Invisible Children
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http://freedocumentaries.org/theatre.php?filmid=114&id=762&wh=1000x720
Type of Content: Video 1. Watch the movie 2. Educate yourself 3. Choose your level of commitment Goto this link, and push the F11 button to make your browser full screen http://www.invisiblechildren.com/theMovement/ The Visible Child Scholarship Program awards scholarships to promising students in war-affected communities, ensuring their success through the guidance of a Ugandan mentor and improved learning environments, enabling them to take responsibility for their future, and the future of their country. We at BTM should unite with as many causes as we can starting with this one. I welcome us to join non-profit organizations with little or no government involvement. "We say yes to peace" Read »
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Wow. Powerful images and message. I'll definitely spread the word, and I will never forget.
This is a very powerful, moving film that everyone should watch. It is heartrending to see the squalor in which these children live. That they must huddle together at night to hide from the rebels who force them to kill is despicable. Yet, they still do their homework in the dark, damp basement and dream of being teachers and lawyers. They've seen their friends and siblings abducted and sometimes killed. In the end, though, they are resilient, singing and dancing despite the terror they must face every day.
Their resilience under such circumstances reminded me of a poem that I memorized in high school written by William Ernest Henley titled Invictus:
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of Circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of Chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
Thank you, jpayer, for bringing this film to our attention. While Christopher is right that we do have many problems here at home that need to be taken care of and that we'd be better able to give if our own government didn't steal and squander the fruits of our labor, that doesn't mean we should close our eyes to the atrocities throughout the world. One thing the American people have show time and again is their generosity in helping those in need, whether it be our own citizens (9/11, Katrina, etc) or those overseas (Live Aid, American Idol Gives Back). Those who feel compelled to act and have the means to give will; everyone else can at least watch and be aware.
I understand your need to put a stop to the horrible situations they have over there, and I agree, it is a pressing matter.
However, I cannot agree that this is the MOST pressing matter. In fact, not even close. A free people could donate and make effort to help those situations, but many of us... barely have enough money to keep an internet connection so that we can read your posts. This is caused by our federal government in so many ways, I cannot begin to describe.
If we don't fix our problems here at home first, we will not have enough money, time, or freedom to help those people.
Maybe your mind's already closed to that fact, but if it isn't, I hope you'll look more into the problems here at home first, and how our global policing, and relations with the IMF bank, is causing suffering around the world.
-Christopher
Wanted to say I have to agree with you. There are more and more of our own children becoming homeless and going hungry every day because their families have lost their homes to the greedy money handlers. We as a country send more foreign aid to things like this than any other country around the world. We are at a point were we are borrowing money from China in order to send money to others. There is something very wrong with that picture. This country has had families living with nothing on Indian Reservations for too many years and yet where are people to help them? When I get any spare money saved up I send it to Pine Ridge or Rosebud to help the children and the elders. The old saying goes charity begins at home. I realize what these people are going through is horrific but our government has us on the fast track to that direction. When and if this country gets on her feet and is once again prosperous and we are able to help I will be all for it. For now, the economy here is too unstable for the majority of the people to think about giving elsewhere.
BS! Stupid, foolish, ordinary citizens greedily wishing to live beyond their means.
They have mortgaged their childrens lives and made them homless.
Their enablers, the mortgage brokers, were no worse then they.
Time to grow up and decide to live below your means. It's an old Jewish proverb.
By no means did I mean to imply this should be the MOST pressing matter. My intentions were to bring this to the attention of "the people" and in doing so bring people together. By having BTM join forces with other non-profit organizations only helps spread the power of the freedom message in which BTM is all about.
This mind here is open.