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Invisible Children has released a sequel to its ultra viral KONY 2012 video, which attracted some 100 million views online.
“KONY 2012: Part II – Beyond Famous” was uploaded to Youtube yesterday and I very much doubt this follow up to KONY 2012 will generate the same interest.
The US activist group’s co-founder Jason Russell is currently in hospital after he was found semi-naked and screaming at traffic in the streets of San Diego was not involved in the making of this sequel.
Here’s a second video clip of of Invisible Children co-founder Jason Russell going mental last Thursday near SeaWorld San Diego.
It is the closeup version of the one I posted on Saturday, but still without the public masturbating bit.
Russell was never arrested nor charged for the incident by the San Diego Police Department. He was, however, hospitalised and is now receiving medical care.
Russell’s family yesterday denied that substance abuse or alcoholism played a role in Thursday’s episode, while his wife, Danica Russell released a statement citing ‘the criticism of the “Invisible Children” video about Kony 2012 may have contributed to his breakdown.
Via The Daily What
Jason Russell, 33, co-founder of the controversial charity Invisible Children was detained in Pacific Beach yesterday for being drunk in public and masturbating.
San Diego Police Department says Russell, was detained at the intersection of Ingraham Street and Riviera Road on Thursday morning after he was caught masturbating in public, vandalising cars and possibly under the influence of something, but did not identify the substance.Continue Reading
A few days ago I wrote an article for Buzz Patrol about the Kony 2012 video that had been taking the world by storm; shared on Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites, the video notched up millions of YouTube views within a couple of days of going live.
It was made by the charity Invisible Children, and aimed to use social awareness and activism to help bring an end to the reign of terror caused by Ugandan Warlord Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), who were notorious for kidnapping young children and forcing the boys to become soldiers and the girls to become sex slaves and wives to the soldiers. Continue Reading
Anyone with a Facebook, Twitter or Google + account that they use regularly will have seen the KONY 2012 video posted by dozens of their friends and family members, over the last few days.
For those of you who abstain from social networking sites, or just haven’t seen it, the KONY 2012 video is about the notorious Ugandan dictator Joseph Kony, who is guilty of some of the worst war crimes and human rights violations in the modern world, and at this moment in time, is at the top of the International Criminal Courts ‘most wanted’ list. Continue Reading
