"Harry Potter group turns fans into activists" by Sydney Lupkin, Globe Correspondent | July 19, 2010
Andrew Slack, 30, cofounded the HP Alliance, a nonprofit that taps the flourishing online community of Potter fans and inspires them to get involved in activism around the world — a real-life version of Dumbledore’s Army -- for issues from genocide to gay rights to literacy....
More militaristic agenda-pushing using Potter.
Samantha Ender, a Boston-based outreach manager at Partners in Health, said HP Alliance approached her to help with earthquake relief in Haiti....
Were they PRO-HAITIAN?
Related: A concrete plan for Haiti
Yeah, it has been raining on their tent stalls after six months of inaction and this is where I'm digging Haiti out of the Boston Globe.
Slack calls what he does “cultural acupuncture,’’ using fandom pressure points to promote human rights and social justice.
“They found a way to use that energy and that passion for the greater good,’’ Ender said.
The day I read a PROMOTION of an AID EFFORT to GAZA, Palestine then I will take notice, Glob.
Esther Earl, 15, got caught up in the online Potter world when she was diagnosed with cancer in 2006.
“I didn’t really have anything to do seeing as I’m stuck in bed,’’ she said from her Quincy bedroom, but the Harry Potter forums allowed her to become “crazycrayon,’’ a regular on Harry Potter sites. With a swish and click of her mouse, she could make friends all over the country.
It's called the Internet, and we are way ahead of you, Glob.
She linked up with HP Alliance and Slack a year ago, and considers him a friend. “It’s weird, but it doesn’t matter,’’ she said. “You have something to share.’’
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“Dumbledore is HPA,’’ Earl said. “He’s like this awesome guy in Harry Potter who’s all like ‘love is the greater power.’ ’’
So WHEN is ISRAEL going to SHOW SOME LOVE to the Palestinians?
Oh, the deprivations and atrocities ARE the way they say they love you!
Maybe Potter could wave his wand, huh?
