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Darfuris speak out on indictment of Bashir
So some people are afraid that the indictment of the dictator behind the genocide in Darfur will only provoke him to kill more and so this was an unnecessary thing to do. Below the fold you’ll hear a letter from the Darfuri Leaders Network who think that it is a praiseworthy action. Before clicking and [...]
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Turns out I have a tv
I used to be a television addict but then I went to college and kind of stopped watching tv, except when visiting home…in which case I would return to my crazy tv watching habits. But slowly I just stopped watching tv altogether and watch just about everything on the Internet. My grandparents who don’t really [...]
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Why So Sirius?
We’ve got a lot of HPA projects happening right now, a lot of exciting things. I thought for a change of pace, however, I should post that I am very excited about the new Batman movie coming out.
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Burma and China
Don’t forget. China is not only funding the genocide in Darfur and causing the cultural genocide in Tibet. The military junta in Burma is completely supported by China. Unfortunately most of us are unaware of how horrible this regime is. What they’ve done to student protestors….real life Neville Longbottoms, Harry Potters, Hermione Grangers, and Ron [...]
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Power Hungry Ideology
Dear Corporate Sponsors of the Olympics, You have the power to influence China. You have the influence to let them know that their funding of the genocide in Darfur through weapons and money is not okay. They will listen to you. But you do not speak. So thanks. Thanks for nothing. Your view of humanity [...]
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Please sign this pledge for Darfur!
Jo Rowling recently said in a speech at Harvard that “those who choose not to empathise may enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy.” This doesn’t sound dissimilar to Dumbledore’s advice to choose what is right over what is easy. We [...]
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Wizard Rockumentary
At Portus I just saw a screening of The Wizard Rockumentary: a film about Rocking and Rowling. The film is genius. It’s brilliant. It’s moving. And it so beautifully captures one of the most unique and exciting movements in the history of literature and independent music. Please see this movie if you can. It makes [...]
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Another Update from Portus
So after my last post, I did go to the pool for about ten minutes. It was beautiful. Then changed to go out to dinner with Professor Henry Jenkins, his wife Cynthia, and Madeline from Fiction Alley. We had a fantastic exchange about the HP Alliance and the idea of “cultural acupuncture” (more on “cultural [...]
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Just to remind you again…
Because it’s such a BIG deal and such a big shocker to me…I mean…the HP Alliance with the help of Mugglenet and the Wizard Rock community got almost 8,000 signatures delivered to the UN Security Council to do something about war criminals in Sudan. The total number of signatures was 10,000. I am astounded at [...]
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Global Warming
Are you kidding me? The Bush administration on Friday rejected regulating greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, saying it would damage the U.S. economy and cause too many job losses. In a 588-page federal notice, the Environmental Protection Agency made no finding on whether global warming poses a threat to people’s health, reversing an earlier [...]
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