In attendance: Bailey, Brandon, Jackson (secretary), Marc, Ty, Will, Wyatt (moderator)
Start time: 7:10 PM
1. Event Reviews – Gardening Day was Saturday-before-last, and it went well. Folks learned a lot, and we got a lot of work done! We had a Ferguson documentary here last Monday. We had a good time; Jackson will pass along a thank-you email to the organizers. Our Standing Rock discussion was on Saturday. It attracted a lot of veteran water protectors and was a very practical meeting. And we just came back from our Columbus Day protest. It was a good time, but we should probably make new signs for next year.
2. Upcoming Events – Smoke Signals movie night is this Friday. We’re ready for it! Bailey reports that the next Free School class is this Wednesday at UNL; it’s an intro to computer programming. Bailey also says she’s currently looking for volunteers to run November classes.
3. Halloween Party – It’s coming up at the end of the month. Marc will draft our Facebook event, since we have not promoted it online yet.
4. Facebook – Ty will be adding Bailey, Brandon, and Will to admin status so they can be more engaged with our social media page.
5. Assembly – Will is working on bringing people in the Lincoln left community together. We are intrigued, and looking forward to participating in it.
6. Rojava Solidarity – There is some talk of a possible “World Resistance Day” sometime in November. We’re brainstorming for ways to commemorate it, if it goes down. We’ve agreed to add the BCH to the list of “endorsements” for the Call to Action: Solidarity With Rojava.
7. Winter Calendar –
Monthly themes:
December/Medical
Community Discussion – Self-advocacy with your doctor
World AIDS Day movie?
Herbalism workshop? (Free School?)
Know Your Rights training?
Autonomous EMS?
Love Your Library: Haymarket Press
January/Climate Change
Will might know folks to run an event here that would be relevant to this theme
Climate Change: Myth vs. Reality with Bailey
Sci-Fi dystopian movie?
Star Trek? “The Inner Light”
February/Free Love/Romance/Sexual
Reading Discussion? Will has ideas…
Recap of #MeToo? Legacy of? (Marc collab with Tyler?)
Free love documentary?
Polyamory?
Meeting adjourned: 8:30 PM
Tabled Items: Library Labels, Wellred Books, Event Outreach, What to do about $80 ISO bucks, Library Readership Development, Reviving the Email List, Stuff to Buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, new SSD hard drive for public laptop), procedure for posting things on Facebook (when do we allow it)