Notes on our Ninth Meeting

Date: Wednesday January 5th, 2011
Time: 6:00 - 9:00 PM
Location: Private Residence in Mission, TX
Attendance: 12

Update: Our friends at RGV No State Project are graciously hosting the audio recordings of this and previous meetings.

The Rio Grande Valley Zeitgeist Movement held it's 10th general meeting this week, and was graciously hosted once again by Ray Perez at his home in Mission. Once again, we were provided with a pleasant and intimate environment, with food and beverage provided by several of our members. Even after our stated agenda had been completed, we found ourselves spending even more time engaging in interesting discourse and enjoying some great food and dessert. It was a truly a great pleasure.

We were able to work our way through the stated agenda, including making plans for Friday's Art Walk and sharing designs for flyers and tickets that we will be handing out during that event. In addition, we made final plans for our Zeitgeist Moving Forward screenings in Edinburg and McAllen. There was discussion and planning made for a New Member Orientation meeting to be held during the week of the screenings to help receive new members who join. We also came up with some more structural and content related plans for our upcoming New Member Information Packet, and started to contemplate a New Member DVD. Some of the newer things we discussed were having a meeting in the Harlingen area for those members who are unable to travel to the McAllen area. If you live in the lower valley and are interested in facilitating or attending such a meeting, please contact us or join in our discussion group to lend voice to your community. We hope to start reaching new areas in the RGV, and the sooner the better. One of our last topics of discussion was the After Hours Music Concert that will take place on January 14th. Thanks to the efforts of one of our members, we have been allowed to setup an information table and distribute literature and information to those in attendance. This will be a great opportunity to help direct people to our movement and our screenings and an exciting development for our cause.

Our next meeting will likely be a private meeting to screen the Zeitgeist Moving Forward after we acquire it from Peter Joseph. More details will be made available on or after January 11th. This will be our last meeting before the music concert and the screening, so those two events will likely be the focus at that time. Thanks again to everyone who has helped us get this far, and for continuing to work for a better world for all people.

Attendees of our ninth meeting.

Rio Grande Valley Zeitgeist Movement at the McAllen Art Walk

The Rio Grande Valley Zeitgeist Movement will be attending the monthly McAllen Art Walk festival on Friday, January 7th, beginning at 6 PM. We will meet at the McAllen Public Library at the corner of Main and Fir.

Our general goal is to pass out flyers and literature, informing people of our movement, the Venus Project and more specifically, our upcoming screenings of Zeitgeist Moving Forward. We will even have music provided for us by some of our talented singers and musicians!

This will be our second month attending this community event, and I am certain that we will be just as successful, if not more so, in engaging our fellow Valley dwellers and letting them know of the potential for a better future for all people. We hope to see you there!

Announcing Rio Grande Valley Zeitgeist Movement Meeting 9

The Rio Grande Valley Zeitgeist Movement will hold it's ninth general meeting on Wednesday, January 5th, 2011 between 6:00-8:00 PM. We will once again be graciously hosted by Ray Perez and his family at their private apartment in Mission.

Our agenda will consist of the following:

• The plans, flyers, posters and t-shirts for the McAllen Art Walk on Friday, January 7th.
• The Zeitgeist Moving Forward screening details and plans, including plans for a new member orientation meeting.
• Content and creation of a new member orientation packet of information.
• Open discussion of any other topics that arise.

If you have not already shared your designs and ideas for these topics to our discussion group threads, then please do so at your earliest convenience. Some of you have already shared your work and it looks very good. Please note that we are focusing on advertising our upcoming screenings, so please have that information incorporated into your fliers and other material you plan to distribute or display at the upcoming Art Walk.

As noted previously, we will be at the Pueblo de Paz apartment complex, which is 3401 N. Mayberry, in Apt. 1227. We will be asking once again for anyone who is able to bring a snack or beverage to share with others. Thank you for your time and attention, and I hope to see you there!

Notes on our Eighth Meeting

Date: Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Time: 6:00 - 9:00 PM
Location: Private Residence
Attendance: 12

Update: Our friends at the RGV No State Project have graciously hosted the audio recordings of this and previous meetings.

The Rio Grande Valley Zeitgeist Movement held its eighth meeting and was graciously hosted by member Ray Perez and his family in their home on Wednesday, December 22nd 2010. There was a good deal of snacks and drinks provided, and we were all treated to a comfortable and intimate environment. The venue is so popular now that we plan on holding our next meeting there as well. We are very fortunate to have generous members in our group and I just want to say again how much they are appreciated.

The meeting started off with a short discussion about our previous Art Walk experience, in which there were some raised concerns about our ability to effectively communicate our movement's purpose and goal. We spent some time discussing how we can hone the description of our movement into a short and concise statement that would help people get what we're doing. We understand that the Venus Project contains such a great deal of nebulous ideas, but ultimately, we can conclude that we advocate a radical redesign of society with a relevant set of values and utilizing the method and tools of science and technology to remove or reduce problems we have today.

We then transitioned abruptly into a fairly time consuming discussion concerning the possibility of the Venus Project working with the New World Order global elite. One of our members had found some information that she believed was evidence of such a link, and wanted to make us aware of the potential dangers. There was a great deal of debate, point of views expressed and some intense questioning that took place, but ultimately, we had to end the discussion for the time being in order to proceed with the publicly discussed agenda.

We moved on to discussion about our upcoming screenings of Zeitgeist Moving Forward. We have now secured two locations to hold screenings, both in McAllen and in Edinburg. We will be making official announcements about these soon. We also decided to have a meeting after the screenings in order to help welcome and orientate new members who may join after watching the film. Along those lines, we discussed the idea of having a new member packet which will contain hard copies of important documents and understandings of our movement. We hope to be able to identify relevant documents for our community and provide them to all who join us.

Related to that is the need to start advertising our screenings. Our major push for advertising the film will be the upcoming McAllen Art Walk on January 7th. We discussed the plans we should make in terms of placement of our table, the need for permits and the focusing of our fliers and shirt designs on our upcoming screenings of ZMF.

We concluded with discussing our next meeting, which is scheduled to be on Wednesday, January 5th, once again at Ray's home. I have included links to all of these individual discussion threads in order to foster more participation and share more and better ideas. I hope you take advantage of our Google groups discussion site and make your questions, concerns and comments known to the rest of the group, and we can all come to a better understanding of the world we live in. Thank you for your time and attention.