'Occupy Love' Screening

'Occupy Love' Screening to Examine Clash of Values

"Occupy Love, a documentary film that connects the threads of rapidly evolving cultural uprisings around the globe, will be screened at a Community Forum in Newbury Park on Saturday, Feb. 22 at 7:30 p.m. 

The film by Velcrow Ripper captures scenes from the Egyptian revolution, Occupy Wall Street, the Indignado (Outraged) uprising in Spain, protests at the Alberta tar sands in Canada, the climate justice movement and beyond. Woven through the action-oriented documentary are comments from visionaries on alternative systems of economics, sustainability and social organization.

  A dominant theme of the film is that concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few has caused ecological collapse and economies to crash around the globe. 

The film will be screened at the Conejo Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Newbury Park. A moderated discussion will follow. The forum is open to the public and free; donations will be accepted.  

Ripper describes "Occupy Love" as a journey deep inside the revolution of the heart that is erupting around the planet. In the film he asks the question, "How could the crisis we are facing become a love story?"      

The Newbury Park event is a community screening that precedes a national theatrical tour of the film beginning May 3 in New York City, followed by engagements in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Cruz and Seattle.