Political Communication blog

Tonight I went to the showing of Invisible Children put on by Campus Crusade for Christ and the Black Student Association. Many may have seen it advertised around campus. The Invisible Children video was made to inform Americans about the poverty and kidnapping of children in Uganda, Africa. The video began by explaining how serious the poverty in Uganda is. The video then explained about the war between government and the rebels of Africa. The children are being stolen in the middle of the night and taken to the desert where they are trained to fight and kill. The children are desensitized from seeing many being tortured and killed and they are told to do the same. Out of fear of being killed, the children will not try to escape back home. Once the children are trained they go back to the villages and capture more children. Children that do not want to be kidnapped go to the city and sleep at night in rooms with hundreds of other children. Many are not aware of this situation going on in Africa and the government is still trying to restore peace.