Hello this is Peter Joseph of The Zeitgeist Movement

and I felt the need today to take a moment to publicly

express a few concerns regarding the incredible explosion that has emerged

accross the world born out of the "occupy wall street" initiative

that began a few weeks ago in New York city.

While the mainstream media continues to more less ignore,

criticize and downplay the enormous growth,

potential and effect of this global action against the financial system is having.

I think if you put every single left-wing cause into a blender, and hit power

this is the sludge you'd get.

It's like Woodstock meets Burning Man,

meets people with absolutly no purpose.

The independent media has been shining

as the bigger and free speach journalism more than ever.

And the interesting thing is the more the mainsteam media

continues its Status Quo preservation tactics,

the more public attention will seek out and support

the independent outlets for the power and interests

in the occupy movement is simply not stoping.

As of october 16th, over 1500 cities in the world

are now activly taking part on what is likely the largest

global action ever seen and I suspect many others

seemingly different economic protests currently occuring worldwide

would eventually unify with this global occupy movement as well.

And while "peaceful protest" has been stapled of this action

police brutality and violent outbreaks

are unfortunatly occuring in pockets

and this is something of deep concern to me

It's one thing for all of us to give lip service to non-violence

in such a situation and it's another to be educated

and strategic in your work to restrain it.

I speak not only to participants here,

but also to law enforcement and hence the goverment

and financial powers they represent.

In the case of violence occuring within an occupy movement,

it's critical that if you see any person begining to act

in a violent manner, you work with others to stop them in a peaceful way

or make sure others are separated and not triggered into it.

There's an important book that I recommend called "The Crowd:

A study of the Popular Mind"

which takes great care to discuss mass reactions.

While many of us might think we can be completely objective

and independent in our actions, the fact is we are

deeply influenced by the effects around us.

The mob mentality can take all almost subconsciously.

This is very important to recognize within yourself and others,

in order to be vigilant on both fronts.

On that note, it's also critically important law enforcement

understand these dinamics as well.

If you, the police, expect the crowd not to be violent

then a concerted effort to withhold your communication of it, is required.

Just as a single rue person can trigger an entire group

to jump on board with violent acts,

so do violent actions coming from you, the police.

The more you show violence, the more likely it will generate it.

And needless to say, there are many more protesters than are police

and your weapons will be absolutly meaningless

if these mobs ever work to turn against you.

It's in yourself interest and protection to stop reacting

in abusive manners. Every time you hurt or abuse another human being,

you plant the seed of permission for them to hurt

and abuse you and others.

You have nothing to gain by using force and everything to lose in the end.

Now, all that aside there's a quick point I would like to make regard to demands and transition.

I don't pretend to know what will occure

as this movement continues to grow,

but unless an informed, relevant set of demands are made,

its effect would be minimal.

It's here I will speak with respect to the values of The Zeitgeist Movement

along with my personal views on how

we could possible transition into a more human,

sustainable balanced society.

While many within the occupy movement promote various reforms

of the current economic and political system, others such as

The Zeitgeist Movement seek a complete overhaul.

It's not the purpose of this video to expand upon

the complete train of thought present in The Zeitgeist Movement's

observations and proposals, but suffice it to say

we seek a system based upon resource managment

as the starting point of all industrial decisions

coupled with a recognition that the efficiency enabled by

our modern understandings in science and technology

will be what can provide and meet the needs of the entire

human population and create true sustainability.

The manifestation of these elements are what comprise

what we often we refer to as a "Resource-Based Economic Model".

To understand the basis of this train of thought more clearly

I do suggest two books as well:

One is called "Critical Path" by Buckminster Fuller

and the other is called "The Best That Money Can't Buy" by Jacque Fresco.

From there the readership begin to see

that our current financially-based economic model

is intrinsically flawed, and no regulation of this system

will likely solve the real problems we face at hand.

And if this view is accepted, the view that we need

to employ a completely different socio-economic model

to meet the needs of the human population

and become truly sustainable on the Planet Earth,

the question of course becomes: How do we get there?

In my personal view, the occupy movement could be the seed

for a transition out of the current paradigm into a new one.

By its natural evolution, the occupy movement has characteristics

that are very revealing with respect to the true nature of the problems at hand.

The fact that is act of complaint has occured without borders

or in certain cases without even respect to the political system itself,

rather targeting the financial system, shows an amazing new awareness.

My first suggestion is to unify the regional movements

into a global entity through representatives,

where each major region has a personal link to each other.

I believe this is starting to occur already.

The meetings need to occur with these representatives

to plant more concerted actions to reinforce

the global unity and presence.

Second, a decision needs to be made as to

where your main focus is.

To kick by reform the current system or

to work to basically remove it as a whole

and obviously there is gonna be a transitional phase

incorporating both as well.

Either way, these global representatives would need to prepare

a world occupy conference at a set location for the media to diggest.

Where reform issues are presented, hence pushing recognition

by the political establishment and the public.

In the case of reform this is where each regional group

gains recognition and organizes themselves to be able

to engage their country specific govermental bodies.

In the case of complete revolution and the interest

to remove the model itself and install a totally new system,

as advocated by The Zeitgeist Movement, a more radical

undertaking is required, a parallel government needs to be created.

Rather than work to get a seat at the proverbial table that exists,

a new table needs to be created

and the representatives of each region are brought in

along with legal and technical teams associated,

much detail could be explained on that but let's leave it there for now.

Eventually this will create a virtual global institution

that begins to prepare the new social system, as the

old system continues its operation and inevitable failure

if you understand what the system is

and how it can't resurrect itself at this point.

And once this model is defined, a massive public awareness campaign

is commenced as the new governing body and its work is announced.

The tipping point will come once the public

begins to see the merit of the new social proposal

hence recognizing the governing entity itself and eventually

giving it priority over the prior political establishment.

Now, what I just turned out here is extremely generalized

and I'm sure it raises numerous questions.

I only want to express this as a logical train of thought

and broad strokes on how maybe true global revolution could occur

and hence plant this seed of possibility and organization.

There are countless people that had been talking about change

for a long period of time. My question to you is:

Are you really prepared to do what it takes

to actually get the change done.

If you would like to know more about The Zeitgeist Movement,

please visit thezeitgeistmovement.com and also know

that we have over thousand chapters across 70 countries at this time,

working in tandem to, again, create the type of social change I just described.

So, if you would like to become a part of the movement,

please go to the movement's site, clic on the country and go

and find a chapter in your region or create one.

Thank you for listening.