The Power of Youth Media Activism: Kony 2012

Kony 2012 is a documentary produced by a charity called Invisible children in 2012. The organisation Invisible Children was founded in 2004 by three filmmakers Jason Russell, Bobby Bailey and Lauren Poole to raise awareness and to bring to justice Joseph Kony, who was the leader of the Lords Resistance Army. This paramilitary formation was at the time responsible for the abduction of thousands of children, rape, pillage and it caused the displacement of over a million people in Uganda. In 2005, a year after Invisible Children was formed, Joseph Kony became the most wanted man by the International Criminal Court, and his actions were described as having no ulterior political or ethical motifs except him imposing his brutal power.