Acacia's Birthday!!!!

There is absolutely no way to describe or begin to describe what Acacia does for the Harry Potter Alliance. From putting in endless hours and unbelievable creativity around web and graphic design and web functionality, to also putting in countless hour brainstorming on how to make our projects most effective and innovative – there is [...]

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Join the HPA Staff!

The HPA is currently looking for members interested in joining the staff team. If you’re interested in becoming a part of the HPA staff please check the volunteers page often as it will be being updated consistently. You can get there by clicking “volunteer” at the top of the page or right here. We are [...]

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Portugal Protects Marriage Equality!

Despite the energy that some placed in using government to attack people’s marriages, despite the fact that yesterday New Jersey decided to not let consensual adults have the right to marry, despite whatever tides of hatred we see in our world, we also are seeing tides of justice, love, and equality where governments respect marriage. [...]

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Dancing In Rwanda

I strongly encourage you to read this short and powerful piece by Rebecca Davis who will hopefully be partnering with us in the near future, about her experience with a Rwandan orphan in Rwanda. It is both heart breaking and inspiring. Below is a video of some of the kids Rebecca works with dancing to [...]

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Live DA meeting tonight at 8 pm EST

Please join tonight’s Live HPA DA meeting on Ustream at 8:00 pm EST! In tonight’s call we will continue to talk about What Would Dumbledore Do – a project that is your chance to blog about both your relationship with Dumbledore and what you think the world could learn from Dumbledore’s example at this critical [...]

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Potterwatch: WWDD? June 10th DA meeting now up on iTunes

Hey everybody, apologies for the lateness. We had some technical difficulties with our podcasting service. And without further ado: At our live DA meeting on June 10, Andrew Slack, Hope Mullinax, and Karen Bernstein had a fabulous discussion with each other and the listeners in the USTREAM chat about the Harrry Potter Alliance’s What Would [...]

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Happy Birthday, Dinah!

Today is Dinah’s birthday!!! As our managing editor, past Tri-Wizard Tournament House Parties coordinator, and generally awesome staffer, Dinah has done so much for us in the past year…even when spending a semester abroad in Scotland!!!  I know that for me personally, she has also been an incredible person to work with and a great [...]

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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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