There are moments in life when you truly feel alive. Today, May 1st 2009, I feel alive.

After days, thousdsands of miles, countless phone calls...e-mails, outbursts of anger and excitement....blood, sweat, and tears...the seemingly impossible has happened. The last city to be "RESCUED" was Chicago. The figures we had called out to lend a voice to the senseless war in Northern Uganda were: President Obama or his wife Michelle, Vice President Biden, Bono, and Oprah. The woman has spoken, and Oprah is now filming the founders of Invisible Children to be aired on her show today...

My friend Jay said it well on the live feed from the office this morning....This has nothing to do with celebrities. It has everything to do with the voice of the "small" people. And it has everything to do with the range that these voices need to travel. Northen Uganda and the Congo deserve every possible effort we can muster up. Every piece of attention of anyone who will listen. The days of indifference need to end. This pandemic of carelessness has no room inside the walls of the human heart. And somehow it's even larger than that. It's about taking care of each other....it's about looking out for each other....it's about going against every modern tendency that leads us away from each other. The technical age can divide us - or it can bring us closer. It's up to you. We have chosen to use it to unite with one voice to broadcast the strories we so rarely hear. The world really is flat...and it is now possible to have a neighbor across the seven seas. 

So watch OPRAH today. And get out of the chair. We are in this together, so please, don't sleep through the revolution.

In those days we finally chose to walk like giants and hold the world in arms grown strong with love, And there may be many things we forget in the days to come, But this will not be one of them. ----Brian Andreas