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

Start time: 7:15 PM

>Event Review- We liked the Library event and the crew got together over books and laughs. This pilot event was good but we want more outreach. We meet up with one awesome new commrade at this event!

>Upcoming Events –
Film this Friday. Rural Undocumented and Queer. We will stream.
Upcoming monday film. Our guests will stay with Brandon.
Gardening day still not confirmed with Alex. Starting at BCH at 10. Working till 4.

>Library Donations. We received a total of 70 books and nine DVDs from dope Black Cats! Thanks Ty Marc and Jackson!

>Potential CoSponsrship
We agreed to cosponsor the Buffalo Taking activity at Indian Center.

>October Events
Jackson is posting the October anti-Columbus event.
Wyatt is posting the legacy of standing rock event.
Baily the smoke signals to be sent along.

>Action Reviews
We got updoots and discussion about the public actions that happened over the weekend.

>Free School
Updoot from Baily on free school efforts. The first class is our garden day.

>Red State Meeting October 8th 630 hosted at BCH.

>Work Time
We sorted books!

Meeting Adjourned at 8:40pm.

Appendix Ideas for winter calanders:

We discussed potential future open hours / library display events. Second library event will be Spotlight on Haymarket. Zines spotlights. How to make your own zines workshop. Zine publication. 10

In attendance: Bailey, Brandon (moderator), Jackson (secretary), Marc, Ty, Will
Start time: 7:10 PM

1. Upcoming Event – Love Your Library is this Saturday. We’ll meet here early on Saturday morning to straighten up the room.

2. Library Donation – We got three new books for our library. One was from Jackson, one was from Dance, and one was from the Hargesheimers. Thanks, y’all.

3. Toner – Jackson got a toner cartridge in the mail. It was a generic one instead of the name-brand one he ordered, but he got a refund so maybe we’ll use it anyways as long as it doesn’t damage this copier.

4. Web Advertising – We had some much-needed work time on getting our September movie and the gardening day onto Facebook and our website.

5. Free School – Bailey updated on us on the state of the new Lincoln Free School. We are moving forward with our gardening day on October 5th as a Free School workshop. Bailey wants help from Marc on designing a flier.

6. Ferguson Movie – Jackson has been in contact with the folks touring with the Ferguson documentary. Their preferences align almost exactly with our standard movie night format: free admission, discussion afterwards. They would appreciate donations to offset their travel costs, and they have requested a place to stay the night. We will continue to consider our options on the latter request, but we’re sure we can figure something out. We are moving ahead with our plans to do the showing here on Monday, October 7th in place of our weekly meeting.

7. Red State – We are only a few weeks away from the first Red State 3 meeting! Jackson wants everyone to start thinking about that, and continue work on recruiting more new blood into building the next conference. Also, Marc has prepared a draft for an apology letter for Michelle at the Church and we took a few minutes to review that and discuss our next steps on that.

Meeting adjourned: 8:15 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)

In Attendance: Bailey, Brandon (secretary), Jackson, Will, Wyatt (moderator)
Start time: 7:10 PM

1. Event Review
The “What are Borders?” discussion went well. We had a new person and enjoyed talking to them, and got to hang out with them after. There were lots of different opinions, so the discussion went differently than expected.

2. Library donation
We have several books donated from Prof. Dance. Some of them were textbooks, so those 6 were given for a prison book distribution instead. 8 new books were added to the library.

3. Ty got an interesting email
Some folks from St. Louis want to screen a movie about Ferguson in 2014. We are extremely interested, so Jackson will send an email tonight to have that screening happen on Monday the 7th.

4. Facebook posting
We may need to make a post about the Ferguson movie screening event as soon as it’s confirmed. Wyatt still needs to do the description for “Queer and Undocumented.” That movie is toward the end of this month, so Wyatt will get on top of that.

We also need to start thinking about our Columbus Day events, both the protest and the Standing Rock event.

5. Printer ink
Will will pay for half of the ink that he used.

6. Library sorting
We plan on putting identifying tags for the sections in the library. The library is organized, but only to people who understand the system already. We had a discussion about tags for the sections on the bookshelf

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)

In attendance: Brandon, Jackson (secretary), Jo, Marc, Ty (moderator)
Start time: 7:12 PM

1. Upcoming Event – What is Borders? is coming up on Saturday. There is some cleaning to do in here, but we’re pretty much ready for it.

2. Calendar Distro/Reimbursement – We’ll reimburse Ty spent $18.46 on getting our fall calendars printed. It sounds like we got our important distro done, and the few leftovers will be done in the next day or two. Yay!

3. Free School – Bailey is supposed to be emailing out an update to the interested listserv tonight. We’ll keep a lookout for that!

4. Parade – Most of us joined the art workshop on Saturday to help Tony make his “Black Snake.” It was fun, and we’re looking forward to the parade.

5. September Events – Jackson will get the Love Your Library event up tonight. Ty volunteers to get the movie event for the end of the month drafted in the next few days.

Meeting adjourned: 8:05 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)

8/26/19 Minutes: Calendar Distro, Parade, Free School, Red State, Garden Day

In attendance: Bailey, Marc, Jackson, Brandon (moderator), Wyatt (secretary), Will, Ty
Start time: 7:25 PM

1. Facebook/Website – We need to get events on the facebook page and website.
What are borders? – Ty wrote the description. Will will write a short handout.
Love your Library – Jackson
Movie Night – Wyatt
Website – Wyatt

2. Calander Distro – We have to distro calendars!

>Campus – Ty
Andrews Hall
Bernert Hall
Love Library
Manter Hall

>Downtown – Marc
Novel Idea
Gomez Art Supply
Parish Art Spaces
The Foundry
Jimmy Johns
The Hub Cafe – Brandon

>Hay-market – Marc
Mill
Crescent Moon
1000 Villages
Indigo Bridge
Ivanna Cone
Rabbit Hole Bakery 8th and Q
BlueStem Books
Francie and Finch

>Near South –
The HUB GED – Brandon
Cultiva 11th and G – Baily
PePe’s – Baily

>East
Unitarian Church – Already done

> South Street Side – Wyatt
Medowlark
Open Harvest
Bohdi – Brandon

4. library donations –
Six new library book donations tonight, along with several zines. Several books from Jackson, one from Wyatt, a zine from Will, and several zines from Marc and Ty. Thank you!

5. parade –
This Saturday is our build day. We will join at the South Downtown Art Hub on Saturday August 31st from 11 – 2 to make a Black Snake Puppet.

6. garden day –
Point person for talking to Alex is Will and Baily. We would like to coordinate a joint gardening day where we work some at both properties.

7. free school –
Twenty Five people signed up which is cool! Deadline for getting all ideas submitted is the 25th of September. October should be the first full calendar.

8. red state stuff –
167.50 $$ was the total breakfast bill. $150 is given directly from black cat treasury to Jackson. We also paid the $50 reservation fee to the church. Those two expenses bring the BCH contribution to $200. Jackson will seek the additional $17.50 from the Red State Committee.

Meeting adjourned: 8:12 PM

In attendance: Bailey, Brandon, Jackson, Marc (moderator), Ty (secretary), Will
Start time: 7:10 PM

1. Event Review – Pan’s Labyrinth had a pretty good turnout and a good discussion!

2. Upcoming Event – We have Red State coming up this Saturday! We’re getting breakfast locked down.

3. Parade – We have a meeting at August 31 for prepping any parade props, and we decided a time to meet up. We’re going to discuss it further next meeting, and talk about what props we’re going to make (a black cat puppet is probably involved).

4. Free School – Bailey gave us a low-down on how free school is looking. There’s going to be a table at Red State, passing out info for free school classes. We talked about passing out a separate calendar of free school events along our usual flyering route.

5. Email and Messages – We got an email from a couple comrades in Chicago, looking for a place to crash while they travel. We’re going to look around for somewhere they can stay. We also got a message from a friend on Facebook a while ago! Asking if we wanted a movie, and it unfortunately slid under the radar so we have to respond to her really quickly.

6. Fall Calendar – We tweaked the calendar design a bit. We’re printing 75 pages worth of handbills, and 30 full-color calendars. Ty’s going to send the order to the print shop, and Brandon will pick them up.

Meeting adjourned: 8:20 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)

In attendance: Brandon (late), Jackson (moderator), Marc, Ty (secretary), Will (late), Wyatt
Start time: 7:13 PM

1. Event Review – We showed White Light/Black Rain on Friday. We had a very good attendance, and it was a great memorial of the atomic bombings. The discussion was lively, but moderation was probably needed. We also need to put a warning on this documentary in the future for graphic imagery of death. We had a broader discussion on future warnings for triggering content (Does the Dog Die? is a great website to do a precursory check on potential triggers).

2. Upcoming Event – Pan’s Labyrinth is on Friday. Set-up will be easy, there are already warnings on the website. We’re good!

3. Parade – Brandon and Will gave us an update on a parade meeting. We’re interested in participating – maybe making a big black cat prop, among other more explicit politic themes. We’ll meet up here on Aug. 31 to make some arts and crafts!

4. Fall Garden – Wyatt and Jackson needs some help with managing the garden, and asks us to schedule some days to do some garden work. We scheduled Oct. 5 as a day to meet up for garden projects. Will suggested reaching out to some friends who also do community gardening, and we also talked about putting it up online as an event and inviting people and giving folks food, too. Maybe turning a few tasks into a gardening skillshare/free school? We probably can’t put it on the calendar, but a separate free school calendar is probably in the works.

5. Fall Calendar – Ty has a calendar template whipped up for both the main calendar and handbills. Marc will help him figure out the remaining design details, and Wyatt will figure out a place to donate money to for the anti-Thanksgiving fundraiser feast. Then Ty will get the calendars printed.

September
What are borders? A Community Discussion – Sep 7, 1-3 PM
Movie: Forbidden: Undocumented and Queer in Rural America (2017) – Sep 13, 7-10 PM
Love your Library: AK Press Spotlight – Sep 21, 1-3 PM

October
Legacy of Standing Rock – Community Discussion- Oct 12, 1 – 3pm
Anti-Columbus Day Protest @ Federal Building – October 14th, 5-6 PM
Movie “Smoke Signals” (1998) – October 18, 7-10 pm
October 31st Black Cat Halloween Party. We’re showing Candyman! 7-10 PM

November
Reading Discussion: “Inhabit: Instructions for Autonomy” – Nov 9, 1-3 PM
Movie Night “Skins” (2002) (Drama filmed at Pine Ridge) – Nov 15, 7-10 PM
Anti-Thanksgiving Fundraiser Feast– November 29th (7-10 PM)

Meeting adjourned: 8:30 PM

Tabled Items: Fall Calendar Printing, 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)

8/05/19 Minutes: Fall Calendar Finalization,  New Library Donations

In attendance: Brandon (moderator), Jackson, Will, Wyatt (Secretary), Marc, Ty
Start time: 7:13 PM

1. Event Review –
We had our harm reduction training, thanks a lot to Lavender!
We would like to donate the extra supplies to Feed the People. We will make a few more copies of the instructions.

2. Upcoming Events-
We will be showing White Light / Black Rain on Friday.

3. Library Donation.
Jackson donates 5 books to the lending library.

4. Fall Calendar –

September

What are borders? A Community Discussion – Sep 7?
Movie – Sep 13?
Which Way Home (2009)
Forbidden: Undocumented and Queer in Rural America (2017)
Do I Sound Gay?
Love your Library: AK Press Spotlight – Sep 21, 1-3 PM

October

Legacy of Standing Rock – Community Discussion- Oct 12, 1 – 3pm
Movie “Smoke Signals” (1998)
Anti-Columbus Day Protest @ Federal Building – October 14th
October 31st Black Cat Halloween Party. Movie?

November

Reading Discussion: “Inhabit; Instructions for Autonomy” – Nov 9
Movie Night “Skins” (2002) (Drama filmed at Pine Ridge) – Nov 15/22
Anti-Thanksgiving Fundraiser Feast– November 29th (7 PM)

Meeting adjourned: 8:32

Tabled Items: Fall Calendar, Library Labels, Wellread 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)

In attendance: Brandon, Jackson (secretary), Jo, Kyle, Wyatt (moderator)
Start time: 7:13 PM

1. Event Review – We ran Chicken Run on Friday night! We enjoyed it. It had a good turnout, and had a good discussion afterwards.

2. August Events – We still need to get both of our movies up online.

3. Fall Calendar –

September

ICE/immigration discussion – Sep 7?
Movie – Sep 13?
Library Focus: AK Press – Sep 21, 1-3 PM

October

Indigenous discussion (emphasis on positive contributions of Natives to this nation’s history) – Oct 12?
Anti-Columbus Day Protest? – October 14th (@ the Federal Building or Capitol)

November

Inhabit reading discussion – Nov 9?
Movies? – Nov 15/22
Anti-Thanksgiving Dinner – November 29th (7 PM)

Is Popcorn Politics continuing?

4. Red State – We spent the last part of our meeting catching each other up about the state of the Red State conference we are working on.

Meeting adjourned: 8:22 PM

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)

Introductions

Jackson (People’s Commissar of Getting Shit Done), Brandon (People’s Commissar of Writing Shit Down), Marc, Ty, Will, Kyle

Start time: 7:17

Event Review

Didn’t stay on subject very much. There was not as much attendance as usual because it was promoted late. We should promote events sooner.

Upcoming Event

Chicken Run screening. We already have the DVD. We just have to clean up the room. Perhaps we should advertise it by saying that we are kid-friendly.

Library Donation

2 new books to put in the library.

Block Party

No updates.

August Events

We are light on events for August because of Red State and school starting. There are only 2 events: both of which are movies. The first one is a documentary on the 9th: White Light Black Rain. It’s a documentary interviewing people who lived through the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The other movie is Pan’s Labyrinth. We will have to add a disclaimer for the blood and gore in that one. Jackson will take point on the description for White Light Black Rain and Ty will write the description for Pan’s Labyrinth.

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: After pasting into a word document, it seems like it might be doable within the format. Will thinks he’ll have a bunch of booklets, and he has a pdf to make copies of. September would work best for him.

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.

New idea: ICE discussion about recent events. We will discuss the concentration camps and what individuals can do.

3 discussions: ICE discussion, Indigenous people discussion, Inhabit reading (voted on by people present)

We need to start figuring out movies to screen and make some decisions about the other stuff.

Homework: Bring movie suggestions.

Categories/Holidays to consider:

Trans Day of Remembrance (November)

Veteran’s Day (November)

Thanksgiving (November)

Columbus Day (October)

Mischief Night (October)

Red State

Brandon interviewed Tyler Magnuson. They seem like a cool comrade with a good breakout.

Wyatt wants to host a breakout session with Maria, a native elder water protector. The breakout would be about the legacy of Standing Rock.

Jackson, Brandon, and Wyatt are the Programming Committee. We will decide what time slots each breakout belongs in.

Mail

We got some stuff in the mail. We sang Blue’s Clues songs in our excitement. The mail was from the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Spaces. They gave us a bunch of zines and stickers.

Meeting adjourned: 8:45 PM

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)