KONY 2012 is a film and campaign by Invisible Children that aims to make Joseph Kony (a Ugandan war lord known for kidnapping children for his army) famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice.

This video is getting a huge amount of hype at the moment, and rightly so.  It’s an incredibly moving and inspirational video about a grass rootscampaign that has already had huge success.

As this is an election year in the USA, there will be countless numbers of pressure groups who try to make their cause an ‘election issue’.  I doubt there will be many that top this effort.

This is one of the more moving political videos that I have ever seen.  The film uses existing documentary footage to make an incredibly emotive call for gay rights in the USA.

Gay marriage is back in the news agenda on account of the fact that, since 2006, South Carolina (who’s Republican primary election takes place this Saturday) law has explicitly stipulated that marriage must be between a man and a woman only.

Every single Republican candidate (that stands a chance of winning), including frontrunner Mitt Romney, is strongly in favour of ‘traditional family values’ and opposes significant elements of the gay rights agenda.  Rick Perry even ran a campaign TV ad openly criticising the right for gays to join the military.

The film has already had a huge amount of traction online.  It would be ironic if the Republican Party primary election was the event that sparked a new civil rights movement in the USA.

The media is awash with chatter about Wikipedia ‘going dark’ and the potential impact of the Protect IP / SOPA legislation making its way through the US legislature.

The above video is by Fight for the future tries to explain clearly and simply why they feel we should be worried.

It’s very nicely put together with some lovely animations which means that any possible perception of hyperbole or doomsaying is removed.

Fairly amusing satirical video featuring a host of Hollywood celebrities sticking it to health insurance companies.  It didn’t take long for the opposition to repost though…

Fighting fear with facts by The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.  Simple idea, brilliantly executed.

At ‘The Age of Stupid’ event I attended last week, Ed Miliband was proposing ‘clean coal’ as a significant part of the solution to climate change.  The debate around ’clean coal’ is relatively muted in the UK but it is raging in the USA;  here’s the latest spot from Reality Coalition.  It’s really well done, very funny and is effective in positioning ‘clean coal’ enthusiasts as morons.