The 8th Annual Global Zeitgeist-Day Main Event Symposium was be held in Athens, Greece at the Danaos Theater, March 26th, 2016. The main event also occured in tandem with numerous local, parallel, sister events occurring around the globe the same weekend. Prior main events have been documented by news agencies, including the New York Times and Huffington Post, with speakers and attendees coming fromaround the world to discuss the state of society and how to improve it, via promoting sustainability, global unity, and a Post-Scarcity Society.
The daylong 2016 symposium addressed some of the most pressing social issues of our time, with key lectures from TZM founder Peter Joseph, journalist Abby Martin, Georgios Papanikolaou of the P2P Foundation, Peter Gruber of Copiosis and more.
Focusing on transitioning society into one of post-scarcity, emphasizing social and environmental justice, the topics of discussion will include the role of technology, the latest understandings in public health science, critical factors for sustainability, transition steps such as universal basic income, and the structural incapacity of market capitalism to address current problems, holding progress back. The purpose of The Zeitgeist Movement is to assist global transition into a new social model based upon the pursuit of social equality, sustainability and abundance.
Date: March 26th 2016
Location: Danaos Theater, A. Kndnoiaq 109 (METPO I’lavépuou), Athens, Greece
Program:
Peter Joseph - Where We Go from Here
Abby Martin - Independent Journalism
Perry Gruber - Imperatives for Change
Giorgos Papanikolaou - P2P Foundations
Stefan Kengen - The Perception of Deception
Stamatis Arhontis - Science: Misconceptions and how it can propel TZM to the next level
Rich Penny - The RBE Transition
Vasilis Perantzakis - Unconditional Basic Income
Prodromos Tsavios - Creative Commons