In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Ty (moderator)
Start time: 7:04 PM

1. Upcoming Event – Popcorn Politics returns this Friday with Shin Godzilla. We have the movie; we just have to set up the room.

2. Fall Calendar –

September: Reading Discussion: Puerto Rico: “The Politics of Survival”
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/04/puerto-rico-left-hurricane-maria-colonialism-independence
September: Popcorn Politics: Free State of Jones
October: To Each According to Their Needs: How Marxism Empowers the Impaired
October: Popcorn Politics: Alien
Saturday, November 3rd, 1-3 PM: Men’s Rights Vs. “Men’s Rights”: Why Men Need Feminism, Too
TBA Friday Night in November: Movie Night: Tough Guise
TBA Friday Night in November: Popcorn Politics: Johnny Got His Gun

Black-Out Days: September 1, 8, 15, 29; October 20; November 10, 17
Grey-Out Days: September 14, November 24

Nov 19 – International Men’s Day
Nov 25 – International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

Meeting adjourned: 8:35 PM

Tabled items: Fall calendar, AK Press Purchase, Graphic Designer, Stuff to Buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, labels, 7×7 no-slip outdoor mat for porch, new SSD hard drive for public laptop, more button parts)

In attendance: Jackson (moderator), Ty (secretary)
Start time: 7:00 PM

1. Donation – We received a donation of $200 from some dear friends of ours! We’re pretty solid on the general treasury fund, so we opted to put this money into our library fund so that we may fund the AK Press book purchase we so desperately want to make. We’ll table the actual purchasing of books until after the fall calendar is finalized.

2. Fall Calendar – We’re still working on potential Popcorn Politics films. There was a suggestion in the group chat for a horror movie for October – Alien was a favorite suggestion for that – and an anti-war film for the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. Jackson is suggesting Johnny Got His Gun for that. Though a different war, Full Metal Jacket would also be a good choice. Alien will likely be the film for October, but things are still brewing for November (Dr. Strangelove and Paths of Glory are also potential options), and no specific leads for September.
We really do need to have some solid discussions, and we really want to commemorate 1968 somehow but we’re not sure how at this point. Ty is fairly confident in his ability to do a discussion on disability rights.

Meeting adjourned: 8:30PM

Tabled items: Fall calendar, AK Press Purchase, Graphic Designer, Stuff to Buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, labels, 7×7 no-slip outdoor mat for porch, new SSD hard drive for public laptop, more button parts)

In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Ty (moderator)
Start time: 7:01 PM

1. Event Review – We hosted our reading discussion on conspiracy theories Saturday afternoon. Our turnout was a bit low, possibly partly because of the death penalty event that was happening at the same time at Indigo Bridge. We had a good discussion though.

2. Reimbursement – Ty got the handouts for our reading group printed, and would like to be reimbursed the $5.79 he spent. This is approved unanimously.

3. Red State Workshop – We spent some time working on our blurb describing our workshop on running a space for the Red State conference.

Meeting adjourned: 8:11 PM

Tabled items: Fall calendar, Graphic Designer, Stuff to Buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, labels, 7×7 no-slip outdoor mat for porch, new SSD hard drive for public laptop, more button parts)

In attendance: Jackson (moderator), Ty (secretary)
Start time: 7:05 PM

1. Event Review – We did Popcorn Politics last Friday. It was a good film and a pretty good discussion followed.

2. Upcoming Event – We have a reading discussion this Saturday. Unfortunately, it’s been double-booked with a sudden event concerning the death penalty. We’ll have to still get the articles compiled and printed, and clean up the room.

3. Reimbursement – We bought some books at Socialism 2018, which totaled to $80.57. Jackson also had to pay for our secondary website domain name and the privacy associated with it, which totaled to $30.87.

4. Fall Calendar –

Black-Out Days: September 1, 8, 15, 29; October 20; November 10, 17
Grey-Out Days: September 14, November 24

Nov 19 – International Men’s Day
Nov 25 – International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
Nov 29 – International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People

Possible discussions: Disability rights, September discussion on Puerto Rico, farmers/agriculture, the politics of sports, 1968 year of revolt anniversaries

Possible Popcorn Politics: Free State of Jones, The Parallax View, The Young Karl Marx

Possible documentaries: Tough Guise, American Socialist: The Life & Times of Eugene Victor Debs

Meeting adjourned: 8:33 PM

Tabled items: Fall calendar, Graphic Designer, Stuff to Buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, labels, 7×7 no-slip outdoor mat for porch, new SSD hard drive for public laptop, more button parts)

In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Ty (moderator)
Start time: 7:00 PM

1. Next Week – We’re canceling next week’s meeting because it’ll be right after the Socialism conference and we may not make it home in time for the scheduled meeting. We’ll advertise this on Facebook.

2. Upcoming Event – Popcorn Politics returns next Friday! We already have the movie, but we still need to get it up on Facebook. Jackson is in contact with our DSA contacts on getting that drafted by tomorrow.

3. Email – We got two emails. One is from an apolitical band (and one that’s contacted us before…), so we’re ignoring that one. The other email came from the Feral Crust Collective in the Philippines. They’re trying to raise money for a sewing machine to make menstrual pads and other things to fundraise for their ecological projects. We decide to send them $50. (Jackson reports it will actually cost us $54.99, because of a PayPal fee).

4. Monthly Review – Our books came in! We agree to reimburse Jackson the $80 he spent on them for us.

5. Fall Calendar – The Young Karl Marx is a movie night we would like to feature at some point, but the DVD is still rather expensive. We would also like to see In The Intense Now, but it might not be on DVD yet. Perhaps there is another film about 1968 political actions that we can show before the year is over.

Black-Out Days: September 1, 8, 15, 29; October 20; November 2, 10, 17
Grey-Out Days: September 14, November 24

Disability rights?
Nov 19 – International Men’s Day
Nov 25 – International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
Nov 29 – International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People

Possible documentaries: Tough Guise

6. July Events – Jackson will be getting Popcorn Politics up tomorrow. Ty spent the rest of our meeting time putting up our event for “Confronting Conspiracy Theories”

Meeting adjourned: 8:30 PM

Tabled items: Fall calendar, Graphic Designer, Stuff to Buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, labels, 7×7 no-slip outdoor mat for porch, new SSD hard drive for public laptop, more button parts)

In Attendance: Jackson (moderator), Ty (secretary)
Start time: 7:00 PM

1. Event Review – Popcorn Politics was last Friday, which went well! A new visitor to the house noted that they came there through Outlinc’s calendar – we didn’t post it there, but we do need to do better about making sure we share our LGBTQ+ related events there.

2. Fall Calendar – The Young Karl Marx is a movie night we would like to feature at some point, but the DVD is still rather expensive. We would also like to see In The Intense Now, but it might not be on DVD yet. Perhaps there is another film about 1968 political actions that we can show before the year is over.

Black-Out Days: September 1, 8, 15, 29; October 20; November 2, 10, 17
Grey-Out Days: September 14, October 27, November 24

3. Cancelled Meeting? – We might cancel our July 9 meeting because if the trip to the Socialism 2018 conference goes as planned, we may not be back from Chicago in time for the meeting at 7. However, we decided to postpone officially cancelling or going ahead with the meeting until next week, where hopefully we will have a better projection of how the trip will go.

Meeting adjourned: 7:39 PM

Tabled items: Cancelled July 9 Meeting, Graphic Designer, Stuff to Buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, labels, 7×7 no-slip outdoor mat for porch, new SSD hard drive for public laptop, more button parts)

In Attendance: Jackson (secretary), Ty (moderator)
Start time: 7:00 PM

1. Upcoming Event – We’re showing Moonlight for our next installment of Popcorn Politics on Friday night. The movie came in the mail today, and we should be ready to go. The Facebook event seems to be getting a nice response, so we’re hoping for a good turnout.

2. AK Press – We got two more books in the mail for being Friends of AK Press: As Black As Resistance and Kropotkin’s Modern Science and Anarchy.

3. Treasury Update – Jackson has updated our treasury. Our library funds are pretty skimpy, and we want to buy some more books, so we decided to transer $100 from the General Treasury to our Library Treasury.

4. Monthly Review – Monthly Review is doing a big clearance sale on some interesting books. Jackson ordered them tonight for $80, and he’ll be reimbursed for that purchase.

Meeting adjourned: 8:30 PM

Tabled items: Graphic Designer, Stuff to Buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, labels, 7×7 no-slip outdoor mat for porch, new SSD hard drive for public laptop, more button parts)

In Attendance: Jackson (moderator), Ty (secretary)
Start time: 7:17 PM

1. Event Review – We had a discussion on the prison-industrial complex, which didn’t cover all the bases we could have, though it was still good for the big topic and the smaller time slot than we usually have.

2. Book and Zine – We picked up a free zine from DSA Lincoln’s booth at Feed the People for our zine archive, and Jackson donated a book that is rele

Meeting adjourned: 7:26 PM

Tabled items: Graphic Designer, Stuff to Buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, labels, 7×7 no-slip outdoor mat for porch, new SSD hard drive for public laptop)

In Attendance: Jackson (secretary), Ty (moderator)
Start time: 7:04 PM

1. Event Review – We had our People’s Choice Movie Night in honor of our 5th Anniversary on Friday night. It was a really good time. We had just enough pizza, had a great turnout, and a pretty good discussion afterwards.

2. Upcoming Events – We’re hosting another conference planning meeting tomorrow evening. Jackson will attend and get the room set up. On Saturday, we will be tabling at the Feed the People BBQ and then hosting our community discussion “What is the Prison-Industrial Complex?” right afterwards. We took a few minutes to update our library display for stuff most relevant to our discussion Saturday.

3. Book Donation – Chris donated a copy of Injustices to us. We happily accept it. Thanks, Chris!

4. Website Renewal – Jackson has gotten an email from our hosting company saying we’re due for renewal next month. We’re planning to renew our hosting for the next three years on the deal they’ve offered us, which will cost us $395.64.

Meeting adjourned: 8:00 PM

Tabled items: Graphic Designer, Stuff to Buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, labels, 7×7 no-slip outdoor mat for porch, new SSD hard drive for public laptop)

In attendance: Jackson (moderator), Ty (secretary)
Start time: 7:00 PM

1. Upcoming Events – We have a Nebraska Left Conference organizational meeting, and we really just need to set up the room. The tables will then be broken down by Friday for our 5th year anniversary movie night! We also need to finalize pizza orders by that day and make a pre-scheduled purchase, perhaps the night before.

2. Calendar Distro – Ty wasn’t able to distro, and calendar distro will be kinda rough this week because of everyone’s schedules. Ty’s gonna try again this Tuesday and Wednesday after work.

3. Nebraska Left Conference – Jackson has officially volunteered our services with a workshop on running radical spaces for the conference. We also have a pretty comfortable treasury right now, so we’re thinking about donating some money. We’re thinking $200 up front, and also potentially donating more as needed.

Tabled items: Graphic Designer, Stuff to Buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, labels, 7×7 no-slip outdoor mat for porch, new SSD hard drive for public laptop)

Meeting adjourned: 7:40 PM