Sometimes my childish brain thinks that chocolate comes from Santa's workshop, mad scientists working in a lab entirely made of chocolate, or Willy Wonka's orange-faced employees known as Oompa Loompas. But it turns out chocolate comes from cocoa farmers toiling in the hot sun over cocoa plants. Boy oh boy,...

What if we gave our teenagers the opportunity to imagine themselves as the heroes that they have grown up watching, rather than treating their precious minds as nothing more than a way to line the pockets of some CEO?

Enter the Harry Potter Alliance. Praised by J.K. Rowling,...

Dear Dennis Kucinich,

You know as well as any one else that this current bill will save millions and that your voting against it will kill millions. Do not slit the throat of health care reform with your pen, when your pen can sign us into a bright future!

Reform...

If Maine's Proposition 1 (aka California's Proposition 8) passes on November 3, the movements for intolerance and bigotry will gain momentum, with voters granting the government the right to strip same-sex couples of the chance to be married. If the proposed legislation is stopped, we will have demonstrated that Americans...

Gandhi. MLK. Mother Theresa. The Dalai Lama. Visionaries whose words and deeds have pointed humanity toward a new way of being in the world. Also, Albus Dumbledore.

Yes, yes. I know what you're thinking: Dumbledore is different than the aforementioned figures because Dumbledore was gay. But that's not the only...

Andrew Slack is Executive Director of the the Harry Potter Alliance, which takes a creative approach to activism by mobilizing thousands of kids to spread love and fight for justice in the spirit of the Harry Potter novels. The HP Alliance has been featured in over 200 US publications...

Imagine a world where the government arrests people at random, suspends their right to a free trial, and subjects them to torture in an effort to look "tough on terror." The media is controlled by a privileged few who characterize activists against this gross suspension of habeas corpus as unpatriotic...