In attendance: Brandon (moderator), Jackson, Marc, Ty (secretary)
Start time: 7:09 PM
1. Event Review – Manufacturing Consent was Friday. It was a good turnout! And it was good pizza, Wyatt did a great job with his garden-fresh veggie toppings.
2. Upcoming Event – American Empire and Islam is posted! Jackson knows his history on the subject well, and the friend who suggested the subject in the first place is planning on bringing her knowledge as well.
3. Moderator/Secretary Rotation – Brandon was voted to be an official part of the moderator/secretary rotation!
4. Will’s Stuff – Will sent a message to address at the meeting in his absence. He asks to use the copier, and says he opted against the infoshop Commune description, and will just get a personal one to share with us.
5. Block Party – Chelsea is in full support of us having a lit table at the block party, that is tentatively August 3, 5-9 PM. We’re the only org that Chelsea asked to be there, but Jackson is going to suggest to Chelsea to invite Feed the People, and Brandon will bring it to an FTP meeting to see whether the group is interested in doing so.
6. Fall Calendar –
Husker Home Gamedays: September 14th, September 28th, October 5th, October 26th, November 16th
Discussion idea: Remembering the genocide of indigenous peoples. And/or about missing and murdered indigenous women. Either in October (Columbus Day) or November (Thanksgiving). Maybe a discussion in one month, a film in the other?
Anti-Thanksgiving dinner on Black Friday?
Indigenous Peoples’ Day Celebration/Anti-Columbus Day Protest?
Discussion idea: Historical Disconnect between our bodies and medicine. / Commodification of medicine. Do we even recognize if we are sick? What do licensing and doctors orders really mean? How can we learn to listen to our bodies?
Pairing the above with a citizen doctors skill share? Perhaps a little too ambitious at this time.
Library Focus: AK Press (Saturday afternoon 1-3 format)
Reading Discussion: Inhabit booklet (excerpt? two parts?)
Will proposes a Thursday screening of Trouble, available on subMedia. They’re ~30 min., and with a donation the website sends out question packets and various swag.
Will would like a September discussion on What is Autonomy.
He would also like an October discussion on Communization Theory? We’d need to unpack that and figure out how we’d advertise such a discussion.
Are we continuing with popcorn politics?
Working class anime? This is an idea Marc is still working on and might be best tabled to the winter calendar.
Tabled Items: Fall Calendar, 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)
Meeting adjourned: 8:33 PM