In attendance: Anthony, Jackson (secretary), Nate
Start time: 7:08 PM

1. Event Review – We had our Star Trek night last Friday. We had a small turnout, on account of the snowstorm the day before. But Jackson did meet a couple of new folks who seemed excited to finally visit our space.
2. Library Donation – Anthony brought four cool books about Black history and Africa that will fit in nicely here. Thanks, Anthony!
3. Mutual Aid documentary – Jackson has been in contact with some anarchist filmmakers who have created a documentary mini-series about mutual aid. It is sounding increasingly likely that they will be touring in support of their documentary in this part of the country over the summer. We are tentatively preparing to host them sometime in August.
4. Movie Tech – Anthony has figured out a way for us to run the documentary Looking For Simone! (We got it to run here on a test after the meeting tonight.) We will be featuring it for our March movie.
5. Spring Calendar Finalized! –

March

Friday, March 13th, 7-10 PM:
Movie Night: Looking For Simone

Saturday, March 21st, 1-3 PM:
Feminism is For Everyone (a community discussion)

April

Saturday, April 4th, 1-3 PM:
The How-Tos of Mutual Aid (a reading discussion)

Friday, April 10th, 7-10 PM:
Movie Night: Who Killed the Electric Car?

Saturday, April 18th, 1-3 PM:
Winslow’s Wardrobe Spring Distro

May

Friday, May 8th, 8 AM – 6 PM & Saturday, May 9th, 8 AM – 2 PM:
Annual Yard Sale Fundraiser

Friday, May 15th, 7-10 PM:
Movie Night: Sorry to Bother You

Saturday, May 23rd, 1-3 PM:
Life After Capitalism? (a community discussion)

Meeting adjourned: 8:40 PM

In attendance: Anthony, Jackson (secretary), Nate
Start time: 7:04 PM

1. Upcoming Event – Our Star Trek night is this Friday at 7 PM. We’re ready to go!
2. Reimbursement – Jackson bought some hand and foot warmers for the counter-protest of the Walk For Life back on January 31st, but forgot to bring the receipt during the event review at that meeting several weeks ago. He spent $23.97, and he will be reimbursed. Nate suggests keeping the leftover ones for next year, as they apparently last a very long time.
3. Spring Calendar

March

Friday, March 13th, 7-10 PM:
Movie Night: Looking For Simone

Saturday, March 21st, 1-3 PM:
Feminism is For Everyone (a community discussion)

April

Saturday, April 18th, 1-3 PM: Winslow’s Wardrobe

Mutual Aid reading discussion – TBD

April movie TBD

Strange World – Disney movie with allegory to fossil fuel consumption – Earth Day movie?

May

Friday, May 8th, 8 AM – 6 PM & Saturday, May 9th, 8 AM – 2 PM: Annual Yard Sale Fundraiser

May movie TBD?

May discussion?

Meeting adjourned: 8:35 PM

In attendance: Anthony, Jackson (secretary), Nate, Salem, Simon
Start time: 7:05 PM

1. Event Review – We had our “Why is Black History Important?” discussion here on Saturday. It wasn’t a huge turnout, but the conversation was highly engaging and everyone had plenty of space to have their say. (Even if we strayed a bit too far from Black history at times…)
2. Library Donation – We have been offered two new books for our library. One is a history of race in Nebraska edited by our friend Kevin Abourezk. The other is a book about deepfakes co-authored by Anthony’s friend Chris Schwartz. We are happy to take them both into our lending library.
3. Spring Calendar

March

“Why are boys terrified of women and that’s what your oppressors want” / “Why Feminism is For Everyone” discussion (follow-up on last month’s about race…)

Waiting For Simone documentary (if we can get a hold of it, with English subtitles…)

April

Saturday, April 18th, 1-3 PM: Winslow’s Wardrobe

Mutual Aid reading discussion

Strange World – Disney movie with allegory to fossil fuel consumption – Earth Day movie?

May

Yard Sale

Star Trek Night?

Meeting adjourned: 8:29 PM

In attendance: Anthony, Jackson (secretary), Jessie, Nate
Start time: 7:04 PM

1. Event Review – Our annual counter-protest of the Walk For Life was this past Saturday. Jackson noted that our turnout was smaller than usual, but we still did our thing. The weather was very cold, and that may have had something to do with it. Jackson took Jessie’s advice and bought some hand and foot warmers for folks.
2. Upcoming Event – Our “Why is Black History Important?” discussion is this Saturday. It sounds like we’re ready for it.
3. Spring Calendar

March

Feminist event?

April

Lincoln Earth Day – Saturday, April 25th, 10 AM – 2 PM – will we be tabling there?

May

Friday the 8th/Saturday the 9th – Yard Sale?

Mutual Aid reading discussion – Jackson has looked over Salem’s reading recommendations, and he thinks one of them would work.

Winslow’s Wardrobe in March or April?

Linux Workshop on a Saturday afternoon? Anthony is not currently sure that he can commit to an in-person workshop for the spring. (Online event? Some other way to share information?)

garden workshop / indoor gardening / hydroponics?

critical evaluation of information / media literacy

Anthony has talked to his friend Chris Schwartz (Rochester Institute of Technology) who researches deep fakes. He’s currently busy traveling overseas, but he’s very interested in working with us and may have time over the spring.

Star Trek Night: “Booby Trap” & “Galaxy’s Child” (TNG)

Jessie suggests something about Simone de Beauvoir. There’s apparently a promising newish documentary called Looking For Simone, but we’re not sure if we can find a copy yet.

Meeting adjourned: 8:34 PM

In attendance: Anthony, Jackson (secretary), Jessie, Martin
Start time: 7:07 PM

1. Upcoming Event – Our annual counter-protest of the Walk For Life is this Saturday. Jessie recommended buying and providing some hand warmers, as it may be very cold.
2. Radical Roleplay? – Martin has ideas for a politically themed tabletop role-playing game (RPG) series that could possibly serve to educate people about political theory through roleplaying. He had the thought of recording, editing it, and posting it onto our YouTube channel. It also seemed that Anthony and Jessie have some experience with playing tabletop games. Jackson suggested that maybe we should start a little bit smaller, with possibly a one-off workshop event here at the House. Jackson also pointed out that we actually have a rule book for a explicitly radical RPG in our lending library.
3. Spring Calendar

Linux Workshop on a Saturday afternoon (Anthony)

garden workshop / indoor gardening / hydroponics?

critical evaluation of information / media literacy

Anthony has a friend who researches how to detect deep fakes; he lives in New York, but would he give us an online event that we could also possibly record and post to our YouTube? Anthony will ask!

Salem did post a recommended reading for a mutual aid discussion, but Jackson hasn’t had time to read it yet.

Meeting adjourned: 8:30 PM

In attendance: Anthony, Jackson (secretary), Martin, Nate, Salem
Start time: 7:05 PM

1. Event Review – We hosted our latest reading discussion here on Saturday. The event had a somewhat low turnout but it was a good discussion.
2. Internet Outreach – Discussion of the low turnout transitioned into brainstorming on how to improve our Internet advertising. Nate thinks Google ads might be worth trying. Anthony suggests that we might try Mastodon or Bluesky as alternate web platforms that will have more like-minded folks. Salem thinks it may be worthwhile for us to have a Tumblr account. Jackson is open to cross-posting our materials to other sites, but doesn’t have the capacity to add more social media to his plate.
3. Donation – We decided to make a $100 donation to a GoFundMe page for a family here in Lincoln that was raided by ICE last week. Jackson will handle the transaction.
4. Spring Calendar

March

Feminist event?

April

Lincoln Earth Day – Saturday, April 25th, 10 AM – 2 PM – will we be tabling there?

May

Friday the 8th/Saturday the 9th – Yard Sale?

Mutual Aid reading discussion – Salem has a couple of potential readings; they’ll be shared to Discord for evaluation

Winslow’s Wardrobe in March or April

Meeting adjourned: 8:35 PM

In attendance: Anthony, Jackson (secretary), Nate
Start time: 7:20 PM

1. Event Review – We watched the SDS documentary Rebels With a Cause on Friday night. We had a low turnout, but it was a good discussion.
2. Upcoming Event – Our next reading discussion is this Saturday. Jackson will get the readings printed, and we will be ready.
3. Web Reimbursement – Jackson renewed one of our website domains last week. He will be reimbursed $36.19.
4. Brochure – Nate has been working on the brochure. He showed off a mock-up. We discussed some of the content further; Jackson thinks the resources panel should emphasize meeting space, radical literature, and access to a copy machine for activists (and possibly fresh vegetables in-season). We also discussed what kind of images we want to add, including a photo of our library and possibly a sketch of the people’s power fist.

Meeting adjourned: 8:30 PM

In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Nate, Salem

1. Event Reviews – We’ve had two events at the House since our last meeting. Winslow’s Wardrobe was back over the Winter Solstice weekend; they served clothing to a handful of folks (and we may have made a couple of new friends). We also hosted a bonus Terminator 2 movie night at the request of special guest Dr. Stellan Vinthagen (who was visiting from UMass). Turnout was predictably low, with the last-minute announcement during the holidays, but it was a spirited discussion that we were happy to have.
2. Upcoming Event – Rebels With a Cause movie night is this Friday. We’re ready for it.
3. Calendar Distro – Salem has continued to make progress, but the downtown bookstores haven’t been visited yet.
4. Brochure – We further discussed potential content for the brochure that Nate continues to advocate for. We previously established that the front panel would just be something our name and a photo of the house, while the back panel would just be for our contact information. We have tentatively arrived on themes for the four open panels: history of the house, typical event formats, resources offered, and political values (bulletpoints).

Meeting adjourned: 7:55 PM

In attendance: Anthony, Jackson (secretary)
Start time: 7:10 PM

1. Event Review – We had our V For Vendetta movie night on Friday night. The turnout was low, but the movie has held up well.
2. Upcoming Event – Winslow’s Wardrobe returns this Saturday. Jackson still needs to get event info posted to Facebook and our website, but we’re otherwise ready.
3. Holiday Break – We will be canceling the last two meetings of 2025. We will resume Monday meetings on January 5th, 2026.

(We spent most of the evening chatting about things that aren’t official Black Cat business.)

Meeting adjourned: 8:30 PM

In attendance: Anthony, Jackson (secretary), Nate, Salem
Start time: 7:00 PM

1. Event Review – We had our Mankiller movie a couple of weeks ago, but this was our first meeting since then. The turnout was low, but everyone enjoyed and learned from the film.
2. Upcoming Event – Our V For Vendetta movie is this Friday. We’re ready for it.
3. Winter Calendar Printing/Distro – Our winter calendars are here and we hope we can put them up around town quickly. Jackson will be reimbursed $57.07 for getting those printed.
4. BCH Bulletpoints – Nate is still eager to help us put together a brochure. We are still trying to figure out what should be on each panel. There was a discussion about one of those panels containing our Black Cat values as bulletpoints. Unfortunately, we were not focused enough tonight to make progress on nailing those down.

Meeting adjourned: 8:30 PM