Today Friday February, 27th, the Invisible Children East Coast roadies team will be at the JC Cinema at George Mason University (Fairfax campus) for a movie screening. Invisible Children is a non-profit based in San Diego, California that is focused on bringing awareness to the issues of IDP camps and the plight of child soldiers in Northern Uganda. IC's campaign is based around the documentary Invisible Children: Rough Cut whom was created by IC's founders, Jason, Laren and Bobby. IC spreads awareness through traveling teams called "Roadies", the team in charge ...

Joseph Kony's child soldier rebel force may be close to surrendering to the coalition of DRC, Subaneses, and Ugandan military forces according to Congolese officials. The rebel leader may also be among those 250 rebels remaining in the Garamba swamps. The rebels have been the target as a result of Operation Lighting Thunder, a military operation designed by United States miliary officials to drive the LRA out of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Kony's second and third in command are also said to be in the progress of surrending to Congolese ...

21 year old Jackline Apio, who was abducted 6 years ago, was recently rescued in an joint operation between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. She relates her experience to a IRIN news researcher. The first day of the attack I was in the camp. LRA leader Joseph Kony had told us a day earlier there were plans to bomb the camp and ordered all his commanders and other soldiers to leave immediately. At about 11am, after we had cooked, we heard the sound of approaching helicopters. Minutes later they [the ...

Please join us for the documentary Uganda Rising. Uganda Rising is an all encompassing exploration of the humanitarian issues facing Uganda unlike Invisible Children, which primarily focuses on child soldiers and night commuters. Uganda Rising goes in dept to study the issues of child soldiers, the Lord's Resistance Army, Internally Displaced Peoples camps, and the Ugandan government actions. Please join us on Wednesday, February 11th, at 7:30pm in the JC meeting room G. I must warn you that there is very graphic non censored imagery in Uganda Rising. ...

The New York Times reports that a failed attack on LRA forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo (that was planned and sponsored by the United States military) resulted in 900 civilians massacred by retreating LRA rebels. The American military helped plan and pay for a recent attack on a notorious Ugandan rebel group, but the offensive went awry, scattering fighters who carried out a wave of massacres as they fled, killing as many as 900 civilians. The unfortunately results of these tragic events only further reinforces the point that an ...

Today, Friday Feb. 6th, Uganda HELP will be maintaing a digital letter writing campaign in the Johnson Center from 10am to 2pm at Kiosk C. We will be writing to President Obama, reminding him to honor his promise to raise the human rights violations of the Lord's Resistance Army into the international spot light.  With the aid of Resolve Uganda we sent Barrack Obama this letter: Six months ago, you wrote a letter to Resolve Uganda's members about the violent attacks and abductions of children committed by the Ugandan rebel Lord's ...

The Ugandan government has declared an emergency for the Karamoja region located in northeast Uganda as severe droughts have resulted in food shortages, threatening the peoples of Karamoja with starvation. Aston Kajara, the minister of Karamoja declares: Government has recognised that Karamoja should for now be treated as an emergency area and food must [quickly] be distributed to this area to avert this problem, The UN World Food Programme and the Ugandan government launched an aid operation from Acherere, Uganda on Feb. 3rd which will aims to provide for nearly a million Ugandans ...

At today's meeting we welcomed new members into our org, Pierre and Paolo, as well as welcomed back those returning members from last semester. We discussed the following events coming up soon: Friday, Feb. 6th, 10am t0 2pm: Lettering writing at Kiosk C along with Amnesty International GMU, we will be writing to President Obama, reminding him to keep his promises regarding the human rights abuses by the LRA, as well as the northern Uganda humanitarian crisis. If you can't make it during those times, ...

This week is Volunteer week, check out the events around campus to find ways to volunteer on and around campus. We will be officially involved on Friday, where we will be manning a kiosk alongside Mason Amnesty. We will ask you and the student populace to sign this letter asking President Barrack Obama to keep his promise to raise the human rights violations committed by the Lord's Resistance Army to international focus. Amnesty will also have different letter asking to abolish ...

[caption id="attachment_40" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="First heavy snowfall at Mason."][/caption] Meeting canceled stay warm and safe! ...