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Monthly Archives: April 2009
LeakyCon Programming is Out!
The long awaited list of programming for LeakyCon this Memorial Day weekend is finally at hand! I know I have been waiting anxiously for this list to finally be made public. Not surprisingly, the Harry Potter Alliance makes up a goodly amount of the programming for the long weekend. To see the list of programming, [...]
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The Difference Between Marrying a Pure-blood and a Muggle-born
Sometimes I wonder how Andromeda Black felt when she fell in love with Ted Tonks. Coming from a family of pure-bloods, I’m sure she knew what was coming when she and Ted decided to get married. I imagine the differences in the Andromeda/Ted and Narcissa/Lucius weddings. The latter one was probably fancy, with lots of [...]
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HPA in Huffington Post!
Just as Dumbledore and Harry broke the world’s silence around Voldemort’s return, the HP Alliance is breaking the world’s silence around some of our world’s most pressing issues at rapid speed! Today my article, A New Hope To End Genocide was published in the Huffington Post. Not only is it full of references to Harry [...]
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Day of Silence
Tomorrow April 17th, marks the 13th annual Day of Silence, a day that calls attention to the discrimination faced by LGBT people. The Day of Silence asks us to silently protest against this intolerance, an intolerance similar to that faced by Remus Lupin, Hagrid, and muggle-borns in the Harry Potter Universe. You can find out [...]
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Abducted
This was posted to the ning by Angelia Simeti and I thought it should be shared with everyone here too: ‘So I Just read and article about and signed up for Invisible Children. And I was honestly floored, I had no clue that any of this was even happening. Sure, I had a slight idea [...]
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Today is April 9
Fifteen years ago. April 9, 1994. The killing in Rwanda had started at a rapid pace. 1000 highly armed and trained European troops arrive into Rwanda. But not to protect any one but white European civilian personnel to escort them out of the country. No troops stayed to assist UN peace keepers. No troops stayed [...]
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Between Yesterday and Half-Blood Prince
Yesterday was April 7, 2009 the 15 year anniversary of the Rwandan genocide that killed some where between 800,000 and 1,000,000 people in 100 days. 100 days is precisely how long it is until the film Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince comes out on July 17. That is the fifteen year anniversary of the [...]
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Accio Books! The Results Are In!
The HPA Alliance Accio Books! results are in. In just one month, the HPA’s Accio Books! Campaign raised 13,481 BOOKS!!!!! WOW!!! House Cup Results Here are the results (check out cool Hogwarts style hour glass display here) of the Accio Books! House Cup Competition: In fourth place, Slytherin with 7,490 points; in third place, Hufflepuff [...]
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Political, Spiritual, and Cultural Leaders
Speaking about the genocide in Rwanda and hope for the future.
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Candles for Rwanda
Today is the 15th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide. The anniversary will now go for the next 100 days. Please watch this video and pass it to everyone you know: As you can see the project that the HPA and Nerdfighters took the lead in recently to light candles of hope for Rwanda involves each [...]
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