TZM Update | Oct. 2018 Newsletter

- Oct. 2018 Newsletter -

Argentina chapter to host the 2019 global Zday Event
After the success of the 10th Annual Zeitgeist Movement event in Frankfurt, Germany it was decided to have the next global Zday in Latin America. The passionate Paulina took up the torch and after some searching the Argentina chapter has put up their hand to run the next global Zday with help from other chapters such as Chile. For those that are interested you can contact Paulina by emailing konstancja.tzm@gmail.com. We are also working on a Zday document for helping those who want to run a Zday event get some ideas of what has happened with previous ones.

Teamspeak (new), Mumble and Discord Communication Platforms
-Teamspeak:
Server: tzm.teamspeak3.com
Pass: Tzm_GHJ
-Mumble:
For those wanting to do large scale 100+ voice chats like before the Zeitgeist.Earth team are donating their Mumble server to the cause.
Address: mumble.zeitgeist.earth
Password: heavenlyblue
How to setup mumble: https://wiki.zeitgeist.earth/doku.php?id=tutorial:mumble&s[]=mumble
-Discord:
There is also an existing TZM community on Discord which has a lot of chat and occasional International meetings.
For those interested in more general text chat then checkout The Zeitgeist Movement Discord server.

Website Consolidation
The Zday Global website and Zeitgeist Media Festival website have being merged with the main www.thezeitgeistmovement.com website. Those interested in future ZDAY or ZMF events, please refer to the main global site from now on.

TZM Content Help
We are looking for articles and posts for the website articles, Facebook, Twitter and other feeds. If you have any quality TZM materials or something Zeitgeist Movement related you can email tzmbot@thzeitgeistmovement.com with your article and preface the email subject with "TZM Content".


Template for Chapter Sites
In more techy news there's a request for anyone who's interested in web design and development to help out with a Jekyll based TZM chapter theme. The project, run by Juuso is designed to make it easier for TZM chapters to create a simple website. The idea is to make it easy to update the theme and have people use Github pages and similar version control systems to easily add content whilst sharing designs.



It's still under active development with an initial example page available. The Github repo is https://github.com/TZMCommunity/rbe-edu
For those that don't know Jekyll is a system for converting plain text into HTML websites.
Because the output is straight HTML5 and it doesn't need a database it can very easily be hosted with minimal requirements.
Contact the Finland coordinator juuso@vilmunen.net for more information.

New Media
Peter Joseph & Friends "The Viable System"
Cybernetics and The Viable System. Filmed in Toronto, featuring Toronto IRBE / Sharing and Tool Library in May.
https://youtu.be/AFZjZa5ZAyY

Anna Brodskaya : Happiness in a Time of Uncertainty, Zday 2018
Anna Brodskaya gives some advice on how to negate anger and experience happiness, for anyone from those on the frontline of political activism to those simply in the pursuit of a considered life.
https://youtu.be/W_BnQgUh4p8

Andrew Drummond, A Picture of Transition | ZDay 2018 London
"A Picture of Transition" looks at several looming economic crises in energy and resource overshoot, challenges that we will face in transitioning to a renewably-powered circular economy, social adaptations that need to be made, how they can improve quality of life, and with case studies, shows how you can get this ball rolling in your local community, making almost anything from almost nothing.
https://youtu.be/oQrMR4Hc6Iw

Zeitgeist (DOT) Earth
The Zeitgeist.earth project is introducing a number of digital tools and services for communities involving technology, hacking and open source culture, as well as art and storytelling.
Zeitgeist Moving Forward opens with perhaps one of the most appropriate quotes to be highlighted in our generation: "In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it." — Ernst Fischer

In this spirit, while perhaps not obvious to everyone, it could be noted that memetic associations with the Japanese artform anime, currently underpin many of the Internet's subcultures and younger generations. The Zeitgeist .earth project is taking that spirit and has been hard at work creating an image board and wiki, are hosting the high capacity Mumble server mentioned as a TeamSpeak replacement. They are also running project management tools like taiga.io and gitea a self hosted equivalent to github to help developers create the digital tools needs to transition to an RBE.
The team has been hard at work and the professional graphic designers have been redesigning the Zeitgeist logo and are working on the image board design with both light and dark themes. However the project is still under heavy development.
More information check out https://zeitgeist.earth/newletter_01.html
You can also join the .earth Telegram group: https://t.me/zeitgeistearth or visit https://zeitgeist.earth once the team is ready to reveal more content.




Zeitgeist Survey Project
Want a project to sink your teeth into and you aren't good at web development but are interested in psychology?
The Zeitgeist survey project needs some help. The idea is to create a survey which can work out what the global Zeitgeist is. What is the general population's intellectual, cultural and moral spirit of the time, across the world? By repeating the survey every year we can see what direction it is headed in as a feedback mechanism.

Firstly we need help creating the survey itself. Working out the questions and how they'll be used. Once the survey is created we'll need the help of all ZM chapters to get the 16,000+ randomly distributed survey responses needed to have an adequate result. Hopefully we can then do a world wide poll every year and see which the places are most ripe for transition.

The briefing document is here and you can email survey@zeitgeist-info.com if you'd like to contribute.

Free World One
Free World One is the new, hybrid for-profit initiative that was launched by Colin Turner at Z-Day 2018. FW1 is a company designed to leverage the existing market system to promote RBE ambitions through monetizing various activities in education, awareness and prototyping. Profits raised by the company's ethical and sustainable projects will then be used to support other projects.

Colin, who founded The Free World Charter in 2011, is doing a great job at getting support and the company is now well into its first round of funding with over 270 investors. They are about to embark on an exciting educational project called LifeGames which promotes skills and traits like compassion, cooperation and critical thinking through fun classroom activities for kids. Books and apps of the LifeGames project are expected to go on sale to schools next Spring.

Help?
Want to contribute to the newsletter? Email newsletter@zeitgeist-info.com with any news or updates. If there's enough requests we can create a more automated solution and notice board.

Best Regards
~TZM 

10th Annual Zeitgeist Day, Frankfurt Germany, April 7th 2018

Zday 2018 
 The 10th Annual Zeitgeist Day | April 7th 2018 |  Frankfurt, Germany

www.thezeitgeistmovement.com

Recognized as the largest grassroots social movement in the world with official chapters in over 60 countries, The Zeitgeist Movement (TZM) announces its 10th annual "Zeitgeist Day".

Also known as "ZDay" for short, this global awareness campaign features a main event with prominent Movement speakers and guests from all over the world, while working in solidarity with other parallel events occurring during the same day and/or weekend. The gesture is one of global unity towards social betterment and a more humane society.

Prior main events have been documented by news agencies, including the New York Times and Huffington Post in America, with attendees and members coming from all around the world to discuss the state of society and how to improve it in a real way. Contrary to most conferences of this nature, TZM does not see needed social changes coming from the political or economic establishment. It sees it coming from the public itself through grassroots reform since TZM views the core problems in the world as actually originating from the very foundation of the eco-politico establishment to begin with. The problem is the system itself, in the view of The Movement.

The 2018 main event will be held in Frankfurt, Germany at the "Kunstverein Familie Montez" on April 7th, 2018, 15:00 - 20:00 CET. The 2018 symposium will address the growing severity of emerging social destabilization, war, income inequality, slavery, dramatic environmental failures and, in short, overall public health and societal crises playing out on the Earth's stage today.

Read full Press Release Here

Get Tickets Here

Submit Your Chapter Event Here

Sincerely,
TZM

TZM Crowdfunding Support & Update

TZM Update | Jan, 2017 CrowdFunding Initiative Dear TZM Community, The time has come to not only upgrade TZM's web infrastructure for our Global Websites but also work to create a new robust Chapter Network. Upgrades to occur feature better integration of our ideas/efforts, user friendly Chapter web hosting/admin, and more streamlined information/content. As we know well today, to do anything costs money and a crowdfunding campaign has been created for this asking for only $3500, to allow the global community to collectively support and make possible this important new development for the movement; further connecting us as a global community, connecting our ideas, and expanding this direction toward a more sustainable future.  For more information and to make a contribution visit the official Crowd Funding Campaign page here: https://chuffed.org/project/tzm-web-infrastructure. View Youtube Support Video for this Fund Drive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGHUlnX1oS0 ZDay 2017, Australia! The 9th Annual Zeitgeist Day is only weeks away. The 2017 Main Event will take place: at the New Globe Theatre in Brisbane, Australia on March 25-26th, 2017 Tickets Here "Zeitgeist Day", or ZDAY for short, is the flagship annual, global event day which occurs in the middle of March, each year. The goal is to increase public awareness of The Zeitgeist Movement and our potential for a new society. www.thezeitgeistmovement.com 13428 Maxella Ave #663 Marina Del Rey, CA 90292  Creative Commons, The Zeitgeist Movement Contact: media@thezeitgeistmovement.com

6th Annual Zeitgeist Media Festival - December 3rd, Los Angeles!

It's time for the 6th Annual Zeitgeist Media Festival (ZMF)! This powerful event, which parallels our more intellectual Z-Day event, seeks to use the power of art and media to help inspire hope and change in the world. The 2016 main event is happening in Los Angeles, California, Saturday December 3rd, 2016, from 3pm-11pm at ARTShareLA, an art-collaborative located in LA's downtown arts district. This non-profit, Multimedia Arts-Activist Festival will feature live music, comedy, short films, spoken word, art gallery, live painting, collaborative/interactive-art rooms, presentations by prominent activists, artists, and thinkers, and will host a variety of NPOs and organizations to foster solidarity and discussion around pressing social issues, and their resolution.  Get Tickets Here -  http://zmf2016.brownpapertickets.com Performer Highlights Include: Violin Virtuoso Lili Haydn, Comedian/Social Commentator Lee Camp, Director of the Zeitgeist film series Peter Joseph, to show trailer for new film "InterReflections", Singer/Songwriter/Pianist/Composer Nomi Abadi, Creative & Grassroots Activist Eleanor Goldfield, with many more artists & activists set to attend. Full Event Info with Artists Bios Here - www.zeitgeistmediafestival.com. Call for Talent Submissions & Global Parallel Events Each year artists and activists are invited to participate and join us at the main event in Los Angeles, California. All mediums welcome, and all socially conscious/relevant works considered. Chapters around the world also share in the expression globally by conducting parallel Zeitgeist Media Festival (art-activist) events in their local areas around the same period. [*Weekend of December 3rd]. Send Artist Submissions and Events to: media@thezeitgeistmovement.com. About: Embracing a spirit of unity and exploration to imagine beyond the current world, the ZMF creates an atmosphere for catharsis from the pressures & creative suffocation of everyday life in the world today, while inspiring people for change; that change IS possible, if we simply came together collectively to make that change.  The Zeitgeist Movement 13428 Maxella Ave #663 MDR, CA 90292

TZM Global, 501c3 Non-Profit Status - Support

TZM Update | June 2016 The Zeitgeist Movement, 501c3 Non-Profit Status Friends, As of June 2016, The Zeitgeist Movement is now an official 501c3 non-profit, tax exempt entity. As has been suggested for years, this new aspects of TZM has been created to assist core administrative tasks and costs, allowing for greater project development. In this video, Peter Joseph details the nature of the NPO and its purpose. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdcH2yMeK3A After 8 years of conducting core, global programs without any external financial support or solicitation of donations, the growth of TZM and its technical needs have now created limitations that we can only overcome through access to more resources and time. Funding will assist this improved progress. Needless to say, this has been a difficult decision given the values of TZM. However, this tax exempt status gives TZM much more flexibility, while those who do wish to support TZM's mission through financial contribution will be enabling a new level of performance and efficiency in operations. All donations are tax deductible (in the U.S.) and the legally required board of directors will report the allocation of funds at the end of each year for transparency. This board of directors is currently comprised of core, longstanding members of the Los Angeles, California Chapter. The board itself are volunteers and do not take a salary. It is time TZM steps up to a new level of influence and activity. Please review Peter Joseph's video above and if there are any questions, please email us. If you wish to support TZM now with a contribution, please visit: http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/support Thank you in advance for your support. TZM Global www.thezeitgeistmovement.com 13428 Maxella Ave #663 Marina Del Rey, CA 90292  Creative Commons, The Zeitgeist Movement Contact: media@thezeitgeistmovement.com

TZM Update, August 2015 - ZMedia Festival 2015

TZM Update | August, 2015 Zeitgeist Media Festival Day 2015 - Australia Recognizing the power of art and media to help change the world, the annual "Zeitgeist Media Festival" (ZMF) bridges the artistic & activist communities in the hope to inspire change. It recognizes that needed changes in the structural/economic workings of society can only manifest in tandem with a personal/social transformation of values in each of us. While intellectual knowledge serves its role of showing the path, many in the world follow their feelings and comforts - not new knowledge. Art is considered the most powerful tool we have to bridge these levels of awareness and inspire action for change. Keeping the gesture of the long history of influential artistic creators whose vision have changed our world for the better, The ZMF works to unify the world through this expression with the basic ethos that we are one species sharing one planet and it is time the world learns to work together for the betterment of all before it is too late. The Inaugural Event for the now annual Zeitgeist Media Festival occurred in 2011 with over 40 events occurring across 20 countries with unique presenters and performances by Charles FleischerLili Haydn and others.  In 2012, the Los Angeles Main Event increased in recognition with notable participants including Tim Kring, Rutger Hauer, Marianne Williamson, Cofield Mundi,  and many more. * 2015 Main Event: Saturday, 17th October, 2015    —   11:00am – 4:00pm The Rumpus Room   —   56 Russell St, West End Brisbane, Queensland, Australia * Tickets: http://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/zeitgeist-media-festival-tickets-17641783048?ref=ebtn More Info: http://www.zeitgeistaustralia.org/zeitgeist-media-festival/ TZM 2.0 Update As noted prior, large changes are in the works for the Administration of TZM. Something we can call TZM 2.0. The establishment of a US-based 501c3 Non-Profit to help with global projects, press relations and improved administration/expansion of the online networks, including assisting Chapters in basic ways is expected to be done by the end of September. A crowd funding campaign will then commence to help fund the larger changes in the online and chapter communication infrastructure. For over 6 years, The Zeitgeist Movement has worked with no donations, with only a small number of people taking on the financial burden of operation. Today, we have reached the limits of what this kind of structure can do for The Movement when it comes to large scale projects and gaining media attention. If we expect to have a future in this turbulent time, we now need to harness more traditional support, removing the burden that has slowed all TZM operations and alleviating the financial pressures that fallen on very few people. While the volunteer structure remains for the majority of actions, a seasoned, unpaid board of the most experienced TZM members will work to help allocate donations in a 100% transparent way to global functions, specifically focusing on gaining media attention and press. Today, our greatest problem is the pollution of our image and a gross misunderstanding of what TZM is doing and about. This is going to change. More on this development will be presented in the next few weeks, along with a full FAQ and interaction with those interested in discussing ways to best allocate funds. NEW MEDIA The Zeitgeist Movement / Peter Joseph interview with Jesse Ventura "Off the Grid" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6F1ZAncqM8 Peter Joseph speaks at the Los Angeles "METal" forum: "The End of Capitalism" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIFK0NhMVws ZDay 2015 New Media: Ben Dyson "Positive Money" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Efeeth5rSg ZDay 2015 New Media: Martin Wilkinson "Impacts of Income Inequality on Human Health" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ViZF3BTjJ0 www.thezeitgeistmovement.com 13428 Maxella Ave #663 Marina Del Rey, CA 90292 Creative Commons, The Zeitgeist Movement Contact: media@thezeitgeistmovement.com