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

Start Time – 7:20 PM

1. Event Review

Seize the Power Tools – productive, lots of fun, small turnout but would like to do Parts 2 and 3

2. Upcoming Events

Halloween Party – Thursday night, Candyman at 7 pm

3. November Events

Inhabit Reading – Will is going to bring copies of text and lead discussion; event is now posted on Facebook and website!

Facebook Events for other November BC events – Wyatt will post FB event for Skins tomorrow; fundraiser dinner to be posted next week.

Free School Calendar/Update

November – Seize the Power Tools Part 2 (November 9th 3:30-5:30 pm), Gardening Day (November 3rd – 11:00 am – 3:00 pm)
December – ??

Winter Black Cat Calendar

December/Medical
Community Discussion – Self-advocacy with your doctor
World AIDS Day movie? (The Living End – revisit next week??)
Herbalism workshop? (Free School?)
Know Your Rights training?
Autonomous EMS?
Love Your Library: Haymarket Press
Solstice Event – firepit?

January/Climate Change
Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Screening/Discussion – Episode 7 of Trouble, invite Dandelion Network
to do a presentation on mutual aid projects in Nebraska (so far/in future)
Climate Change: Myth vs. Reality in Nebraska (Bailey)
Sci-Fi dystopian movie – Star Trek? “The Inner Light”
Counter-protest for Walk for Life!!!! Jaunary 18, 2020!

February/Free Love/Romance/Sexual
Potential reading discussion – Audre Lorde or Friendship as Form of Life
Recap of #MeToo? Legacy of? (Marc collab with Tyler?)
Free love documentary?
Event on restorative justice?
Polyamory?

Meeting adjourned 8:40 PM

Black Cat House – 10/21/19

In attendance: Jackson, Brandon, Will, Ty (remote), Marc (secretary; remote)

Start Time – 7:15 PM

1. Event Review

• Smoke Signals: Not a huge turnout, but it was a good movie. A few folks expressed that they wished they could come after the event. Good discussion as well.

2. Upcoming Events

• Power Tools free school class: Jackson will be around if Wyatt needs help setting the event up.
• Marc wrote up the description for the Halloween party. It will be posted tonight along with a link to doesthedogdie.com.

3. Library Donations

• We got a couple book donations! We also got a great donation of garden supplies from a kind Anonymous.

4. Winter Calendar

• December
  • The Living End movie – a gay Thelma and Louise movie about a couple of guys living their best lives J
    • Marc is gonna buy & screen this to see if it’s worth putting on the calendar
  • Solstice event? Such as a firepit or something
• January
  • Counter-protest for Walk for Life!!!! It’s a tradition!!!!!!!!!
    • No date yet as of their website.
  • February
    • An event centered around restorative justice
  • We’d like to finish up the calendar by like early early November

5. Candlelight Vigil

• A vigil for the Rojava is happening at the capitol steps tomorrow evening at 7:30.

Meeting adjourned 8:33 PM

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)

In attendance: Bailey, Brandon (secretary), Jackson, Marc (moderator), Will, Wyatt

Start time:  7:17 PM

1. Event Review

Jackson was the only Black Cat in attendance. There were several other people as well. There were a few new attendees. Perhaps we should be more careful about picking movies that are readily available.

2. Upcoming Events

Gardening day is this Saturday. We will meet at Black Cat House, then go to the two other spots. There will be a potluck at the third place. The event page will get spread around so that people know about it. The Ferguson movie is being screened on Monday. We are still figuring out where they will sleep, but they are not too picky so it should be fine. There was some discussion of how to get more people to show up for anti-Columbus day.

3. Free School Update

The free school calendar is ready to start in October. Details were confirmed with Wyatt and Marc for their classes: Research for Writers – Marc, October 9th Seize the Power Tools – Wyatt, October 24th

4. Winter Calendar

Opportunity to do Know Your Rights trainings with help from people in Atlanta World AIDS day is a good time to do an event. We should base something off of that. We can also include a more medicine theme to the month of December. Would also include: Herbalism Citizen Doctors How to get the care you need from your doctors Autonomous emergency medical support January could be climate change month February could be a month of love: Consent, Free love, and other topics

5. Next Week’s Meeting Cancelled

Our normal meeting time next week (October 7th) is exactly when we have a movie screening planned. As a result, the meeting is cancelled and we will next meet on October 14th after the Columbus Day protest.

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)