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

1. February Event – Jackson reports that we now have three panelists lined up, with Dance to serve as the moderator. We are really needing to get the flier done and the Facebook event up, and are mostly just waiting on some headshots and bios from our panel. Marc has a really nice draft of an event flier, that is only waiting on confirmation of said details to be tweaked and published. Marc will lose access to his editing software on Thursday, but we want to be done by then anyway.

2. Spring event ideas – We talked a bit about the proposed ideas for street medic training and a gardening event with the Hawley Hamlet folks. We’ve not been in touch with Wyatt in the last week, and would still prefer to see what his preferences are in formatting that before committing that to the schedule. Ty has not had time to reach out to Hawley Hamlet, but will make a stronger effort to do so soon. Jackson thinks the garden event may be a better candidate for March.

3. TV Spot – Jackson is planning to email the reporter and ask him to come back in spring. The house will look a lot better once the snow melts, because we’ll be able to do some tidying outside and get the garden started.

Meeting adjourned: 8:10 PM

No one was available to meet with Jackson tonight, so there was no meeting. We will try again next week.

In attendance: Alexis, Jackson (secretary), Marc, Naomi, Ty (moderator), Wyatt
Start time: 7:00 PM

1. Event Review – Our panel discussion on Activists and Police Repression was on Saturday afternoon. We had a good turnout on Saturday, and the folks were engaged. Our panelists were knowledgeable and the discussion went really well. It might’ve been better if there had been a bit more interaction between the panelists, but there was no obvious way we could’ve gotten them more familiar with each other before Saturday.

2. Library Donation – Ty’s mom got us a children’s book about peaceful protesting. It will make a good addition to our Kitten Corner.

3. Library Catalog – We would like to integrate our library catolog with wordpress. There are some plugins that may work on this. Marc and Naomi are on this. There are a couple of other software widgets that we are experimented with; one of them is even called LibraryThing!

4. Walk For Life – Alexis is very interested in helping us with the counter-protest of the Walk For Life, and may have connections to other allies in NLC-Lincoln and on UNL’s campus. We will keep our channels open for further collaboration on this event.

5. Winter Calendar – It sounds like the group wants to focus on only the counter-protest for January and a Black History Month event for February. Jackson and Dance have been brainstorming on the latter event concept, and we are now considering a panel discussion on Black music and/or poetry. Ty would be especially enthusiastic for this concept if we can focus on Black music, as he’s been lobbying for a music-centric event for some time now.

6. Next week? – With the holidays around the corner, we considered whether our meetings will continue the rest of the year. We decided that we will be meeting normally for next Monday, December 21st.

Meeting adjourned: 8:32 PM

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

1. Library Donation – Jackson has another batch of books for the library from a PM Press sale.

2. December Panel? – Jackson reports that one of our three prime panelist candidates have been in touch in the last week and has confirmed availability on December 12th. We’re still waiting to hear back from the other two candidates. Ty wants to wait to contact his options until we get a second confirmation from our prime candidates. Ty and Marc are still planning to investigate recording options if our panelists consent to that.

3. Winter Calendar – Ideas:

Panel Discussion on Police Repression and Activist Resilience (December 12th?)

Counter-protesting the Walk for Life (January 16, 10 AM). We still need to get the web event up ASAP.

January community discussion on the Supreme Court and/or Inauguration Day?

Street medic training

Black History Month-themed event for February

Spring Suggestion: Community Gardening Discussion with representatives of Hawley Hamlet?

Meeting adjourned: 7:55 PM

We weren’t able to meet tonight. We’ll be back next week.

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

1. Event Review – We had our first in-person discussion in seven months on Saturday. The turnout was small, but there was still some good discussion with some old friends (who also took advantage of our library!).

2. Upcoming Event – Marc is still excited to move ahead with our digital part two of the election discussion this Saturday on Jitsi, but hasn’t had the time to put the event up online yet. He’ll try to get that up tonight.

3. Library Donation – Jackson is donating two more books to the library.

4. November Discussion – Jackson has secured one panelist for our November discussion, and needs to get in touch with Wyatt regarding his potential panelists. Ty has a couple of leads, but wants to wait until we settle on a date (with Jackson and Wyatt’s leads) before making contact.

Meeting adjourned: 8:15 PM

In Attendance: Jackson (secretary), Marc, Ty (moderator)
Start time: 7:03 PM

1. Event Review – Our cleanup event was a bust! We definitely could have advertised it better.

2. October Discussion – Jackson still needs to get that event drafted and ready to be advertised online. We should also still be looking into getting some a canopy/tent for the yard for that day.

3. November Event – Jackson has had some trouble getting back in touch with our prospective panelists. He will keep trying, and has also thought of a couple of other interesting candidates to reach out to as well.

Meeting adjourned: 7:25 PM

Jackson was the only one available to meet tonight, so it didn’t happen. We’ll try again next week.

In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Ty

Start time: 7:07 PM

1. Fall Calendar – Ty provided a draft of our fall calendar image over the group chat this evening. Jackson wants the house’s address added to it, since two of the three events have some relation to this physical space. Otherwise, it looks fine to us and Ty will publish it tomorrow unless there are criticisms in the group chat. We also really need to get the neighborhood clean-up event put online no later than next week, since we’re already less than a month away from that.

2. Street Medic Training – We’ve been asked to host a workshop on street medic work at protests here in the fall, and we’re happy to accommodate it. This event will not be publicly advertised, per the wishes of our guest organizer.

3. November Event – Jackson announced the commitment of a second panelist for our web discussion. Since we want three or four, we’re at least halfway there! We talked a bit tonight about the focus of the event being on not only police repression of activism, but also wanting to prioritize discussion on how activists have adapted to repression to survive and continue their struggle.

Meeting adjourned: 7:42 PM