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Saturday, 25 Apr 2015 12:00 PM

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Brisbane Square Library

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Time to get those projects going folks! This is a time and space to progress those fabulous ideas we keep talking about. Who: People who have attended a Monthly Movies that Matter meeting or are familiar with The Zeitgeist Movement and its tenents and want to participate in one of the projects below. New projects should be announced at a Monthly Movies that Matter or on Facebook. Here is the agenda:

Project 1. Visiting Communities – 12pm -12:30pm

2. Outreach Program – 12:45-1pm

3. TZM Qld Youtube channel – Zac Syme – 1pm – 1:30pm

4. Intelligent Systems for new governance – James? Aaron? Andreas? – 1:30 – 2pm

5. Find a big free venue for Zeitgeist Media Festival – 2 – 2:15pm

6. Lessons from starting a community (Eris & Mick) – 2:15

7. Build an EV motorbike – <a>Matthew Rbe Scott</a> 2:45

Will the above people please comment on the above agenda so it can be adjusted to maximize efficiency.

From the following month, May, this room is booked for us on every FOURTH Saturday of the month, same time until November.

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Saturday, 18 Apr 2015 12:00 PM

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Brisbane Square Library

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Time to get those projects going folks! This is a time and space to progress those fabulous ideas we keep talking about. Who: People who have attended a Monthly Movies that Matter meeting or are familiar with The Zeitgeist Movement and its tenents and want to participate in one of the projects below. New projects should be announced at a Monthly Movies that Matter or on Facebook. Here is the agenda:

Project 1. Visiting Communities – 12pm -12:30pm

2. Outreach Program – 12:45-1pm

3. TZM Qld Youtube channel – Zac Syme – 1pm – 1:30pm

4. Intelligent Systems for new governance – James? Aaron? Andreas? – 1:30 – 2pm

5. Find a big free venue for Zeitgeist Media Festival – 2 – 2:15pm

6. Lessons from starting a community (Eris & Mick) – 2:15

7. Build an EV motorbike – <a>Matthew Rbe Scott</a> 2:45

Will the above people please comment on the above agenda so it can be adjusted to maximize efficiency.

From the following month, May, this room is booked for us on every FOURTH Saturday of the month, same time until November.

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Saturday, 11 Jul 2015 1:30 PM

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Brisbane Square Library

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The Zeitgeist Movement Queensland brings you Monthly Movies that Matter, a free event headlining with the “Everything is a Remix”.

Check out the director’s Ted Talk here: http://www.ted.com/talks/kirby_ferguson_embrace_the_remix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd-dqUuvLk4

We will also have a selection of short, interesting, provocative clips leading up to the film with opportunity for discussion. This month we will focus on open-source, the source of creativity, innovation and the idea of ownership.

Jonathan Ersser from Freewill will also be joining us on the day to share a short presentation on his vision to provide a clear way to live freely, create wealth, cooperate and organise information.

Each month we also vote on next month’s movie or theme. Everyone in attendance is welcome to make a suggestion and vote using minimum-opposition. Check out last month’s vote here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YZ9irkES4KHCsqUdX9x6XhahpaAR3oEokoiXUJvkyAc/edit?usp=sharing

The event will be held in the Brisbane Square Library in the Theatrette free of charge. It’s a perfect opportunity to learn more about a more positive future, find out more about what’s happening in the Zeitgeist Movement locally, nationally and globally… and if you’d like to be more involved. Most importantly, it’s a great way to make friends, connect with like-minded people and have a great time.

After the film we mingle at JoJo’s in the mall, please feel free to join us for this too if you can’t make it to the movie. Feel free to bring books to trade… and to bring your flash drive to share resources.

We look forward to seeing you there.

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Sunday, 07 Jun 2015 10:00 AM

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Christie Walk

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A two hour tour of Christie Walk, an ecoblock in the CBD, guided by a resident and tailored to our interests.

Cost = $40 per person (if less than 6 people, the cost will rise per person). A maximum of 17 people can be accommodated on the tour.

Participants must book and pay for the tour by May 9th (Saturday, Monthly Movies that Matter meeting).

Flights and accommodation will be left to you to arrange, however a nearby hotel will be nominated to gather at. Please indicate your preference for departure and return; if enough people want to go together on this long weekend, i.e. depart Saturday midday, return Sunday evening, we can look into a package deal with possible discounts.

We are also hoping to put on a presentation about TZM to the residents of Christie Walk.

http://www.urbanecology.org.au/

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Tuesday, 21 Apr 2015 7:00 PM

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Pause Bar

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Next in the series of docos we’ll be watching is John Pilgers’ short documentary  “War by other means” (Blurb below). There’ll be ample chance to explore themes discuss what DEBT is and have a ‘good ol’ chat about recent events in the economic order.  Come along enjoy a drink and and engage in some interesting chats!

“War and debt are exactly the same things, and you don’t have to occupy the same territory”, says writer and director John Pilger of his latest documentary film. This film was shown for the first time in Australia at the Carlton Movie House on October 8.

The film focuses on the foreign debt of the Philippines, which climbed to US$4.5 billion under Ferdinand Marcos before he was overthrown in 1986. While 45 million people in the Philippines live in poverty, 44% of the national budget is going to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund; 3% goes to health services and 15% to education.

“In the Philippines”, says John Cavanagh, of the Institute of Policy Studies in Washington, “we have calculated that one child dies every hour because debt repayments consume vital sources like health care”.

“Never before in history have the poor financed the rich on such a scale, and paid so dearly for their servitude”, writes John Pilger in his book Distant Lives. “At the current rates of interest, it is a mathematical impossibility for most countries to pay off their debt.” This situation allows the World Bank and IMF to coerce the Third World into “structural adjustment” programs.

“Structural adjustment” in the Philippines meant the establishment of export processing zones for foreign investors built on what was originally rich agricultural land. Another result was the “great scam”, the nuclear power plant built under Marcos at Batang Peninsula, adjacent to volcanoes and an earthquake fault.