The Harry Potter Alliance

By Andrew Slack

March 24, 2008

Waking Up Fidelity

Like Dumbledore’s Army who woke the world up to Voldemort’s return, the HP Alliance aims to be a Dumbledore’s Army for the real world, waking up our Ministries, our Daily Prophets, our fellow citizens, and our BUSINESSES about the need to end the genocide in Darfur.

This post is zeroing in on the mutual fund company, Fidelity Investments, who continue to make large investments in Chinese oil companies that are funding the genocide in Darfur.

If Fidelity and other companies like it were to pull out from these Chinese oil companies (such as PetroChina and Sinopec) than PetroChina and Sinopec are going to be upset because it means that they’ll be losing money (unfortunately money is the name of their game). When this happens, the hope is that they will start putting real economic pressure on the Sudanese government to make them end this genocide.

This may also have a Domino effect on President Bush and other world leaders…pressuring them to take a firmer stand on Sudan, as Sudan is already responsible for killing over 400,000 innocent civilians and displacing over 2.5 million.

A group called Investors Against Genocide made up of ordinary people like you and I started last year and they have been making great progress in getting Fidelity to pull out of PetroChina, etc. They have not won this battle yet, but as ordinary people they have moved mountains and are creating the kind of noise that inspires a whole world to realize that the people in Darfur matter just as much as you and I, that we need to therefore end this genocide and prevent future genocides, and  when we wish to honor those killed and those hurt by the Nazi Holocaust as well as the genocides in Armenia, Cambodia, Rwanda, and so on, by saying “Never Again,” we actually need to mean “Never Again.”