Z-Day 2011 - Celebrating Awareness!

Z-Day Prep

We will be making signs and displays tomorrow at the Animal House. Starting around noon and going on till like 6 or 7. Come over if you don't have anything going on and bring whatever art supplies you can. Markers, crayons, boards, sticks etc.. Thanks and see you here.

Contact Nimesh if you have any questions at nimeshlk@gmail.com

Reader Input Is Important To Us!

We got some great input from one of our readers recently about what he would like to see in our community. Here's synopsis of his suggestions:

-Create a listing of community resources: should consist of basic information on people or organizations that are available to help out. Such as where people in need can go to get food and other goods or doctors who may be willing to help the uninsured for other goods or services. Also, just a list of people with valuable information that can further our cause.

-Create a Community Aid group: A group of people to get that food and other goods to the people who need them or are willing to make a presence at home foreclosures or frivolous trials in our community. Basically, showing support for others in our community when they are in need.

I think both of these are great ideas...I will tell you that we do have a little bit of a head start on the first one already. Tiana has compiled a list of local banks, clothing retailers, farmers markets, grocers, food stops, etc that could easily be transformed into a succinct list of community resources. This is something that we can easily distribute electronically to volunteers and it can them be provided to the masses. I will bring this up with the rest of the volunteer group soon to decide how we can go about putting this together so stay tuned for more information on that.

I also think the second idea is fantastic. I would love to see group community involvement in the future, however our biggest hurdle thus far has been how do we get the people that support us to get out and actually do the work? It's unfortunate, but true, that it's very easy to lend your support from behind a computer monitor but we really need the support out on the streets. So, I ask you readers, what event would you help with? What would get you out to spread the word? Maybe even bring a couple of friends with you. I think we need a little less "e-activism" (I totally just made that up) and more people out in the real world to make a real change.

Let me know what you think!

J.

zeitgeiststc@gmail.com

Local Clothing and Other Goods

      One of the most important things you can do to support the economy is to spend your hard earned bread locally. Here's a list of local retailers to support in the St. Cloud area:

      ·         The Electric Fetus

28 5th Avenue South

St. Cloud, MN 56301

other locations in Minneapolis and Duluth

·     Live Young, Die Fast- You can find them on facebook, or on the web at http://liveyoungdiefastmn.blogspot.com/

·         The Youth Shelter Supply-

      71 3rd St NE
Waite Park, MN 56387

REUSE. We keep producing more and more goods and clothing when there is already enough to sustain us. We can reuse clothing to minimize waste and discontinue our support for big clothing corporations.

·         Threads

628 9th Ave S628 9th Ave S

Great resale shop with mostly used and some new clothing.

·         Plato’s Closet

Resale and used clothing.

2940 Division St, St Cloud, MN 56301

·         Goodwill

50 2nd Ave. S.

Waite Park, MN 56387

·         Savers

3326 W. Division St.

St. Cloud, MN 56301

·         The Treasure Chest

113 28th Avenue South

Waite Park, MN 56387-1085

·         Barker’s More 4 Less

3356 W. Division St.

Saint Cloud, MN 56301

Music/Instrument Shops

·         Rock Town Music

305 3^rd Street Ne

Waite Park, MN

·         Bridge of Harmony

19 7th Avenue South

St. Cloud, MN 56301-4259

·         Al Asmus Music

1600 W Saint Germain St, #1

 St Cloud, MN 56301



Z-Day 2011

Next Sunday March 13 the St. Cloud Zeitgeist Chapter will be at local businesses downtown handing out information on the Zeitgeist Movement and what you can do to get involved. We'll be at the Electric Fetus, Clown Glass, Albertville Outlet mall as well as walking around the downtown area. This is a great opportunity to get some information about the movement and meet some of the volunteers. Also, if you would like to volunteer to help hand out information on Sunday feel free to contact Tiana at t.maree21@gmail.com.

We will also have volunteers stationed in Atwood on Monday, March 14th. There will be different booths set up discussing key points of the Zeitgeist Movement including, the sociological, religious, technological, psychological aspects as well as the Venus Project. This is a great opportunity to learn more about the movement and get more specific information about these areas.

Making Music for Making Changes

With almost 150 participants raising over 1500 diapers for the Anna Maries shelter at our first MMMC event, the city of St Cloud proved that people who come together around the power of music and the spirit of generosity can truly make an amazing impact in their community. Because of this response, MMMC has decided: *Events will be held every-other-Friday *A new organization will be hosted each month ... This months sponsored organization is: "We-R-Artists": A Central Minnesota networking group for artists with disabilities. Fund-raising effort: We will be raising funds for We-R-Artists own handicap assessable art gallery and meeting space. We-R-Artists will also have local art work displayed at the meeting grounds and on March 18th for the art crawl the Green Band Office (which is right next door to the grounds) will be functioning as a gallery for We-R-Artists and will be having a silent auction. March Show Dates: Friday March 4th @ 5:00PM to 8:00PM Music By: Chase Binnie, Siamese Tree, and Winston Drei Tod Location: Meeting Grounds Friday March 18th (art crawl) @ 5:00PM to 8:00PM Music By: Mr. Chase Bonnie Tetraploid Double Dog Nose Programs like We-R-Artists are so vital for our community, so please join us again this march to make music for making changes! "Great Food, Groovy Music, Generous People"