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Monthly Archives: September 2009
Apply to be the Coordinator for New Staff!
A quick addition to this post: Be sure to send in your applications no later than Thursday, Sept 10th! Email kate@thehpalliance.org if you are interested. And keep an eye out for future job openings posted on this blog!
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Happy Birthday, Hope!
Today is Hope’s birthday! You’ve probably all run into Hope somewhere in HPA-land at one point or another. Among her many duties with the HPA are: the weekly summary of activities on the Ning, No New Stuff videos, and she took on the ginormous task of a lead role in the What Would Dumbledore Do? [...]
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The HPA is looking for a New Staff Coordinator!
We are currently looking for a New Staff Coordinator! The New Staff Coordinator will be in charge of sorting through all of the applications we receive from people interested in volunteering for HPA staff. Responsibilities include: interviewing, hiring, and helping new staffers join the HPA Volunteer Team! We are looking for someone who can represent [...]
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Our Turn
The days when the only people being heard on health care were mentally unstable people showing up to town hall meetings carrying guns is going away. The “guns of August” are over. The screaming masses of people who Fox News convinced through downright lies that health care was going to be something similar to the [...]
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Essential Reading
This op-ed by Dave Eggers and John Prendergast. As the Sudan policy is being finalized and reviewed by top officials it is essential that the point of view of those who actually know and care about the situation in Sudan be heard in as many places as possible. Of striking importance is that this point [...]
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Some thoughts on present discussions on WWII
Today is the 70th anniversary of WWII. 70 years ago young men across the world fought and died to stop the entire world from falling under the grip of one of the most ruthless regimes in human history. They bulldozed through borders, assassinated leaders, imprisoned, tortured, raped, and killed citizens to foreign countries, while systematically [...]
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Get moving on Darfur
Glenn Beck’s comparisons to Obama as Hitler are beyond disgraceful. Mr. Beck, a man who lies almost every moment that he speaks has nothing to say of course on actual genocide that continues to go on in Darfur. Unfortunately the very president that he so perversely attacks does not have much to say on it [...]
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Darfuris call on the President
I’m going to name drop for a minute. I was at an event back in 2007 where Senator Barack Obama was speaking about why he should be elected President. He talked about a lot of the things he was passionate about. Darfur did not come up on that list. I ran up to him afterward, [...]
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