Meeting Began: 7:00 PM

In attendance: Jackson, Marc (secretary), Ty (moderator), Wyatt

1) Update from Mechelle: The BCH will write a brief summary of how Ricketts lied to the Omaha Tribe about providing aid for responding to COVID-19. We will also post relevant, more recent news articles.

2) Upcoming Reading Discussion: Marc will transpose the article for the upcoming reading discussion on the historical depiction of anarchists in the media. He will also scan images included in the article, and write up descriptions so that the document is accessible for people with vision-related disabilities. Ty will write the description for the Facebook event, and get it posted soon. The discussion will likely be held over Facebook video chat.

3) Summer Events: We will be trying to switch to more digital events for summer, since we want to have a community presence in spite of the pandemic. Instead of group readings, we considered using Facebook video chat. Gardening days may still be possible, since attendees can keep further apart outdoors, but these are very weather-dependent. We also discussed the possibility of making YouTube videos instead of having movie showings. Another option may be to use Facebook Live to have discussions/presentations about various topics.

Potential Topic Ideas: Ecofascism, Looking at formerly rejected ideas and see if there are any topics that can be rekindled or revised, U.S. Imperialism and the Military Industrial Complex

Our calendar will be smaller for summer since some of these “event” ideas may take more planning/preparation than usual. We will also redesign the calendar to be more friendly for mobile screens and laptops, so it’s more easily-shared. Right now, the plan is to brainstorm ideas for these new formats and have proposals for next week’s meeting.

Meeting Adjourned: 8:01 PM

Nobody was available for the meeting tonight, so it was just Jackson at the House.

In attendance: Bailey (via videochat), Jackson, Marc (moderator, via videochat), Ty (via videochat), Will (late, via videochat), Wyatt
Start time: 7:20 PM

1. Event Review – We had Gardening Day here on Saturday. We had a few people turn up and we got a few projects done. Not bad for an event that was conspicuously hurt on turnout by the Covid concerns.

2. Upcoming Event – We will have to cancel this Friday’s planned movie night for Jojo Rabbit. We are TABLING further discussion on the possibilities of attempting movie nights at the park.

3. Grocery Program – Bailey is working on a grocery distribution program for Everett neighborhood. It’s still a work in progress, and despite certain frustrations she is still working on getting this off the ground. They would appreciate us sharing the link in the next few days as they are currently trying to raise money.

4. Militant Subscription – We renewed our subscription for the Militant for another two years. It cost us $65, and we’ll pay for it out of the treasury.

5. Library Donation – Jackson is donating 11 new books for the library.

6. May Events – We’re going to have to cancel the Parasite movie showing for May 1st, and seemingly also our yard sale fundraiser. There was some talk of maybe trying to reschedule it for later in the year, but it’s not clear if that’s practical. Further discussion of possible replacement fundraising led to the subject being TABLED.

7. Summer Calendar – TABLED

Meeting adjourned: 8:30 PM

TABLED: movie nights at the park?, fundraising, summer calendar?

Jackson was here alone. Between Covid, personal obligations, and internet difficulties, no one was able to join in person or via video chat. We will try again next week.

In attendance: Jackson, Marc, Ty (secretary), Wyatt (moderator)

Meeting Start: 7:10 PM

1. Event Review – We showed Tending the Wild via online chatroom on Friday. One person tuned in besides us, and she thought it was a beautiful film. A couple friends of Marc’s asked if we’d be doing similar events in the future, so there is interest in these events. If we do these in the future, it will have to be stuff freely available online/videos that aren’t copywritten. Marc will do some research into future showings. He also volunteered to moderate the chatroom discussions in the future.
2. Upcoming Event – We were intending on doing the discussion “Witch Hunts and the Inquisition.” We’ll probably instead find some videos about the topic to show, then open the chatroom up for discussion. Wyatt is going to put the event up.
3. Rest of Spring Calendar – We’re going to try to make Gardening Day an online/physical event. We’re going to encourage people who want to show up in-person to mark themselves as “going” on the Facebook event so we can maintain a safe amount of people. Then an online version of various ecological/gardening videos in a chatroom.
4. Militant – Joe called saying we’re on our last few Militant papers. We’re going to renew our subscription.

Meeting Adjourned: 8:03 PM

In attendance: Marc (moderator), Wyatt(secretary), Ty, Jackson
Start Time: 7:10 PM

1. Upcoming Event. Movie night. We will attempt to screen this free youtube movie via facebook. We will see how it goes. Wyatt will attempt to figure out how this will work logistically.

2. Future events. We would like to live stream. How will this work? Can we save the videos for later?

3. Tabled Items: Library Work Time.

Meeting Adjourned: 8:10 PM

In attendance: Bailey, Jackson (secretary), Will, Wyatt

Between a slow week, missing folks, and a lack of focus, we kinda just chatted non-Black Cat-business stuff for about an hour. We’ll need to be more focused next week.

3/9/2020 Minutes: KXL review, movie night posting.

In attendance: Jackson (moderator), Wyatt(secretary), Margret
Start Time: 7:15 PM

1. Event Review:
Fighting the Black Snake. We had a couple member of the collective and several veteran organizers form the movement. We did have two new people come to the house, one who seemed to learn alot. We are concerned that many people have issue fatigue about the KXL, so we are thinking about ways to bring the issue back to the center. Strategically, we would like to bring forward the narrative that KXL is a lincoln omaha drinking water issue.

2. Upcoming Event:
We are showing a movie this Friday. Got the DVD and are ready. Hope to see yall there!

3. Third March FB event posting:
We received a short version from Adam Hintz, we will add some context to the description before posting.

4. Library Work Time. Tabled.

Meeting Adjourned. 8:10

In attendance: Bailey (moderator), Jackson, Marc, Max, Ty (secretary), Wyatt
Start Time: 7:07 PM

1. Event Review: Know Your Rights went super well! It was very engaging, well attended, and provided new material for future events of a similar vein. Jackson brings up a concern that only people who were already savvy on their rights attended; Bailey thinks we just need to normalize doing these on a regular basis.

2. Upcoming Event: Fighting The Black Snake’s event has been posted! It’s going to be an open discussion, and while there’s not a specific goal for the event, there are quite a few options to talk about along that line.

3. March Events: Jackson has a draft for Libertarias, Wyatt is going to message regarding the Tending the Wild.

4. Calendar Distro Update: Calendar distro was going well! We still need to do the Unitarian Church, though.

5. Library Donations: Marc donated some labor history books and trans books to the library!

6. Yard Sale: The yard sale is on May 22nd and 23rd. The May 18th meeting will be dedicated to pricing, and we’ll also have a pricing day on May 21st at 5 PM.

7. Library Development: Marc advocates having a stamp rather than a sticker to mark our books as a reminder for folks to return our books. We also need to invest in a barcode scanner. Ty has a new (to us) laptop to donate for library database purposes. Marc thinks we need a new bookcase; Ty thinks we just need to weed the library. Next meeting we’re going to dedicate to the library.

Meeting Adjourned: 8:07 PM

We weren’t going to have a big agenda for this week, and we had only a skeleton crew of Bailey, Jackson, and Wyatt. We had a new friend show up, and we just got to chatting because she had a lot on her mind. As such, we had no official meeting and no formal minutes to offer. We will get back to normal next week.