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The Harry Potter alliance has joined with the rest of the Harry Potter fandom and members from fandoms of other popular books, movies, and tv series (including Heroes, Lost, True Blood, The Wire and Firefly!) to create Helping Haiti Heal, an unprecedented internet event to contribute to the growing humanitarian aid and charitable relief activities in Haiti.

Join us this Saturday, January 23rd, at 2 P.M. EST, HPA's Potterwatch,… Continue

Like Hermione Granger who advocated for fair and equal wages, Emma Watson is representing "People Tree" in promoting Fair Trade fashion - a way to buy awesome clothing and know for sure that the people it came from were treated with fair wages and not exploited (as is too often the case).

Emma has invited you to show her our support for Fair Trade and social justice by sending her videos asking why she is so passionate about using fashion as a too… Continue

Live episode of Potterwatch tonight (Wed, January 13) at 8:30 pm EST with the theme of light through darkness!!!

In these dark January days where the winter blues can make us feel as though we've suffered a dementor attack, it is as they say, far, far better to light even the smallest candle than it is to curse the darkness.

On tonight's Potterwatch we'll be discussing ways each of us can find light within these dark days. And on a collective level we'll be asking how in "dark and diffi… Continue

One of the things that we love so much about Harry Potter is how the themes represented in the series provide us with a venue for discussion and promotion of real-life causes and issues – the concept on which the HPA was founded. In honor of the coming Wizard Rock 4 Equality event, we would like you to submit blog entries that tell us why this cause is important to you or fanfictions that use cannon to show the spirit of the campaign and the cause.

Wrock 4 Equality is a mass canvassing campaign… Continue

In this video Darfuri children are on cell phones, calling on Obama to help them and their families find some protection and return to their villages after years of living in unsafe camps. Since the president does not seem to have heard their message it's up to us to send it on their behalf.

This week is critical. Please:

1- Text Secretary Clinton at 90822 with the simple message, "I stand with Sudan Now."

2-… Continue