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Monthly Archives: September 2009
Live DA Meeting about MAK now up on our podcast feed!
At our live DA meeting on September 30, 2009, Andrew, Karen, and Hallie discussed Magical Acts of Kindness (MAK) week, which will take place October 1-7, 2009. Subscribe through iTunes or download here. Among the many ideas and actions discussed were: What is Magical Acts of Kindness? MAK came from the idea of performing small [...]
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Shanah Tova!
To all of you who are celebrating the Jewish New Year, Shanah Tova! May you have a Happy, Healthy, and Sweet New Year! And for those fasting on Yom Kippur, may you have an easy fast. That also goes for you, Anthony Goldstein!* *Anthony Goldstein is probably the only Jewish student at Hogwarts.
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Happy Birthday Karen!
Today is a very magical because its the birthday of our very own Karen Bernstein, Chapters Coordinator Extraordinaire and Senior Staffer! I first met Karen a year and half ago (on a conference call) and ever since she has been one of my very best friends. Join me and the rest of our staff in [...]
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Facing Down Voldemort
I tend to dislike comparing actual people to regimes. However, I have no problem with comparing “Global Warming” to Voldemort. It is almost amusing to watch the “Seamus Finnigans” of the world make bold declarations that this real world “Voldemort” is just a made up tale by environmentalists and members of “the Order.” Then you [...]
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Whomp The House Tour 3: The Virtues Of House Parties
If I was asked to put together a list of my top ten favorite shows of all time, one might expect me to include all of the biggest ones: LeakyCon, Prophecy, Wrock Chicago, the Yule Balls, Wrockstock, and so forth. Certainly, those shows would be among the first to come to mind; the big shows [...]
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Live DA meeting tonight at 6 pm EST
Tonight from 6 to 7 pm EST please join us right here for a live DA meeting where we will be talking about the new approach of activism that all of us in the HPA are building together – an approach that incorporates the messages of Harry Potter along with the Arts, pop culture, standing [...]
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The Homophobic Legacy
I think it’s important to note that there is a Homophobic Legacy in this world. And thankfully the United Kingdom just took a step to address that legacy. A legacy that is tragic and horrific. Alan Turing was a brilliant mathematician who helped the United Kingdom (and in turn the Allied Forces) break codes to [...]
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Reflections on September 11
There are some wonderful essays on reflections of September 11, 2001 right here. Amongst them, this passage from cartoonist Tim Kreider entitled “You Are Alive”: “I experienced 9/11 the same way almost all Americans did — on TV. And I reacted the same way a lot of them did — by going temporarily insane. “I [...]
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Happy Birthday, Arletta!!!
Today is our very own Arletta’s birthday! Arletta pours an enormous amount of love and work into the HPA. Not only is she co-organizer of the Book Club, but in fact she is apart of every campaign and effort the HPA is involved. We just want to say, Happy Birthday, Arletta and thank you for [...]
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Whomp The House Tour 3: Mental Preparation
A tour really begins the moment you start booking it – you have to cut a path across the country in your mind before you can cross it physically. I’ve imagined this entire tour several times over; the point A to point B to point C of constructing that initial schedule, the forced rearrangement of [...]
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