Imagination has always been important to change but today more than ever. I just finished teaching an intensive course on social movements that changed the world and realized that nothing I did opened the minds of my students more than documentaries. Now in a struggle for survival of the planet a new film is in development that I think can open our minds and hearts to the kind of change we need and you can be part of helping it along
Velcrow Ripper is a Genie winning film maker who has been working on a trilogy for more than a decade. Now he is making the third and in my view most important film of the Fierce Light triology, Evolve Love: Love in the Time of Climate Crisis. He is crowd sourcing financing for this remarkable film on the movement for climate change and for as little as $10 you can become part of the team to send Evolve Love to Cancun for the Climate Change conference that starts next week.
Velcrow, who became a close friend after I saw Scared Sacred, the first in the trilogy is remarkable as film maker not only because he goes beneath the surface of things, but also because he finds stories of hope, compassion and transformation wherever he travels in the world.
Here’s what he says in his latest blog,
“We can’t know what the future will hold – no one does. But whether we will be able to “save the planet” or not, the greatest source of hope and meaning lies in taking action, from the heart. We have the opportunity now to join in on the celebration of possibility, to align ourselves with the forces of life. We’ll need to become skilled at walking the line between urgency and hope, maintaining our balance in a world out of balance. I’m convinced that out of the crucible of crisis, the greatest love story on earth could be born.”
When governments failed to come to any serious agreement at Copenhagen, a new global movement for climate justice emerged that met at the invitation of Evo Morales in Cochabamba and came us with a People’s Agreement on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth and a plan of action, which is now being led at an international level by La Via Campesina and in Canada by a coalition of groups.
These groups have already published a extraordinary poll based on the main proposals of the Cochabamba agreement, are planning People’s Assemblies on Climate Change across the country on December 6 and actions in solidarity with the mass actions in Cancun on December 7.
Velcrow’s raising money to capture the full emergence of this movement and its leaders. You can get engaged in many ways in what I consider the most important struggle for transformation in the world today but one way you can help right now is to make a pledge to support Evolve Love and be part of the solution.
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