ZMCA Newsletter January 2012

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January 2012 Newsletter

DEAR Visitor,

2011 Year-In-Review ZMCA

Here is a brief overview of the past year's activites & events for the Zeitgeist Movement in California. These accomplishments together form a remarkable list of volunteer effort! 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...

New Subchapters formed in 2011 (see the ZMCA Chapter Page for full list)

Palm Springs
Nevada County
Santa Rosa
San Jose
Modesto

Further Developments

Development of subchapter website structure (mainly using groupsite)
Development of “Orientation Meetings” as part of developed chapter programs.
100’s of activism events state wide
A regional TZM social event at Griffith Park, Los Angeles
Many chapter-produced TZM videos posted on youtube from Monterey, Sacramento, Ventura, San Diego and Los Angeles.
Artwork contributions from almost every chapter to the Media Project
Independence of TVP and TZM. The dataset and direction are unchanged with what we’re advocating
48 ZMCA meetings in Teamspeak and a successful Joomla website experience for the coordination of all of the above.

"Firing Back" - by Ben McLeish

In his January lecture, Ben presents a case against a monetary economy and a case for a resource based economy.

Can't see the video? (click here)

Lecture recorded in London, UK

Zday 2012 Main Event

As one of the most pivotal awareness actions we conduct, ZDAY has historically been a great public awareness success with an average of 350 events occurring across 60 countries each year since 2009 (see zdayglobal.org) Each year, one location is set for a central focus and this event tends to be the largest and most noted in the Media. Free Live Webcasts occurring as well.

Occupy and TZM come together in the Venice Talks

Can't see the video? (click here)

A local Occupy group invited Peter Joseph (TZM Founder), Jen Wilding (US Coord) and Jason Lord (CA Coord) to have a discussion and Q&A about what TZM advocates. Centered around noting strucural problems with our system versus protesting invdividual causes.

"Neither the great political and financial power structures of the world, nor the specialization-blinded professionals, nor the population in general realize that sum-totally the omni-engineering-integratable, invisible revolution in the metallurgical, chemical, and electronic arts now makes it possible to do so much more with ever fewer pounds and volumes of material, ergs of energy, and seconds of time per given technological function that it is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a "higher standard of living than any have ever known."

- Buckminster Full, 1981 Critical Path

Global Events

Volunteer via your local chapter or create your own!

Chapter Updates for January 2012 (Partial List)

Sacaramento:[Arya]

From our efforts, events and helping out at Occupy, new people from OccupySacramento attended our first chapter meeting of 2012. We also want to pick up with our Street Talk video series on college campuses in the area.

Los Angeles: [Brandon]

We held a public screening of Moving Forward in January that was well attended.

We've done a lot of college & university outreach. Often we search the internet for event days and contact students and faculty. Also, we're using http://eventful.com/ to search and find large events in our area and then contact interesting events to see if we can do tabling there or speak at the event. Large Zday event being planned at USC for March.

San Diego: [Don]

1st meeting of 2012 coming up to start our Zday planning. Especially finding a venue. We hope to create a psuedo-expo style event like we did last year.

We're also planning more regular Townhalls for 2012 since we have a community center venue that available to us on a monthly baisis.

Palm Springs: [Holland]

We've made some connections with the Occupy movement here and we've been attending their events to raise questions and propose ideas. Lots of success with handing out DVD of the ZM movies at those events.

The Nov 6th, 2011 ZMCA meeting helped us a lot with understanding "Planned Obsolescence" and "Technological Unemployment". It's a great way to interject into political debates without alarming anyone, and helping people think about the system versus an ideology.

Also looking to have a film screening at the Annenberg Theatre in the Palm Springs area.

Ventura: [John]

First meeting of 2012 coming us this week. Some members attended a screening of another film and engaged people in TZM ideas. Venutra will host a larger ZM camp at burningman this year. Will need 1000s of DVD to hand out this year too.

Orange County: [Ryan]

Ryan & Louis attended the OC Green Market to table. I'm also working on short videos on the OC youtube channel. TZM Host Jim Phillips contacted me. Participation has been slow in general so I'm doing more personal projects in the meantime. Also looking at a potential Zday venue space..

Humbolt County: [Reba]

We had 13 people show up to our first chapter meeting. Some showed up because of the radio interview I did on KMUD radio. People's understandings of TZM was varied. I provided handouts with all the Zlinks to information. Also feedback cards for people to fill out with their interests, events they want to participate in, etc. We want to have a screening of Addendum for Zday this year. And we will have a booth at the Humblot Green Festival in April.

California Chapter of The Zeitgeist Movement

www.zmca.org

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Neither the great political and financial power structures of the world, nor the specialization-blinded professionals, nor the population in general realize that sum-totally the omni-engineering-integratable, invisible revolution in the metallurgical, chemical, and electronic arts now makes it possible to do so much more with ever fewer pounds and volumes of material, ergs of energy, and seconds of time per given technological function that it is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a "higher standard of living than any have ever known."