7/28/25 Minutes: Fall Calendar, Radio

In attendance: Brieanna, Jackson (secretary), Jessie, Payne, Parker, Salem, Simon
Start time: 7:00 PM

1. Event Review – Payne, Parker, and Salem tabled at Disability Pride on Saturday. As usual, they collected a few more email addresses for our listserv, gave away some swag, and talked to some interesting people. Salem reports that we are running out of some of our stickers. Payne emphasized that we really need an information brochure, as it seems many people don’t really understand what we are.

2. Radio – Payne spoke with someone from Nebraska Radio Talking Book Service at Disability Pride. They would like to interview us in a 30 minute Zoom call in October. We are excited to get some free publicity. We will likely discuss this again when the calendar is finished…

3. Fall Calendar

(Mostly) finalized:
Friday, September 5th, 7-9 PM: Self-Defense Within Oppressive Systems (co-hosted by READ Network)

Saturday, October 11th, 1-3 PM: t-shirt screenprinting workshop

A few new event ideas were offered tonight:

Salem suggested a workshop building empathy for people with disabilities. Jackson thinks we’d need a veteran facilitator to run such an event for us.

Jackson had some movie suggestions: Rebels with a Cause (documentary about Students for a Democratic Society), The Revolutionist: Eugene V. Debs (documentary), John Q. (Denzel Washington drama about Americans having horrible healthcare), and Johnny Got His Gun (a classic anti-war story set in WW1 which could tie in with Veteran’s Day coming up in November)

Payne’s earlier suggestion of a reading discussion on MLK and non-violence was revisited and debated. There was some suggestion of expanding it into some kind of non-violence vs self-defense discussion with two short readings?

The Trans Day of Remembrance reading discussion was also discussed again, built around remembering trans folks for accomplishments rather than mourning their deaths. We’re still really excited about this, but also still searching for the actual article that we would be reading.

Other event ideas from previous meetings:

Civil Rights discussion (Payne, et al)

Columbus Day protest (Jackson)

Arya also pitched a Star Trek night: “Bar Association” (DS9) [and Jackson loves himself an excuse to run Star Trek…]

Jackson reports that we’ve been offered a couple of workshops from our professor friends. One is on the benefits of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and the other is about solidarity between Black Americans and Asian Americans.

Habla Now documentary (Payne)

Song For Cesar documentary (Payne)

Lost in America movie (Payne)

Lead Me Home short documentary about homelessness (Payne)

Mankiller documentary for November (Payne)

Punk Rock Vegan Movie (Salem) [apparently free on YouTube…]

Meeting adjourned: 8:28 PM