In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Ty (moderator)
Start time: 7:10 PM

1. Event Review – We ran our latest installment of Popcorn Politics here on Friday night. Pom Poko drew a pretty good crowd, and a decent (if somewhat sad) discussion.

2. Package – We received a package of buttons and stickers from the June 11th Collective. June 11th is International Day of Solidarity with Marius Mason & All Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners. We’ll give them out. This might also be a good idea for an event for our summer calendar.

3. Speakers’ Money Update – We tried to donate $50 to the ISO speakers when they were here a couple of weeks ago, but their travel expenses were so light that they gave us $20 back. This will be updated in our treasury log.

4. Marx’s Birthday – We agree to commit $50 out of our treasury to covering expenses for the party

Things we want/need: red food coloring, punch, (borrow) punch bowl, chips & salsa, pickles, cheese or smoked salmon/crackers?, party hats, balloons, streamers, a Karl Marx cardboard standup?

5. Summer Calendar

Blackout days: June 16 (Juneteenth), July 5-8 (ISO conference), last three weeks of August (Ty out of town and start of UNL school year)

June 11th (International Day of Solidarity with Marius Mason & All Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners)

Friday, June 1st – Black Cat House Five-Year Anniversary!

Saturday, June 9th – Prison-Industrial Complex discussion (the 11th is International Day of Solidarity with Marius Mason & All Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners)

_In the Intense Now_ will probably not be on DVD in time to commit it to the summer calendar. We should check back when planning for fall.

Health care as a discussion subject?

Reading discussion on anti-Semitism?

Ty would like to screen the movie Moonlight for June (Pride Month) and Shin Godzilla for August (Popcorn Politics?).

Meeting adjourned: 8:27 PM

Tabled items: Graphic Designer, Stuff to Buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, labels, 7×7 no-slip outdoor mat for porch, new SSD hard drive for public laptop)

In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Ty (moderator)
Start time: 7:01 PM

1. Event Review – We hosted a reading discussion here on Saturday. We had an average turnout and a decent discussion.

2. Upcoming Events – Popcorn Politics returns this Friday to show Pom Poko. We should be good to go!

3. Library Updates – We’ve got a lot of news here! Ty got in and donated the book, Cartoon Punk: Artists Against Fascism (reimbursement was pre-approved last week. We also got our first couple of books for being Friends of AK Press! We also had a friend make a recommendation for a relevant title for us to look out for: _Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City_.

Jackson also brought back a couple of books and a bunch of zines from a radical store in New Orleans for the library. We will reimburse him the $27 he spent on the stack. Jackson also bought a couple of the For Beginners series of graphic novels that we like having in the library (on Anarchism and Climate Change) for $11.58. We will reimburse him for them, too.

Jackson also brought up an exciting moving sale offer from Haymarket Books on some select titles. We may have an opportunity to pick up a couple dozen of their overstocked titles for the price of shipping (!!!). We’re tentatively planning to order one of everything. Jackson will follow up.

4. May Events – Ty got the yard sale and Marx’s Birthday Party up online!

While on the yard sale, we also started to discuss logistics for that. Jackson says we’ll need more tables. Ty thinks his family can help, and will check on that. Jackson also has some ideas for places to borrow more tables. We will also need more help sorting and pricing the donations, especially with our work schedules being unusually problematic this year. Ty doesn’t want to solicit for more donations, but we will accept donations that we are directly offered.

5. Summer Calendar – Ty would like to screen the movie Moonlight for June (Pride Month) and Shin Godzilla for August (Popcorn Politics?). Jackson would be interested in running _In the Intense Now_ if available or perhaps another documentary about the revolutionary upheavels of France in 1968.

Meeting adjourned: 8:30 PM

Tabled items: Graphic Designer, Stuff to Buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, labels, 7×7 no-slip outdoor mat for porch, new SSD hard drive for public laptop)

In attendance: Jackson (moderator), Tanner, Ty (secretary)
Start time: 7:01 PM

1. Event Review – We ran Anarchism in America, and Jackson asserts that it’s still a so-so documentary, but it gets people talking so it’s worth showing. It did not disappoint, as the turn-out was a pretty fair one for our documentary showings, and there was a lively discussion. We will definitely show it again in a few years.

2. Upcoming Event – We have a reading discussion on “Fueling Dissent” upcoming, not this week but as we don’t have a weekly meeting next week, we’re discussing it today. Tanner would like to introduce a supplemental reading of a report on Exxon Mobile in order to give people more context for our reading We haven’t included supplemental readings to these events before, but given that the executive summary is only a page-and-a-half and in fairly accessible terms, it won’t add too much length or complexity to the reading so it’ll be acceptable. Tanner’s suggestion is to lead with the summary, which Jackson and Ty think is fine.

We also worked on compiling the documents into a single one, and putting the Facebook event.

3. Pom Poko – We got the DVD in! So we’re ready for that event too.

4. Books – We got a copy of the book “Gay Berlin” donated to us for our library, which we gratefully accepted. Ty also wants to buy a copy of Cartoon Punk: Artists Against Fascism, which is an antifa comic anthology, for our library and would like to be reimbursed the $20 to purchase it. Everyone else says that’s cool, so he went ahead and ordered it.

5. Button Order Follow-Up – Jackson cashed the check for the button order we filled, so that’s $155 that will be added to our treasury records soon.

Meeting adjourned: 8:16 PM

Tabled items: Graphic Designer, Stuff to Buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, labels, 7×7 no-slip outdoor mat for porch, new SSD hard drive for public laptop)