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We invite all members of our Portland metro area communities for a film showing and interactive discussion of Canadian director Velcrow Ripper’s powerful documentary Occupy Love to commemorate our now 2nd year anniversary.
Occupy Love explores the growing realization that the dominant system of power is failing to provide us with health, happiness or meaning. The old paradigm that concentrates wealth, founded on the greed of the few, is causing economic and ecological collapse. The resulting crisis has become the catalyst for a profound awakening: millions of people are deciding that enough is enough – the time has come to create a new world, a world that works for all life.
The film connects the dots in this era of rapidly evolving social change, featuring captivating insider scenes from the Egyptian Revolution, the Indignado uprising in Spain, Occupy Wall Street in New York, indigenous activists at the Alberta Tar Sands, the climate justice movement, and beyond. Woven throughout the action oriented backbone of the film is a deep exploration of public love, and compelling stories of an emerging new paradigm. It features some of the world’s key visionaries on alternative systems of economics, sustainability, and empathy, including Naomi Klein, Bill McKibben, Jeremy Rifkin, Bell Hooks and Charles Eisenstein.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT: ”Occupy Love is the movie I have been waiting to make, all my life. Today’s global awakening is what my earlier films have been anticipating and fostering – a current of potential that was pulsing and rumbling, just below the surface. Suddenly the volcano has erupted. As the popular Occupy sign reads, ‘The Beginning is Here.’”
WHEN: Friday, October 4th / 7 pm.
WHERE: First Unitarian Church of Portland – 1121 SW Main St., Portland
PRICE: By donation
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