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| "A Zeitgeist Day Event can take many forms, ranging from a simple showing of DVD media like Zeitgeist: Addendum to prerecorded lectures; to interactive question-and-answer events with Chapter Organizers in various regions, giving their own unique presentations."<ref name=zday>http://zdayglobal.org/about-zday/aboutzday Retrieved July 30, 2012</ref> | "A Zeitgeist Day Event can take many forms, ranging from a simple showing of DVD media like Zeitgeist: Addendum to prerecorded lectures; to interactive question-and-answer events with Chapter Organizers in various regions, giving their own unique presentations."<ref name=zday>http://zdayglobal.org/about-zday/aboutzday Retrieved July 30, 2012</ref> | ||
| == Annual Zeitgeist Media Festival == | |||
| The '''', (ZMF), is a gobal celebration first started in 2011, with the main event held in Los Angeles, California. The Festival consisted of live music, comedy, and performance art. In 2012, the ZMF also introduced short films through online submissions. The Main Event is always streamed live online for a global audience. The ZMF is open to any socially conscious group which wishes to "express change and a better, peaceful world through the power of art."<ref name="zmfabout"/> The global Zeitgeist Media Fesitival official website is . | |||
| The events are commercial-free, with no sponsers and run entirely with voluteers, although the ZMF is partnered with some non-profit organizations such as , the ''LA Foodbank'', and Steve Robertson's , among others. Rather than donate money to a third party organization, the website states they support the 'direct material drives' which cut out the middle man and possible corruption. Prior partners in America have included the ''LA Food Bank'', ''Oregon Food Bank'', ''Chicago Food Depository'', ''Second Helpings'', ''Food not Bombs'', ''Quest'' and many others.<ref name="zmfcharity"/> | |||
| The mission statment is stated on their website as "to unify the world through annual awareness events that bridge the difference between all nations, races, classes, genders and creeds; to understand we all share the same basic needs; to understand we are truly One Family sharing One Habitat and that our world views and hence societal approaches should reflect this foundational Global Perspective. The ZMF works to help facilitate this unifying expression for all socially conscious organizations that wish to use the power of Art to effect change in the social "Zeitgeist" - advancing our value system to see how much positive possibility there is for real social change if we choose not to fear it. | |||
| "<ref name="zmfabout"></ref> | |||
| ===2011=== | |||
| In 2011, the Main Event was at the Music Box in Hollywood CA, USA in late September. That year, the Zeitgeist Media Festival globally raised over 12,000 meals for the poor via 40 events via 20 countries.<ref name="zmfcharity"></ref> Also in 2011, well over 100,000 people tuned in from all over the world for the live stream online.<ref>[http://zeitgeistmediafestival.org/about.html ZeitgeistMediaFestival.org/about</ref> | |||
| ===2012=== | |||
| The 2nd Annual Zeitgeist Media Festival was held during the weekend of August 5th 2012 across 15 locations around the world with the main event being held in Los Angeles, CA. The events featured the artistic expression, coupled with a Global Food Drive to help the growing poor population. The theme for 2012 was ''socially conscious film shorts '', and requested original short videos (3 to 10 minutes in length), with a deadline for submission by June 18th, 2012.<ref></ref> | |||
| In the words of journalist Bruce Lyons of ''Hollywood Today'': "It was a Festival of full-spectrum conviction, overflowing with compelling emotions that reflect the real conundrums pressing in upon our emerging global society with accelerating force. In this sense this now-annual Festival is a natural outgrowth of a growing, terrestrial upheaval that is going to leave no part of man's collective being untouched."<ref></ref> | |||
| The Main Event in Los Angeles CA packed hundreds of people into the Historic Avalon Hollywood Club with a 37 segment, 7 Hour Program, featuring everything from Films to Comedy to Avant-Garde Theatrics. Featuring renowned, Multi-Cultural Musical Artists such as Sussan Deyhim, Cofield Mundi & Lili Haydn to counter-culture icons like Marianne Williamson and Rutger Hauer, this non-profit event raised over 700 Pounds of food, working on a purely volunteer platform with logistical/curation support from Steve Robertson's , the LA Foodbank, , and more.<ref></ref><ref></ref><ref></ref> | |||
| Global ''Zeitgeist Media Festival'' events for 2012 took place simultaneously in Austraila, Canada (Toronto and Vancouver), Ecuador, Mexico, United Kingdom, and Uruguay. Other U.S. locations participating were Maryland, Minnesota, New York City, San Francisco, North Carolina, Ohio, and Texas, in addition to the main event in Los Angeles. | |||
| == Criticism of the Zeitgeist movement == | == Criticism of the Zeitgeist movement == | ||
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| == External links == | == External links == | ||
| '''Primary Websites''' | |||
| * {{Official|http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com}} | |||
| * (Official Global Website) | |||
| '''Zeitgeist Media Festival''' | |||
| * (Official Global Website) | |||
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| {{Peter Joseph}} | {{Peter Joseph}} | ||
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| File:Zeitgeist Movement globe.jpgMovement logo | |
| Abbreviation | TZM or ZM |
|---|---|
| Formation | August 18, 2008 |
| Type | Social movement |
| Region served | Global |
| Key people | Peter Joseph |
| Website | www |
The Zeitgeist Movement is a global nonprofit organization founded in 2008. It advocates the abolition of money and private property, and promotes a global socioeconomic system in which all resources would be equitably and commonly shared. According to the movement, such a system would increase social equality and sustainability. The Zeitgeist Movement also believes resource allocation can be managed by computerized systems and most manual labor can be fully automated.
Philosophy and history
The Zeitgeist Movement describes itself as an educational group based on the belief that the "monetary-market" economy must be replaced with a system in which the Earth's resources are equally shared by its inhabitants in a moneyless and stateless system where debt, credit, exchange, barter, wage labor, private property and the profit motive would be eliminated. Zeitgeist movement members say the current socioeconomic system is structurally corrupt and needs to be replaced with a system based on efficient and careful resource use through the technological potential of sustainable development.
The movement believes humanity can employ renewable energy and computerized automatic systems on a global scale to provide free food and other necessities. It believes machines would perform almost all of the resource allocation and labor, and humans would oversee the computers and supervise the machines.
The movement was originally inspired by Peter Joseph's films Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008). Zeitgeist used to be the activist arm of The Venus Project (TVP), which featured in the films Zeitgeist: Addendum and Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (January 2011) as a possible solution to Earth's cultural and ecological problems, but in August 2011 the groups split and are no longer associated with each other.
Zeitgeist Day (Z-Day)
The movement holds an annual event, Z-Day, in March. It was first held in 2009 in New York City. The 2010 event also took place in New York, with "337 sympathetic events occurring in over 70 countries worldwide." London and Vancouver hosted the 2011 and 2012 main events respectively.
"A Zeitgeist Day Event can take many forms, ranging from a simple showing of DVD media like Zeitgeist: Addendum to prerecorded lectures; to interactive question-and-answer events with Chapter Organizers in various regions, giving their own unique presentations."
Annual Zeitgeist Media Festival
The Zeitgeist Media Festival, (ZMF), is a gobal celebration first started in 2011, with the main event held in Los Angeles, California. The Festival consisted of live music, comedy, and performance art. In 2012, the ZMF also introduced short films through online submissions. The Main Event is always streamed live online for a global audience. The ZMF is open to any socially conscious group which wishes to "express change and a better, peaceful world through the power of art." The global Zeitgeist Media Fesitival official website is ZeitgeistMediaFestival.org.
The events are commercial-free, with no sponsers and run entirely with voluteers, although the ZMF is partnered with some non-profit organizations such as The Artivist Film Fesitval, the LA Foodbank, and Steve Robertson's Project Peace on Earth, among others. Rather than donate money to a third party organization, the website states they support the 'direct material drives' which cut out the middle man and possible corruption. Prior partners in America have included the LA Food Bank, Oregon Food Bank, Chicago Food Depository, Second Helpings, Food not Bombs, Quest and many others.
The mission statment is stated on their website as "to unify the world through annual awareness events that bridge the difference between all nations, races, classes, genders and creeds; to understand we all share the same basic needs; to understand we are truly One Family sharing One Habitat and that our world views and hence societal approaches should reflect this foundational Global Perspective. The ZMF works to help facilitate this unifying expression for all socially conscious organizations that wish to use the power of Art to effect change in the social "Zeitgeist" - advancing our value system to see how much positive possibility there is for real social change if we choose not to fear it. "
2011
In 2011, the Main Event was at the Music Box in Hollywood CA, USA in late September. That year, the Zeitgeist Media Festival globally raised over 12,000 meals for the poor via 40 events via 20 countries. Also in 2011, well over 100,000 people tuned in from all over the world for the live stream online.
2012
The 2nd Annual Zeitgeist Media Festival was held during the weekend of August 5th 2012 across 15 locations around the world with the main event being held in Los Angeles, CA. The events featured the artistic expression, coupled with a Global Food Drive to help the growing poor population. The theme for 2012 was socially conscious film shorts , and requested original short videos (3 to 10 minutes in length), with a deadline for submission by June 18th, 2012.
In the words of journalist Bruce Lyons of Hollywood Today: "It was a Festival of full-spectrum conviction, overflowing with compelling emotions that reflect the real conundrums pressing in upon our emerging global society with accelerating force. In this sense this now-annual Festival is a natural outgrowth of a growing, terrestrial upheaval that is going to leave no part of man's collective being untouched."
The Main Event in Los Angeles CA packed hundreds of people into the Historic Avalon Hollywood Club with a 37 segment, 7 Hour Program, featuring everything from Films to Comedy to Avant-Garde Theatrics. Featuring renowned, Multi-Cultural Musical Artists such as Sussan Deyhim, Cofield Mundi & Lili Haydn to counter-culture icons like Marianne Williamson and Rutger Hauer, this non-profit event raised over 700 Pounds of food, working on a purely volunteer platform with logistical/curation support from Steve Robertson's Project Peace on Earth, the LA Foodbank, The Artivist Film Festival, and more.
Global Zeitgeist Media Festival events for 2012 took place simultaneously in Austraila, Canada (Toronto and Vancouver), Ecuador, Mexico, United Kingdom, and Uruguay. Other U.S. locations participating were Maryland, Minnesota, New York City, San Francisco, North Carolina, Ohio, and Texas, in addition to the main event in Los Angeles.
Criticism of the Zeitgeist movement
The Huffington Post, The New York Times, The Palm Beach Post, Globes, TheMarker, VC Reporter, RT TV and Reason magazine criticized various aspects of the Zeitgeist movement, specifically: (a) utopianism, (b) reduced work incentives in their proposed economy, (c) practical difficulties in a transition to that economy, and (d) subscribing to 9/11 conspiracy theories in Zeitgeist: The Movie, the original 2007 film that helped inspire the movement. Peter Joseph responded to the criticism by saying that practical difficulties could be overcome and that Zeitgeist does not believe in utopia but advocates updating society's notions of economics and politics continuously, re-aligning them with new scientific and technical discoveries, while keeping workers motivated. According to Mr. Joseph there is no direct association between the conspiracy theories in the first Zeitgeist documentary and the movement.
An article in the Journal of Contemporary Religion described the movement as an example of a "conspirituality", a synthesis of New Age spirituality and conspiracy theory, asserting that Zeitgeist: The Movie claims that "organised religion is about social control and that 9/11 was an inside job." The movement said that the article paints an "incorrect, misleading, offensive and defaming picture of the movement", and that the conspiracy narratives in the first movie are unrelated to the movement.
In Tablet magazine, Journalist Michelle Goldberg criticized Zeitgeist: The Movie as being "steeped in far-right, isolationist, and covertly anti-Semitic conspiracy theories", and called the Zeitgeist movement "the world's first Internet-based cult, with members who parrot the party line with cheerful, rote fidelity." Zeitgeist said the accusations were "erroneous, pejorative, derogatory and intended to silence the movement's message", and that the movement does not blame international bankers, corporate leaders or politicians as individuals, but rather the global socioeconomic system that supports their values.
See also
References
- ^ "The Zeitgeist Movement: Envisioning A Sustainable Future". Huffington Post. Mar 16, 2010.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "They've Seen the Future and Dislike the Present". New York Times. 2009-03-16.
- ^ Quotations and citations in this Misplaced Pages article are based on the translation from Hebrew to English of The Filmmaker Who Helped Recruit Millions for the Global Protests of the Bottom 99%, original Hebrew article by Asher Schechter, TheMarker (Israel), January 19, 2012.
- ^ Quotations and citations in this Misplaced Pages article are based on the translation from Hebrew to English of Imagine, original Hebrew article by Tzaela Kotler, Globes (Israel), March 18, 2010.
- Bill Stamets (February 15, 2011). "Art-house films: 'Marwencol,' 'Zeitgeist'". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved March 7, 2011.
- "The Zeitgeist Movement – Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)".
- "Brockwood at Zeitgeist-Day in London – March 13th, 2011". Brockwood Park School. 2011-04-11.
- "Zeitgeist Day 2012 - Vogue Theatre in Vancouver, BC". voguetheatre.com.
- http://zdayglobal.org/about-zday/aboutzday Retrieved July 30, 2012
- ^ ZeitgeistMediaFesitval.org/about
- ^ ZeitgeistMediaFestival.org/Chairty
- [http://zeitgeistmediafestival.org/about.html ZeitgeistMediaFestival.org/about
- ZeitgeistFilmFestival.org/about
- HolywoodToday.Net/ZeitgeistMediaFestival2012
- ZMF to be shared with Entire Earth
- ZMF Power of Art/Power of Heart
- ZMF 2012 a Great Show with a Worldly Message
- A dream worth having, Rhonda Swan, The Palm Beach Post, April 30, 2009
- New world re-order: The Zeitgeist Movement spreads to Ventura County, Shane Cohn, VC Reporter (California), May 12, 2011
- Zeitgeist Solutions: New World Re-Order, RT, Sept. 14, 2011
- Zeitgeist Solutions: Money, Debt and RBE, RT, Dec. 2, 2011
- http://spectator.org/archives/2011/01/17/jared-loughners-zeitgeist-obse Retrieval June-07-12
- ^ Understanding The Zeitgeist Movement Critics, The Zeitgeist Movement, July 15, 2012
- Ward, Charlotte; Voas, David (2011). "The Emergence of Conspirituality". Journal of Contemporary Religion. 26 (1): 109. Retrieved June 16, 2012.
- http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/57732/brave-new-world Retrieved June 9, 2012
External links
Primary Websites
- TheZeitgeistMovement.com (Official Global Website)
Zeitgeist Media Festival
- ZeitgeistMediaFestival.org (Official Global Website)
- Youtube.com/ZeitgeistMediaFesitval
- Facebook.com/ZeitgeistMediaFestival
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