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World Refugee Day
Today is World Refugee Day. The HP Alliance has focused much of it’s attention to refugees in Darfur where being raped has become a way of life for women and children. Remember every three dollars that you give when you go here will fund the protection of one Darfuri woman from being raped for an [...]
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New WIZARD ROCK THE VOTE VIDEO!
Harry and the Potters are taking Wizard Rock (and now Wizard Hop) to new levels by incorporating animation. Check out the video that our favorite Harry Potter look alike Wrock duo Joe and Paul DeGeorge put together here or just watch the video below. It’s AMAZING! And pass it around! And get involved! WROCK OUT!
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Wrockstock and the HPA in the Associated Press!
Whoah, whoah, whoah! I woke up today to get an email from a friend about this very cool article about Wizard Rock, Wrockstock, and the HPA in over 70 articles across the world. Awesome! Just a quick couple corrections to the article. When I was quoted as saying that literature can be a collective experience [...]
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Wizard Rock the Vote DOES NOT ENDORSE CANDIDATES
Just to clear up one thing: the HP Alliance and Wizard Rock the Vote are not endorsing any candidates for President of the United States. There are several candidates running for office: Senator John McCain, Senator Barack Obama, and many other third party candidates are trying to get on the ballot across the country. We [...]
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Sticking it to the Ministry
Real World Auror and huge HPA supporter John Prendergast spoke before the UN Security Council today to WAKE THEM THE FREAK UP about their disgusting complacency toward the genocide in Darfur. We as activists are working so hard to end this genocide and the UN Security Council, largely thanks to China who sits on the [...]
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The Singing Revolution
In the below post one reader commented about the Singing Revolution which you can find more about at http://www.singingrevolution.com/. It turns out that I saw the film yesterday with my girl friend Sarah and I am so humbled by this story – when you see the film, you’ll likely think of members of the Order [...]
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Young At Heart
Susan at Leaky has a wonderful essay (which I shall confess, I am still in the middle of reading) on the power of music and it’s relationship to Harry Potter. She opens the essay aptly with a quote from Dumbledore: “Ah, music, a magic beyond all we do here!” Recently me and my girl friend [...]
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Quote of the Day
We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better. -JK Rowling
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Learning From Sirius and Stan Shunpike
It looks like the US government is finally learning that it’s not cool to lock people up for YEARS without any explanation and trial. And it’s even worse, to torture them. While many of the detainees in Guantanamo Bay are guilty of crimes against the United States, we are breaking the very freedoms we claim [...]
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