May 25, 2009
Weekly Wrap-Up: May 17-24
It was a huge week for the HP Alliance! We’ll start this Weekly Wrap-Up with the LeakyCon news!
• Darfur Petition: conference goers filled out postcards to President Obama asking to do whatever it takes to end genocide. You too can sign this petition online. Check here for more info: http://www.thehpalliance.org/darfur/darfur-petition/
• Do you want to work for the HP Alliance and get class credit? Then the HP Alliance Internship is for you! You can see more about it here: http://www.thehpalliance.org/harry-potter-alliance/announcing-the-harry-potter-internship-program/
• Where does the chocolate in a chocolate frog come from? Not in Harry’s Name is our new project pushing for Frankford Candy Company who produces the Harry Potter franchise’s candy to be Fair Trade: http://www.thehpalliance.org/harry-potter-alliance/not-in-harrys-name/
• What Would Dumbledore Do? is our other new project remembering the great Albus Dumbledore. You can participate by posting lessons that he has taught you on the Common Room: http://www.thehpalliance.org/fandom/what-would-dumbledore-do/
BLOGS:
• Tina Olson posted a blog about her and Swish and Flick’s upcoming pre-LeakyCon shows: http://thehpalliance.ning.com/profiles/blogs/bethlehem-pa-tuesday-preleaky
• Sophia talks about starting a new chapter as her Graduation Challenge!: http://thehpalliance.ning.com/profiles/blogs/hello-1
• In her blog, Malory posts a video and explains that Ted Talks described “how our educational systems today educate our children out of their creativity.” http://thehpalliance.ning.com/profiles/blogs/creativity-and-education
• Vanessa shares a heartfelt story about how she dealt with her mother having cancer: http://thehpalliance.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-journey-of-cancer
• Veganwrocker shares with us a Write Naked surprise: http://thehpalliance.ning.com/profiles/blogs/write-naked-2
• Tita Pizarro-Lopez tells us in her own words how Harry Potter saved her life: http://thehpalliance.ning.com/profiles/blogs/harry-potter-saved-my-life
• Kannel expresses her nervous feelings as she prepares to take college entrance exams: http://thehpalliance.ning.com/profiles/blogs/im-very-nervous
VIDEOS:
• Karen asks Verizon Wireless to Come Clean for the ENOUGH project.
• Malory posts videos for both pre-LeakyCon and during the convention.
• No New Stuff participants posted their weekly updates
• Hope explains the launch of WWDD
• All videos can be found at either http://thehpalliance.ning.com/video or http://www.youtube.com/thehpalliance
UPCOMING EVENTS:
• The Book Club is having a Live Ustream Chat about Write Naked on May 27th from 8pm to 9:30pm http://www.ustream.tv/channel/pottercast .
PHOTOS:
• Make sure you check out the new WWDD photo album and comment as work comes in! http://thehpalliance.ning.com/photo/albums/2883994:Album:16864
