The HP Alliance has a new episode of its Potterwatch podcast out today – click here to get to the feed’s iTunes listing to subscribe! You can also listen to the episode by direct-downloading it here!
This episode, “One World, One Dream!” asks Harry Potter fans to help embrace Olympic/TriWizard goals of unity, by working on behalf of people in Darfur, Burma and Tibet. Listen and spread the word! And to find out how you can take action, visit The HP Alliance Web site or email dinah@thehpalliance.org to throw an HPA house party. Also remember to watch Mia Farrow during the Olympics this year (click here) if you wish to peacefully protest China’s aid to the genocide in Darfur.
Remember, the HPA has a new podcast feed, and you can subscribe to it as well as listen to this episode right here!
I’ve been watching Mia’s Darfur olympics and they’re just heartbreaking :( I just don’t understand how the IOC could allow such a government as China’s to host an event meant to symbolize unity and peace.
Anne look back through history, the olympics have continually been used as political protest, in fact almost every year there is a protest of some kind or major political significance synonomous with the games. Because it seems the entire world is watching, it produces an opportunity to stage an opinion that may not have been voiced before. It has never been against the olympics themselves.
Have you all been to Tibet? If you haven’t, just shut up your mouths! You know nothing about what actually happened since the media you get informations from have no intention to know the real China!
You can comment whenever you want, but you can not deny the truth that China has done a successful job in hosting the Olympics!
When you are criticising a nation or a government, please think over if your own country is doing well or not. The Olympics is for gathering, sharing, unity and peace, but not for political purpose. We Chinese have the right to be respected and we’ve been doing so much to host the game succesfully with all our heart into it. London is the next to have the opportunity to hold such a brand, I think you reall want to be respected and supported, right? We feel so sorry to see that you are holding such a protest. As Potter fans, we should unite and share. When meeting problems and divergences, we ought to try to settle them together in a peaciful way, but not to dispraise now and then. China is a good country, although she has all kinds of problems to be solved, we Chinese people are doing our best to show a whole new China to world and we ask for esteem!
Wildly off topic (sorry), new HBP pictures on trading cards:
http://www.snitchseeker.com/harry-potter-news/larger-half-blood-prince-trading-cards-scans-58190/
When a government restricts its citizens of, for example, simple resources of information like the internet, there’s a problem- if you haven’t anything to hide, why restrict at all? I respect the Chinese people (as well as some of my own friends who are Chinese) but not some of the actions of its government.
I’m a Chinese Potter fan and I’m really shocked as well as sorry to read this. Before doing this so-called ” working on behalf of people in Darfur, Burma and Tibet ” thing,have you ever asked yourselves that do you really know these palces? I dare say that some of you even do not know where they are. Actually, you are just led to the wrong direction by your media. During the past 7 years, we Chinese did a lot of (much more than you can imagine) things in order to make the Olympics successful. But instead of enjoying the wonderful Games and trying to know us more, you spend so much time to spread these unreal things about China. Tibet has changed a lot in the past 50 years, and most of the people there appreciate their lives in Tibet! The Olympic Games is for athletes and all the peace-loving people in the whole world but not politicians. I hope you can see the efforts we have done. Please do not be Rita Skeeters.
as a Chinese HP fan ,I am rather disappointed and ashamed of you TLC for your prejudice against China and your blind credulity about the untrue reports via thoses misleading media source,and it’s so pathetic that you try in vain to gloss over your prejudice by “criticism of the Chinese government’s policies”but ” speak with respect toward the Chinese people”.I have more than one Tibetan friends myself and they are all so happy about their current lives ,I don’t think they have any needs to tell lies.So do your own job and stop criticizing something you don’t know at all.
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This all sounds like a worthy cause! This is a great effort! First? Oh and… WHERE IS POTTERCAST?