neal: have you seen it ? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sergio Lub <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 1:55 AM Subject: THRIVE - Premiere Pictures and Review of the Movie Dears, Please find below a link to pictures of the Thrive Premiere from 11/11/11 and my comments on this remarkable movie. http://www.flickr.com/photos/lub/sets/72157628120229424 Instructions to see and copy any of these pictures: - Choose Slideshow at the upper right corner to easily see them all. The viewing speed is regulated at Options. - You can enlarge a picture by clicking on it and then again on the magnifying glass until it is at full resolution. You can then download it or right click on it to save it in your hard disk. - Feel free to use any image to advance the work of www.ThriveMovement.com THRIVE – Movie Review, by Sergio Lub My wife and I were part of a small group of networkers that gathered last September in Santa Cruz to watch a preview of THRIVE, the documentary that took Kimberly and Foster Gamble 8 years to make and features some of the best thinkers of our generation. Among cultural creatives, this movie has raised more expectations than any other that I remember. It has two trailers at www.ThriveMovement.com - and a vast website of documentation to support and expand on the facts mentioned in the movie. The accumulated body of evidence is so large that I heard people say “the movie is a trailer for the website.” The expected deluge of traffic is such that a sophisticated international network of servers in the US and abroad have been enlisted to prevent crashing due to high volume or attempts to undermine the disclosure. THRIVE was successfully launched around the world simultaneously and in many languages on 11/11/11. Its premiere was in the magnificent Craneway Pavillion by Pt. Richmond's waterfront - www.craneway.com - This is the converted historic factory where Rosie the Riveter worked making tanks during WWII and showed a woman’s worth to the world with her iconic poster Yes We Can! Thrive Premiere 500 tickets sold out on September 9, two hours after they went on sale. THRIVE the Movie Going to this private showing I had a nagging suspicion that all this secrecy and elaborate launching plans could be more hype than substance. I know Foster Gamble as a very conscious man, but how can a documentary be so interesting? Half way into the showing I understood what was happening, and a chill ran up my spine. This movie is exposing why we have wars, famines, poisoning of our biosphere, junk foods, censorship of alternative energy sources, suppression of meaningful education and institutional attacks on effective natural remedies. THRIVE allows us to clearly ascend the pyramid of power until reaching – and bravely naming – the few at the top who control most of the world. It goes on to expose their detailed plan and why they are doing it. Driven by a mentality of scarcity and fear that includes culling the population of the world by reducing fertility, by covert sterilization, toxic food and water and by wars of aggression - strategies that have been applied already for decades. Then I understood why THRIVE had to be kept secret until it needed to be launched in such a big scale that it could no longer be contained. When you are exposing people that have already killed millions with their policies, you have to be not only very brave, but you must do it in such a massive and well documented way that attacking the messenger may no longer stop the truth. Play it Forward As a descendant of the founder of Procter and Gamble, Foster was groomed since his youth to be a leader in the establishment, but he chose a different path. His wife Kimberly Carter Gamble, grew up close to Los Angeles movie scene. Neither of them had any illusions about showing THRIVE through the normal distribution channels created for airing Hollywood’s entertainment films and subject to the censorship of its corporate interests. They also wanted to reward their investors and produce a revenue stream that would support the THRIVE movement and model radical global transformation as a prosperous endeavor, hopefully inspiring others to do similar work. One aspect of their innovative approach is a partnership with Elevate’s “PlayItForward,” an original idea based on a very human tendency. If people like a movie, they can gift it to their friends with a couple of clicks and the recipients may in turn feel inclined to do the same, thus “playing it forward.” This novel feature is explained at www.thrivemovement.com Learning How to Thrive The THRIVE team was committed to providing solutions that are a match to the problems we face. The first and last of THRIVE’s four chapters are an in-depth and detailed exploration of solutions, the actions we can take, as individuals and in large groups, in order to grow out of our present predicament – to not only survive, but to thrive. These solutions are all organized on the website, so you can just enjoy the beautiful, compelling journey of the film, and after you have had a chance to digest this incredible feast of knowledge, I believe you will be tempted to work on the strategies for solutions, and thus add your shoulder to the Thrive movement. Sergio Lub Nov 11, 2011 * -- Sergio Lub www.favors.org/profile/24 "The seven deadly sins are wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, business without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principle." - Gandhi * -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens