This presentation is from a student in the online class, "Acting Up - Using Theater & Social Change," Spring 2012, from DePaul’s School for New Learning. Tom Tresser, instructor, tom@tresser.com.

1. Creative Social Change with…

2. Invisible Children is a 501(c)(3) organization
based in San Diego, CA and in Uganda, Africa.
Dedicated to stopping war
violence and assisting
those in war-afflicted
communities throughout
Central and East Africa.
INTENTIONS:
(1) Make the world aware of the LRA. This includes making
documentary films and touring them around the world so that
they are seen for free by millions of people.
(2) Channel energy from viewers of IC films into large-scale
advocacy campaigns to stop the LRA and protect civilians.
(3) Operate programs on the ground in LRA-affected areas that
focus on protecting communities, supporting LRA victims and
post-conflict reconstruction.

3. Past Campaigns…

5. W AT C H TH E

6. Lords Resistance Army, or LRA : an extremely
powerful and violent rebel army group known for
their tactics of rape, killing civilians,
mutilation, cannibalism, and abducting children
to become LRA soldiers and wives.
Their
leader
is
Joseph
Kony.

7. Over the last 26 years…
 66,000 youth abducted by the LRA
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 440,000 people displaced in DRC, CAR, & South Sudan
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2.1 million displaced in Uganda

8. CREATING CHANGE
“Invisible Children uses film, creativity and social
action to end the use of child soldiers in Joseph Kony's
rebel war and restore LRA-affected communities in
East and Central Africa to peace and prosperity”
(InvisibleChildren.com).

9. TARGETING YOUTH
“Admittedly, KONY 2012 was geared
towards young, western audiences in
an effort to raise awareness of what
began in Uganda, but is currently
taking place in DR Congo, Central
African Republic, and South Sudan.” -
InvisibleChildren.com
Young. Fresh. Music. Art. Pop Culture.
“Whatever worries some harbored
over Invisible Children’s methods,
there was no denying its influence.
By 2008, the campaign had made
the LRA and Kony the No. 1 foreign
issue for American students, on a
par with the antiapartheid
campaign for an earlier generation.”
- Time Magazine

10. Video. Film. Documentaries.
[The film] has an extremely clear theory of change. It lays out the steps needed,
and adds some key power elements like celebrity endorsement through multiple
social media channels. It's also a great study on some powerful storytelling
techniques: it's human-centered, has a clear audience in the role of the hero, offers
a simple take-away and is emotionally driven.” - Free Range

11. Utilizing technology.
Defection
Fliers
FM Radio
Messaging
Early Warning HF
Radio Network
Read more here.

12. S
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C E
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15. Creativity + Innovation = Social Change

16. Aside from the largest rehabilitation facility in Uganda,
they have also established scholarship programs for
children coming out of the war, newly built secondary
schools, teacher training programs, adult literacy
training programs, clean water systems, loan
organizations, job training programs for women, and
overall sustainable economic growth methods to help
the surrounding countries.

17. WE. CAN’T. STOP.