Weekly Wrap-up: June 14-21

WWDD

It’s our third week into the What Would Dumbledore Do? project! What is WWDD? Find out here. Want to get involved? Join our Common Room! And be sure to check out what others have learned from Dumbledore at this link.

UPCOMING EVENTS

• The next DA meeting is this Tuesday, June 23, at 8pm EST on UStream. (Be sure to stick around afterward for another “Late Night Snack with Andrew Slack”!)
• June 30th marks the launch of the Top 100 Lessons from WWDD, as well as more information on our partnership with the Love in the Sky project.
• Azkatraz is coming (July 17-21)! All proceeds fro the Wrock Around the Rock event will be divided between the Harry Potter Alliance and Amnesty International. To register or find out more, click here.

NEWS

• On June 19, Harry and the Potters played their 500th show. Watch this video to celebrate along with them, while remembering that the weapon we have is love.
• Andrew calls attention to the situation in Iran and posts a link to a video explaining what’s going on.

IRAN

• Grace blogs about her reactions to the failure of the mainstream media to cover the events in Iran, while Hope discusses what this means in terms of Old Media versus New Media.
• Zivlok weighs in on the Twitter revolution and updates about events in Iran.
• BeKbEk links to two YouTube videos that explain what’s going on in Iran.
• Tara explains the situation and gives a useful list of ways you can help.

BLOGS

• Monika discusses her excitement for the Half Blood Prince midnight release
• Taylor blogs about witnessing racial discrimination firsthand, and raises the question of how we should respond
• Malory shares a story she found through Mugglenet and GivesMeHope.com about beauty, self image, and encouragement.
• Chan shares a portion of a book she’s writing about how Harry has affected her life.
• Tyler has posted part of a fan-fiction he’s working on
• Veganwrocker talks about S.P.E.W., the quarterly zine she publishes, and how you can get involved
• Amanda discusses the potential we all have for evil and how important our choices are in determining who we are and what we become.

VIDEOS

• No New Stuff participants added their videos this week
• Hope talks about Iran, Twitter, and Old Media vs. New Media
• Sarah shares a video from the Harry and the Potters show at LeakyCon 2009
• All videos can be viewed at http://thehpalliance.ning.com/video or http://www.youtube.com/thehpalliance

If you are a Chapter Organizer and would like to send us an update, we’ll put it in the Weekly Wrap-up so everyone can know what you’re doing. Please e-mail us at grace@thehpalliance.org or hope@thehpalliance.org

See you in a week!