Hiçbir şey zamanı gelmiş...
bir fikirden daha önemli değildir.
Şu anda Facebook'da 200 yıl önceki dünya nüfusundan daha çok insan var.
İnsanlığın en büyük tutkusu ait olmak ve bağlanmaktır.
Ve şimdi birbirimizi görüyoruz, birbirimizi duyuyoruz.
"Dede, seni seviyorum!"
"Seni seviyorum!"
"Neden.... neden fotoğraf çekmiyor?"
Sevdiğimiz şeyleri paylaşıyoruz, ve bu bize hepimizin ortak değerleri olduğunu hatırlatıyor.
"7 buçuk gün sonra canlı ve sağlıklı bir biçimde çıkarıldı..."
"Kendinize güveniyorsanız bisiklet sürmeyi öğrenirsiniz! İzleyin ve öğrenin!"
"Teknik olarak cihazınız açık durumda. Onaylayabilir misiniz?"
"Oh! Çok heyecanlı!"
Ve bu bağlantı düntanın çalışmasını değiştiriyor.
Devletler buna yetişmeye çalışıyor.
Şimdi özgürlüğü deneyebiliyoruz.
Ve geçmiş nesiller kaygılı.
"Çoğu insan yarından kaygılı. Seneye durumlar kötüleşebilir."
Oyunun yeni kuralları var.
Önümüzdeki 27 dakika bir deney.
Ama işe yaraması için dikkatinizi vermeniz gerekiyor.
"Onu duyabiliyorum!"
Dünyadaki her hayat böyle başladı.
Nerede ve ne zaman doğacağını kendisi seçmedi.
Ama o burada, ve bu yüzden önemi var.
"Evet! Seni bekliyorduk! Başardın!"
Benim adım Jason Russell ve bu da oğlum, Gavin.
Trambolinde zıplamayı, ninja olmayı ve dans etmeyi seviyor.
"Ne yapıyorsun?"
"Kar meleği!"
"Nasıl yapıyorsun bunu?"
"Böyle!"
Ve tıpkı babası gibi, filmlerde oynamayı seviyor.
"Motor!"
"Dikkat! Dikkat edin! Koţun! Bir bomba!"
Ve film yapmayı da seviyor.
"Baba bak!"
"Sanırım vidyoyu çektik."
Ama o çok karışık bir dünyada doğdu.
Bir baba olarak onun benden daha iyi bir dünyada büyümesini istiyorum.
Ve hayatımdaki olaylar zinciri sayesinde oraya ulaşmak için bir yol görüyorum.
Bu benim mesleğim oldu.
Siz bir savaşı bitirmek için kimsiniz ki?
Ben burada size aslında kim olduğunuzu söylemek için varım.
"Hey Gavin, nasılsın?"
Gavin doğmadan yıllar önce, hayatım başka bir çocuk tarafından değişmişti.
"Buradaki kim?"
"Jacob."
"Jacob kim?"
"Jacob bizim Afrika'daki arkadaşımız."
Ben Jacob'la arkadaş olalı 10 yıl kadar oluyor.
"Sorun yok, onlar iyi. Onlar köpekbalığı değil."
Ama ben ve arkadaşlarım Güney Afrika'da Uganda'da onla tanıştığımız zaman olay çok değişik koşullar içindeydi.
O hayatı için kaçıyordu.
"Burada okula gidiyorsun..."
"Evet."
"Bu yüzden mi İngilizcen iyi?"
"Biliyorum."
"Burada kaç gece kaldınız?"
"Merhaba."
"Bizim işimizi çok zorlaştırıyorsunuz."
"Onu şimdi kesin."
Onunla tanıştığım ilk gece, bana Kuzey Uganda'da kendilerinin neler yaptığını anlattı.
"İsyancıların bizi bulup öldürmesinden korkuyoruz."
"Ağabeyim kaçmaya çalıştı ve onu bir Panga'yla öldürdüler."
"Boynunu kestiler."
"Bunu gördün mü?"
"Gördüm."
"Evimizde oturduğumuz için bizi gelip kaçırmalarından korkuyoruz."
"Çünkü bizim evimiz şehirden çok uzakta."
"Bizi yakalıyorlar ve çalılara götürüyorlar..."
"Buraya hayatımızı kurtarmaya geldik."
"Buna inanamıyorum."
"İnanamıyor musun?"
"Bu burada yıllardır devam mı ediyor?"
"Bu ABD'de bir gece olsa Newsweek'in manşetlerinde olurdu."
"Büyüyünce ne olmak istiyorsun?"
"Bir avukat olmak isterdim ama okul masraflarını karşılayamıyorum."
"Sonra yeterli kadar öğrenip bir avukat olmak..."
"Hmm."
"Evet."
"Jacob'la birkaç hafta geçirdikten sonra bana hayatım boyunca unutamayacağım bir şey söyledi."
"Eğer bizi öldürecekseniz öldürün...
...çünkü biz artık burada kalmak istemiyoruz."
"Dünyada yaşamak istemiyor musunuz?"
"Biz sadece iki kişiyiz, kimse bize bakmıyor."
"Aynı zamanda okula da gitmiyoruz, o yüzden..."
"Dünyadan kalmaktansa ölmeyi yeğler misin?"
"Evet."
"Şimdi, şimdi bile mi?"
"Evet, şu anda bile."
Geleceğimize nasıl tutunacağız?
Bana ağabeyi hakkında daha çok şeyler anlattı, ve yaşasaydı neler söyleceğinden bahsetti.
"Seni seviyorum, fakat artık seni özlüyorum."
"Ve buluşmamız daha iyi olur."
"Burada buluşamayacağız ama belki cenette..."
"Görüyor musun?"
"Böyle daha iyi."
Fazla konuşmayacağım.
Bir şey başlatacağım.
"Çünkü kardeşimi bir daha görseydim..."
"Hmm?"
"Tamam."
"Jacob, geçti."
Kalbim bana bir şey yapmamı söyledi.
Ben de ona bir söz verdim.
"Biz aynı zamanda onları durdurmak için elimizden gelen her şeyi yapacağız."
"Dediğimi duydun mu?"
"Evet."
"Dediğimi anladın mı?"
"Evet."
"Hmm?"
"Evet."
"Biz. Biz onları durduracağız."
"Onları biz durduracağız."
Jacob'a o sözü verirken anlamını bilmiyordum, fakat şimdi biliyorum.
Geçtiğimiz dokuz yılda, sözümü tutmak için savaştım.
Ve bu savaş beni buraya getirdi.
Şu an izlediğiniz filme getirdi.
Çünkü verdiğim söz sadece Jacob ve benimle ilgili değil.
Aynı zamanda sizinle ilgili.
Bu bu yıl, 2012, sözümüzü sonunda yerine getirebileceğimiz yıl.
And if we succeed, we change the course of human history
But time is running out.
To level with you, this movie expires on December 31, 2012
And its only purpose is to stop the rebel group, the LRA
And their leader, Joseph Kony
And I'm about to tell you exactly how we're going to do it.
So the thing is that my son Gavin has never
I've never really explained to him what I do
He knows I work in Africa
But he doesn't know what the war's about
Or who Joseph Kony is
And I'm gonna explain it to him for the first time today
That's what we're going
So, Gav, are you ready?
Yeah
I'm gonna ask you some questions
Okay
And you can just look at me and answer the questions
I'm kinda nervous
What do I do for a job?
Ah! You stop the bad guys from being mean
Who are the bad guys?
Um
Do you know
Star Wars people
Star Wars people? Those are the bad guys?
Yeah
Can I tell you the bad guy's name?
Yeah
This is the guy, Joseph Kony
He's the bad guy?
Yeah
Who is this?
Jacob
Joseph Kony, he has an army, okay?
And what he does is he takes children from their parents
And he gives them a gun to shoot
And he makes them shoot and kill other people.
But they're not gonna do what he says because they're nice guys, right?
Yeah they don't want to do what he says
But he forces them to do bad things
What do you think about that?
It's sad
I couldn't explain to Gavin the details of what Joseph Kony really does
Because the truth is, Kony abducts kids just like Gavin.
For 26 years, Kony has been kidnapping children into his rebel group, the LRA
Turning the girls into sex slaves
And the boys into child soldiers
He makes them mutilate people's faces
And he forces them to kill their own parents
And this is not just a few children
It's been over 30,000 of them
And Jacob was one of those children
As if Kony's crimes aren't bad enough
He's not fighting for any cause, but only to maintain his power
He is not supported by anyone
And he has repeatedly used peace talks to rearm and murder again and again
Kony, different times, proposed peace and then just regain strength and attack
This is the head prosecutor for the International Criminal Court
In 2002 when the court was started, their job was
To find and demand the arrest of the world's worst criminals
Although there are a lot of war lords, murderers, and dictators in the world
The perversity of Kony's crimes made him first on the court's list
Kony's the first guy indicted by the ICC
The crimes are basically crimes against humanity
And war crimes committed against the civillian population
Including murder, sexual slavery, rapes, abductions
We need to plan how to arrest Kony
Start to plan
And it has to be serious
In fact, the only way to stop Kony is to show him
Hey, we're going to arrest you
What do you think we should do about it?
You should stop him
The criminal here is Kony.
Stop him and then solve all the problems
We should stop who?
Him.
It's obvious that Kony should be stopped
The problem is 99% of the planet doesn't know who he is
If they knew, Kony would have been stopped long ago
Let the world, let the international community
Take justice to him there
Follow him wherever he is
First to rescue our children
And secondly, to deliver the justice
We are determined to cooperate with any friend of Uganda
To ensure that this mindless killing and slaughter is ended
When my friends and I came home from Uganda
We thought that if the government knew, they would do something to stop him
But everyone in Washington we talked to said
There is no way the United States will ever get involved
In a conflict where our national security or financial interests aren't at stake
No administration, republican, democrat, Obama, Bush, Clinton, doesn't matter
Would do enough because it's simply not an important enough issue
On the radar screen of American Foreign Policy
Since the government said it was impossible
We didn't know what else to do
But tell everyone we could about Jacob and the Invisible Children
We're going to show this movie to as many people as possible
In such a way that we can't be ignored
And when we did, people were shocked
And their awareness turned into action
We started something
A community
I have friends that have been living in this conflict their entire life
Fight for that, because that is what is going to change this world
And that is what defines us
We got creative and we got loud
It's not over! It's not over! It's not over!
And as the LRA began to move into other countries
Jacob and other Ugandans came to the US
To speak on behalf of all people suffering because of Kony
Even though Uganda was relatively safe
They felt compelled to tell the world that Kony was still out there
And had to be stopped
I'm here so proud advocating for the people who are back at home
And this change we are going to make is going to last forever
We built a community around the idea that where you live
Shouldn't determine whether you live
We were committed to stop Kony and rebuild what he had destroyed
And because we couldn't wait for and institutions or governments to step in
We did it ourselves
With our time, talent, and money
So we rebuilt schools
The best you can offer a child is by letting them be independent
And that was providing education
We created jobs
I have seen the lives of those who have been hopeless
Now they have hope
And we built and early warning radio network on the front line of the war
To protect villages from rebel attacks
So you update real-time what's happening in a war zone 8,000 miles away
All of this was funded by an army of young people
Who put their money toward their belief in the value of all human life
They gave a few dollars a month of what little they had
To a program called Tri
And proved that a bunch of littles could make a big difference
And as a result the unseen became visible
We've seen these kids
We've heard their cries
This war must end
We will not stop
We will not fear
We will fight war
Deliver your voice
I've talked to people from Mexico, from Canada
From every other state that I can think of
We're all doing this for the exact same reason
And we're all coming from completely different places
This is what the world should be like
So with hundreds of thousands of people with us
We went back to Washington DC and we met with Congressmen and Senators
One by one
On both sides, republicans, democrats, and they all agreed with us
Joseph Kony's crimes had to be stopped
Of all the problems that are out there, none is more severe than one that
Mutilates the lives of little kids
These young members of the Invisible Children organization
Know that no child should live in fear of being abducted or killed
So they were determined to become their voice
They realized that these African children and families
Were invisible to Washington policy makers
So they decided to make them visible
And what I was told would never happen
Suddenly became possible
In furtherance of the Congress' stated policy, I have authorized
A small number of US forces to deploy to Central Africa
To provide assistance to regional forces that are working toward
The removal of Joseph Kony from the battlefield
Sincerely, Barack Obama
The surprise announcement came in a letter from the White House
The US president's decision commits US troops to help
Through advice and assistance
Not putting Americans into combat, to help the countries of the region
End this threat once and for all
And that was a worthwhile investment
We used to think that we could not do it
And now when I see we can do it I am overwhelmed
After 8 years of work, the government finally heard us
And in October of 2011, 100 American advisors were sent into Central Africa
To assist the Ugandan army in arresting Kony and stopping the LRA
It was the first time in history that the United States took that kind of action
Because the people demanded it
Not for self defense, but because it was right
We have come some far
But Kony is still out there
He recently changed his tactics
Making it more difficult to capture him
And international support could be removed at anytime
If we take the pressure off
If we are not successful
He is going to be growing his numbers
People forget and you got remind them
And take numbers to remind them
And if interest wanes, then
It will just, it will go away
And I'd end up standing out there alone
Trying to do something to
Support completing the mission
It got be 2012
It is not bad for the youth
It is bad for the world if we fail
It is not important just for Ugandan people
It is important for everyone
It is hard to look back at some parts of human history
Because when we heard about injustice
We cared
But we didnât know what to do
Too often
We did nothing
But it we going to change that
We have to start somewhere
So we starting here
With Joseph Kony
Because now, we know what to do
Here it is
Ready?
In order for Kony to be arrested this year
The Ugandan military has to find him
In order to find him
They need the technology and training to track him in the vast jungle
That where the Americans advisors come in
But it order for the Americans advisors to be there
The US government has to deploy them
They have done that
But it the government doesn't believe the people care about arresting Kony
The mission will be cancelled
In order for the people they care, they have to know.
This is the dream
Kony arrested for all the world to see
And for the abducted children returned home
Here is the biggest problem
Want to know what it is?
Yeah
Nobody knows who he is
But I know who he is
Because I see him on this picture right now
He is not famous
He is invisible, joseph Kony is invisible
Here is how we going to make him visible
We are going to make joseph Kony a household name
Not to celebrate him
But to bring his crime to the light
And we are starting this year
We are targeting 20 culture makers and 12 policy makers
To use their power for good
Let's start with the 20 culture makers
Celebrities, athletes, and billionaires Have a loud voice
And what they talk about spreads instantly
I want. I'd like indicted war criminals to enjoy the same level of celebrity as me
That seems fair
That is our objective. Is to just shine a light on it
If our goal is to get Kony's name known
The know should join us
We are targeting twenty of the most divers and influential culture makers
To speak out about Kony
And make him famous
Then we are going after policy makers
The one that has the authority to see Kony captured
They decides if the advisors stay or leave
So we need to remind them that in this election year
The fighting and the name calling is
No matter what side that you are on
This is something that we could all agree on
If the senators and the congressmen twenty five phone calls
On any issue
On any given day
It is noted
When citizens by the hundreds of thousands start demanding that our government do something
Suddenly it becomes in the national interest of the United States government to respond to this problem
We have identified the twelve policy makers
That could change the game regarding Kony
So we targeting them
On our website we have made it easy to write them directly
Call them
Meet with them
And get their attention
If my son were kidnapped and forced to kill
It would be all over the news
So we are making Kony world news
By redefining the propaganda we see all day, everyday
That dictates who and what we pay attention to
a lot of people feel powerless to communicate their ideas
they think that ok you know i'm not a corporation
I don't own my own magazine or news station
I just don't have any say
but seeing what I've done
I think it's empowered a lot of people to realize that one individual
can make an impact
and I actually want to demystify
and say here are these really simple tools :
go out and rock it.
And that's just what we intend to do.
our goal is to change the conversation of our culture
and get people to ask who is Joseph Kony
We've printed hundreds of thousands of posters , stickers, yard signs
and fliers
that are , right now ,
today,
being put up in major cities around the world.
We have thousands of Kony 2012 bracelets
that we want everyone to wear
this year only.
Each bracelet has a unique ID number
Input that number and you enter the mission to make Kony famous
You can geo-tag your posters and track your impact in real time
Everything you need is in a box called the Action Kit
It has 2 bracelets, one for you and one to give away
And if you want to help fund our life saving programs
donate a few dollars a month through "Tri"
And you can have the action kit for free
Start making Kony famous today
But all of these efforts will culminate in one day
April 20th
when we cover the night
This is the day when we will meet at sundown
and blink it in every street
in every city
till the sun comes up
we will be smart and we will be thorough
The rest of the world will go to bed friday night
and wake up to hundreds of thousands of posters
demanding justice on every corner
It's always been that the decisions made by the few
with the money and the power ,
dictated by the priorities of their government and the stories in the media
they determinate the lives and opportunities of their citizens
but now there's something bigger than that
the people of the world see each other
and can protect each other
it's turning the system upside down
and it changes everything
we are living in a new world , Facebook world
in which 750 million people share ideas ,
not thinking in borders
it's a global community bigger than the U.S.
Joseph Kony was committing crimes for 20 years
and no one cared
we care
we have reached a crucial time in history
where what we do or don't do
will affect every generation to come
arresting joseph Kony will prove
that the world we live in has new rules
that the technology that has brought our planet together
is allowing us to respond to the problems of our friends
When it ends finally by bringing Joseph Kony to justice
it should be celebrated worldwide
We are not just studying human history
At the end of my life
I want to say that the world we have left behind
is one that Gavin can be proud of
a place that doesn't allow Joseph Konys or child soldiers
A place for children
have a child hood
free from fear
I'm gonna be like you dad
when you grow up?
Yeah
I'm gonna come with you to Africa
The better world we want is coming
It's just waiting for us
to stop at nothing.
Nothing is more powerful than an idea
whose time has come
now
There are 3 things you can do right now
1. sign the pledge to show your support
2. get the bracelet and action kit
3. sign up for Tri to donate a few dollars a month
and join our army for peace
Above all , share this movie online
It's free
Find it all at
KONY2012.com