I took a cursory glance over the past year to get an overall picture of what has happened here in California with The Zeitgeist Movement and started to see the accomplishments form into a remarkable list. And with the culmination of the global release of Peter's 3rd film, Zeitgeist: Moving Forward, it couldn't be more appropriately named. We are certainly moving forward as noted below...
New Subchapters formed in 2010 (see the
ZMCA Chapter Page for full list)
- Sacramento
- Long Beach
- Monterey
- Ventura County
- Santa Barbara
Events (incomplete list!)
- March 13th Zday events in LA, OC, SD, SF
- Zday 2010 (approx 400 people attended) between 2 events in Los Angeles
- More than a dozen venue’d screenings of Addendum throughout the state
- Several state-wide banner events (freeways, intersections, festivals)
- Tabling events at colleges, beaches, Earthday & other festivals
Awareness Projects (ongoing)
ZMCA Chapter Stats
As of January 2010
- 10800 unique visits to the homepage
- 518 newsletter subscribe (PHPlist)
- 415 ZMCA registrations
- 30 active members (consistently participating in some manner)*
As of Dec 2010
- 32000 unique visits to the homepage
- 797/285 newsletter subscribers (Feedburner subscribe/reach)
- 1200 ZMCA site registrations
- 120 active members (consistently participating in some manner)*
- Average hits per month to zmca.org approx: 250,000
10 Subchapters that participate in an official capacity: San Diego, Orange County, Monterey, Ventura County, Long Beach, Hesperia, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Santa Barbara, Central Valley -- all total have reached 527 signups for active TZM supporters.
Further Developments
- Development of subchapter website structure (mainly using groupsite)
- Over 30 face-to-face subchapter meetings during 2010
- 2 regional TZM social events: Northern Cal, Southern Cal
- Several chapter-produced TZM videos posted on youtube from Ventura and Los Angeles
- artwork contributions from almost every chapter. Major contributions from Ryan Reeves to the Mediaproject site.
- Several chapters participated in some filming for Zeitgeist: Moving Forward in Los Angeles. Look for your silver-screen debut!!
- 11 Chapter-hosted Zeitgeist:Moving Forward screenings announced & planned : Sacramento, Richmond, San Fransisco, Ojai, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles (2), Long Beach, Monterey, Redlands, San Diego (see zmf.zmca.org)
And 48 ZMCA meetings in Teamspeak and a successful Joomla website experience for the coordination of all of the above..
When looking at the past year it’s remarkable how much a group of volunteers have been able to accomplish through action, contribution, creativity, art, music, communication, and a desire to make a difference….
In Solidarity,
Jason Lord
CA Coordinator
The Zeitgeist Movement
