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Monthly Archives: February 2009
An Activism Grounded in True Power
An activism grounded in true power is an activism that allows for love. Love is true power. Fear is false power. The Phoenix represents what is real. Voldemort represents what is false. From one perspective this implies that the Phoenix and Voldemort are opposites. But how can this be true? The Phoenix, who represents the [...]
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Wow
This article has me in tears. As I thought, how do I compare this to Harry Potter when writing a blog entry, only one person came to mind: Cedric Diggory. This is Hufflepuff spirit through and through.
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Respect for Different Opinions
It is important for us all to respect each other. That is why it is so important that queer individuals, members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered community be given the same legal rights as members of the majority heterosexual community. Had I been blogging in the South during the 1950s about legalizing interracial [...]
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No on H8
Many of you will remember that Proposition 8 passed last November. In short, Proposition 8 reversed the California Supreme Court’s ruling to legalize same sex marriage. So essentially what happened is that California citizens were stripped of their constitutional right to marry someone of the same sex. It’s like the Ministry coming in and saying [...]
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The HP Alliance is looking for Forum Leaders!
Forum Leaders are an integral part of the Harry Potter Alliance! They help turn our forums into the Room of Requirement for the HPA by encouraging participation and fostering a creative and caring environment to talk! We are currently looking for responsible people to become part of the HP Alliance as Forum Leaders. Each will be assigned a section [...]
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A Whole New Level of Filch
Filch didn’t like Hogwarts students very much. However, we know that he did seem to have a thing for Madame Pince. And as strict as she was, Madame Pince still wanted kids using the library. As does the American Library Association who is currently fighting what appears to be an Umbridge like move to ban [...]
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Conscious Consuming in Tough Times
Hey there all you crazy social activists, dreamers and HP fans! My name is Lisa Valdez and I’d like to tell you a bit about a project I’m going to be starting with the HPA. I’m a 21 (22 on Thursday, woohoo!) year old girl from Rhode Island, long time HP fan and, more recently, social activist. I currently live in Boston and I’m a worker-owner of a Fair Trade coffee, tea, and cocoa cooperative just south of the city called Equal Exchange. In my work I get to see first hand how the products we purchase in the US affect the lives of producers all over the world. You may have heard people saying that “the world has gotten smaller” and I’m here to tell you that it is absolutely true. Walk down the aisle of a grocery store and pick up any product you like. The ingredients listed will come from all over the world, from palm oil in Africa to sugar from the Dominican Republic. I get to see how our conventional system of trade marginalizes producers and benefits a very wealthy few in the global West, but also how Fair Trade can hugely benefit producers all over the world. I’ve learned that everything in this world is connected, and I’m here to talk trade and Harry Potter, two of my favorite topics that might not seem too closely related at first glance.
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Sign up now to make a One Minute Call to the Ministry
Lives are at stake. We need a special envoy appointed by Barack Obama in Sudan immediately. Imagine Secretary Clinton’s office getting a call every minute of the work day tomorrow demanding that President Obama appoint a special envoy! That’s what we’d like you to sign up for! Right now, please sign up to take one [...]
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Destroying Horcruxes
Is there any thing in your life that’s standing in your way? Something that continues to weigh you down and suck on negative energy as if it were a horcrux? Have you ever had such horcrux and then destroyed it? It can be a rare moment. Any one?
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Leave No Childhood Behind
Forget the failed “Leave No Child Behind Act.” I think it’s time for a new attitude that fights for and protects the immeasurable value of childhood. A system run by adults that allows children to live in American and European neighborhoods where gang violence, drugs, poverty, and police brutality continue as common occurences, are leaving [...]
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