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The viral video that's changed Scots teens for good

IF you haven't heard about it, then ask your children.

Clockwise from above: Joseph Kony, the film's poster; film-makers pose with Sudanese rebels on the Congo-Sudan border while making the piece; Eastbank Academy's Gordon Shaw Main image: AP
Clockwise from above: Joseph Kony, the film's poster; film-makers pose with Sudanese rebels on the Congo-Sudan border while making the piece; Eastbank Academy's Gordon Shaw Main image: AP

Across the world, across the UK and across Scotland, teenagers are obssessively talking about a short viral internet movie called Kony 2012.

The movie and the passion young people have for it not only dismantles the myth of the disaffected hoodie, but proves teenagers are as committed as their parents – if not more so – to the principles of peace, justice and decency, and it is making political activists of them.

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