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cbayer

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14. East Africa has an amazing amount of cellular access.

Reply to hedgehog (Reply #12)

Thu Mar 8, 2012, 05:33 PM

Mar 2012

While most can't afford basic necessities, phones are dirt cheap, readily available and access widespread. There are towers in places that don't have running water.

I was amazed to see that.

To your other point, anything that increases our knowledge and concern about what is going on in areas like Uganda is fundamentally good. It just needs to be accurate or it could bite us in the butt.

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Joseph Kony is not in Uganda (and other complicated things) [View all] cbayer Mar 2012 OP

Yep, here's a link to the Kony 2012 viral video for people who don't know what this is about Leopolds Ghost Mar 2012 #1

It's also an very interesting study in how the internet works these days. cbayer Mar 2012 #2

The concept of deliberately creating a meme in order to achieve some social purpose has whiffs of Leopolds Ghost Mar 2012 #3

New Sincerity is a new concept to me. cbayer Mar 2012 #5

The backlash to efforts such as this Kony 2012 does something else... OneGrassRoot Mar 2012 #13

Link to Invisible Children's response to criticism here: OneGrassRoot Mar 2012 #4

That's an excellent response from them. It's hard to know what is true and what cbayer Mar 2012 #6

In my opinion... OneGrassRoot Mar 2012 #7

One of the things this author has expressed concern about is that it may be cbayer Mar 2012 #8

Yes, this article does go more in depth... OneGrassRoot Mar 2012 #9

Many excellent points, and I absolutely agree that increasing awareness can cbayer Mar 2012 #10

I hear you. OneGrassRoot Mar 2012 #11

The only real solution here... ellisonz Mar 2012 #15

IIRC, when Obama sent the advisors in, he was accused by some on the left of being hedgehog Mar 2012 #12

East Africa has an amazing amount of cellular access. cbayer Mar 2012 #14

Do you know what makes many of those phones work? ellisonz Mar 2012 #16