people for peace - san francisco
i live in a place known for what it believes, not for what it is. the chapters in our history contain men and women who have fought for equal rights, free love, and environmental preservation. they have chained themselves to fences, lived in trees, and marched down avenues.
today, i joined their story.
if a child goes abducted or missing in the united states, the national news is called, the amber alert is issued, and all ears are perked. the police scour through fields, wade through water, and fly through storms until answers are found.
however, in africa, the story is different. the war in northern uganda has been called the most neglected humanitarian emergency in the world today. for the past 23 years, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and the government of uganda (GoU) have been waging a war that has left nearly two million innocent civilians caught in the middle. over 20,000 children have been abducted by the joseph kony’s LRA yet the world remains silent, the children remain invisible.
but not any longer. today, i symbolically abducted myself to take a stand for children who the world ignores. please take a moment and acknowledge the battle being waged and help us make these children visible once more.