Who: “Ghetto Physics” features OCCUPY relevant commentary from:
Author, social activist and Princeton professor Dr. Cornel West;
rapper/actor Ice T;
economist, author and social activist
John Perkins;
Emmy Award-winning television producer and social activist Norman Lear;
former U.S. Congresswoman
Cynthia McKinney;
MC and producer KRS-One;
best-selling author Byron Katie;
rapper Too Short;
Founder and Spiritual Director of the Etherean Mission in Ghana, West Africa,
Brother Ishmael Tetteh
and street legend Pimp Fillmore Slim
When: Wednesday, October 26, 2011
9:30 p.m.
Where: The OCCUPY LA site
1st & Spring Street ( in front of City Hall )
Downtown Los Angeles, CA
Why: When filmmakers E. Raymond Brown and Williams Arntz (“What the BLEEP”) first released the independent movie “Ghetto Physics” in late 2010, they knew the film was an early battle cry, a wakeup call to America and beyond. The cutting edge hybrid documentary explored the dynamics of the ‘powers that be’ in laymen terms that the ‘man on the street’ could easily relate to. Inflation, foreclosure, unemployment, healthcare issues, pollution, crime, recession and depression: one percent was benefiting – pimping; and somebody, the other 99 percent, were being played !
Cut chase to the present, and the DVD release of “Ghetto Physics,” from Intention Media, accompanied by the manual, “GhettoPhysics: Redefining the Game,” finds itself smack dab in the middle of an OCCUPY movement which could have easily been a scene in the original film!
Explosive, controversial, insightful and comedic, “Ghetto Physics” is the Movie of the Movement and filmmaker E. Raymond Brown is emerging as one the OCCUPY movement’s more coherent and eloquent voices.
