The Global Night Commute (Invisible Children)

[8th1der]

Just wanted to let you guys know about an event I signed up for that should be amazing. On April 29th, thousands of people across the country will take a new approach to ending a devastating war abroad – they’ll take it lying down. Invisible Children Inc., an organization committed to ending the war in Northern Uganda where children are forced to fight as soldiers, has organized a Global Night Commute in 136 cities across the country.

On this night, thousands will commute to their cities’ designated location and sleep outside on behalf of the invisible children of Northern Uganda. This event is a plea to the U.S. government to help put an end to this horrific 20-year-long war.

“It’s a moral outrage to see thousands of children that have been abducted, that have been maltreated. They are going through the most horrendous torture by the rebel movement and that same group is now being neglected by the whole international community,” said Jan Egeland, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs. “I cannot find any other part of the world having an emergency on the scale of Uganda with so little international attention.”
The event promises a wide variety of people from celebrities and legislators to activists and authors. Actress Kristen Bell, from the hit show “Veronica Mars” heard about Invisible Children through co-star Ryan Hansen.”
If you want to learn more about the event, or see a commercial for it go to this website:

http://www.invisiblechildren.com/theMovement/globalNightCommute/

Hope at least a few of you will sign up for this amazing and important event, especially you guys around DC, that ones gonna be amazing. But they are all around the country and the world, and i'm sure there's one near you.

Thanks for reading,

Mike

[Jaranath]

Interesting idea. Spring weather in my area would make that a difficult event to pull off, though. :P

[8th1der]

where do you live?

[Jaranath]

Central Illinois, more or less. We've been hit fairly hard a few times over the past month. Of course, we haven't had the fatalities some of our neighboring states have had...

[8th1der]

well there is one in chicago, and one in springfield. not sure if either of those are near you...

[pixiedotcom]

Thanks for the info 8th. We're actually big fans of Thrice and know all about "Invisible Children". We 're seriously thinking of participating. It's definitely for a good cause.