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Cover Image By Rich Lam
Issue number 9 - like love potion # 9 - entices our readers to fall in love. At first, the topic of love felt like a departure from the more pressing global issues we have been focused on for the past six years, but we soon discovered that at the root of both conflict and the potential for a resolution, is love. We plan to dive in deep and let our dialog on this topic leave no stone unturned. With this goal in mind, we are offering this as the first issue open to our readers. We want to hear your stories and share them. You can email us with your Love Stories or post them directly on our Facebook Page. You can also join our movement by posting images on Instagram with the hashtag #ExperimentswithLove.

Subway Love

This video was the brainchild of Max Stossel, a New York native who works in social media. He wrote this poem “Subway Love”, inspired by his experiences living and commuting in a fast-paced city where opportunities, passing us like speeding trains, can be missed in each moment.

This was Stossel’s third poem ever written. It has been proven in the tomes of literature that love and loss inspire even those who would not call themselves poets to poetry – “Subway Love” is proof of that.

The director of the video was sought out by Stossel for his incredible talent. He cold-called him. It took a while to get a response, but somehow love prevailed and Matthew Freidell (director of the viral video “This is Water”) and renowned choreographer Celia Rowlson-Hall signed on to work on “Subway Love”. The male dancer in the video, Ryan Weiss, is one of the ambassadors for Red Flag’s Issue Number 9 on Love. We will be featuring his voice later this month. Enjoy.

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