not for self defense, but because it was right

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We have come some far[br]

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But Kony is still out there[br]

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He recently changed his tactics[br]

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Making it more difficult to capture him[br]

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And international support could be removed at anytime[br]

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If we take the pressure off[br]

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If we are not successful[br]

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He is going to be growing his numbers[br]

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People forget and you got remind them[br]

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And take numbers to remind them[br]

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And if interest wanes, then[br]

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It will just, it will go away[br]

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And I'd end up standing out there alone[br]

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Trying to do something to[br]

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Support completing the mission[br]

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It got be 2012[br]

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It is not bad for the youth[br]

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It is bad for the world if we fail[br]

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It is not important just for Ugandan people[br]

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It is important for everyone[br]

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It is hard to look back at some parts of human history[br]

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Because when we heard about injustice[br]

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We cared[br]

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But we didn’t know what to do[br]

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Too often[br]

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We did nothing[br]

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But it we going to change that[br]

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We have to start somewhere[br]

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So we starting here[br]

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With Joseph Kony[br]

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Because now, we know what to do[br]

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Here it is[br]

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Ready?[br]

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In order for Kony to be arrested this year[br]

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The Ugandan military has to find him[br]

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In order to find him[br]

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They need the technology and training to track him in the vast jungle[br]

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That where the Americans advisors come in[br]

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But it order for the Americans advisors to be there[br]

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The US government has to deploy them[br]

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They have done that[br]

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But it the government doesn't believe the people care about arresting Kony[br]

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The mission will be cancelled[br]

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In order for the people they care, they have to know.[br]

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This is the dream[br]

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Kony arrested for all the world to see[br]

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And for the abducted children returned home[br]

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Here is the biggest problem[br]

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Want to know what it is?[br]

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Yeah[br]

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Nobody knows who he is[br]

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But I know who he is[br]

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Because I see him on this picture right now[br]

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He is not famous[br]

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He is invisible, joseph Kony is invisible[br]

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Here is how we going to make him visible[br]

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We are going to make joseph Kony a household name[br]

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Not to celebrate him[br]

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But to bring his crime to the light[br]

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And we are starting this year[br]

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2012

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We are targeting 20 culture makers and 12 policy makers[br]

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To use their power for good[br]

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Let's start with the 20 culture makers[br]

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Celebrities, athletes, and billionaires Have a loud voice[br]

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And what they talk about spreads instantly[br]

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I want. I'd like indicted war criminals to enjoy the same level of celebrity as me[br]

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That seems fair[br]

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That is our objective. Is to just shine a light on it[br]

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If our goal is to get Kony's name known[br]

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The know should join us[br]

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We are targeting twenty of the most divers and influential culture makers[br]

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To speak out about Kony[br]

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And make him famous[br]

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Then we are going after policy makers[br]

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The one that has the authority to see Kony captured[br]

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They decides if the advisors stay or leave[br]

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So we need to remind them that in this election year[br]

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The fighting and the name calling is[br]

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No matter what side that you are on[br]

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This is something that we could all agree on[br]

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If the senators and the congressmen twenty five phone calls[br]

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On any issue[br]

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On any given day[br]

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It is noted[br]

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When citizens by the hundreds of thousands start demanding that our government do something[br]

0:24:26.781,0:24:30.659
Suddenly it becomes in the national interest of the United States government to respond to this problem[br]

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We have identified the twelve policy makers[br]

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That could change the game regarding Kony[br]

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So we targeting them[br]

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On our website we have made it easy to write them directly[br]

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Call them[br]

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Meet with them[br]

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And get their attention[br]

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If my son were kidnapped and forced to kill[br]

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It would be all over the news[br]

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So we are making Kony world news[br]

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By redefining the propaganda we see all day, everyday[br]

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That dictates who and what we pay attention to[br]

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a lot of people feel powerless to communicate their ideas

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they think that ok you know i'm not a corporation

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I don't own my own magazine or news station

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I just don't have any say

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but seeing what I've done [br]

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I think it's empowered a lot of people to realize that one individual

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can make an impact

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and I actually want to demystify

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and say here are these really simple tools :

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go out and rock it.

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And that's just what we intend to do.[br]

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our goal is to change the conversation of our culture

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and get people to ask who is Joseph Kony

0:25:36.243,0:25:39.506
We've printed hundreds of thousands of posters , stickers, yard signs

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and fliers

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that are , right now ,

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today,

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being put up in major cities around the world.

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We have thousands of Kony 2012 bracelets

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that we want everyone to wear

0:25:50.698,0:25:52.115
this year only.

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Each bracelet has a unique ID number

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Input that number and you enter the mission to make Kony famous

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You can geo-tag your posters and track your impact in real time

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Everything you need is in a box called the Action Kit

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It has 2 bracelets, one for you and one to give away

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And if you want to help fund our life saving programs

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donate a few dollars a month through "Tri"

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And you can have the action kit for free

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Start making Kony famous today

0:26:22.556,0:26:25.292
But all of these efforts will culminate in one day

0:26:25.292,0:26:29.452
April 20th

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when we cover the night

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This is the day when we will meet at sundown [br]

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and blink it in every street [br]

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in every city[br]

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till the sun comes up

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we will be smart and we will be thorough

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The rest of the world will go to bed friday night

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and wake up to hundreds of thousands of posters

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demanding justice on every corner

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It's always been that the decisions made by the few

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with the money and the power ,

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dictated by the priorities of their government and the stories in the media

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they determinate the lives and opportunities of their citizens

0:27:20.848,0:27:26.144
but now there's something bigger than that

0:27:26.144,0:27:28.647
the people of the world see each other

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and can protect each other

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it's turning the system upside down

0:27:35.028,0:27:39.809
and it changes everything

0:27:39.809,0:27:40.993
we are living in a new world , Facebook world

0:27:40.993,0:27:44.174
in which 750 million people share ideas ,

0:27:44.174,0:27:46.264
not thinking in borders

0:27:46.264,0:27:48.145
it's a global community bigger than the U.S.

0:27:48.145,0:27:52.092
Joseph Kony was committing crimes for 20 years

0:27:52.092,0:27:53.964
and no one cared

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we care

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we have reached a crucial time in history

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where what we do or don't do

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will affect every generation to come

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arresting joseph Kony will prove

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that the world we live in has new rules

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that the technology that has brought our planet together

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is allowing us to respond to the problems of our friends

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When it ends finally by bringing Joseph Kony to justice

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it should be celebrated worldwide

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We are not just studying human history

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At the end of my life

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I want to say that the world we have left behind

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is one that Gavin can be proud of

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a place that doesn't allow Joseph Konys or child soldiers

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A place for children

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have a child hood

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free from fear

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I'm gonna be like you dad

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when you grow up?

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Yeah

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I'm gonna come with you to Africa

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The better world we want is coming

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It's just waiting for us

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to stop at nothing.

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Nothing is more powerful than an idea

0:29:18.173,0:29:19.771
whose time has come

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now

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There are 3 things you can do right now

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1. sign the pledge to show your support

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2. get the bracelet and action kit

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3. sign up for Tri to donate a few dollars a month

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and join our army for peace

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Above all , share this movie online

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It's free

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