{"id":9019,"date":"2011-11-04T14:04:26","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T18:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=9019"},"modified":"2011-11-04T14:14:09","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T18:14:09","slug":"students-react-and-give-to-invisible-children-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/11\/04\/students-react-and-give-to-invisible-children-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"Students react and give to &#8220;Invisible Children&#8221; cause"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8653\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-8653\" href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/10\/24\/bringing-aid-to-the-invisible-children-of-uganda\/invisible-children-movie\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8653\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8653\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2011\/10\/invisible-children-movie-260x173.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of four child soldiers in Uganda.\" width=\"260\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8653\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 2003, the tragic stories of these child soldiers were brought to the forefront by three young American filmmakers. Their documentary, Invisible Children: Rough Cut, began a conversation about the situation in Uganda that has grown into a youth-driven political movement. On October 25, that movement is coming to Wright State University.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The six largest student organizations at Wright State University  collaborated in organizing the biggest Invisible Children event in   university history.<\/p>\n<p>Student Government, the University Activities Board,  the Greek Affairs Council, the Black Student Union, Rainbow Alliance,  and the Residential Community Association collected over $1800 for  Invisible Children, a non-profit organization seeking to end the longest  running war in African history throughout Uganda and the northern  Congo.<\/p>\n<p>An October 25 showing of the organization&#8217;s latest film The  Rescue and presentation by Invisible Children to over 300 students, in  addition to a month-long fund-raising drive, raised the donation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The six largest student organizations at Wright State University collaborated in organizing the biggest Invisible Children event in university history. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/11\/04\/students-react-and-give-to-invisible-children-cause\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":8653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[729,725,715,719],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-campus","category-home-news-sidebar","category-news","category-special-categories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9019"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9028,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9019\/revisions\/9028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}