Last weekend, Cynthia and I drove up to San Francisco where I spoke about “Learning From and About Fandom” at Azkatraz, a Harry Potter fan convention. The key note speaker at this year’s event was Andrew Slack of the HP Alliance. Slack is a thoughtful young activist whose work is […]
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Last weekend, Cynthia and I drove up to San Francisco where I spoke about “Learning From and About Fandom” at Azkatraz, a Harry Potter fan convention. The key note speaker at this year’s event was Andrew Slack of the HP Alliance. Slack is a thoughtful young activist whose work is […]
Our director Chris Csikszentmihályi recently described for the Washington Post what he calls “click-through activism”, the propensity of people online, especially youth, to feel they are contributing to a cause simply by writing a tweet or adding their name to a Facebook cause page. In some ways, [Csikszentmihályi] says, the […]
The aforementioned adventure with Jared was going to the weekly protest in the village of Ni’lin. The wall passes through their olive groves, and nearby settlements cut them off from 40% of their land. The protest followed Friday prayers in the mosque, and then several hundred people walked to the […]
Went on a tour with the observers from the Temporary International Presence in Hebron. Rosa managed to get us in, as she used to work for the Danish Representative Office in Ramallah, and the observers are mostly Scandinavian. How very diplomatic of them… “Greater Israel” The TIPH was created in […]