US Theatrical Tour & Online Launch starts May 3rd in New York City
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Coming soon to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, and Seattle. Over 200 global community screenings in 25 countries and growing! Featuring interviews with NAOMI KLEIN, JEREMY RIFKIN, CHARLES EISENSTEIN, BILL MCKIBBEN and others! New York, N.Y. – Fierce Love Films announces the US theatrical premiere and online launch of Occupy Love [...]
Occupy Love Global Community Screening Launch!
FIERCE LOVE FILMS PRESENTS THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY SCREENING LAUNCH OF OCCUPY LOVE The inspiring film that illuminates and connects today’s global uprisings Beginning April 11th 2013 In Theatres Starting New York City May 3rd VOD/DVD/Online Starting May 3rd http://www.occupylove.org All over the world – Fierce Love Films announces the Global Community Screening launch of Occupy [...]
Happy Valentine’s Day: New Official Trailer & Website
Happy Valentines Day! The global revolution continues to unfold, in beautiful, heartbreaking, and surprising ways. As we recognized early on in this continual expression, it dances, evolves, regroups, and ultimately reaches for the more beautiful world our hearts tell us is possible. We have 3 exciting new things to share with you: The official Occupy [...]
Love is a verb
”I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process — an integral function of the universe.” ~ Buckminster Fuller We are all verbs. Not a one [...]
From Me to We: True Love Is a Process of Humility
–by Thich Nhat Hanh A community of people walking together on a spiritual path has a great deal of strength; its members are able to protect each other, to help each other in every aspect of the practice, and to build the strength of the community. There are many things that are very difficult for [...]
Occupying Tension
By Noah Fischer (appearing in Occupy Love) After we were evicted from Liberty Park, I spent the early hours of the morning struggling in the streets of Lower Manhattan with a few hundred disoriented and angry people. Cops in riot gear were turning the streets into a maze of steel barricades. We tried to unify [...]
At U.N. Happiness Summit, A Coal Pile in the Ballroom
By Charles Eisenstein I spent the day last Monday at the United Nations by invitation of the Bhutanese government (along with about 600 other guests). The event was called “High Level Meeting on Well-being and Happiness: Defining a New Economic Paradigm.” I thought, “It must not be very high-level if I am invited.” Nonetheless, there [...]
#GrowOccupy – Why Occupy Will Never Be Co-opted
There has been a great deal of talk in the Occupy movement around the fear of co-optation. The latest round of debate has been around the 99% Spring movement. Adbusters has sounded the alarm with the cry “#DefendOccupy.” The basic premise of the current debate is whether MoveOn.org is a bogeyman that is stealing the [...]
Be Love ~ In Memory of Kumu Raylene Kawaiaea
Last week the planet lost a precious beating heart – beloved Hawaiian elder Kumu Raylene Ha’alelea Kawaiaea. Nova Ami and I were honoured to spend time with her, and interview her for Occupy Love. We will always be grateful for the wisdom and love she shared with us. Thank you Joel Levey and Michelle Levey [...]
The Meaning Is Love. Occupy Valentines!
Love is something we do. It’s active, it’s action, it’s process, not product. Don’t wait around for love! Be love, do love, fiercely. Love is not fuzzy, it’s not packaged, it’s not pink, it’s as red as blood, it’s life itself, and it’s not for sale. Occupy Love! It’s that time of year again ~ [...]
Occupy Oakland’s Declaration of Love
The following resolution was passed by the General Assembly of Occupy Oakland, creating an official Occupy Oakland action on Tuesday, Feburary 14th, Valentine’s Day. In the interest of diversity of tactics, and the spirit of love that we feel for our community, we propose a direct action to take place on February 14th.We encourage our [...]
All You Need (to Protest) Is Love
Occupy V-Day wants you to challenge corporate conceptions of romance. BY SADY DOYLE Occupy V-Day encourages the public to use Valentine’s Day to challenge our cultural (and pop-cultural) conceptions of love and romance and to provide their own definitions. Love–according to one line of thinking, anyway–is our first and most important education in social justice. To [...]
A Victory for Love! We did it!
We did it!! In fact, we sent it through the roof! Thanks to you all, we not only met, but we have exceeded the goal of our IndieGoGo crowd funding camapaign! As my beautiful team mate Ian MacKenzie wrote yesterday, “still basking in the glow of human generosity. Over 700 people donated towards our film [...]
Occupy The Dream – MLK and the Power of Love
“Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.” ― Martin Luther King Jr. Today the Occupy Movement will be engaging in global actions centered [...]
2012: Love’s Evolution Is My Resolution
There are no manuals to read, no rules to follow, other than the open book, of the heart. Love’s evolution is my resolution, my revolution, my solution. The time is now. 2012 is upon us. The beginning is here! I’d like to offer you an invitation, an invocation, a wake up call. Wake up! (Zen [...]
All I want for Christmas is a Global Evolution
Occupy Christmas! With what? How about by giving that which never costs, that which can never have a price tag: Love. The more we give love, the more we receive love. Love is the economic growth we need, not the planet destroying growth of Gross Domestic Product. Love grows best when given freely. Love is [...]
Fanning the Flames of Love : An Interview with Velcrow Ripper
My films are intended to be both a reflection of the heart of the times, and a catalyst, fanning the flames of love. ~ Velcrow Ripper ALIVE MIND: Occupy Love is the third film of the “Fierce Love Project.” It comes after Sacred Scared (Special Jury Prize of the Toronto Film Festival), an uplifting [...]
Occupy London
This earth is abundant. There is enough for all of us. Scarcity is the construct of a system built on greed. We need to re-recreate this world, from the bottom up, with the only secure foundation: love. With that as a starting place, with compassion as our bedrock, we will naturally evolve a sacred economics, [...]
New video message from Velcrow Ripper & IndieGoGo Fundraising Campaign Launches!
Exciting news! We have launched our IndieGoGo crowd-funding campaign to help finish Occupy Love – our transformative feature documentary. Please share the link as widely as possible! LEARN MORE & DONATE NOW TO OCCUPY LOVE Watch the above video message from Occupy Love director, Velcrow Ripper, shot last week in New York City. The march [...]
”How could we ask for anything less than the future?”
“Our communities need us. We are all leaders. How could we ask for anything less than the future?” A powerful video of the Occupy Poem by acclaimed spoken word artist Drew Dellinger , shot and edited by Occupy Love’s Velcrow Ripper, set to the music of Saracen by Jef Stott . Filmed during the epic Occupy Oakland general strike. Thanks [...]
Occupy with Aloha. Last night, APEC held a gala attended by Preside
Occupy with Aloha. Last night, APEC held a gala attended by President Obama and his wife in addition to a number of other world leaders. Hawaiian guitarist Makana, who had previously played at the White House in 2009, was slated to play at the gala. Rather than play his normal routine, Makanadecided to make a [...]
This Home is Occupied!In the last few days a number of Occupy tent citie
This Home is Occupied! In the last few days a number of Occupy tent cities have been dismantled by the police, including Occupy Oakland, Occupy Portland, and in Canada, Occupy Nova Scotia and Occupy London, among others. How does the Occupy movement continue to grow and flourish in the wake of these foreclosures? Expect surprises [...]
Veclrow’s Message To Occupy Canada
At a time when evictions and eviction orders have been served to the Occupy Movement in Canada, here’s my video message to Occupy Canada, expressing what I feel is the heart of the movement, asking us to consider what is Occupy 2.0, and some thoughts about the challenges facing Occupy Vancouver, which is near my [...]
