Angalee Nadesaligam<\/p>\n
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Kony. Invisible Children. Cover the Night. Am I stirring up some memories from the distant past? A vague recollection of a video you saw somewhere?<\/p>\n
Maybe you remember that wildly successful Facebook campaign that you \u201clike\u201d-ed.<\/p>\n
And even though you thought it\u2019d be cool to go \u201cCover the Night\u201d and spend the night roaming around the city, you didn\u2019t go. For whatever reason, you didn\u2019t do it. Maybe because of 4\/20. Maybe your Physics ISU was due the next day. Maybe you just forgot.<\/p>\n
But I went, and here\u2019s my story:<\/p>\n
It was April 20th<\/sup>. It was a Friday. There was a light breeze tickling the budding leaves. The bell rang, and I went home passing away the hours: Tumbling, Finally it was 10 o\u2019clock, and my cousin picked me up to drop me off As my cousin drove me down to the hospital, I called my dad. I asked As we kept walking, I caught a slight whiff of weed. It was less When we finally reached Dundas Square the most surprising thing was But, as it turns out, it was none of the above. From what I could My highlight for that night was meeting As my cousin and I continued to walk around the block, we wondered if more people would have come if the organizers made the event earlier.\u00a0 But it soon Maybe the execution of the project wasn\u2019t great. Maybe Joseph Kony is already beyond our reach. Maybe we haven\u2019t been able to save the Ugandan child soldiers. But, maybe it\u2019s time we tried to change that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Angalee Nadesaligam Kony. Invisible Children. Cover the Night. Am I stirring up some memories from the distant past? A vague recollection of a video you saw somewhere? Maybe you remember that wildly successful Facebook campaign that you \u201clike\u201d-ed. And … Continue reading
\nThe sun was shining bright. What I\u2019m trying to say is that it was the perfect
\nday to skip. But, I went to class, trying to be a good student. I trudged into
\nafternoon class, even less excited than usual. I slowly slid into my desk, and
\nresigned myself to thinking about going to the Kony event that night.<\/p>\n
\nunsuccessfully willing myself to do my homework, and generally doing nothing.<\/p>\n
\nat my dad\u2019s office. Yes, my dad was still at work. When your parents are
\nscientists, work hours aren\u2019t normal. Experiments go well into the wee hours of
\nthe morning. Discoveries are made on the weekends. Sleep is entirely optional
\nwhen an abstract is due.<\/p>\n
\nhim if I could go to \u201cCover the Night\u201d with my cousin instead, and he said
\nsure. And so we parked the car and walked to Yonge\/Dundas. As we crossed the
\nstreet a car zoomed through the red light, missing us by less than a foot. We
\nwere both shocked, but joked about it as we kept walking. \u201cI guess being drunk
\nand high, makes you a bad driver!\u201d I noted.<\/p>\n
\nthan what I\u2019d expected, and I was surprised, for the second time that night.<\/p>\n
\nthe lack of people. I\u2019d expected a massive, surging, pulsing crowd. Instead, I
\nsaw some stragglers wondering around with a handful of posters. My first thought
\nwas: Is this the wrong place? Am I too late? Too early?<\/p>\n
\nsee, there were about 100-200 people who had come. Most of them were wearing
\nsome kind of red (the colour for the campaign).
\nA number of police and security officers were standing nearby. But there
\nwas really no need; no one was armed with anything more than an umbrella
\nagainst the pending rain.<\/p>\n
\nsome wonderful students from Sheridan College. They were really excited about
\nthe cause, and were upbeat about spending the night raising awareness. I was
\nsimply amazed when they told me they had designed their own original shirts and
\nposters. The t-shirts were a brilliant combination between the Anti-Kony symbol
\nand the Superman logo. Their enthusiasm was contagious, and when I asked them
\nif they were disappointed by the lack of people at the event, they countered by
\nsaying, \u201cthis just separates those people who really want to take action from people
\nwho just consider it another fad\u201d.<\/p>\n
\nbegan to rain, and we decided it was time to go home. But, I knew for a couple
\nhundred people, a light drizzle wasn\u2019t anything in the face of bringing down a
\nwarlord.<\/p>\n