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The Fred Brito Philanthropic Trust
"RE-INVENTS CASH FOR CLUNKERS"
The Board of Directors has purchased fifty former Cash
For Clunker automobiles, and will place them back in service.
"It is the belief of our Founder that these cars can be fixed and
placed back in service to help the disenfranchised."
These cars will go to the following communities:
Single Mother's with Children who need transportation
in order to work and keep their jobs.
The elderly who have medical clearance to drive,
who need a car to provide help to themselves and for others.
Men and women who need a car in order to keep their jobs
and who are working to provide for their families.
Men and Women who seek a fair opportunity to compete
in the workplace and need a vehicle as part of their vocation.
Organizations who provide a verified service to others.
These cars would have been destroyed as part of the Government
plan. We were able to convince car dealers to sell them to us
so that we can help others who need a vehicle in order to
provide for their families.
All vehicles are given free of charge to those selected
based on personal circumstances and need.
Vehicles will be distributed on Thanksgiving Day
once they have been Repaired, Certified,
Titled and Insured. We will also be providing
sixty days of insurance and $100 in fuel.
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"A MOTHER'S RING"
A stunning heart-wrenching event!
Fred Brito celebrates his Mother and Father's life, by
giving his mother's wedding ring to a U.S. Marine
grossly disabled and disfigured by the Iraq war.
A couple, destined to be married, tortured by war, now
living in despair and unable to buy a wedding ring will marry soon.
The wedding ring that brought my parents together, now serves to
be the symbol of great love for a couple who has suffered greatly.
THE WEDDING
Story and Pictures coming soon.
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IMPOSTORS IS COMING!
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Has Fred Brito become
a World Class Superman?
Defending the dignity of the many who
have lost their way, Fred Brito sheds his
past and becomes the Master in defense of the
disenfranchised all across America.
Excerpt from a Keynote speech by Fred Brito in San Francisco, California on March 1, 2009 at The San Francisco Consortium:
Like a politician campaigning for public office, Fred Brito is constantly on a plane and traveling to many of the nation's hot spots. While he is not campaigning for public office, he is on a personal mission to speak out and defend the many who have lost their way. And he is doing it on his own dime and on his own conditions.
Below is an excerpt of a speech that he gave in San Francisco, California at the San Francisco Consortium. This was a four-day seminar that he created and organized in order to help the many who have severely been impacted by the U.S. economy. The attendees were people who have lost everything or who have fallen through the cracks of society and seek a way out. Fred Brito, without notes, speaks from his heart and guides the attendees in his Keynote Address, his dreams and his desires for the people unfold.
This is a tremendous accomplishment by someone who suffered a series of setbacks in his own life. Today, he champions the disenfranchised and lectures across America inspiring people to stand up and live there lives knowing that the Best in each of us is yet to come. -Windy St. James, San Fancisco Free Press.
Fred Brito is standing up and speaking out, and his voice is getting louder and louder.
"No longer can we just look away when we see people who have fallen through the cracks of our society. No longer is it okay to be a part of the Haves, while neglecting the Have's Not. No longer is it acceptable for politicians to speak great words of wisdom as to how they plan to help the disenfranchised, only to have their words end up as empty promises. I refuse to stand by while so many need help. I refuse to stand by and look the other way, and I refuse to sleep in my home, while so many call home, the streets of America. This has to change and we are all in this together.
The Have's and the Have's Not, we are all one people, and as one people we must rise and do what we can to ensure that no one, no one anywhere gets left behind. This is my mission and I will not rest, until children, the elderly and those that have been afflicted get the proper attention and care that they need in order to truly live in America. This is the most powerful country on earth people. It is inconceivable to me that we have so many who call the streets of America home, while politicians, and Wall Street continues to get the gold. We are not one country with many different people. We are one people who are all connected by one common thread.
I stand here today and I see many of you who have come to hear a message. I see your pain, and I see your suffering. While many of you are new to the ranks of the disenfranchised, due to the current economy, you also join a group of people all across this land that have waited too long and suffered too much, and have endured great pain and sacrificed. We are all one people. No matter if you are black or white, Asian or Latino... we are one people, and I refused to look the other way at your suffering.
I stand here today with a message. A simple message. A message of hope. Of forgiveness. But I also stand here with a much more powerful message. The message of love, and how that love will lead us out of despair if we all work together to ensure that as one people, we will make it to the other side... together. Therefore I say to you, as I have said in many parts of this nation, I will do what I can, I will urge whomever I can speak to, and I will challenge whomever I need to challenge, to get our voices heard. This economy will not get better in weeks or in months. We will continue to hear empty promises from all corners of our political system. But be sure of one thing, government is not the answer, the people are. People like you and I, who are tired of this struggle, and want the very best for our children and our elderly, but have no way of obtaining that help. Therefore is in incumbent on each of us to stand tall and begin the process of working together for one common cause.
In the olden days, HE taught us to fish, so that we might never go hungry. Today that same principle applies now more than ever. I am here today to being to teach the principles of survival in difficult times. There is no easy answer, but if we all apply ourselves towards working towards a solution, then and only then will be able to find a way out this darkness and into the light.
I can stand here today and I can speak wonderful words. I can inspire all of you to see that a better day is coming, but I also know that my words will not get us there, but my heart is in the right place, and I am determined to work hard and make a difference in not only your life, but the lives of so many others who have lost there way.
Today, we begin a four-day free seminar. In these four days many things will happen. You will become inspired and hopeful and you will learn many things, but it is all for naught if you leave here the same way that you walked in. In this seminar, I will teach you what you must Master in your own life, in order to make in this world. There is no other way. And certainly, there are no short cuts. So I urge you to listen, participate and immerse yourself in what is about to happen here. My hope is that you will become so empowered that you will create a solution to your challenges today here and now. But know one thing, though you take this seminar, and despite the fact that it is free, I will tell you this, you will have to earn each of the steps. Anything that is free or that comes easy in life is not earned, and when it is not earned, it is never valued. So earn this day and the next. Be a part of the internal change that will become you. Stand up and be proud of who and what you are. Let no one, make you feel second-class, and always strive to be the very best in all that you do.
Finally, we were all born with some important things in life. Our Word. Our dignity. Many of us like I have, have destroyed this by what we have done and by what we have become. But it is not too late to change and to earn what we have lost or given away. It is not over until it is over. So as you begin this seminar, I urge you to search deep within you. Look inside and discover where you have been, and where your dreams will take you. Many of you know me or have heard of me. I have made so many mistakes in life that I am embarrassed to admit them. But admitting them is a must in order to move forward. Learn who you are, and once you do you will be able to build a new foundation upon what you will build and eventually become. Dream your dreams. I do each and every day. And trust me, I have made more mistakes in my lifetime that will surprise you, but I have also learned the power of forgiveness. I needed to forgive me, before I was able to allow others to forgive me. This seminar will literally shock you with what you are all about to learn, and I promise you, this will not be the last time that you will see me. Never think that I am here one day and gone the next. I am here and I am only a telephone call or an email away. and I do accept collect calls.
This seminar is not successful unless YOU become successful. This seminar is not finished this weekend. It continues until all of you have accomplished your dreams. Your dreams are also my dreams. So stand up, be strong, be proud and I promise you that if you soak everything into your mind that you will learn here this week, and apply it into your life each and every day... Oh my God.... I can't wait to see who you will become. I love each and every one of you, and though I don't know you individually yet, I will. So let's begin the journey, and let's always remember... The Best in each of us is yet to come. This is our beginning!
Director-Videographer
Benny Ontiveros and Ralph Delaurentis
along with Photographer Jesse Ramirez
have signed on to film:
"IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE THIS WAY"
A Documentary about Poverty in America
-A Fred Brito Film-
Part Two: For me this part is what makes this documentary so powerful. While filming people living is poverty and despair, it is also my duty and obligation to do all that I can to not only tell the story, but to lift those in our story out of poverty and provide for them the opportunity to lead normal lives. Therefore, Part Two will depict the story of those people we have taken from poverty and helped them to lead normal lives. We will tract their story as they rebuild their lives while never forgetting where they have been and the responsibility to look back and help someone else to achieve as well.
For me, I know first hand what living in poverty is like. I lived it for a short period of time, living on the corner of 7th and Broadway in downtown Los Angeles. For me, I could not believe how many live homeless in Los Angeles.
Just today, the count is over one million in some form of homelessness in Los Angeles. I can't imagine how many more that live in poverty in other metropolitan cities across America. Many more will lose everything and end up homeless as our current economy dips even lower into recession. "It Does Not Have To Be This Way" is a film that tugs at the hearts strings of all Americans, and demands of each of us to Reach Out, and do what we can to make a vital difference in the lives of others less fortunate. This is my life's work, and no matter what I have done in the past, no matter what mistakes I have made over the years, I know that through my work on this film will hopefully Change a World from sitting in judgment of others, and doing what we can together to lift others up. This is a powerful film that demands of us all to Stop the Judgments of others based on their economic abilities. For too many years the disenfranchised have been judged unfairly. We cast them about as unworthy, filthy, uneducated, criminal, psychotic and to some, not even human. However, in the end, If I were to quote a famous line from yet another powerful motion picture, "The Elephant Man" it would be this:
Remember if you will, when the Elephant Man was chased through the train station by a lot of people wanting to beat up the Elephant Man because of the way he looked. They finally cornered him in a rest room and as they were about to beat him to, he raised his hands and yelled... "Stop... I... am... Human."
I will never forget this powerful message. It is for all of us who have been judged as outcasts and elephant people that I make this film. Often we see dogs and cats walking aimlessly and homeless on our neighborhood streets. But most importantly is what do we as a society do? We pick up these stray animals and we take them home, we bath them, and feed that and find a nice place for them to sleep. Yet, many of us will never do the same to a human being.
"We as a people have a lot of soul searching to do, and my hope that through this film, the judgments of others must stop. Somewhere, somehow we must all find what brings us all together as a people. For me, it is called Love."
-Fred Brito
A Fred Brito Film
Street Sense Entertainment, LLC
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There have been many documentaries about this subject,
but what makes this documentary unique is that it
will be the first time that you will see and hear
their stories as they themselves tell it.
Single Mothers who work the streets
in order to provide for their children.
Veterans who served with honor
and now live in peril and despair.
Children who sell themselves
in order to survive yet another day.
Elderly men and women who
call home, in a cardboard box.
You, may not believe that these thing exist in America,
but they do. Now you will see it. Raw uncut footage of
life in America for over two million Americans who
live in desperation and unbelievable poverty.
These are their stories:
Raw, Vivid and Unscripted.
No one has told these stories in such a powerful
and riveting way. Maybe, by telling their stories,
you will be moved to stop the judgments, and be
Called into Action.
This is one documentary
that you will not want to miss.
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Directed, Videographed and Edited by
Benny Ontiveros & Ralph Delaurentis
Still Photography
Jesse Ramirez
Music by:
TBA
Produced by Fred Brito
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