From BlackStarNews: nvisible Children, makers of KONY2012, provided an intelligence tip to Uganda’s security apparatus leading to arrests of several suspected regime opponents, according to U.S. embassy cables posted by WikiLeaks. The San Diego-based group has since 2008 acted in concert with the Ugandan government in coordinating public relations campaigns…
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According to the most recent 990 tax forms available for Invisible Children, Inc., the organization behind factually-challenged Kony 2012, Jason Russell makes over $89,000 annually as its founder. In 2009, Invisible Children spent over $742,000 on travel expenses alone. In 2010, travel expenses exceeded $1,074,000, according to the organization’s 2010…
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Criminal Injustice Criminal Injustice will be posted tonight at 6 CST. Criminal Injustice is a weekly series devoted to exploring the myths of “crime”, “criminals”, and criminal justice and the intersection of race/ethnicity/class/gender/sexuality/age/disability in policing and punishment. Follow CMP on Facebook CMP just created a facebook page. Please show some…
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California Passes First-Ever State Bill on Congo Conflict Minerals From enoughproject.org: It began with individuals, spread to campuses, was taken up by cities, and last Friday California became the very first U.S. state to take action on conflict minerals from Congo. By a vote of 67 to 11, the California…
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Crisis in the Congo: Uncovering The Truth explores the role that the United States and its allies, Rwanda and Uganda, have played in triggering the greatest humanitarian crisis at the dawn of the 21st century. (4)
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