Category Archives: Our Soap Boxes
KONY 2012
From the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company), a video interview with Charles Okwir, who escaped from Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army.
From NPR’s On the Media, “What To Make of Kony 2012,” an interview with New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof.
From NPR’s On the Media, “The Kony that Ugandans Know,” an interview with Musa Okwonga, a writer and musician of Ugandan descent who wrote about the Kony 2012 phenomena for the British newspaper The Independent.
From New York Public Radio’s The Brian Lehrer Show, “Kony 2012’s Ripple Effect,” an interview with Millton Allimadi, publisher of Black Star News, and Rosebell Kagumire, Ugandan journalist and editor at ch16.org.
DIRT! The Movie—Official Trailer
End Malaria
Advent Conspiracy 2011
Was your Halloween candy made by child slave labor?
GiftCardGiver.com: Card Me. The Story.
Card Me. The Story. from Gift Card Giver on Vimeo.
Dark Girls—Official Trailer
Dark Girls: Preview from Bradinn French on Vimeo.
Book for Book by Better World Books
The Cove: The Secret Is Out. Spread the Word.
Yesterday I finally forced myself to watch The Cove. It’s a difficult film to watch, but one that I feel is important to see nonetheless. I urge you to see the film yourself, and then to tell everyone you know to see it, too. If we educate ourselves and then pass on that knowledge to others, perhaps we can put an end to this senseless slaughter before dolphin hunting season begins again on September 1.