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Monthly Archives: November 2009
The HPA is featured in a Podcast!
A few weeks ago, Dinah from the Wizrocklopedia , Andrew Slack and myself from the Harry Potter Alliance came together with a podcast called Two True Freaks to talk about the Harry Potter fandom. We covered everything from the HPA to Potter Puppet Pals to fanfiction to Melissa Anelli and even a little Twilight. It’s [...]
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Featured Blog: "Children Witches of Nigeria"
The following is an excerpt from a blog post by Tassana Burrfoot on Ning. To read the full post, click here. “Imagine if your mother and father really believed that your magical actions brought about cancer or divorce. Imagine if your entire village believed you were a witch. A ~real~ witch. And they attacked you [...]
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Happy Thanksgiving!
In this season of gratitude, I will speak for the HPA Board and Staff in saying thank you for all of you that make the Harry Potter Alliance possible. This is a time when many are enjoying their friends and family, a time when many feel estranged and lonely for lack of friends and family, [...]
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"16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence" Starts Tomorrow!
Tomorrow is the first day of the internationally-observed 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, running from November 25th, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, to December 10th, International Human Rights Day. Save Darfur has organized a version of this campaign specifically aimed at Darfuri women. Each day there is a [...]
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leave no childHOOOD behind
Former President George W Bush passed the Leave No Child Behind Act – whose stated purpose was to make sure that all children, regardless of their race or class, are given a good education. Leave No Child Behind puts heavy emphasis around standardized tests in order to hold schools to a “higher standard.” Consistent with [...]
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Oil Company brags that it can melt glaciers
In 1962 an oil company that would eventually become part of Exxon bragged that it “supplies enough energy to melt 7 million tons of glacier!” That advertisement was far more accurate than any one would have guessed. Now there’s work to do stop this horror movie where a 1962 ad that says something totally outlandish [...]
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On starting an HPA Chapter
I just wanted to reiterate Karen’s sentiments regarding how to start an HPA chapter. Being part of an HPA chapter is incredibly exciting – but I’m going to let Stephanie attest to that, as she does so well in our comments section: As a current CO of a chapter, I have to say: I agree [...]
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Testimony from new HPA member
Many of you know from my liveblogging that I recently spoke at Pledge 2 Protect: the largest anti-genocide conference in history. At the conference I met so many wonderful people, artists and student activists who are getting involved with the HPA and our future work. Among them was a first year college student named Ashlee. [...]
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Starting an HPA Chapter – How and Why
It has been an intense month of campaigns around the Harry Potter Alliance! In the last six weeks, we worked on Magical Acts of Kindness, Wrock for Equality, America’s Giving Challenge, and the larger 9 and 3/4 campaign. As usual, the amount of excitement and passion and determination this community gave to each of those [...]
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Freeing Aung San Suu Kyi?
In December 2008, the HPA participated in STAND Fast, where raised enough money from all of you, to protect families in Eastern Burma by giving their villages the capacity to communicate via radio (we also raised money at that time to protect Darfuri civilians). A few months before that, during the 2008 Olympics, we discussed [...]
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