Harry Potter Alliance

How 'Hunger Games' Actually Fights Hunger: What You Can Do

Posted 03.24.2012

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Before "Hunger Games" fans take their seats at movie theaters nationwide, activists will give them a chance to do something about food-aid issues plag...

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Harry Potter Nonprofit To Keep Fighting Hunger, Child Slavery, More

Posted 09.13.2011

Read More: J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter Charity, Activism, Harry Potter Nonprofit, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2, Andrew Slack, Harry Potter, Good News, Deathly Hallows, Harry Potter Alliance, Dumbledore's Army, Impact News

The Harry Potter series has been accused of promoting witchcraft, Satanism, general paganization and overall corruption among young Muggles the world ...

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Why Parents Should Both Monitor And Empower Kids Using Social Media

Tina Barseghian | Posted 06.16.2011

Read More: Social Networking, Anti-Bullying Laws, Eric Sheninger, Social Networking and Kids, Facebook Suicide, Kids and Social Media, Henry Jenkins, Benjamin Franklin Middle School, Tyler Clementi, Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Kaiser Family Foundation, Social Media and Kids, Kids and Facebook, Harry Potter Alliance, Electric Cars, Education News
Tina Barseghian

With guidance and support -- and with parents to set examples of what they think is appropriate -- kids can learn their place and their responsibility as part of a worldwide online community.

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Andrew Slack: "Harnessing The Power Of Imagination To 'Imagine Better'"

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Justice, Social Change, Haiti, Haiti News, Greatest Person of the Day, Andrew Slack, Haiti Earthquake, Harry Potter, Free Trade Chocolate, Harry Potter Alliance, Impact News

You can't cast a spell to fix the problems of the world we live in. But that doesn't mean you can't try to reach for a more practical magic. Andr...

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Young Harry Potter Fans Cast a Spell for Mental Health

Anastasia Goodstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Depression, Harry Potter, Anxiety, Harry Potter Alliance, Dementors, Impact News
Anastasia Goodstein

Harry Potter fans across the globe are joining the Harry Potter Alliance on an epic journey to destroy seven real world horcruxes.

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Harry Potter And Springsteen: Religion, Spirituality And Storytelling

Diane Winston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Religion and Politics, Invisible Children, Harry Potter Alliance, Bruce Springsteen, Contemporary Culture, Harry Potter, Darkness on the Edge of Town, Culture, Religion News
Diane Winston

Bruce made it possible to believe that we could find meaning, feel love and snatch pleasure from pain. The gospels of contemporary culture have similar messages but are delivered with whimsy, finesse and media savvy.

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Making All Harry Potter Chocolate Fair Trade

Andrew Slack | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry Potter, Hpa, Harry Potter Alliance, Fair Trade Chocolate, Fair Trade, Chocolate, Deathly Hallows, Impact News
Andrew Slack

Chocolate being sold in Harry's name is not fair trade. The fair trade label is the most realistic way that we can know that the cocoa farmers were treated fairly, transparently, and with the chance of upward mobility.

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Harry Potter Gets New Website

thebookseller.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Harry Potter Signature Editions, Harry Potter Theme Park, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling, JK Rowling, Harry Potter Alliance, Books News

Bloomsbury has launched a new website for Harry Potter as the new "signature" editions of J K Rowling's titles go on sale....

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JK Rowling Gives £10 Million For Multiple Sclerosis Clinic

The Guardian | Severin Carrell, Scotland Correspondent | Posted 05.25.2011

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The author JK Rowling has donated £10m to set up a clinic to research treatments for multiple sclerosis, the degenerative disease that killed her mot...

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Cultural Acupuncture and a Future for Social Change

Andrew Slack | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chase Community Giving Facebook, HP Alliance, JK Rowling, Harry Potter, Cultural Acupuncture, Harry Potter Alliance, Hpa, Impact News
Andrew Slack

What if we gave our teenagers the opportunity to imagine themselves as heroes, rather than treating them as nothing more than a way to line the pockets of some CEO? Enter the Harry Potter Alliance.

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Harry Potter Fans Unite for Haiti

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Haiti Relief, Harry Potter, Haiti Donations, Haiti Earthquake Donate, Haiti Relief Efforts, Haiti, Harry Potter Alliance, Impact News

Lovers of Quidditch and Hogwarts banded together this past weekend to support Haiti relief efforts. The "Harry Potter Alliance" raised $34,000 through...

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Harry Potter Fans Take On Maine's Proposition One

Andrew Slack | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wizard Rock, Andrew Slack, Maine, Proposition One, Proposition 1, Harry Potter, Civil Rights, Gay Marriage, Harry Potter Alliance, Marriage Equality, Harry-and-the-Potters, Politics News
Andrew Slack

If Maine's Proposition 1 (aka California's Proposition 8) passes on November 3, the movements for intolerance and bigotry will gain momentum, and same-sex couples will lose more rights.

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What Would Dumbledore Do?

Andrew Slack | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Literature, Cultrual Acupuncture, Social Justice, Gay Rights, JK Rowling, Harry Potter, Harry Potter Alliance, Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Entertainment News
Andrew Slack

The confidence demonstrated by Harry Pottercharacter Albus Dumbledore, is something that has been exhibited by the Dr. Kings, the Gandhis, the Aung San Suu Kyi's in facing great tyrannies.

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