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New Year's in Rwanda
Most of you who have listened to some of the HPA’s podcasts on Darfur are familiar with Sifa Nsengimana, who speaks about human rights in such a way that I’ve never really heard someone so inspiring on the subject. Sifa is Rwandan and in 1994 her entire extended family was killed in the Rwandan Tutsi [...]
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It's a Wonderful Life
Well it’s not Christmas, but I think New Years is also pretty relevant for one of the best movies ever. Get your tissues ready: People from everywhere joining together to stand up for a person and a cause they believe in, in celebration. Harry Potter has it’s share of scenes like this as well. Even [...]
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Is reading not on the decline?
The HP Alliance is committed to literacy. After all, we are named after a book. And awesome!, according to this reading is not on the decline as many of us think: “We read much more now than we did in the ’50s. In 1957, 17 percent of people surveyed in a Gallup poll said they [...]
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Praying for Peace
Sadly these days we are seeing the amazing short sighted knee jerk reactions of collective egos or Muggle Mindsets, waging war in Israel and Palestine. The conflict there is normally tense and full of pain and loss but now it has become full fledged insanity. . And it saddens me so very much that this [...]
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Life On Hold
Summary of post: “I’d like to gather 100 people in Central Park to all get out their cell phones and call the same company that puts us on hold and plays that stupid music over and over again. And then we all put our cell phones on speaker and just dance and dance to the [...]
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Hope for Darfur
Nicholas Kristoff writes a NY Times piece which gives tangible things that the US can do to help the situation in Darfur, get the Sudanese government to hand over President Bashir, and to prevent a horrific war between the north and south of Sudan. Interestingly he mentions in the article that China is supporting Bashir’s [...]
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Story Mashup
I think this person’s idea was quite brilliant. They’ve gone into a great story and they’ve taken out a great speech about the power of stories with a montage of great moments in stories. Modern myths actually. You can view the video here. Please share any thoughts on this video and how we could encourage [...]
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Darius Goes West
One of our chapter organizers just let me know of the following movie about a courageous young man living with Muscular Dystrophy. The story sounds so inspiring and so far it’s raised 1.5 million dollars for research. Please check it out and join the facebook group here.
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Christmas and Hannukah and Festivus…oh my!
Okay, so the last two posts were about all of the many holidays happening right now and how everyone’s experiences are different in this time. So how were/are your holidays?
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And a Happy Festivus..for the rest of us
Commenter Ruth in the below entry reminded me that I forgot to mention one of my favorite holidays: Festivus. This is my first Christmas not in Minnesota with my former girl friend’s wonderful family watching that glorious Seinfeld episode that has brought light to us all. Thank you Ruth for reminding me! And a Happy [...]
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