In attendance: Bailey, Brandon, Jackson (secretary), Marc, Ty, Will (moderator), Wyatt
Start time: 7:15 PM

1. Event Review – We ran Skins on Friday night. It had a decent turnout and a good discussion.

2. Upcoming Event – The assembly is this Saturday, and several of us are planning to attend. We are also looking forward to the Thankstaking dinner, and discussed the menu a bit. We decided on an all-veggie curry with tofu and meat on the side to make the pot as inclusive as possible.

3. Library Donation – Marc has donated a book of poetry for our library. Thanks, Marc!

4. Calendar Printing – The calendar has been designed and it will be printed this week. Our Thankstaking fliers are also done and will be printed and distributed together.

5. Free School – There’s another computer programming class this week. Bailey is currently looking for class ideas in December.

6. Zine Rack – Will might have an opportunity for a grant to pay for the printing costs. He’s also cooking up a lot of ideas for some new original zines, particularly on local history.

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), procedure for posting things on Facebook (when do we allow it)

In attendance: Ty (moderator), Brandon (secretary), Will, Bailey, Wyatt, Jackson, Paul

1. Event Review
We had a reading discussion for Inhabit, a small book/pamphlet about autonomy. It was decently attended and people seemed to enjoy it.

2. Upcoming Event
Movie night: Skins! We need to find a DVD. We panicked at the meeting, but then found out that it is available at Love Library.

There is also an Intro to Computer Programming course happening with the free school at the Bennett Martin Public Library on Wednesday from 6 to 8 on the 4th floor

3. Assembly

November 23rd from 10am to 2pm at Bennett Martin Library. We are looking for form unity and build under three broad themes: – Resource Distribution, Climate Change, Community Resilience

4. History/Theory group
There is interest among some of the people in the room in starting a reading discussion group for history and theory. We began talking about what it could look like.

5. Thankstaking
We planned out the food that we will be making. We do not want to serve traditional thanksgiving food, because that keeps up with the tradition of the terrible holiday. Ty wants to make vegan curry.

6. Winter Calendar

December
1. Community Discussion – Self-advocacy with your doctor – Marc
Saturday the 7th at 1 to 3pm
3. Movie Night: The Living End (1992) – Ty n Marc
Friday the 13th from 7 to 10pm
4. Love Your Library: Haymarket Press – Jackson
Saturday the 14th from 1 to 3pm
5. Solstice Fire pit
Saturday the 21st at sundown

January
1. The Reality of Climate Change in Nebraska (Community Discussion)
Saturday January 11th from 1 to 3pm
2. Counter-protest for Walk for Life!!!!
Saturday Jaunary 18th at 10am at the Capitol
3. Sci-Fi dystopian movie: Young Ones. It’s about a world with no water.
Friday January 24th from 7 to 10pm
4. No Permission Needed: A Mutual Aid Discussion and Screening
Friday January 31st from 7 to 10pm

February

1. Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference Reading Discussion
Saturday, February 8th from 1 to 3pm
2. Love Your Library – Black History Month
Saturday, February 15th from 1 to 3pm
3. The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 Movie Screening
Friday, February 21st from 7 to 10pm
4. Know Your Rights Training – Will and Brandon
Saturday, February 29th from 1 to 3pm

meeting adjourned 8:48

In attendance: Jackson (moderator), Brandon, Will, Wyatt, Bailey (secretary)

Start Time – 7:20 PM

1. Event Review

Seize the Power Tools – productive, lots of fun, small turnout but would like to do Parts 2 and 3

2. Upcoming Events

Halloween Party – Thursday night, Candyman at 7 pm

3. November Events

Inhabit Reading – Will is going to bring copies of text and lead discussion; event is now posted on Facebook and website!

Facebook Events for other November BC events – Wyatt will post FB event for Skins tomorrow; fundraiser dinner to be posted next week.

Free School Calendar/Update

November – Seize the Power Tools Part 2 (November 9th 3:30-5:30 pm), Gardening Day (November 3rd – 11:00 am – 3:00 pm)
December – ??

Winter Black Cat Calendar

December/Medical
Community Discussion – Self-advocacy with your doctor
World AIDS Day movie? (The Living End – revisit next week??)
Herbalism workshop? (Free School?)
Know Your Rights training?
Autonomous EMS?
Love Your Library: Haymarket Press
Solstice Event – firepit?

January/Climate Change
Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Screening/Discussion – Episode 7 of Trouble, invite Dandelion Network
to do a presentation on mutual aid projects in Nebraska (so far/in future)
Climate Change: Myth vs. Reality in Nebraska (Bailey)
Sci-Fi dystopian movie – Star Trek? “The Inner Light”
Counter-protest for Walk for Life!!!! Jaunary 18, 2020!

February/Free Love/Romance/Sexual
Potential reading discussion – Audre Lorde or Friendship as Form of Life
Recap of #MeToo? Legacy of? (Marc collab with Tyler?)
Free love documentary?
Event on restorative justice?
Polyamory?

Meeting adjourned 8:40 PM

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

1. Event Reviews – Gardening Day was Saturday-before-last, and it went well. Folks learned a lot, and we got a lot of work done! We had a Ferguson documentary here last Monday. We had a good time; Jackson will pass along a thank-you email to the organizers. Our Standing Rock discussion was on Saturday. It attracted a lot of veteran water protectors and was a very practical meeting. And we just came back from our Columbus Day protest. It was a good time, but we should probably make new signs for next year.

2. Upcoming Events – Smoke Signals movie night is this Friday. We’re ready for it! Bailey reports that the next Free School class is this Wednesday at UNL; it’s an intro to computer programming. Bailey also says she’s currently looking for volunteers to run November classes.

3. Halloween Party – It’s coming up at the end of the month. Marc will draft our Facebook event, since we have not promoted it online yet.

4. Facebook – Ty will be adding Bailey, Brandon, and Will to admin status so they can be more engaged with our social media page.

5. Assembly – Will is working on bringing people in the Lincoln left community together. We are intrigued, and looking forward to participating in it.

6. Rojava Solidarity – There is some talk of a possible “World Resistance Day” sometime in November. We’re brainstorming for ways to commemorate it, if it goes down. We’ve agreed to add the BCH to the list of “endorsements” for the Call to Action: Solidarity With Rojava.

7. Winter Calendar –

Monthly themes:

December/Medical
Community Discussion – Self-advocacy with your doctor
World AIDS Day movie?
Herbalism workshop? (Free School?)
Know Your Rights training?
Autonomous EMS?
Love Your Library: Haymarket Press

January/Climate Change
Will might know folks to run an event here that would be relevant to this theme
Climate Change: Myth vs. Reality with Bailey
Sci-Fi dystopian movie?
Star Trek? “The Inner Light”

February/Free Love/Romance/Sexual
Reading Discussion? Will has ideas…
Recap of #MeToo? Legacy of? (Marc collab with Tyler?)
Free love documentary?
Polyamory?

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), procedure for posting things on Facebook (when do we allow it)

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

Start time:  7:17 PM

1. Event Review

Jackson was the only Black Cat in attendance. There were several other people as well. There were a few new attendees. Perhaps we should be more careful about picking movies that are readily available.

2. Upcoming Events

Gardening day is this Saturday. We will meet at Black Cat House, then go to the two other spots. There will be a potluck at the third place. The event page will get spread around so that people know about it. The Ferguson movie is being screened on Monday. We are still figuring out where they will sleep, but they are not too picky so it should be fine. There was some discussion of how to get more people to show up for anti-Columbus day.

3. Free School Update

The free school calendar is ready to start in October. Details were confirmed with Wyatt and Marc for their classes: Research for Writers – Marc, October 9th Seize the Power Tools – Wyatt, October 24th

4. Winter Calendar

Opportunity to do Know Your Rights trainings with help from people in Atlanta World AIDS day is a good time to do an event. We should base something off of that. We can also include a more medicine theme to the month of December. Would also include: Herbalism Citizen Doctors How to get the care you need from your doctors Autonomous emergency medical support January could be climate change month February could be a month of love: Consent, Free love, and other topics

5. Next Week’s Meeting Cancelled

Our normal meeting time next week (October 7th) is exactly when we have a movie screening planned. As a result, the meeting is cancelled and we will next meet on October 14th after the Columbus Day protest.

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), procedure for posting things on Facebook (when do we allow it)

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)

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)