Dreamworks, King, REVO LA

Yesterday Variety reported that DreamWorks had acquired the life
rights to Martin Luther King Jr. and would be creating a biopic to be
produced by Stephen Spielberg. Needless to say, I was ecstatic. No
other leader has shaped my thinking on social justice more than King.
I consistently return to his writings each time I begin to feel things
getting blurry.

One of the reasons that King remains so powerful and relevant is
because of how effectively he articulated the idea of holistic
justice. His vision taught that everyone had a responsibility to
respond to injustice and create change; "We will have to repent in
this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the
bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people". His
call was a call to action regardless of your social, economic or
political status. He invited mankind to participate in the "great
reckoning", choosing love over hate.

I believe that every heart is capable of living out King's dream, and
that is why I love REVO so much. The origin of REVO is deeply rooted
in the ideas that "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice
everywhere" and "something powerful happens when creativity and
justice unite". This October artists will gather at U.C.L.A. to fight
for the next generation in Indonesia. We will choose to reject apathy,
squelch cynicism and embrace the hope that each of us possess the
power to make the world a better place.

It will be an amazing night of creativity. And when the evening
finally ends and the Ackerman Grand Ballroom is cleared out not only
will the future of Indonesia be improved, but I believe all of us who
experience it will be changed. We will have participated in the
REVOlution of love that has been the heartbeat of every generation in
history.

I hope Spielberg does a good job with the movie. But no matter how it
does at the box office, King's legacy is a force that continues to
inspire. "Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively
maladjusted". Let's start a REVO!

-Mark