In Response to Chris

Would you shop locally in Keene? Do you already?

Buying locally is so important to boosting the local economy. Keene offers so many great locally owned businesses especially in the down town area. I try to buy locally as often as possible, especially since Keene State is so close to a lot of the stores. I prefer to go to the small coffee shops and restaurants because there is better quality. The people who work and own those shops truly care about the products they are selling. The big chain stores do not have the same passion and dedication to pleasing their customers. Although the prices can be higher than the chain stores, I would rather give my money to the small businesses that need it more. Many of the Keene State students go to the chain stores because of their low prices. How can we get more college students to go to the small locally owned businesses? 

Kony 2012

The internet has a power of being able to spread an idea or mission across the world in such a short amount of time. Kony 2012 is a campaign by Invisible Children to raise awareness of the child enslavement that is happening in Uganda. Joseph Kony is the head of the Lord’s Resistance Army and is the one who is enslaving the children. The goal is to capture him and return all the victim children home.

The campaign created a video about the horrible crimes and it has stretched across the internet via youtube, with over 86 million views, Twitter, and Facebook. It is hard to find someone who hasn’t heard about this campaign but prior to the video, very few people knew exactly what was going on. It is amazing how social media sites are capable of spreading such awareness to so many people. People across the world are becoming a part of the campaign and doing what they can in order to stop this terrible crime.

With the amount of people around the world that are members of these social media sites, do you think that this crime can be ended quicker than it would be without the video being spread across the internet? How else can people get involved in this campaign?