Notes on our Second Meeting

Date: Wednesday October 6th, 2010

Time: 6:00-8:00pm

Location: South Texas College, McAllen, TX

Attendance: 9 members

This meeting started with introductions of the assembled members and discussions about why we decided to become members. We are happy to have such a diverse group of people, with a wide range of political, social, academic and artistic backgrounds be a part of our new and growing group. Despite our many and varied points of view, we were all able to agree that the way things are going are unsustainable, and we have decided to work together for the betterment of society and spreading awareness of the Zeitgeist Movement and the Venus Project. The majority of the individuals present were attending their first meeting and we are very happy that they have decided to join us.

We continued by watching the first 2 sections of the Orientation Video and discussed them. There was a good discussion about the challenges of raising children in a society that has aberrant values. We then had some discussion about future meetings, participating in activism both individually and as a group, and decided on having a meeting sometime next weekend, preferrably on Saturday. We will announce further details as they emerge in regards to that meeting. In addition, we closed the meeting with remarks about some news items from the national and global movement organizations.

Pictured below are seven of the participants right before the meeting ended. Thank you for your time and participation, and we hope to see you at future meetings and events.

Monthly Update

Greetings friends!

This Wednesday, October 6th, we will be having our second official meeting. We are happy to announce that we now have a student organization on the South Texas College campus in McAllen, and they will be hosting us on campus. The meeting details are as follow:

Date: Wednesday October, 6 2010
Time: 6-8pm
Location: Room 231, Building H (Cafeteria), South Texas College
Address: 3201 W. Pecan, McAllen, TX
Agenda: We will be meeting and greeting our new members and hold a screening of the activist orientation video.

For those of you who are not familiar with the STC campus, there is a map available here.

We currently have just over 40 email addresses on our mailing list, and I am hopeful to see a good number of you at this meeting.

We are just starting out, but we are continuing to grow rapidly as the the idea that a new and redesigned society should be made available to all people spreads. If you have any questions, please post a message on this site or email me here.

Blog Talk Radio Show with Peter Joseph, Venus Project, Doug Mallette

Peter Joseph, Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadow and Doug Mallette have a 2 hour conversation regarding decision making in a Resource Based Economy. I encourage all Zeitgeist Movement members to listen to this episode of the V-Radio program. There are a lot of questions that are answered and arguments against the Venus Project that are defeated. If you are at all curious about society in a new and better world, I encourage you to watch the films at www.zeitgeistmovie.com and listen to this and other audio programs featuring Peter Joseph, The Venus Project and Doug Mallette. I also encourage you to examine your own value system and your own desires for the future.

If you live in the Rio Grande Valley area and are interested in a better world for all people, I ask that you contact us and join us in our efforts.

Notes on our First Meeting

Date: Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Time: 6:00pm - 7:45pm
Location: Barnes & Noble Bookstore
Number Attending: 5

This would be classified as a general meeting, wherein the participants were asked to share their various experiences explaining how they had come to participate in the Zeitgeist Movement. There were 5 very distinct narratives presented, at least one of them being emotionally moving, at least to me personally. A large portion of the discussion was dominated by religion and its various implications and peculiarities. In this region of the world, religion has been a powerful bio-social pressure and it's effects were discussed on the attendees. Armando Lopez, the general organizer of this meeting, discussed at length his experiences in the world of academia and how he has come to recognize the effects of the monetary system on himself, his family and his students.

The latter portion of the meeting concerned making plans for the next meeting and discussion of formalizing an official student group both at South Texas College and at University of Texas - Pan American. We came to the conclusion that a reserved room with audio/visual projection capabilities would be ideal, and the creation of a student group can ensure we maintain access to those resources. The next general meeting will be on Wednesday, October 6th, most likely at the STC campus. We will be screening the Movement Orientation Video for the new members who have not yet viewed it. We may also be holding smaller informal meetings throughout the month as well, but no concrete plans were developed. I will look forward to these and other future meetings with the newly formed RGV chapter of the Zeitgeist Movement, and I hope that you join us.