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 (6 hours still to go!) and it was not in their “rational self-interest.” Or perhaps, it is… because they understand their Self actually includes the Other. So as you support others, you are enriching and supporting all...
read more“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 to be fully engaged, and maybe I need you to be joyous. The more I can give you the better my society is, because we are actually in this together” – Rebecca...
read moreI AM CURRENTLY Time magazine’s Person of the Year. I am a Protestor (aka an Occupier) I helped organize the NY event and spent the previous years prior to September 17th involved in many activities with similar sensibilities. Only a few people know this and most that do could care less. Not many of my friends have asked me about my experience, which is fine and pretty much the way things roll here in Larchmont, NY. There are a lot of big celebrities and very accomplished people here. Plus, this is a land of finance people. Tim Geithner,...
read more“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” – Carl Jung APOCALYPTICISM is an actual word. According to Wikipedia, it is “the religious belief that there will be an apocalypse, a term which originally referred to a revelation of God’s will, but now usually refers to belief that the world will come to an end time very soon, even within one’s own lifetime.” The idea that “the world will end” is not limited to fire and brimstone. Various New...
read moreAs 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 a better world. Join this movement by taking action in your community. Check out official One People flash mob. Video Produced by Magalie Bonneau-Marcil of DancingwithoutBorders.org, Directed & Edited by Ben Flanigan...
read more“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 around the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The heart of Dr. King’s vision offers wonderful inspiration for the movement – one that is deeply rooted in love. King’s approach to...
read moreWhat 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 even though we recognize them we still Can’t break free. But recognition is where it all begins When questions and childlike innocence form the stem that grows up and out Piercing through convention and unimagination Like the roots of...
read moreThere 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 hand clap) It’s time to come to our senses, and wake up! Listen – can you hear the alarm bells ringing? Can you hear the cries of Mother Earth? Can you hear the cries of Her children? Can you smell the stench of an...
read moreOccupy 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 at the heart of global evolution. Love is the expression of our profound interdependence. For the love of the planet, and each other, we need to awaken from the trance of corporate culture, from the dog-eat-dog-eat-dog world of...
read moreOccupy 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 a relationship to love identifying it as separate from them. By definition, one can’t occupy something unless it is another. Unless it’s a distinct and individual object. In an...
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