In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Ty (moderator)
Start time: 7:02 PM

1. Event Review – We watched the documentary Whose Streets? on Friday night. It was a great film, and we had a pretty good turnout and pretty good discussion after the film.

2. Upcoming Event – We’re hosting the community discussion “What is Transfeminism?” on Saturday. Ty is confident he can handle leading the discussion; he just needs to invite his friends and work on the social media hype for the event.

3. Work time – Jackson put up the Facebook event for Anarchism in America while Ty did the above prep for the Transfeminism discussion.

Meeting Adjourned: 7:30 PM

Tabled items: Friends of AK Press, 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), Ty (secretary)
Start time: 7:00 PM

1. Upcoming Event – We have “Whose Streets?” documentary showing coming up this Friday. We have the film, we just have to hype it on Facebook and clean up the room for it.

2. Reimbursement – Ty has been reimbursed $10.19 for printing our spring calendars.

3. Calendar Distribution – Now that the calendars have been printed, Ty needs some help distributing them. Jackson volunteers to distribute calendars south of A street and in the Haymarket.

Meeting adjourned: 7:30 PM

Tabled items: Friends of AK Press, 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), Ty (secretary)
Start time: 7:05 PM

1. Event Reviews – Because we didn’t have a meeting last week, we have three event reviews: our showing of Trapped, the counter-protest, and the African Fight Against Imperialism discussion. Trapped had a good turnout and discussion, the counter-protest went well, and the African Fight Against Imperialism discussion was decent and had good info, but the turnout was low. The co-organizer for the counter-protest might be moving, so we might have to take up making the Facebook event in the future. For the discussion, we think we could have done more advertisement, but we are also concerned that maybe there is just not enough interest in African issues in a place like Lincoln, Nebraska, which is unfortunate if true.

2. Upcoming Event – Our showing of Get Out is imminent! We’re very optimistic about the turnout and the discussion to follow. We think it’s a provocative film, and the online response has been very good so far compared to our other movie nights. Set-up will be easy, and we have the film ready to go.

3. Web Reimbursement – Jackson paid $30.71 for our web domain recently. He is approved for reimbursement.

4. Spring Calendar – We’re still waiting on feedback to schedule Popcorn Politics.

March:
TBD – What is Transfeminism? (a community discussion) [basically open to doing this most any Saturday… we want to schedule the movie(s) first]
TBD – Popcorn Politics
Another movie or documentary?

April:
Saturday, April 14th, 1-3 PM – Reading Discussion: Fueling Dissent
TBD – Popcorn Politics

May:
Saturday, May 5th, 12-5 PM – Open House Party for Karl Marx’s 200th Birthday
Friday, May 11th, 8 AM-6 PM, and Saturday, May 12th, 8 AM-2 PM – The Black Cat House Yard Sale Fundraiser
TBD – Movie Night: Anarchism in America
TBD – Popcorn Politics

Fueling Dissent – https://apps.publicintegrity.org/united-states-of-petroleum/fueling-dissent/

Ideas for other spring calendar events:

Discussions: liberation theology, national liberation movement/separatism, prison-industrial complex

Movies: Popcorn Politics? (Salt of the Earth? Kubrick? Imperium?)

Other: Little Red Singalong

Black Out Days: April 21st (UNL Spring Game), April 28th (Lincoln Earth Day), April 6/7/8 (Jackson will be gone)
Grey Out Days: March 17-25 (UNL Spring Break)

Meeting adjourned: 8:16 PM

Tabled items: Friends of AK Press, Spring Calendar, 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), Ty (secretary)
Start time: 7:00 PM

1. Event Review – Popcorn Politics went well last week. Good turnout, decent discussion, but an intense movie. Maybe focus on more fun movies in the future, but it was too appropriate a movie for the subject matter we wanted to address to pass up.

2. Upcoming Event – We have a reading discussion this Saturday: 10 Things Every White Person Should Know When Talking About Race. Ty will take care of prepping and printing 15 copies of the reading.

3. Spring Calendar –
April:
April 21?, 1-3 PM – Reading Discussion: Fueling Dissent

May:
May 5, 12-5 PM – Open House Party for Karl Marx’s 200th Birthday
May 11, 8 AM-6 PM, and May 12, 8 AM-2 PM – The Black Cat House Yard Sale Fundraiser

Fueling Dissent – https://apps.publicintegrity.org/united-states-of-petroleum/fueling-dissent/

Ideas for other spring calendar events:

Discussions: liberation theology, national liberation movement/separatism, prison-industrial complex, transfeminism

Movies: Anarchism in America, Popcorn Politics? (Salt of the Earth? Kubrick? Imperium?)

Other: Little Red Singalong

Grey Out Days: March 30/31/April 1 (alt weekend for Red State), April 6/7/8 (Red State Conference), April 28 (Lincoln Earth Day)

Meeting Adjourned: 8:00 PM

Tabled items: Spring Calendar, 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), Ty (secretary)

Start time: 7:00 PM

1. Event Review – RoboCop went pretty good! It was a good turnout and everyone enjoyed it. Popcorn Politics seems to have a solid base of people coming to them, which is good to hear and means we can sustain the series for longer.

2. Meeting Cancellation – The next two weekly meetings are on Christmas and New Year’s Day respectively, so we’re opting to cancel them since it’s unlikely anyone will attend and our projected agendas for them would be minimal.

3. January Events – We have Popcorn Politics, a reading discussion, and a documentary coming up in January. We also have a counter-protest, but the event page is already up for it. We spent the rest of the time putting the event pages up for the rest.

Tabled items: Articles for Discussion, 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

Meeting adjourned: 8:30 PM

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

1. Event Review – We showed the documentary Sir! No Sir last Friday, which went very well! We ended up streaming it off Amazon, which cost us $3.21. Ty will be reimbursed for that.

2. Winter Calendar – Calendars are printed and ready for distribution! Ty spent $12.07 to get them printed and he’ll be reimbursed.

3. Books – We ordered a ton of books, and Jackson is also donating a few. We’ll accept the four books that he’s donating, as well as reimbursing him for $118.81 for 28 books.

4. Library Treasury – The current balance is $42.03, so we officially transferred some funds from the general treasury into the library treasury. At this time we transferred $76.78, so after the above book reimbursement, the library treasury will be at $0.00.

5. December Events – We spent the rest of the meeting putting up the December events.

Tabled items: Articles for Discussion, 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

Meeting adjourned: 8:00 PM

In attendance: Jackson (moderator), Ty (secretary)
Start time: 7:02 PM

1. Event Review – We showed Reds last Friday, and it went very well. The Popcorn Politics nights are continuously doing well, better than our usual movie nights.

2. Upcoming Event – Our discussion on the Russian Revolution is coming this Saturday! It’s gotten a good response, both on Facebook and in-person, and we hope it’ll be a good one. Jackson may prepare some specific talking points, but besides that we just need to set up the room for it.

3. Winter Calendar

December:
Saturday, December 9, 5-7 PM – Family Movie Night: An American Tail
Friday, December 15, 7 PM – Popcorn Politics (Co-Hosted by DSA Lincoln): RoboCop (1987)

January:
Friday, January 12, 7 PM – Popcorn Politics (Co-Hosted by DSA Lincoln): American History X
Saturday, January 20, 1-3 PM – 10 Things Every White Person Should Know When Talking About Race (a reading discussion)
Friday, January 26, 7 PM – Movie Night: Trapped (2016 documentary about abortion access)
Saturday, January 27, 10 AM – 1 PM – Counter-Protest to the Walk for Life

February:
Saturday, February 3, 1-3 PM – The African Fight Against Imperialism
Friday, February 9, 7 PM – Popcorn Politics (Co-Hosted by DSA Lincoln): Get Out
Friday, February 23, 7 PM – Movie Night: Whose Streets?

“10 things every white teacher should know when talking about race” (https://thecornerstoneforteachers.com/truth-for-teachers-podcast/10-things-every-white-teacher-know-talking-race)

Spring calendar ideas:

Discussions: liberation theology, national liberation movements/separatism (maybe focusing on Kurdistan or Spain/Catalan?), prison-industrial complex (“Modern-Day Slavery”?)

Movie nights: Anarchism in America

Other events: Karl Marx’s 200th Birthday Party – May 5, Little Red Singalong

Tabled items: Winter Calendar, Articles for Discussion, 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

Meeting adjourned: 8:03 PM

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

1. Event Review – The FFAC presentation was this Saturday. It was a very light attendance, but the presentation itself was alright. Robert said he’d be happy to do it again if we wanted. We worried it was an issue of late advertisement, but also a potential that animal rights just isn’t as big of an issue to our regular attendees as we would hope.

2. Winter Calendar –

We and DSA are interested in continuing Popcorn Politics into the winter with three more movies. Major suggestions raised on Friday after They Live were RoboCop, Full Metal Jacket, Dr. Strangelove, American History X, and The Terminator.

Jackson suggests that we perhaps do another race-centric February lineup in honor of Black History Month. We are also currently considering adding Whose Streets as a February movie, depending on its availability. (It’s still being shown in theaters.) Ty suggests that the February discussion could be on the racist dimensions of the prison-industrial complex, possibly with a provocative title calling it something like “Modern-Day Slavery.” Jackson is intrigued, but concerned about the specifics of marketing that event so that we’re clearing saying “blackness is treated as criminal” and not awkwardly implying that “black people are criminals”.

Ty also thinks we should maybe have one of our discussions on immigration.

Family-Friendly Movie Night: An American Tail
Or: The Iron Giant, The Secret of NIMH, Princess Mononoke, Nausicaa

Reed brought up a Frank Little independent film and book that recently came out. And we could potentially discuss him or screen the film.

We had a discussion about national liberation movements and international solidarity, but as far as turning it into a discussion, we’d have to work on making sure it’s not overly theoretical and able to be accessible for folks who don’t know much about the topics.

Jackson last week put in a request to potentially screen Whose Streets? here at the House. Chris says that the standard DVD is up on Amazon pre-order for November if that doesn’t pan out.

Chris brings up Birthright: A War Story as a potential film to show during January. He also suggests the film Nineteen Eighty-Four and Starship Troopers for Popcorn Politics, but Starship Troopers will probably wait until a Spring showing, since we’re pretty sure we’re going to show RoboCop so we don’t want to necessarily do something by the same director.

We were thinking we’re very focused on 80s films, so we started talking other options: Snowpiercer, Arrival, The Matrix, District 9.

Jackson also suggests a movie specifically for Black History Month: he particularly likes Spike Lee’s Malcolm X film and CSA: Confederate States of America, but Chris also proposes 12 Years A Slave. Anthony also suggests Get Out again, though we’re not entirely sure whether horror would be a genre that’s appropriate. We are putting it into a vote in the DSA group. Do the Right Thing and Chi-Raq are other Spike Lee films brought up.

Ty brought up having a discussion on liberation theology.

Some ideas that were left over from the Fall Calendar planning:

Discussion Group: “10 things every white teacher should know when talking about race” (https://thecornerstoneforteachers.com/truth-for-teachers-podcast/10-things-every-white-teacher-know-talking-race)

January/February: Trans Clothing Exchange

December:
December 15, 7 PM – Popcorn Politics (Co-Hosted by DSA Lincoln): RoboCop
Date TBD, 5-7 PM – Family Movie Night: An American Tail
Date TBD, 1-3 PM – Discussion

January:
January 12, 7 PM – Popcorn Politics (Co-Hosted by DSA Lincoln): American History X
Date TBD – Movie Night: Birthright: A War Story *tentative*
Date TBD, 1-3 PM – Discussion
Date TBD – Counter-Protest to the Walk for Life

February:
February 3, 1-3 PM – Sankara and the African Fight Against Imperialism
February 9, 7 PM – Popcorn Politics (Co-Hosted by DSA Lincoln): TBD
February 23, 7 PM – Movie Night: Whose Streets? *tentative*

Tabled items: Winter Calendar, Articles for Discussion, 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

Meeting adjourned: 8:30 PM

In Attendance: Jackson (moderator), James, Reed, Ty (secretary)
Start time: 7:00 PM

1. Upcoming Event – They Live is on Friday! Jackson says he will continue to hype it on Facebook.

2. Winter Calendar –

Family-Friendly Movie Night: An American Tail
Or: The Iron Giant, The Secret of NIMH, Princess Mononoke, Nausicaa

Reed brought up a Frank Little independent film and book that recently came out. And we could potentially discuss him or screen the film.

We had a discussion about national liberation movements and international solidarity, but as far as turning it into a discussion, we’d have to work on making sure it’s not overly theoretical and able to be accessible for folks who don’t know much about the topics.

Some ideas that were left over from the Fall Calendar planning:

Discussion Group: “10 things every white teacher should know when talking about race” (https://thecornerstoneforteachers.com/truth-for-teachers-podcast/10-things-every-white-teacher-know-talking-race)

January/February: Trans Clothing Exchange

Chris is interested in doing a presentation on Thomas Sankara.

Tabled items: Winter Calendar, Articles for Discussion, 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

Meeting adjourned: 8:48 PM