From Friends of the Congo:

Martin Scorsese Film Highlights Champions of Hope

Surviving Progress, executive produced by Martin Scorsese and co-directed by Mathieu Roy and Harold Crooks.

Friends of the Congo spokesperson, Kambale Musavuli is one of the personalities featured in the film

 Steven Rea says of the film "If there is hope to be found in Roy and Crooks' cautionary doc, it's from the passionate insights and innovative ideas presented by its interviewees, including writer Margaret Atwood, Chinese economics professor Chen Changnian, primatologist Jane Goodall, economic historian Michael Hudson, former Brazilian minister of the environment Marina Silva, biologist J. Craig Venter, and Congolese activist Kambale Musavuli. As long as there are people with great ideas, perhaps a different kind of progress can be made."

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Congolese youth such as Kambale Musavuli are working diligently outside the Congo to articulate the challenges of the Congo through film, music, radio, television, theater, social media and a host of other outlets.

Congo's challenge is both internal and external. The essence of the work of Congolese youth is to match their awareness raising outside with the organizing and mobilizing efforts inside the country.

On Saturday, June 16, a coalition of youth throughout the Congo will be mobilizing for social justice change in the spirit of the

 Congolese youth appeal for your support (video) in their pursuit of peace, justice and human dignity in the heart of Africa.

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Support the organizing of the June 16, 2012 mobilizing on the ground with a

 Congo Week, October 14 - 20, 2012. Twitter.Crisis in the Congo: Uncovering The Truth.

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Watch and share abreast of the latest updates via in the fifth anniversary of Join the global movement in support of the Congo.June 16, 1976 Soweto uprising in South Africa. Congolese youth inside and outside the country are determined to work together to extricate Congo from its years of conflict and social malaise.