February 2012
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“We shouldn’t be asking ourselves if we’re wasting time watching T.V. Instead,...”
– Sara’s awesome HPA blog post about how television doesn’t actually rot your brain, especially not if you don’t let it.
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Pop quiz!
Andrew Slack is—
a) one cool dude
b) possibly coming to a city near you
c) both a and b
If your answer is also the first letter in Hermione’s sort-of-cat’s name, then you’re right. Ten points to the House of Awesome.
Andrew, HPA co-founder and executive director, is going on a sort-of-tour, and going to any of the stops near you would definitely put some more magic and...
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“Books and movies each have strengths as a medium that the other doesn’t. I think...”
– Read It First…. or Not
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Wondering what's next for the Harry Potter... →
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Chocolate, child labor, and magic.
We’ve said it ad nauseum: we will not tolerate child labor in Harry’s name. Too often, though, leaving matters at their most basic names deprives people of the truth behind the noun, the horrors embodied by those two words.
It’s never pleasant to hear, but it needs to be heard.
Here are a few basics:
Children are taken from their homes and sold to cocoa farmers. These children...
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kendra-dumbledore asked: where can I buy this fair trade harry potter chocolate?
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Let's talk about fair trade.
Benefits: Fair labor conditions, fair price, direct trade, community development, environmental sustainability, and lots more.
In our Not in Harry’s Name campaign, we want to make sure that our chocolate frogs don’t come as a result of child slavery, something that does happen and something that Warner Bros. hasn’t done anything to correct.
Certifiable: Coffee, tea, herbs,...
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RE: The myHogwarts beta question!
Super awesome job everyone!!! The exact number of books donated was in fact 32,011! many of you got it right so yay!
Now to answer the question you’ve all been waiting for, the first person to answer with the exact number was *drum roll* thechildoftime
Great job!
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The myHogwarts beta questions!
During the 2011 Accio Books, we fought the Illiteracy Horcrux by donating books and building the Imagine Better library, a library built by the HPA for the new Bedford-Stuyvesant New Beginnings Charter School in New York City. We were able to donate 9,283 books to the library, how many books in total were donated during that year?
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myHogwarts BETA?
We’ve told you about myHogwarts right? The awesome social network for HP fans that the HPA is giving away beta entries for? Well if you want one of those, then stay tuned because there will be a change to win one here, as well as our other social networking platforms!
Today at 6PM EST take a look at the HPA’s tumblr and be the first to answer the trivia question that will be posted!
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“Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the...”
– An excerpt from today’s ruling of a three-judge panel in San Francisco overturning California’s ban on same-sex marriages
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January 2012
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WatchChocolate’s Child Slaves is a heart-wrenching exposé about modern day slavery and child labor. These children work to harvest cacao all day long but most of them have never even tasted chocolate.
This is what we are fighting to end. How can the big companies see this and think that the end justify the means with their products? Using children who have been ripped from their families,...
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How would internet censorship affect you?
In large part, today is about really putting ourselves in a position where our daily life becomes one without access to the internet. So imagine today’s blackouts without the underlying cause, not temporary and spanning across every site instead of just the ones that participate in protests.
What’s the biggest way your daily life would change?
For us here at the Harry Potter...
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Just for today, imagine the worst.
Actually, it won’t take much imagining, since some colossally important websites are blacking themselves out today in protest of what could very well become our future.
Ever read any of those dystopian books that are becoming popular as of late? Like, you know:
(The Hunger Games, for anyone unfamiliar with the trailer that’s from) Or even something older, like Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 or...
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What do Wikipedia, Google, and the Harry Potter... →
This post is the first of many we’ll be making today regarding a very serious topic that may very well be affecting all of us in the future.
Questions? Thoughts? Leave them here and they’ll be addressed throughout the day!
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See you there?
I will be in the Livestream chat as veritaserum_ and I hope to see all of you there!
What’s your username (so I can say hello!)?
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Livestream Today!
Who: Andrew Slack, Executive Director of the HPA
What: Andrew Slack will be hosting a Livestream event celebrating MLK day as well as updating you all on NIHN Campaign!
When: 4 p.m. EST
Where: Our Livestream Channel
Why: Hellooooo, are you not paying attention? I just said that! ;)
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What's that? A LiveStream you say? →
That’s right! The ever fabulous Andrew Slack is hosting a LiveStream tomorrow to talk about Not in Harry’s Name. You really don’t want to miss it. And I’m not just saying that because I’m biased!
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My name is Ashley and I'm a Gryffindor!
To finish out the week of Tumblr staffer introductions I’m here to tell you a little bit about me!
First, how amazing is it that each staff member of the Tumblr represents a different house. Fantastic, yeah?! And even a Slytherin who does good! (Just kidding, we know you’re not all bad!)
I’m the Social Media Department Manager at the HPA. That means I oversee our Facebook,...
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Livestream!! →
We’ll be honoring Martin Luther King Jr.’s day, and discussing the future of the Not In Harry’s Name Campaign on Monday at 4PM EST here