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Expedition Kony
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Expedition Kony

Thought I'd post about an interesting travel opportunity that came up two weeks ago. For roughly USD$25,000 danger junkie Robert Young Pelton will take you with him on a journey to track down one of the most batshit crazy dangerous madmen to walk the Earth. Interested in tagging along?

Note: I'm not affiliated with this campaign in any way other than I own two of Pelton's books and think this would be a great opportunity for someone interested in journalism, crowd-sourcing, or traveling to dangerous, off the beaten path places.

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/expedition-kony

"Over the last two years Joseph Kony has become the most wanted man in all of Africa. Between well intentioned charitable donations and the US government tax payer funding, close to $200 million dollars have been spent since 2008. There is also a reward of $5 million offered to those who provide information leading to Kony’s arrest, Still Kony remains at large. So enough. Robert Young Pelton intends to find Kony and he wants you to help.

There are no bracelets, no posters, no videos of cute children, just a group of committed individuals with professional support that want to locate Kony and turn him in. To do that we are launching a new media venture called “Dangerous” to support this idea of finding the facts, causing direct action and doing good. "Dangerous" is a multimedia real world participatory platform for engaged people who are tired of witnessing” atrocities. A tool for moral people who are done with having their awareness raised while evil triumphs. “Dangerous" is the new community of action-oriented people who will take on the world's problems and change things for the better.

Some will be invited to join, some will help, some will support. All will be engaged. Ideally if we get our funding and the idea grows, there will be no middlemen. “Dangerous” will hire locals and volunteers to research, gather ground truth, put boots on the ground and deliver the goods. As we get closer you decide what we do next. We stay in touch 24/7 directly, electronically through traditional and social media as well as the multi dimensional magazine called “Dangerous”. It's time to make a difference. It's time to get dangerous
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Leading the trip are (the aforementioned) Robert Young Pelton and Robert Swain, two guys known for traveling to dangerous places, getting into shitacular situations and somehow coming out alive. RYP has been in conflict zones all over the world and is the author of "World's Most Dangerous Places", a series he's written for over two decades as he's worked as a journalist in hot spots across the globe.

He's willing to take the top donors to his campaign along with him on a mission deep into the lands of "Oh we're so fucked".

More info can be found here.
And here.
Even here

This is the perfect opportunity for someone to write a data sheet on South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, or the Central African Republic. If you're willing to risk life and limb, and cough up some cash.

If you are going to impose your will on the world, you must have control over what you believe.

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