Monthly Archives: March 2016

3/28/16 Minutes: Upcoming Events, Upkeep

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In attendance: Jackson (moderator), Ty (secretary)
Start time: 7:00 PM

1. Transgender Day of Visibility: We’re tabling in Omaha for this event on Thursday! Ty’s got a ride and the only supplies he needs are mentioned in the next point, so he’s ready to go.

2. Printing: Ty’s got the new handbills and calendars ready, he’ll get them printed on Wednesday so he’ll have some ready by Thursday. He’ll also redistribute so that our usual areas have a correct time for What is Environmental Justice.

3. Computer: We noticed that the communal laptop has missing keys, and Jackson will make sure it gets repaired.

4. Woman’s Right to Choose Forum: That’s coming up this Friday at Indigo Bridge at 5:30 PM. We’ll share it on our Facebook page to promote it and the walk event. Ty contacted some friends to ask if they would be willing to speak, but they didn’t respond.

5. Library: We spent the rest of the time brainstorming new methods of organizing the library and ways of incorporating the library and other books into our events.

Meeting adjourned: 7:40 PM

3/21/16 Minutes: Treasury Update, Tabling, Event Time Change

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In attendance: Jackson (moderator), Ty (secretary)
Start time: 7:00 PM

1. Event Review – We had a Fight Against Rape Culture discussion on Saturday, and it was great! Lovely turnout and everyone was engaged and got a chance to speak. We even got a request to provide notes from the discussion which are posted on the Facebook event page. All in all a great time, and the enthusiasm might be even better if we schedule it at a different time (that is, not spring break).

2. Treasury – Jackson made the yearly update, and we’re pretty good on funds! A paper cutter and a long-arm stapler are penciled down as needs. We also talked about rearranging furniture to better encourage people to take free zines, with the possibility of buying a new bookshelf in the future.

3. Tabling – TDoV tabling is basically ready, there still needs to be some pronoun button pressing but no zines need to be made before then. Before Earth Day we’ll need to print more handbills, the sooner the better. There’s also a few zines that should be printed beforehand due to projected high interest in them.

4. Events – Children of Men has been put on Facebook and the website. Due to an event scheduled on an overlapping time, we’re going to change the time for What is… Environmental Justice? to 2 to 4 PM on the same day. Ty will make edits to the calendar and do a replacement printing and flyering. We’ll keep the non-edited, already printed copies for Earth Day, since that will be after the changed event anyway so those copies don’t go to waste.

Meeting adjourned: 7:23 PM

Treasury Log 2016 (General, Library, Speakers)

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GENERAL TREASURY

We started the year with $302.47.

March 21st Update:

New donations:

  1. $44 were pulled from our donations boxes.
  2. Jackson donated $102.These total $146 in new donations.

New debits:

  1. Jackson is reimbursed $5.34 for buying posterboards for the counter-protest against the Walk For Life. This was approved at the February 1st meeting.
  2. Ty is reimbursed $6.99 for printing Spring calendars. This was approved at the February 22nd meeting.
  3. Jackson is reimbursed $35 for reserving us a table at Lincoln Earth Day. This was approved at the February 29th meeting.
  4. Jackson is reimbursed $32.79 for buying a speaker to improve our audio capabilities at movie nights. This was approved at the March 14th meeting.These total $80.12 in new debits.

Altogether, our treasury is increasing $65.88, to a new total of $368.35

April 25th Update:

New donations:

  1. Jackson is donating $146.
  2. We received $25 in donations at Lincoln Earth Day.
  3. We received a $10 donation from Robert. Thanks, Robert!

These total $181 in new donations.

New debits:

  1. Jackson is reimbursed $12.42 for buying added privacy for our web hosting. This was approved at the April 11th meeting.
  2. Jackson is reimbursed $53 for making a PayPal donation on our behalf to an aspiring Infoshop in Chicago. This was approved at the April 18th meeting.
  3. Ty is reimbursed $27.46 for making copies of zines that we distributed at Lincoln Earth Day. This was pre-approved at the April 18th meeting, and confirmed at the April 25th meeting.

These total $92.88 in new debits.

Altogether, our treasury is increasing $88.12, to a new overall balance of $456.47.

June 27th Update:

New Donations

1. Our yard sale raised $597.30!
2. We received $26 in our donations box.

These total $623.30 in new donations.

New Debits

1. Ty was reimbursed $6.44 for calendar printing. This was approved at the May 23rd meeting.
2. Jackson was reimbursed $44.95 for buying a bike rack for the house. This was approved at the May 30th meeting.
3. We donated $20 to Emilio of Social Justice Education Network for coming back to Lincoln to give a talk on Misogyny and Nerd Culture. This was approved at the May 30th meeting.
4. We decided to contribute $100 to the victims of the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando. Jackson made the donation, so he was reimbursed from the treasury. This was approved at the June 20th meeting.

These total $171.39 in new debits.

Altogether, our treasury is increasing $451.91, to a new overall balance of $908.38.

September 19th Update:

New donations:

1. Ju Ping contributed $20 toward our donation to the Sacramento anti-fascists.
2. Jackson donated $27.
3. We raised $40.50 from the sale of leftover donations from our spring yard sale.
4. Ju Ping contributed $20 toward our solidarity donation to the Standing Rock Sioux’s work against the Dakota Access Pipeline.

These total $107.50 in new donations.

New debits:

1. Jackson is reimbursed $50 for donating on our behalf to the Sacramento anti-fascists’ medical fund. This contribution was decided at the July 11th meeting, and reimbursement was confirmed at …
2. Jackson is reimbursed $10 for donating on our behalf to the the prisoner support zinesters/indymedia “BLEAECK”. This was decided at the July 11th meeting, and reimbursement was confirmed at …
3. Jackson is reimbursed $27.87 for renewing our web domain and privacy. This was decided at the July 18th meeting.
4. Jackson is reimbursed $50 for donating on our behalf to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, as an offering of solidarity for their work against the Dakota Access Pipeline. This was decided at the August 22nd meeting.
5. Ty is reimbursed $7.78 for flier printing. This was approved at the August 22nd meeting.
6. Jackson is reimbursed $37.96 for purchasing a longarm stapler and a box of staples for it. This was confirmed at the August 22nd meeting.
7. Jackson is reimbursed $37.39 for finally finding a replacement keyboard for our collective laptop. This was confirmed at the August 29th meeting.
8. Ty is reimbursed $7.78 for flier and button printing. This was approved at the September 5th meeting, and confirmed at the September 12th meeting.

These total $228.78 in new debits.

Altogether, our treasury is decreasing $121.28, to a new total of $787.10.

December 4th Update

New debits:

1. We transferred $300 to our library treasury to pay for a major order from Haymarket Books. This was approved at the October 31st meeting.
2. Ty is reimbursed $7.78 for getting our winter calendars printed. This was approved at the November 21st meeting.

These total $307.78 in new debits to our treasury. Our balance is now $479.78.

LIBRARY TREASURY

We started the year with $44.65.

March 21st Update:

Jackson donated $100. Our balance is now $144.65.

April 25th Update:

Jackson donated $20. Our balance is now $164.65.

Library

September 19th Update:

New donation:  Jackson donated $40.

New debit:  We bought a copy of Equality Press’s new book To Dare to Tell the Truth for $19. This was approved at the July 11th meeting, and confirmed at the July 25th meeting.

Altogether, our treasury increased by $21, to a new total of $185.65.

December 4th Update

New donations:

1. Jackson donated $20.
2. Wyatt donated $45.
3. We transferred $300 from the general treasury to pay for a major order from Haymarket Books. This was approved at the October 31st meeting.

These total $365 in new donations.

New debits:

1. Ty is reimbursed $7 for buying us books for the library. This was approved at the October 31st meeting.
2. Jackson is reimbursed $10 for buying two books from Pathfinder Press for the library. This was approved at the November 7th meeting.
3. Jackson is to be reimbursed $596.56 for our Haymarket Books order. Since that amount exceeded our planned budget, and is greater than our current available treasury, it was decided at the November 7th meeting that Jackson would take a delayed reimbursement on the difference. The treasury will have an IOU and will pay him back as funds become available.

These total $613.56 in new debits. Overall, the treasury is decreasing by $248.56. The treasury will stand officially at $2.09, plus a $65 IOU to Jackson to be paid as funds become available.

SPEAKERS TREASURY

We started the year with $50.

March 21st Update:

Jackson donated $50. Our balance is now $100.

April 25th Update:

  1. Jackson donated $20.
  2. We contributed $20 to the traveling expenses of a speaker coming to SP CE Commons. This was approved at the April 25th Meeting.

We still have $100.

3/14/16 Minutes: Transgender Day of Visibility, Zines

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In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Ty (moderator)
Start time: 7:00 PM

1. Event Review – We watched the documenatary Boom on Saturday night. Turnout was good, and the discussion was too.

2. Upcoming Event – Our discussion, “The Fight Against Rape Culture”, is this Saturday! Our Facebook event is getting a lot of responses, so we might get a really good turnout on Saturday. We spent some time discussing our format for the event to be better prepared for the possible crowd.

3. Reimbursement – Jackson found us a new speaker to improve audio for our movie nights. He spent $32.79 on it, and would like to reimbursed. It is unanimously agreed to. Also on the subject of money, we’re probably needing more calendar handbills printed, and we agree to reimburse Ty if he gets more printed for us.

4. Transgender Day of Visibility – March 31st is Transgender Day of Visibility. A friend of Ty’s would like to distribute our pronoun buttons at a public event at University of Nebraska-Omaha on that date. He’s also invited us to officially table at that event, but Ty will need to investigate the logistical possibilities of actually doing so.

5. Zines – We spent the remainder of our meeting sorting through our zine collection to see what we would take along to our proposed tabling opportunites at Transgender Day of Visibility and Earth Day.

Meeting adjourned: 8:30 PM

3/7/16 Minutes: Movie Nights, Emails

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In attendance: Jackson (moderator), Ty (secretary)
Start time: 7:00 PM

1. Event Review – We showed Tangerine! It was an interesting movie and good discussion, though we did have to postpone it an hour due to the Democratic caucus. We really need to be better about keeping those things in mind.

2. Upcoming Event – Boom: The Sound of Eviction is this Saturday! We have it on DVD so setup will be super easy. Jackson is going to try and acquire speakers for the projector.

3. Emails – Joe sent us some articles regarding pro-reproductive rights events and legislation that we can share around. We also got another email from Alexandra accepting our offer to help find some speakers. So we’ll ask around our pro-choice friends to see if anyone can help her out.

4. Zines – Since a lot of zines are just sitting around and not getting sold, we sorted through to see which ones we’d like to keep and which we plan on donating to SP CE.

Meeting adjourned: 7:55 PM

2/29/16 Minutes: Upcoming Event, Earth Day

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In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Ty (moderator)
Start time: 7:00 PM

1. Upcoming Event – We’re gearing up for our Tangerine movie night on Saturday. Because of the scheduling conflict with the Primary Caucus, we’re going to push our start time back to 8 PM. We’ll publicize this last-minute change, but we’re otherwise ready to go.

2. Calendar distro update – Ty just has to finish on South Street tomorrow morning. We’re looking good.

3. Lincoln Earth Day – We are now registered for a booth at Lincoln Earth Day. Jackson will be reimbursed $35 for reserving that for us. Ty thinks we should look into making some environmentally-focused button designs.

4. Organizational Vision – We talked a little bit more about our efforts at outreach and extending our message and information outside the house. Ty suggests that some of those ideas are simply unrealistic given our currently available energy. Perhaps we should try again to do more with our social media? That may be our most feasible tool for outreach at this time.

5. Event Promotion – We spent the rest of the time putting our March events up on Facebook and our website.

Meeting adjourned: 8:35 PM