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KONY 2012 Campaign “Cover the Night” Event, NSU Community Invited to Participate, Apr. 20
NSU sophomore biology major Lauren Adames, the organizer of Cover the Night Fort Lauderdale, is calling all NSU students, faculty and staff to participate in the evening of raising awareness about Joseph Kony, the most wanted war criminal by the International Crimes Court.
The event is one of a nationwide series hosted by Invisible Children Inc., whose viral video “KONY 2012” brought attention to Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a Ugandan guerrilla group that kidnaps children and turns them into child soldiers and sex slaves.
On April 20, from 8:30 p.m. to 4:30 a.m., participants in the South Florida-area event will “cover” Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, Davie, Plantation, Sunrise and other cities with Kony paraphernalia – including flyers, posters, banners and bumper stickers – with the aim of raising public awareness of his crimes.
The KONY 2012 video, which has been viewed more than 80 million times on YouTube, was what inspired Adames to supports the movement because she believes in Invisible Children’s message that “where you live shouldn’t determine whether you live.”
To sign up for Cover the Night, please contact Adames at la662@nova.edu, or on the Facebook event page at www.facebook.com/events/201905496577786/.
To view the video, please visit http://www.kony2012.com/watch_the_movie.html.
