In attendance: Marc (secretary), Ty, Jackson, Rae, Arya, Salem
Meeting Start: 7:05 PM
Event Review
- We showed Snowpiercer on Friday and had excellent turnout and a good discussion. The audience had lots to talk about!
Upcoming Events
- This upcoming Saturday (4/29) is the Garden Workshop day about planting native plant species. This will be a pretty hands-on workshop! Wyatt is ready to go for this.
- We will be showing Salt of the Earth on Friday, May 5. Jackson will be writing up the description and posting the event.
- Our yard sale fundraiser will be coming up soon! Marc suggested posting the event 3 weeks ahead of time instead of the usual 2 to give people time to go through their stuff for donations. As usual, this is the only time where we do any active fundraising or donation soliciting. We accept most anything except clothing.
Pride Boothing
- We’ll be taking part in Star City Pride and boothing at the festival!
- We plan on making buttons, stickers, and zines to give out. The buttons will be inspired by queer organizations/activists from the past.
- Arya pointed out the inherent value in having a presence at Pride to connect with the community and encourage others to get involved.
- Marc will also work on getting our Riseup email list started again in time for Pride.
Summer Calendar
- We brainstormed plenty of summer events, and decided on a few mostly-certain dates. The most-well-received event ideas are bolded.
- June 1: 10th Anniversary Party and Sorry to Bother You screening
- June 9 and 10: Boothing at Pride
- June 11: LTRUE Garden Tour (haven’t applied yet but basically planning to)
- June 18 or 19: Conflict Transformation Workshop
- June 24: “Transport” Reading Discussion and trans rights update
- Brainstorming ideas:
- Movies: Hail Satan (documentary), Coco (family friendly look at immigration and classism), Clerks (work alienation), Triangle of Sadness (classism), The Menu (alienation and class warfare, very graphic), God Bless America
- Events:
- Neighborhood Cleanup – Salem offered to spearhead this
- Ancient Labor Organizing – we might want to do more research for this and table it for later
- News and the state of journalism generally
- Right-wing cults
- Gaming the System: We talked about playing Bang! or Secret Hitler, as well as Bloc by Bloc
Meeting Adjourned: 9:00 PM