Monthly Archives: April 2009

Commemorating the Armenian Genocide

April 24 marks the 94th anniversary of the start of the Armenian Genocide in what was the first state-planned genocide of the 20th Century. Today, the survivors, families and supporters are coming together to honor the 1.5 million of Armenian lives lost. Thousands marched in silence to the Armenian Museum-Institute in Yerevan, Armenia, while in [...]

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US arrests probable killer from Rwandan genocide

While acknowledging “innocent until proven guilty” I just wanted to report that the United States just indicted an 82 year old man in Kansas for being a leader of the killings in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Catching former perpetrators of genocide or genocidaires sounds like the work of a Department of Aurors. At this moment [...]

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Noe Thursday

John Noe of Pottercast fame just hosted “Noe Thursday” which for you East Coasters took place on ustream at around 3 am. But John is in California and had me on as a guest where he made a little video supporting Noe Thursday and his dream of a Chipotle Alliance that will raise him enough [...]

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Earth Day

I write this blog post on April 22 at 11:58 pm – there is exactly two minutes, I repeat two minutes left for Earth Day. So I’m not too late in mentioning it on this blog! However, because I am in Hawaii (where I can literally taste the International Date Line it’s that close) I [...]

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Free Political Prisoner In Iran

As Harry Potter fans and in the name of Sirius Black, we obviously stand up for all those imprisoned unfairly and join JK Rowling’s former employer Amnesty International in asking that Iran free 31 year old US reporter Roxana Saberi.

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The HPA is taking over the social networking world!

Were you at the DA meeting last night?  Wanna get more involved?  Did you miss it and want to find other ways to get more involved? Facebook You may already know about our Facebook group.  But did you know that the HP Alliance has a user profile as well?  Harry Potter-Alliance has a staus bar [...]

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Announcing the new HPA Book Club!

The Harry Potter Alliance is proud to announce our new HPA Book Club!  We understand that you may have questions so below is a FAQ. Why start a book club? The HPA was founded on the inspiration of a certain book series.  One of our main challenges has been how to support the spread of [...]

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Holocaust Remembrance Day Part II

To follow up on Michelle’s beautiful post below, here are the last few minutes of Schindler’s List. I have so much to say on this. I saw this movie in eighth grade with my mom. When I saw it, almost a million people in Rwanda that were living regular lives were about to be slaughtered [...]

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Holocaust Remembrance Day

This was posted by Michelle in our Common Room. It is incredibly moving about today’s Remembrance of the Holocaust which is also part of Genocide Prevention Month: Approximately seventy years ago, six million Jews were brutally murdered. Six million human beings tossed into death camps where they would meet their fate. Before they were killed, [...]

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Live DA Meeting Tues 8 pm!

Come for the HP Alliance Live DA meeting on ustream at 8 pm Tuesday night to celebrate the end of Accio Books! While we will be celebrating Ravenclaw’s success, we will truly be celebrating everyone! We will be celebrating the power of the Harry Potter community and how when we came together we raised and [...]

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