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Z Communications is the name for the overarching institution composed of all Z Operations & Projects, which seems to have started as Z Magazine, a radical print & online periodical dedicated to resisting injustice, eliminating repression, and creating liberty, and has expanding into various z components: 

Z Net
Z Mag
Z Video
Z Space
Z Intl
Z Blogs
Z Forums
ZMI/ZEO/ZSchool
Z books
Z store

The name, Z, was inspired by the movie Z, directed by Costa-Gavras, that tells the story of repression & resistance in Greece. Comrade Z has been assassinated and his killers, including the chief of police, are indicted. The prosecutor disappears and a right-wing military junta takes over. Security police set out to prevent “a mildew of the mind” and infiltration of “isms.” As the closing credits roll, the filmmakers list the things banned by the junta. They include: peace movements, labor unions, long hair on men, Sophocles, Tolstoy, strikes, the Beatles, Chekhov, Mark Twain, the bar association, sociology, Becket, the free press, the new math, and the letter Z, scrawled on a sidewalk as the film’s final image, symbolizing “the spirit of resistance lives.” many Z’s worth further exploration!