NYU Activism Campaign
March 22, 2010 in Communication, Meet Up
Teamspeak Weekly Meeting 3/21/2010
During the last Teamspeak Meeting we decided that for our next activism campaign we will be setting up a demonstration at the NYU campus. We will setup a table with poster boards highlighting different topics that would of interest to college students. We are for a way to also have a screen with a video demonstrating different technologies that many people aren’t aware of today.
For the posters, I will be taking volunteers to tackle different topics. Please leave a comment to let me know what topic/poster you want to make. Let’s try to use those posters with the folding flaps so that it can stand by itself without any support.
Volunteers so far:
- Diego – Debt
- Doraw – Unemployment
- James O\’Loughlin – Energy/Technology is hindered by profit system.
- Roberto – Energy
Topics:
- Debt – Go into money creation and how their isn’t enough money in circulation to cover the debt + interest.
- Energy – Highlight different technologies that would make our energy crisis a non-issue (geothermal).
- Constant Growth Economy – Highlight how we live in a finite planet that cannot sustain a profit driven, constant growth economy.
- Technological Unemployment - Demonstrate technologies that promise to replace human labor, and how the profit system promotes the use of such machines. Examples of technology would be the “Contourcrafting”, Electric Vehicles (low maintenance = less mechanics) , etc…
- Suggest One…
Please feel free to suggest and modify any of the existing ones. One thing to keep in mind while designing your poster boards, is to draw people into the information at an emotional level. Let’s use the same advertisement techniques used by marketing firms for a good cause.
Here is a video compilation of our last Meeting/Activism.
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Laura said on March 22, 2010
Wow, Diego. I’m impressed by your skills!! I will be in Golden, CO 3/28 and try to teamspeak from there to the NY chapter. My friend is pretty like-minded so I’m trying to spread the word there too! Will be in touch re: table and poster board. Rock on!
Diego Rodrigues said on March 22, 2010
Thank You
DORAW said on March 22, 2010
I’ll be there WITH BELLS ON next time
vindaloo said on March 22, 2010
Well done!
Jeffrey said on March 22, 2010
Ha, very cool!
red1 said on March 22, 2010
Really bro, just in case you did get one of my messages, this came out hot!
Diego Rodrigues said on March 23, 2010
Thank you…this is just the beginning !
Diego Rodrigues said on March 23, 2010
I will work on the DEBT poster.
Jared Dancler said on March 23, 2010
Headlines…
How about: “What if this expensive education were free to all?”
I also like: “Social stratification is real.”
Jan Coldwater said on March 24, 2010
Oh my God. I love that you guys are doing this! This is GREAT! Love your ideas! Will these events be ongoing? What materials would you like the boards to be made of… the foam boards? I love what you said about how there isn’t enough money to cover the debt and interest. Be honest now, I don’t think that there is enough TREES to be able to make the money to cover the debt and interest! LOL
DORAW said on March 24, 2010
I am making a poster on Unemployment.
Steven Duque said on March 27, 2010
hey whats out there to do? i wanna get involved
DELIO FERNANDEZ said on March 29, 2010
I APPLAUD YOUR EFFORTS AND WILL SOON JOIN YOU. KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK.
DELIO FERNANDEZ said on March 29, 2010
I APPLAUD EVERYONES EFFORT AND WILL SOON JOIN YOU
James O\'Loughlin said on March 31, 2010
I’m thinking of doing the energy poster but may expand it to a general “technology creates abundance, profit fights it” theme
Diego Rodrigues said on March 31, 2010
I will count you in for that one THank you
Post a picture of when you are done so we can bounce feedback of each others work.
James O\'Loughlin said on April 1, 2010
I work on Ill work on it this weekend, will have something by sunday/Monday. Is there a time frame for when we want to get this all together, my computer’s functionality is limited (fubr sound card) so no teamspeak for now.
Diego Rodrigues said on April 1, 2010
ASAP
That’s the deadline
red1 said on April 2, 2010
I want to work on the energy thing as well.
red1 said on April 10, 2010
Diego, I do no have anything for energy yet. At the least for the time being, since the video interviews seem to be working, I’m definitely going to set up my camera to get peoples opinions on the mentioned topics and others to give people a chance to interact with us for different reason if the data we provide does not attract them. With that, this may give us a chance to record questions from individuals that are sometimes difficult to answer and of course I hope we can record a post activist meeting. We got into some pretty good convo last time.
red1 said on May 21, 2010
http://zeitgeist-ny.com/members/red1/album/picture/9/
poster done…see some of you tomorrow.
Lloyd Grant said on August 14, 2010
Hey guys, im new here and i see you guys are apart of the new york group. I love the work you guys are doing and im happy to see your dedication of informing the people. Just make sure the next time you guys go out in public, that you invite me also make sure u have a mega-fone. lol i want to stir up noise. Not chanting like annoying people do with mega-phones but crowd to crowd action and communication. With me on your time. Trust me i will bring more hands on deck.