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Peter Joseph: Message to Occupy Wall Street & The World | The Zeitgeist Movement

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    Hello this is Peter Joseph of The Zeitgeist Movement
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    and I felt the need today to take a moment to publicly
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    express a few concerns regarding the incredible explosion that has emerged
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    accross the world born out of the "occupy wall street" initiative
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    that began a few weeks ago in New York city.
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    While the mainstream media continues to more less ignore,
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    criticize and downplay the enormous growth,
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    potential and effect of this global action against the financial system is having.
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    I think if you put every single left-wing cause into a blender, and hit power
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    this is the sludge you'd get.
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    It's like Woodstock meets Burning Man,
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    meets people with absolutly no purpose.
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    The independent media has been shining
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    as the bigger and free speach journalism more than ever.
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    And the interesting thing is the more the mainsteam media
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    continues its Status Quo preservation tactics,
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    the more public attention will seek out and support
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    the independent outlets for the power and interests
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    in the occupy movement is simply not stoping.
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    As of october 16th, over 1500 cities in the world
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    are now activly taking part on what is likely the largest
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    global action ever seen and I suspect many others
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    seemingly different economic protests currently occuring worldwide
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    would eventually unify with this global occupy movement as well.
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    And while "peaceful protest" has been stapled of this action
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    police brutality and violent outbreaks
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    are unfortunatly occuring in pockets
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    and this is something of deep concern to me
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    It's one thing for all of us to give lip service to non-violence
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    in such a situation and it's another to be educated
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    and strategic in your work to restrain it.
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    I speak not only to participants here,
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    but also to law enforcement and hence the goverment
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    and financial powers they represent.
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    In the case of violence occuring within an occupy movement,
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    it's critical that if you see any person begining to act
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    in a violent manner, you work with others to stop them in a peaceful way
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    or make sure others are separated and not triggered into it.
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    There's an important book that I recommend called "The Crowd:
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    A study of the Popular Mind"
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    which takes great care to discuss mass reactions.
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    While many of us might think we can be completely objective
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    and independent in our actions, the fact is we are
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    deeply influenced by the effects around us.
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    The mob mentality can take all almost subconsciously.
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    This is very important to recognize within yourself and others,
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    in order to be vigilant on both fronts.
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    On that note, it's also critically important law enforcement
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    understand these dinamics as well.
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    If you, the police, expect the crowd not to be violent
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    then a concerted effort to withhold your communication of it, is required.
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    Just as a single rue person can trigger an entire group
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    to jump on board with violent acts,
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    so do violent actions coming from you, the police.
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    The more you show violence, the more likely it will generate it.
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    And needless to say, there are many more protesters than are police
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    and your weapons will be absolutly meaningless
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    if these mobs ever work to turn against you.
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    It's in yourself interest and protection to stop reacting
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    in abusive manners. Every time you hurt or abuse another human being,
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    you plant the seed of permission for them to hurt
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    and abuse you and others.
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    You have nothing to gain by using force and everything to lose in the end.
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    Now, all that aside there's a quick point I would like to make regard to demands and transition.
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    I don't pretend to know what will occure
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    as this movement continues to grow,
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    but unless an informed, relevant set of demands are made,
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    its effect would be minimal.
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    It's here I will speak with respect to the values of The Zeitgeist Movement
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    along with my personal views on how
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    we could possible transition into a more human,
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    sustainable balanced society.
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    While many within the occupy movement promote various reforms
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    of the current economic and political system, others such as
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    The Zeitgeist Movement seek a complete overhaul.
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    It's not the purpose of this video to expand upon
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    the complete train of thought present in The Zeitgeist Movement's
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    observations and proposals, but suffice it to say
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    we seek a system based upon resource managment
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    as the starting point of all industrial decisions
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    coupled with a recognition that the efficiency enabled by
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    our modern understandings in science and technology
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    will be what can provide and meet the needs of the entire
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    human population and create true sustainability.
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    The manifestation of these elements are what comprise
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    what we often we refer to as a "Resource-Based Economic Model".
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    To understand the basis of this train of thought more clearly
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    I do suggest two books as well:
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    One is called "Critical Path" by Buckminster Fuller
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    and the other is called "The Best That Money Can't Buy" by Jacque Fresco.
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    From there the readership begin to see
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    that our current financially-based economic model
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    is intrinsically flawed, and no regulation of this system
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    will likely solve the real problems we face at hand.
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    And if this view is accepted, the view that we need
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    to employ a completely different socio-economic model
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    to meet the needs of the human population
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    and become truly sustainable on the Planet Earth,
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    the question of course becomes: How do we get there?
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    In my personal view, the occupy movement could be the seed
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    for a transition out of the current paradigm into a new one.
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    By its natural evolution, the occupy movement has characteristics
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    that are very revealing with respect to the true nature of the problems at hand.
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    The fact that is act of complaint has occured without borders
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    or in certain cases without even respect to the political system itself,
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    rather targeting the financial system, shows an amazing new awareness.
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    My first suggestion is to unify the regional movements
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    into a global entity through representatives,
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    where each major region has a personal link to each other.
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    I believe this is starting to occur already.
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    The meetings need to occur with these representatives
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    to plant more concerted actions to reinforce
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    the global unity and presence.
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    Second, a decision needs to be made as to
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    where your main focus is.
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    To kick by reform the current system or
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    to work to basically remove it as a whole
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    and obviously there is gonna be a transitional phase
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    incorporating both as well.
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    Either way, these global representatives would need to prepare
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    a world occupy conference at a set location for the media to diggest.
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    Where reform issues are presented, hence pushing recognition
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    by the political establishment and the public.
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    In the case of reform this is where each regional group
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    gains recognition and organizes themselves to be able
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    to engage their country specific govermental bodies.
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    In the case of complete revolution and the interest
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    to remove the model itself and install a totally new system,
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    as advocated by The Zeitgeist Movement, a more radical
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    undertaking is required, a parallel government needs to be created.
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    Rather than work to get a seat at the proverbial table that exists,
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    a new table needs to be created
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    and the representatives of each region are brought in
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    along with legal and technical teams associated,
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    much detail could be explained on that but let's leave it there for now.
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    Eventually this will create a virtual global institution
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    that begins to prepare the new social system, as the
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    old system continues its operation and inevitable failure
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    if you understand what the system is
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    and how it can't resurrect itself at this point.
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    And once this model is defined, a massive public awareness campaign
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    is commenced as the new governing body and its work is announced.
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    The tipping point will come once the public
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    begins to see the merit of the new social proposal
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    hence recognizing the governing entity itself and eventually
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    giving it priority over the prior political establishment.
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    Now, what I just turned out here is extremely generalized
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    and I'm sure it raises numerous questions.
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    I only want to express this as a logical train of thought
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    and broad strokes on how maybe true global revolution could occur
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    and hence plant this seed of possibility and organization.
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    There are countless people that had been talking about change
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    for a long period of time. My question to you is:
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    Are you really prepared to do what it takes
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    to actually get the change done.
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    If you would like to know more about The Zeitgeist Movement,
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    please visit thezeitgeistmovement.com and also know
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    that we have over thousand chapters across 70 countries at this time,
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    working in tandem to, again, create the type of social change I just described.
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    So, if you would like to become a part of the movement,
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    please go to the movement's site, clic on the country and go
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    and find a chapter in your region or create one.
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    Thank you for listening.
Title:
Peter Joseph: Message to Occupy Wall Street & The World | The Zeitgeist Movement
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Peter Joseph: "Message to Occupy Wall St. & The World" |
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Oct 16th 2011

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