Displaced Role-Playing

ifind it weird that all these kids forgetthat thousands of americans sleep in cardboardboxes every night.
imnot sayingthe ugandans arenot suffering simplythat.the USa isthat great either.still alot to work on. even human rights...

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Ummmm, I think you aren't thinking deeply enough. I'll bet these same students don't mind taking student loans from the governent who in turn provides them that money by borrowing it from China....a COMMUNIST country, a country awash with human rights violations, not to mention the furthering of our economic problems caused by this endless borrowing. I'll bet they have credit cards too....same situation there with the source of those borrowed funds. And have you been following the credit collapse in this country? Think about it...

But then they go live in a box and eat crackers for a day in a show of sympathy for the "suffering?" In my book that's hypocrisy at best and ignorance at worst. You want to help? Leave school and go volunteer in one of those countries you purport to support because it is your lifestyle (ours) that causes their displacement. Follow the money trail if you want a lesson in Truth.

um barkway??? i think you're truly missing the point. the basis of this invisible children thing is to educate people and to just help us open up our eyes to whats truly out there. i mean yes we are very lucky and hopefully we are thankful to be living in the usa, but do you expect us to sleep on dirt floors and eat one meal a day just to have the "cred" that we live the way ugandans do? as long as you realize and take into consideration these things is all i think really matters, to at least have americans stepping away from our ipod for one day is insane. the connection to the people in uganda and the rest of africa suffering may not be physical, but its a connection in that of humanities. hopefully you can open your eyes to the true beauty of us"spoiled americans" taking time to just learn something=oD

there is no data it is all about showing the the country that invisible children exsist and that people care about and it will hopefully get others involved i plan to go this april

here is a link for more imfo

www.invisiblechildren.com

And whose life specifically did it change and exactly how? Is there any empirical data?

Maybe there is hope in the spoiled iPod generation. Pull us away from our toys and we show empathy, we love our fellow being, we do something!

A lot of my friends went to the "Displace Me" event in D.C. after an Invisible Children correspondent came to my class and played some of the Invisible Children Documentary.
Really great film, the guys who went to Uganda seem really energetic and enthusiastic about the issue.

This Pod Amazes Me.
Amazes Me.
This is one of those times where i just fall in love with people, everyone working together to help other people.
I cried when i saw this.
It's really just, Amazing.

Mr. barkway

the point wasw't to truly experience a life as gruesome as those in Uganda

it was mainly to educate and aware.

dumbass.

Oh too funny; I only JUST really noticed the graphic of a frame of the video while paused. The sign in front of the crowd reads, "We go without food" under a venue banner than reads, "Cow Palace." Does no one else see the irony? Anyone? LOL!

I find it kind of laughable that a bunch of spoiled American kids think they can have some profound impact on the war, genocide, and displacement of thousands of refugees in Africa by having a quaint little pajama party outdoors for a few hours, in their designer clothes, eating name brand crackers, drinking name brand bottled water...and then waxing poetic about how they understand how the thousands of Africans suffer and die under war, genocide, and oppression. Afterwards, they dutifully cleaned up their cardboard mess, patted each other on the back for their "sacrifice," and pranced home to their cell phones, laptops, satellite HDTV, PS3's/Xbox's, cars with insurance paid for by one or both parents, probably still under Mom and Dad's roof or at least still on their dole. Years from now, they'll gather at a class reunion and reminisce about their "protest for change" and make it far more than it was (if they even remember), or tell tall tales to their children of how they "fought for change"...just like the Woodstock generation who, beyond perhaps contributing more than any other generation to the rapid spread of STD's, didn't do much more than get together for a great party, get stoned and drunk, destroyed private property, and eventually sold out to the status quo anyway (many of whom are now parents to those who are the subject of this pod).
Change means PAIN and sacrifice...REAL pain and sacrifice...not going through the motions of conditions others have to live and die in every day of their lives and then claiming to "understand their plight."
The inevitable question will be; so what is your big idea of how to effect change? This narcissistic, sheltered generation couldn't handle it for it would mean risking the loss of their freedoms and their creature comforts for the ultimate good of others. Won't happen.

oh yeah, fall out boy is all about this.

Hi there you guys really rock! As we all know media coverage in this and other issues is close to cero! You are doing your part for sure! Can wait to see more pods.
Take care

What a crazy experience.