Friends,
I am very pleased to say that the August 21 meetings by far the best and most productive meeting of them all. We had several new faces show who had lots of great ideas to bring to the table. Some of the things discussed included:
-The MSU Initiative: We are actually going to postpone this one more week. We figured that the arriving students will be spending more time moving in, unpacking and getting settled in to even be able to focus attention on anything we are doing. So we will do this on September 4th. Depending on weather conditions, we will be able to set up a table outside, or if it comes to it, we will set up in the MSU Union. We will be handing out flyers, pamphlets and copies of Zeitgeist: Addendum, in addition to talking with the people who are interested in the movement. This is THE event that is going to help us up our numbers. Once we have enough people we can focus attention of the activities of individual teams.
-The New Website: This one is going to be an ongoing project. The first step is to link the new domain to the Blogspot site. The new domain will be www.zeitmm.com. Keep in mind, it isn't set up yet. But once it is, we can start putting it on other media like flyers and DVDs. After that is done, we can focus on remodeling the site. Blogspot is very limited and it forces you to put everything on one page.
The new website will have several pages for new or involved people to have lots of info and interaction. The homepage is going to be the most important for it will be the first impression for any new people. So it should have things that would be appealing to someone who has never heard of the movement. Things like explaining the current system and society would be ideal because then the ideas we propose will have more relevance.
There will also be links to sites not only in support of the movement but also against it. By doing so, people will be able to have multiple perspectives on the movement as a whole. But most of the videos I've seen against the movement are actually quite entertaining for they really don't argue the movement itself, but arguing little facts that are in Peter Joseph's videos, mainly the Christianity stuff.
There will also be a forum in which people will be able to interact with one another and discuss issues related to the movement. There will be more on this later though.
-Registered Student Organization: This will become more priority after the MSU Initiative because it will require people who are in MSU to do this. I absolutely encourage new students to do what they can, but someone who is not attending for their first year may be more suitable because they would know how things work around the school and also know the faculty, because we do need to be endorsed by at least one professor or grad student.
-Pass Out Flyers: Since the MSU Initiative is being postponed one more week, we can at least take advantage of the time not only to prepare for the event but to get the word out to East Lansing that the movement is alive and well in the area. I think more people are aware of the movement as a whole, but don't realize that people are actually getting involved. So what we are going to do is put flyers up all over the MSU campus and even the stores around the area as well. This is an open invite to anyone who has been wanting to get involved to get started. If you would like to come out, please print your own flyer. It can be an original or you can go to www.zeitgeistmediaproject.com for some ideas. Anything on the website can be used.
We are going to meet at MSU Union's Main Lounge at 1PM on August 28 before hitting the streets. If you want to take part in this please send me an email to zeitmidmich@gmail.com for more details.
Peace,
C.B.
