More! Hey, I'm Andrew Slack and welcome to the Harry Potter Alliance podcast brought to you by the

coolest people in the world at Pottercast. Today we're going to be playing interviews with some of your favorite wizard rock bands, some H.

So Harry Potter humor, and other awesome people in the HP community.

And we ain't stopping there.

The HP Alliance is dedicated to spreading our love and fighting the dark arts in the real world by using

Harry Potter and Alba's Dumbledore as role models. And we're going to be talking

about ways today that we can be like Dumbledore's army who woke the world up to

Voldemort's return and wake our ministries,

our businesses, and our world to ending the genocide in Darfur. But before we get

into the show let's just talk about some basic facts going on in Darfur. Darfur is a region in the

country of Sudan located in northeast Africa. As we speak, ordinary people like you and

I who live peaceful lives in Darfur are being killed, tortured, and raped.

Despite how often we say the words never again after a genocide, in the last four and a half

years we have watched as over 400,000 innocent people have been

killed and over two and a half million have been displaced. The government of

Sudan has and continues to send their Janjaweed militia into Darfur to systematically burn down every village,

systematically kill every man, systematically rape and sometimes kill every woman,

and systematically kill and often rape the children.

Those who survive are left homeless in the middle of the desert,

often having just watched people that they love get brutally murdered.

The real world horrors we have on today experts on this subject will tell us that there are very real and mostly nonviolent ways to end this genocide.

The main thing we need is a lot of people who care are creative, committed, and active.

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