Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action

Velcrow Ripper is a social agitator and filmmaker who, after the death of a close friend at the hands of the Mexican police during the Free Trade riots, questions his activist path in life. His quest takes him on a journey through contemporary resistance, and the film becomes as much an examination of the new left as it is a journey into one man’s spiritual motivation. Ripper’s film is highly personal - taking him back to his Baha’i childhood and forward to the wisdom of Alice Walker, Gandhi and groups such as the Genesis of the Network of Spiritual Progressives (GNSP) - a forum working for the convergence of all activists.

Behind Ripper’s film is a central question: "Can spirituality and action converge?" and his answer is a resounding “yes,” highlighting, as he does, Gandhi’s ‘soul force’ and ‘human sunrise,’ as well as the new ethos of activism: "Do not oppose. Propose" and "Be the revolutionary, not the rebel."