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Update: New Developments:
Two new websites are being created, each respective to teams:
1) "Zeitgeist Media Project" [Creative/Education Team]
2) "From Earth to Venus" - Planetary Redesign [Creative team]

-"The Zeitgeist Media Project" will be a communication hub for Artists/Communicators who would wish to work together in some form of media expression or another. The goal is to create more works which address any and all aspects of the issues we are concerned with.

-"From Earth to Venus" will be a unique project which will allow for a virtual redesign of our planet. Imagine for a moment if we had the option of instantly implementing a global resource based economy without the establishment barriers... what if we could update our world technologically to present day knowledge- NOW. How would you do it? This presents a wonderful thought exercise and we hope 'engineers' and 'social planners' will participate in the exciting, theoretically idea. The Goal: Maximum Abundance through Sustainability; Peak efficiency. More on this soon.

As far as the Activism Team, we are going to begin to focus on pertinent concerns, from military issues, to rising corporate issues surrounding food productions and standardization; to the issues around internet freedom; along with defending the movement against defamation. It is important for us to not only present our information, but defend it.

Also, The Lecture Team, a sub-team of the Communications Team, which has a relevance to the Regional Chapters, will slowly be engaged to find a means by which to proceed. This will work through larger order event planning ideas.


Welcome to the Projects Page. This developing page will deal with "Teams" that work in certain ways to spread awareness and further development. As of now, the most important team is the "Communications" team and this is going to be our initial focus overall. We would hope that all of you will participate in this, for our social effect is really only as good as our numbers and communication. If you are new to this site, please join the Main Database on the home page before joining any of the Teams. This way we can keep track of total participation.

HOW THIS WORKS:
Under "About the teams below" are "JOIN HERE" links which will take you to the respetive "Community". Once you join the Community Team, then you will have access to the "Projects Catergory" on the Forum for sharing ideas. As of now, this page (Projects Page) will be the home base for "Active Projects", while it will also be mirrored in the Community Section as well.



The Zeitgeist Movement
TEAM ORIENTATION:


THERE ARE CURRENTLY TWO TEAMS: Each Team will also have a Forum Section & a Community Group. If you want to be a part of a team, sign up for the team through the links provided. We will communicate with you though these links as things develop.

 

Communications Team:

  • Education Sub-Team
  • Activism Sub-Team
  • Lecture Circuit Sub-Team

Creative Team:

  • Material Innovations Sub-Team
  • Social Innovations Sub-Team
  • Technology Sub-Team.

 

ABOUT THE TEAMS:

COMMUNICATIONS TEAM: [ JOIN HERE ]
The "Communications Team" is currently the most important. We encourage all members to do their part in spreading information about The Zeitgeist Movement. We cannot proceed with anything effective unless we have the support of many people in many countries.

This Team currently consists of the following Sub-Teams:
  • Education Sub-Team:
    The "Education" Sub-Team is dedicated to spreading awareness to anyone and everyone. Strategically, it is best if we contact major media personalities and larger organizations in the hope that we become recognized and supported by the third party organization/ personality. However, email campaigns, Internet media, radio call ins, giving out DVDs and any other form of promotion is helpful.
    The central tools (ebook/dvds) for this Sub-Team can be found on the TOOL KIT page.
  • Activism Sub-Team:
  • The "Activism" Sub-Team is dedicated to raising awareness, creating responses to the many corrupt byproducts of the monetary system, including oppressive legislation, corrupt business practices, environmental issues, corporatocracy collusion, along with countering fallacious accusations regarding The Movement in the media. This team is critical for keeping everyone aware of what is going on in the world, while also constantly exposing the Financial System for what it is.
  • Lecture Circuit Sub-Team:
    The "Lecture Circuit" Sub-Team is a network of dedicated persons who are informed and committed enough to personally create physical, non-profit lecture/media events in their area or throughout the world. Eventually, we hope to have 100s of people, acting as representatives of the Movement Worldwide, who can communicate well and present the full spectrum of information in a professional way to a live audience.
    Please see the 2009 New York City ZDAY event video for a frame of reference.
CREATIVE TEAM: [ JOIN HERE ]
The "Creative Team" is dedicated to researching and developing new ideas for the sake of improving civilization as a whole. Following the tenets of The Zeitgeist Movement, we want to consider innovations that help preserve the environment, optimize resource usage, and create the highest quality inventions and systems possible. Money is no issue. This team is simply there to consider what "could be". Ideas for social organization and education are also welcome, along with anything that could be thought of that might make our society more optimized and responsible.
  • Material Innovations Sub-Team:
    The "Material Innovations" Sub-Team is dedicated to considering physical processes and invention. For instance, how do we improve our transportation vehicles and make them safe, fast and clean? How do we design a home heating system in the most optimized way? How can we design a computer so the enclosure can function for a generation, while the component parts are easily updated so arbitrary multiplicity is reduced? This Sub-Team is about optimizing 'singular' inventions. However, it's partner The - "Social Innovations" Sub-Team deals with the larger order systems which this Team might fit their concepts into.
  • Social Innovations Sub-TeamThe "Social Innovations" Sub-Team is about creative thought in regard to broad social designs, such as infrastructure, planetary organization, city systems and other forms of larger order engineering. The central awareness is a "Systems" Approach where there is an integration of processes. This Sub-Team could consider the most optimized infrastructure for goods and service distribution in a Resource Based Economy, for example.
  • Technology Sub-TeamThis "Technology Sub-Team" is for those who have a background in scientific disciplines which could be related to social development within a Resource Based Economy. This includes Robotics, Software Engineering, Physics, City Planning, Structural Engineering and the like. Concepts from the "Creative Team" will eventually lead to evaluation by the "Technology Team", to figure out what is actually possible. At this stage, this team does not have the resources to to move forward with materialization, as this movement is in its infancy. However, as things progress, scientists and engineers in this team, coupled with the Creative team, will eventually construct the "Interdicplinary Teams", as noted in the Orientation Guide. This is an initial step to create a personal database and consider new ideas.

    Other examples: 
    Automation and Robotics: A central understanding of Automation and Robotics is key to the foundation of a Resource Based Economy. Highly efficient Cybernated Machines is what will create the new paradigm we seek to relieve people of drudgery and economic slavery. This is for anyone who has a background in such mediums and wishes to provide insight into the current state of technology in this regard, along with views on possibilities and designs.
    Programming: The "Programming" Sub-Team will work with ideas related to systems operations. For instance, we need to begin deliberate development on The Central Historical Data Program, and such AI, which can begin to create 'complex associations' and thus give feedback to our proposals, so we can appropriately 'arrive at decisions' based on all available information. Please refer to The Orientation Guide regarding this point if you are unfamiliar.
    Industrial Design : The "Industrial Design" Sub-Team relates to system designs which are large and vast, such as Intercontinental Travel; Renewable energy source locations/possibilities and strategies for implementation; Production Facilities for goods, Cities, along with Automated Delivery Systems, etc.


ACTIVE PROJECTS:


(1) COMMUNICATIONS TEAM:
  • EDUCATION SUB-TEAM PROJECTS:

(UPDATED 9/24/09)
Project One:
A) Engage those interested in Michael Moore's new film "Capitalism: A Love Story".
Moores new film is about the greed based consequences of the Capitalist system.
It should be a great push towards change considering how well known and influential Mr. Moore now is. Please get out there and offer The Venus Project as the needed solution!


B) Get Jacque Fresco back on Larry King:
Details: As some of you might know, Jacque was on Larry King about four times, 30 years ago. King was very open back then and let Jacque speak his mind. We feel that if an email/phone/package campaign requesting Mr. Fresco's
reappearance on the show was initiated, we might be able to get him back on. This is tough because there is no direct means to do this, so we must go through his website.
Contact:
Phone number
for Larry King Live is 1-800-676-2100 (not sure if still in use)
Blog:
http://larrykinglive.blogs.cnn.com/
Project Two:
Contact other Media" and inform them of The Movement.
2) Contact Bill Moyers and ask him to interview Jacque Fresco:
Public Affairs Television
450 West 33rd St.
New York, NY 10001
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3) Contact Democracy Now:
4) Contact Keith Olbermann:
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You can also mail a letter to:
NBC News
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, N.Y. 10112

MSNBC TV
One MSNBC Plaza
Secaucus, N.J. 07094
6) Contact Bill Maher:

Bill Maher's Manager:
Marc Gurvitz Brillstein-Grey Entertainment
9150 Wilshire Boulevard Suite 350
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
Phone: 310-275-6135

Bill Maher's Agent:
Steve Lashever
Creative Artists Agency
2000 Avenue Of The Stars
Los Angeles, CA 90067
Phone: 424-288-2000

Bill Maher's Publicist:
CeCe Yorke
True Public Relations
6725 Sunset Boulevard Suite 570
Los Angeles, CA 90028
Phone: 323-957-0730

OTHERS:
1. Rachel Maddows Show
2. The Daily Show w/ Jon Stewart
3. The Colbert Report
4. Real Time w/ Bill Maher
5. Truthdig.com should do a story
6. The Nation magazine
7. Mother Jones magazine
8. The Progressive magazine
9. Point of Inquiry (podcast for Center for Inquiry)
10. Uprising (KPFK)
11. SoJourner Truth (KPFK)
12. Z-Magazine
13. Anti-war.com should do a story
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Project Three:
Inform other groups which have a relationship to activism of our work.
Greenpeace and the ACLU are good places to start, for Greenpeace still ignores
the foundational detriments of the monetary system, while the ACLU also
does not acknowledge the root of the problems. Send them the Guide.
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Greenpeace
702 H Street NW, Suite 300
Washington, D.C. 20001
(202) 462-1177
ACLU:
http://www.aclu.org/contact/index.html

THIS CONTACT ANY OTHER ONES YOU CAN THINK OF!
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* When contacting any of these organizations, please be kind and gentle. We want to inform them, not insult or aggravate them.
A typical email might be something like this:(attach the Orientation Guide!)
Dear ___,

My name is _____ and I represent a social organization with currently over
250,000 members called "The Zeitgeist Movement". Based on our current growth rate, we expect to have well over 1 million members by 2010, conservatively, and we are now active in over 63 countries.

The goal of our movement is to address the true foundational causes that are generating the economic/ecological/ethical problems we see in the world today. In turn, we wish to reorient society itself in a way that not only overcomes the problems, but rather the problems will have no basis to begin with. In order to do so, we must all address the one thing that no one seems to have the courage to talk about- and that is the socio-economic system itself.
Attached to this email is our 83 Page Orientation Guide. Please review it when you can, for it carefully
breaks down what the true foundational causes of the world's dominant problems today are, while also describing the most important economic issue to date (which no one is talking about) and that is the collision course which will stop the "free-market" as we know it - known as "Technological Unemployment". If you are unfamiliar with this reality, please review that section of the manual.
Also, here is a link to a review of our 2009 activist day, covered by the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/nyregion/17zeitgeist.html?_r=1
I hope this email finds you well and thank you kindly for your time.

Sincerely,
___
www.thezeitgeistmovement.com
Project Four:
Try to get more members! Email lists, blogs- you tube video- do anything to increase our numbers. With the Orientation Guide and the respective Video, we have good tools to get our message across. Send them to everyone. We need to get large - fast.

(2)COMMUNICATIONS TEAM:
  • ACTIVISM SUB-TEAM PROJECTS:

Update: Studivz, German Community Site Shuts down Zeitgeist Movement groups., claiming "anti-semitism" is being promoted. More Here.

HERE IS A LETTER TO EMAIL TO THEM. WE NEED EVERYONE TO DO THIS!:
to:

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[Your name]                                                
[Address]
[Your Country]
[Date]

To:

Dr. Stefan von Holtzbrinck, Chairman
Dr. Jochen Gutbrod, Deputy Chairman
Dr. R
üdiger Salat
John Sargent
Jens Schwanewedel
Dr. Annette Thomas

Bezüglich der Löschung von allen Zeitgeist Gruppen in Ihrem social network studiVZ

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

kürzlich hat studiVZ, unter dem irrtümlichen Eindruck, dass das The Zeitgeist Movement Antisemitismus fördert, alle Zeitgeist Gruppen aus seinem Netzwerk gelöscht.

Wir, die aktiven Mitglieder des The Zeitgeist Movement, verstehen natürlich die sensible Umgangsweise, die an den Tag gelegt werden muss, wenn man sich innerhalb einer social  network community mit Gruppen oder Individuen konfrontiert sieht, die Hass gegen Mitglieder unserer Menschenheitsfamilie an den Tag legen. Desweiteren gehen wir davon aus, dass das Holtzbrinck Unternehmen mit ihren vielen vernetzten Tochtergesellschaften sich des verbreiteten Problems bewusst ist, dass gewisse Leute eine Bewegung oder Weltanschauung falsch darstellen und für sich beanspruchen diese zu unterstützen, obwohl ihre Äußerungen diametral zu den Auffassungen der Bewegung stehen.

Jeder, der Antisemitismus äußert oder fördert ist per definitionem kein Mitglied des The Zeitgeist Movement und kann auch nicht als solches betrachtet werden.

Mitglieder unserer Gruppe haben bezüglich dieses unglücklichen Mißverständisses die folgenden Personen kontaktiert:

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In einem Brief erhielten wir folgende Antwort:

>Hallo,

wir haben Deine Gruppe Zeitgeist-Revolution.de gelöscht. Sogenannte Zeitgeist- Gruppen werden im VZ nicht länger akzeptiert. Allerdings möchten wir auch darlegen, weshalb wir uns zu diesem Schritt entschieden haben. Es ist nicht unsere Absicht alternative Meinungen und Nachrichten zu behindern oder zu unterbinden, aber wir beobachten seit einige Zeit mit großer Sorge die Entwicklung der Theorien, die z.B. durch die Zeitgeist-Filme angestoßen wurden. Die Ideen von grauen Eminenzen, Eliten oder Geheimbünden, die im Hintergrund die Fäden ziehen, ist nicht neu. Die Zeitgeist-Filme weiten diese Idee auch auf das Wirtschaftswesen aus. Und da schließt sich ein Kreis innerhalb der Geschichte der Verschwörungstheorien: Latenter Antisemitismus, der immer wieder in vielen der formulierten Theorien durchscheint. Zum Beispiel in der Idee vom bösen, raffenden Kapital, welches ja letztlich für die Wirtschaftskrise verantwortlich ist und über Mäzenatentum und ähnliche Mittel der Einflussnahme auf die Weltpolitik einwirken, um diese nach ihrem Interesse zu lenken. Wir sehen davon ab den Antisemitismus zu erklären oder zu diskutieren, weil wir von unseren Gruppengr ünden erwarten, dass sie sich mit den Problemfeldern ihrer Gruppenthemen auseinandergesetzt haben. Weiter bitten wir Dich keine weiteren Gruppen zu diesem Themen zu gründen, da dies ansonsten zu einer Sperrung oder Löschung Deines Profils führen kann.

Danke für Dein Verständnis,

Das VZ Team<


Offen gesprochen ist diese Antwort ziemlich verstörend, da Ihre Behauptungen bezüglich dessen was vom The Zeitgeist Movement “angestossen wurde” vollkommen irrtümlich sind und jedweder Grundlage entbehren. Eine der gelöschten Gruppen hatte über 10 000 Mitglieder.

Es ist recht offensichtlich, und ich bin mir sicher ihr Unternehmen ist sich dessen bewusst, dass jede Bewegung, Ideologie oder Person nicht für die Worte oder Taten von fremden Personen verantwortlich gemacht werden kann, die entweder ignorant oder bösartig in ihrer Absicht handeln. Wir distanzieren uns ausdrücklich von diesen Individuenden und ihren beschämenden Äußerungen und verurteilen sie aufs Schärste. Leider haben wir keine Kontrolle über verbreitete Meinungen von solchen Personen, die vorgeben Mitglieder oder Unterst ützer unserer Gruppe zu sein, aber ganz klar keine Repr¨asentanten unserer Bewegung sind. Wir empfehlen voller Respekt, dass alle solche antisemitischen Bemerkungen auf dem Level des Moderators behandelt werden sollten, und dass die Individuen, die solche Dinge äußern, umgehend gelöscht werden. Dies ist sicherlich angemessener, anstatt die gesamte Gruppe zu entfernen, was einer Zensur gleichkommt.

Wir sind überzeugt, dass Holtzbrinck an der ¨offentlichen Missdeutung einer Organisation von über 300,000 Mitgliedern nicht teilnehmen will, sei es durch Zensur innerhalb ihrer eigenen Netzwerk-Homepage, oder durch die falschen Vorw¨urfe in der von uns erhaltenen Nachricht von dem VZ Team.

Es kann nur angenommen werden, dass die Mitglieder des VZ Team nicht adequat die Anund Grundsätze des The Zeitgeist Movement gelesen haben, obwohl sie mit Referenzen und Links zu unserer Haupt-Website und allen unseren Lern-Materialien versorgt wurden.

Wenn sie sich darüber aufgeklärt hätten, wofür The Zeitgeist Movement steht, dann wäre es für das VZ Team unmöglich, die obigen Schlussfolgerungen zu ziehen.

Wir bitten Sie die The Zeitgeist Movement Haupt-Website selbst anzusehen und dann zu

entscheiden, ob das Ausschließen einer gesamten Bewegung von Ihrem studiVZ gerechtfertigt ist. Bitte betrachten Sie besonders das Material unter dem “Erkenntnisse” Reiter. Außerdem ist das “Orientation Material” unserer Bewegung beigefügt, worin sehr klar faktenbasierte Information bezüglich der Vorschläge unserer Bewegung vorliegen.

Weil die Entfernung der Gruppen offensichtlich auf der Missrepräsentation von Individuen beruht, die sich nicht rechtmäßig Mitglieder des The Zeitgeist Movement nennen können, bitten wir Sie höflichst die gelöschten Gruppen wieder herzustellen, und in Zukunft nur diejenigen Individuen zu löschen, die direkt oder indirekt in Hass¨außerungen involviert sind, welche das The Zeitgeist Movement niemals äußern oder in unseren eigenen Foren tolerieren würde.

Wegen der unglücklichen und drängenden Angelegheit der falschen Anschuldigungen des VZ Teams bezüglich unserer Bewegung, bitten wir Sie, dass eine klärende Bekanntmachung so schnell wie möglich öffentlich gemacht wird. Diese Anschuldigungen beeinflussen nicht nur The Zeitgeist Movement in negativer Art und Weise, sondern auch das Ansehen von hundert tausenden von Mitgliedern weltweit.

Die Zeitgeist Bewegung ist eine der Einheit und nicht der Aufspaltung.

Wir erbitten umgehendes Handeln ihrerseits bezüglich der defamierenden Natur dieser falschen Anschuldigungen.

Vielen Dank für ihre Aufmerksamkeit und Unterstützung,

[Your Name]
www.thezeitgeistmovement.com


*Down a PDF of this letter: English Here | German Here


Project One:
Help keep the Community up to date on current issues:
The News Section of the Forum is for important current issues/reports related to the advent of (1)new, socially helpful technology, (2)along with pointing of the continued corruption of the Monetary system. If you see news regarding anything related to our Movement, in this regard please inform your fellow members. (We are working to have a dedicated forum news subcategory for this.)
Project Two:
Engage others who are in Protest and inform them about us:
As of the time of this writing, European protests are occurring with slogan like "Abolish money" and "End capitalism". This is powerful and if you can get int ouch with protest leader and inform them of our movement, please do so. Also, if you are in an area where a protest is occurring please pass out DVD of Addendum/The Orientation Video and and perhaps text reductions of the Orientation Guide.
Project Three:
Zeitgeist Day 2010:
Zeitgeist Day 2010 needs to be bigger than 2009. The Main event in New York is likely going to be an all day event. Other events are critical as well. It is never too early to Give this thought and promote your event. In 2010, we will also likely engage in protests against the Banks. This will need to be carefully orchestrated. Please discuss ideas on the ZDAY Forum Category. More soon.
*Please note that all other forms of rejecting the Establishment is also warranted and should be done all members. This includes: bank boycotts, total rejection of military and army related participation, getting off the grid as best you can and reject the use of oil.


(3)COMMUNICATIONS TEAM:
  • LECTURE CIRCUIT SUB-TEAM PROJECTS:

The "Lecture Circuit" Sub-Team is a network of dedicated persons who are informed and committed enough to personally create physical, non-profit lecture/media events throughout the world. If you feel you have the time and dedication to activity engage your fellow humans with a high level of knowledge about this direction, please sign up. This team will likely be rather small, but we prefer to have one "representative" in each major each, through out the world, eventually. MORE COMING


CREATIVE TEAM:
  • (1) MATERIAL INNOVATIONS SUB-TEAM PROJECTS:
The "Material Innovations" Sub-Team is dedicated to considering physical processes and invention.
Project ideas coming soon.

  • (2) SOCIAL INNOVATIONS SUB-TEAM PROJECTS:
The "Social Innovations" Sub-Team is about creative thought in regard to broad social designs, such as infrastructure, planetary organization, city systems and other forms of larger order engineering. Project ideas coming soon.

  • (3)TECHNOLOGY TEAM:
The "Technology Team" is for those who have a background in scientific disciplines which could be related to social development for a Resource Based Economy. This includes Robotics, Software engineering, physics, city planning and the like.
MORE COMING.
 

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