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| '''The Zeitgeist Movement''' is an advocacy organization founded in 2008 |
'''The Zeitgeist Movement''' is an advocacy organization founded in 2008.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Zeitgeist Movement - Frequently Asked Questions|url=http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/faq}}</ref> The movement primarily concerns itself with campaigning against the "monetary-market" economy, which they state can be replaced with a resource-based economy where money serves no purpose and economic decisions are arrived at using direct scientific resource management. This new system would be designed and maintained by crowd sourced volunteer technicians using the ], instead of politicians and corporations. The movement is also known for its ].<ref name=ZD2009>{{cite news |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/nyregion/17zeitgeist.html?_r=2 |title= They’ve Seen the Future and Dislike the Present |author= Alan Feuer|date= March 16, 2009 |publisher= ]|accessdate=December 17, 2009}}</ref> | ||
| ==Activities |
==Activities== | ||
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| The Zeitgeist Movement holds an annual "Z-Day" in March. The first Z-Day was on March 15, 2009 and the second on March 13, 2010. On this date, the Zeitgeist Movement holds local gatherings "to learn and share information with all interested individuals". Zeitgeist claims that In 2009 there were more than 450 events held in 70 countries around the world.<ref name="ZD2009"/><ref name="zeitgeist day">{{cite web |url=http://www.zday2010.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46 |title=What is Zday }}</ref> In 2009, among other events, Peter Joseph and Jacque Fresco spoke to a sold-out crowd of around 900 at the Borough of Manhattan Community College for over two hours.<ref name="Peter Joseph and Jacque Fresco Critique the Monetary Economy"<ref name="ZD2009">{{cite news |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/nyregion/17zeitgeist.html?_r=2 |title= They’ve Seen the Future and Dislike the Present |author= Alan Feuer|date= March 16, 2009 |work= |publisher= ]|accessdate=December 17, 2009}}</ref> | |||
| The third Z-Day was on March 13, 2011. Peter Joseph and others spoke to an audience of 1100 at "Friends House" in Euston, London. | |||
| For some time, the movement acted as the activist arm of ], and still continues to advocate for a new kind of global society where money or property serve no purpose, and global resources are shared in a sustainable manner.<!--ref: huffpost --> In this new type of society there would be no class system where a minority of people own the majority of wealth.<ref>{{cite news| title=Zeitgeist: Moving beyond money |url=http://rt.com/usa/news/zeitgeist-moving-money-utopia/ |publisher=] |date=March 26, 2011}}</ref> The movement aims to provide information on why this type of transition is necessary and how to possibly make it happen.<ref name=huffpost /> | |||
| ] of '']'' attended Z-Day 2011 in Los Angeles on March 12, 2011 at ].<ref>{{cite web|title=Michelle Rodriguez from Avatar at Zeitgeist Day Los Angeles|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4C6Xqd8qRc}}</ref> She said she is intrigued by the idea of the Venus Project. | |||
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| ] of ] also attended Z-Day in Los Angeles with his girlfriend Baelyn Neff.<ref>{{cite web|title=Brandon Boyd of Incubus at Zeitgeist Day Los Angeles|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhJ8Vchv8KU}}</ref> He said ''Zeitgeist: Moving Forward'' is his favorite Zeitgeist film so far. He also said he is very familiar with Jacque Fresco and watched a documentary film about Jacque Fresco's work called ''Future by Design''. | |||
| ⚫ | ===Z-Day=== | ||
| "Z-Day 2012" will be held at the ] in ] on March 10, 2012.<ref>{{cite web|title=Zeitgeist Day 2012 - Vogue Theatre in Vancouver, BC|url=http://www.voguetheatre.com/detail.php?id=252}}</ref> | |||
| The Zeitgeist Movement holds an annual international event called "Z-Day" in March of each year. On this date, members of the movement hold local gatherings to promote the understandings of the movement. The first Z-Day was on March 15, 2009. The main event in New York City had a sold-out crowd of around 900 at the Borough of Manhattan Community College for over two hours.<ref name=ZD2009 /> The 2010 Z-Day main event on March 13 — a 6-hour live web cast presentation with lectures from the movement's key figures — also took place in New York City, while 337 other Z-Day events were held in 70 countries worldwide.<ref name=huffpost>{{cite web |title=The Zeitgeist Movement: Envisioning A Sustainable Future |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/travis-walter-donovan/the-zeitgeist-movement-en_b_501517.html |date=Mar 16, 2010 |publisher='']''}}</ref> In March 13, 2011 lectures were given to an audience at "Friends House" in Euston, London.<ref name="zeitgeist day">{{cite web |url=http://zday2010.org/zday-events/zday-2011 |title=What is Zday }}</ref> "Z-Day 2012" was a two day event held at the ] on March 10, 2012,<ref>{{cite web|title=Zeitgeist Day 2012 - Vogue Theatre in Vancouver, BC|url=http://www.voguetheatre.com/detail.php?id=252}}</ref> and at the Denman Theatre on March 11, 2012 in ]. | |||
| ===The Zeitgeist Media Festival=== | |||
| The Zeitgeist Media Festival is an annual event that began in 2011 and is said to currently take place at forty-one locations worldwide with the stated aim of "uniting the world through socially conscious art".<ref>{{cite web|title=The Zeitgeist Media Festival|url=http://zeitgeistmediafestival.org/}}</ref> | |||
| ⚫ | ], November 2011]] | ||
| ===Media Project=== | |||
| According to a press release circulated to members on May 12, 2010, the Zeitgeist Media Project (ZMP) Beta was released. The Media Project is an extension of the Communications Team.<ref>http://www.zeitgeistmediaproject.com</ref> | |||
| ==Chapters== | |||
| The Zeitgeist Movement's members are organized into country/regional, state and city "sub"-chapters.<ref></ref> Each chapter/sub-chapter is hosted and maintained independently on its own domain, or in sub-domains from the Zeitgeist Movement's main site. The chapters are coordinated by individuals or groups of individuals who are versed in the movement's tenets and direction. According to the Zeitgeist Movement July 2010 Newsletter, the Zeitgeist Movement has 46 official country chapters and over 200 regional sub-chapters internationally.<ref>http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/July2010NL.pdf</ref> This includes all 50 official U.S. state chapters.<ref name="Chapters">{{cite web|url=http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/|title=The Zeitgeist Movement Website | publisher=The Zeitgeist Movement | accessdate=2010-04-02}}</ref> | |||
| ===Radio address=== | |||
| Rotating members of the movement deliver a weekly radio address which is broadcast every Wednesday on ]. These broadcasts define the Zeitgeist Movement and discuss the progress of the movement's efforts, hold interviews with various relevant personalities, and provide information for the Zeitgeist Movement's ]. There are two other BlogTalkRadio shows that discuss the Zeitgeist Movement, a resource-based economy and the Venus Project. One is Z Radio, a weekly broadcast co-hosted by Thunder and Franklee, and produced by Shawn Hodgins. The other, known as V-Radio,<ref name="vradio">{{cite web|url=http://www.blogtalkradio.com/v-radio|title=V-Radio}}</ref> is hosted by Neil Kiernan Stephenson. | |||
| ==Criticism and controversy== | |||
| Jane Chapman, a film producer and reader in media studies at the ], called ''Zeitgeist: The Movie'' an example of unethical film-making that engages in "implicit deception" through the use of unreferenced and undated assertions and standard film-making propaganda techniques that are packaged as "a fast-paced assemblage of ]"<ref name="chapman">{{Cite book|title= Issues in Contemporary Documentary|publisher=Polity Press|last=Chapman|first=Jane|pages=171–173|year=2009|isbn= 978-0-7456-4009-9}}</ref> and adds that parts of the film are "comically" self-defeating and accuses them of using “twisted evidence”. The Irish Times has characterized the ''Zeitgeist'' films as "nonsense” and "surreal perversions of genuine issues and debates".<ref name="Irish">{{Cite news|last=O'Dwyer|first=Davin|title=Zeitgeist: the nonsense|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2007/0825/1187332519087.html|accessdate=September 16, 2010|newspaper=]|date=August 8, 2007}}</ref> Other reviewers have characterized the film as "conspiracy crap",<ref name="vvoice">{{Cite web|url=http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-09-10/film/able-danger/|publisher=]|last=Orange|first=Michelle|title=Able Danger|date=September 10, 2008}}</ref> “based solely on anecdotal evidence” and “fiction couched in a few facts”.<ref name="utne">{{Cite web|date=January 1, 2008|publisher=]|url=http://www.utne.com/2008-01-01/Politics/Towers-of-Babble.aspx|title=Towers of Babble}}</ref> | |||
| The movement itself and its leadership have also been questioned due to an apparent inclination to censor opposing viewpoints and engage in '']'' attacks.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Zeitgeist Movement - A Critical Review|url=http://conspiracies.skepticproject.com/articles/the-zeitgeist-movement/|publisher=Skepticproject|accessdate=6 March 2012}}</ref> | |||
| Recently{{when|date=March 2012}} Zeitgeist and Venus Project were banned from ], a large social networking site in Germany, over anti-semetic tendencies expressed by members of the Zeitgeist Movement.{{cn|date=March 2012}}<!--<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/joomla/index.php?view=article&id=439&option=com_content&Itemid=953#15}}</ref> page doesn't exist --> | |||
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| Abbreviation | TZM |
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| Formation | August 18, 2008; 16 years ago (2008-08-18) |
| Type | NGO |
| Purpose | Social movement |
| Region served | International |
| Key people | Peter Joseph |
| Website | TheZeitgeistMovement.com |
The Zeitgeist Movement is an advocacy organization founded in 2008. The movement primarily concerns itself with campaigning against the "monetary-market" economy, which they state can be replaced with a resource-based economy where money serves no purpose and economic decisions are arrived at using direct scientific resource management. This new system would be designed and maintained by crowd sourced volunteer technicians using the scientific method, instead of politicians and corporations. The movement is also known for its criticism of fractional reserve banking.
Activities
For some time, the movement acted as the activist arm of The Venus Project, and still continues to advocate for a new kind of global society where money or property serve no purpose, and global resources are shared in a sustainable manner. In this new type of society there would be no class system where a minority of people own the majority of wealth. The movement aims to provide information on why this type of transition is necessary and how to possibly make it happen.
Z-Day
The Zeitgeist Movement holds an annual international event called "Z-Day" in March of each year. On this date, members of the movement hold local gatherings to promote the understandings of the movement. The first Z-Day was on March 15, 2009. The main event in New York City had a sold-out crowd of around 900 at the Borough of Manhattan Community College for over two hours. The 2010 Z-Day main event on March 13 — a 6-hour live web cast presentation with lectures from the movement's key figures — also took place in New York City, while 337 other Z-Day events were held in 70 countries worldwide. In March 13, 2011 lectures were given to an audience at "Friends House" in Euston, London. "Z-Day 2012" was a two day event held at the Vogue Theatre on March 10, 2012, and at the Denman Theatre on March 11, 2012 in Vancouver, British Columbia.
See also
References
- "The Zeitgeist Movement - Frequently Asked Questions".
- ^ Alan Feuer (March 16, 2009). "They've Seen the Future and Dislike the Present". New York Times. Retrieved December 17, 2009.
- "Zeitgeist: Moving beyond money". RT. March 26, 2011.
- ^ "The Zeitgeist Movement: Envisioning A Sustainable Future". Huffington Post. Mar 16, 2010.
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- "Zeitgeist Day 2012 - Vogue Theatre in Vancouver, BC".
External links
| Works by Peter Joseph | |
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| Films | |
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