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 [...]
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 [...]
How To Respond With Love
THE MISTAKE WE MAKE is thinking the corporations are separate from us. The mistake we make is thinking that corruption is only a political issue. The mistake we make is thinking that by eliminating the system we eliminate the problem. It’s true we live in a world dominated and exploited by the few, and it’s [...]
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 [...]
The Economy Of Love
“The economy of love is – the more you have the more I have. If I can make you feel happy or hopeful or beautiful I might feel more that way myself…. If I want a society that works, then I need you to be powerful, I need you to be responsible, I need you [...]
Embody the Movement — Occupy Wall St West
As part of Occupy Wall St. West, on January 20th 2012, to mark the anniversary of Citizens United supreme court case, hundreds of activists and social artists called for economic justice and people power in the name of the 99%. This video reflects how art and activism are key in growing a movement and building [...]
What will it take? [Poem]
What it will take Is a resistance to the system that we’ve come to embrace For no other reason than just because it is For resistance is to question what we’ve been led to believe Not necessarily lies, but stories Stories that have become truths in the synapses of our minds Bonds so tight that [...]
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 [...]
Why Occupy Love?
Occupy Love. There are so many ways to look at these words, a command, an invitation, a declaration, a new-age proclamation, a powerless platitude, a volition or a guiding mission statement….on and on… In one obvious interpretation, and one I’ve heard mentioned more than once, it’s dualistic. If one occupies love then one must have [...]
One People Flash Mob – This Is What Love Looks Like
On 19 November 2011 over 100 dancers converged at Occupy SF & Oakland to dance the world awake. Flashmob Produced & Directed by Magalie Bonneau-Marcil of DancingwithoutBorders.org, Video Directed & Edited by Ben Flanigan (BenFlanigan.com), Co-sponsors: CODEPINK.org & SFNOW.org Want to bring the flash mob to your community? Go to http://tiny.cc/h3t3w Music: Thanks to the [...]
Occupy Broadway: The Big Bank – A Musical For The Movement #OWS
After seeing our short film, The Revolution Is Love, we were contacted by Jacob Seligmann, who has his own amazing project. It’s called The Big Bank: The Big Bank is about a bank that loves to foreclose on people, a banker who falls in love with a flower shop owner who he is supposed to [...]
Occupy Movement: Show Me Your Face
Directed by Ian MacKenzie My goal with this piece was to move us beyond our ideas of left and right, black and white. We are moving toward a world beyond “isms.” These are relics from our previous consciousness and it’s time to let them go. We cannot tackle the crises facing our world alone. We [...]
If We Get Occupy Right, We Get Everything Right
WHEN I FIRST heard the call to Occupy Wall St for a few months, I knew this was big. I knew it would be more than just a “protest.” This felt different than the usual march to voice specific grievances. It was a call for something more profound, and much deeper, than even the original [...]
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 [...]
Occupy Wall St – The Revolution Is Love
Directed by Ian MacKenzie Co-produced with Velcrow Ripper “Love is the felt experience of connection to another being. An economist says ‘more for you is less for me.’ But the lover knows that more of you is more for me too. If you love somebody their happiness is your happiness. Their pain is your pain. [...]
”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 [...]
Open Letter from Starhawk and ACT to Occupy
Open Letter to the Occupy Movement from Starhawk and the Alliance of Community Trainers The Occupy movement has had enormous successes in the short time since September when activists took over a square near Wall Street. It has attracted hundreds of thousands of active participants, spawned occupations in cities and towns all over North America, [...]
