The International meetings (now called Global Assemblies) are where we’ve been sharing our activities and reports. There’s 2 a month at different times and different days of the week to help make it easier for people to make it. I can only make the Saturday evening ones (although they are in the morning for people in Europe).
That’s been happening for the last few years now. Mostly spearheaded by Mark Enoch.
The meetings are run on Discord.
Check the #news-and-updates channel for information and links.
Regarding the split brain part of the movement.
The movement has had something like 6 different versions of the main website. It used to have a forum but that was closed down after a few years. There was a Team Speak but that was expensive to run and people weren’t using it as much.
The Facebook page is still popular. But lots of TZM FB groups were created by whoever wanted to.
So if the movement splintered, the first parts of that splintering happened when the forum was closed and then an iteration or two of the main site happened. That’s before my time in dealing with TZM IT support so I don’t know why any of that was done.
But I do also know that there was both spill over into other social media areas because the movement was MUCH bigger at the time and because you should be meeting people where they are if you want to talk with them.
You don’t try to talk to people by standing in the middle of the desert. You stand by the train station, park, or mall and try to find people who have the time to talk and learn.
So there’s groups in other places because that where you talk to people who could potentially be members.
Discord and this forum are great places for talking to existing members.
As for the Global TZM FB page The Zeitgeist Movement Global I’m still an editor on it.
I’m trying to use FB a lot less these days, but if you need something posted there then provide the text so it can be copy->pasted into a post, or post as an existing chapter and send the link so the global page can repost it.
Often what you send is just a message of “Can you send a post about the forum”. But there’s many different ways that can be written and you could have better links and you force us to have to investigate in great detail how to write something up. But usually people like myself and Cliff are busy trying to keep the movement afloat. Sometimes dealing with technical issues, sometimes with what feels more like politics.
Going back to the falling apart though.
I’d love to see more solid evidence that it fell apart because of splintering online.
I know some great ex TZM activists who were burnt out by the movement. Most because they clashed with the GCA.
Juuso is leaving because he’s got to deal with Koto Coop and that should very much be his primary focus. But it’s also because he can’t deal with the way too high levels of conspiracy theory thinking from some of the members.
What we need is exit interviews from old members to actually know why they’ve left.
That’s something the TZM Informatics / survey team would be great for, but we don’t have the man power for that right now.
Until we’ve got some good data, it’s hard to say.
But it’s important to learn why.