http://www.foreignaffairs.com/artic...-vlassenroot/obama-takes-on-the-lra?page=show http://visiblechildren.tumblr.com/ I don't what it's like for everyone else in the world, but debates about this shit have kicked off big time in the UK (read as: on Facebook). To be honest, I don't think it matters for the most part; it seems that no matter what is attempted to be done, without a major upheaval in the plans and tactics employed by the USA et al. to stop this shit, not much will really change. Despite Invisible Children's questionable charity basis and action plan, at least it's getting the word out. Opinions?
Yes Joseph Kony is a crazy Christian terrorist, but Invisible Children is some bullshit you feel me cuz?: -The film was made in 2004 (LRA hasn't been in Uganda for like 6 years) -Seems more like seeking publicity than anything looking at their financial records - the 3 founders make almost $100,000 direct salary even though they're supposed to be all caring and considerate of these poor African kids. Also ~$5mil has gone unaccounted for, and Invisible Children refuses to answer the BBB -They encourage militaristic intervention
I don't know but I hate faggots that think it's cool to tell everyone "LOOK AT THIS YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS" and then share the fucking video to everyone fucking faggots
Yeah, it's exploded on Facebook here too. Raising awareness on horrible shit like this is great but this. Only 32% of their recieved donations actually go towards "solving the problem," the rest is used on assets or for salary. IIRC, the three founders collectively made $250,000 in 2011 alone.
plus all of that unaccounted for money. $100,000 was the amount they actually recorded as straight salary
yeah, the unaccounted money is bothersome. I thought 501(c) charities had audits. I work for a non-profit organization. That doesn't mean everyone there works for free.
Yeah that didn't make any sense, but that much salary for a founder of a non-profit organization seemed like a lot. Especially considering the unaccounted money. But I don't have any other non-profit companies to compare to, so maybe I'm wrong.
I don't think 50k is reasonable at all. You don't have to be expected to impoverish yourself (and your kids) in order to work for a good cause.
Omg shut the fuck up with KONY. You'll forget about this next week when another viral video pops up on your facebook feed.
Their financials are public anyway, and they do have to be audited annually. http://s3.amazonaws.com/www.invisiblechildren.com/critiques.html
Yeah, a nearly 70 percent profit margin sounds weird. But for-profit charity is all the craze these days.
They can't show a profit so they just increase their salary. Sounds legit. But seriously, 100K is small beans for NPO officers. Part of my job as a Nondiscrimination Testing Quality Control Analyst involves looking at retirement plans in the Tax Exempt market, and in testing we have to see the salaries for every one in the plan to calculate ADP/ACP rates...there are many officers earning in excess of 250K. Starting a successful NPO is a good way to live easy. This knowledge does affect my charitable giving...I try (and recommend to my friends also) to try and go small and go local with who I select to donate to...not the latest fad or cause of the month.
not sure what is worse, this stupid kony 2012 thing or the black knights whining about this stupid kony 2012 thing
IC's response to the criticism http://www.invisiblechildren.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/critiques.html
Aside from the fact that his group seems to have already been pretty much wiped out, there's the issue that PresidentYoweri Museveni appears to be every bit the worthless POS that Kony is. Employing armies of children isn't exactly a rare thing to occur over there. It's starting to look like this whole deal is a pretty obvious propaganda piece for a scumbag dictator.
tl;dr it should have just been "Fuck you, what have you done with your life?" with that middle finger nuclear explosion as the background.
Re: The photo of the founders with the guns (see banner image) A story told by Jason Russell: Let me start by saying that that photo was a bad idea. We were young and we got caught up in the moment. It was never meant to reflect on the organization. The photo of Bobby, Laren and I with the guns was taken in an LRA camp in DRC during the 2008 Juba Peace Talks. We were there to see Joseph Kony come to the table to sign the Final Peace Agreement. The Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) was surrounding our camp for protection since Sudan was mediating the peace talks. We wanted to talk to them and film them and get their perspective. And because Bobby, Laren and I are friends and had been doing this for 5 years, we thought it would be funny to bring back to our friends and family a joke photo. You know, "Haha - they have bazookas in their hands but they're actually fighting for peace." The ironic thing about this photo is that I HATE guns. I always have. Back in 2008 I wanted this war to end, like we all did, peacefully, through peace talks. But Kony was not interested in that; he kept killing. And we still don't want war. We don't want him killed and we don't want bombs dropped. We want him alive and captured and brought to justice. lol it was never meant to reflect on the organisation, yet it's their banner image
Nope, it just makes me smart enough to not bother trying to figure out how to type some African asshole's African name.
