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

1. Upcoming Event – We’re showing 10,000 Black Men Named George. We’re ready for it.
2. Spring Calendar – (Notes from last week:)

Yard sale fundraiser?
Matt wonders if there’s a good documentary about Cesar Chavez

March
Something feminist?

Discussion about the state of abortion rights?

April
Something ecological?

Garden Day? We’re interested! Jackson needs to follow up with Wyatt and a representative of a local group that may be interested in collaborating
Lincoln Earth Day is April 20th — we think we want to table again! Ty will take point on getting us signed up. Salem may make some kind of display about reducing plastic waste.

May
Something working class/labor?
“I Fucking Hate Amazon”

Possible March Movie: Stepford Wives (maybe leaning towards ’70s version)

Meeting adjourned: 8:15 PM

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

1. Event Review – We counter-protested the Walk For Life again on Saturday. Jackson reports that we had one of the smallest turnouts we’ve ever had for it, which is a great concern especially given the political climate. Jackson thinks we need to find some allies and try to grow future versions of the event as more of a coalition-driven event.
2. Library Donation – Marc (via Ty) has offered our library a book about 20th century labor history. We’re happy to take it.
3. Reimbursement – Jackson paid $35.99 to get one of our website domains renewed. He will be reimbursed.
4. February Discussion – We still need to get advertising online about our February discussion about racism. Jackson hasn’t had time and focus to draft anything yet, but neither Matt nor Ty feel comfortable doing it. Jackson will continue trying to find space to work on this.
5. Instagram – We are exploring the possibilities of expanding into Instagram. We actually have a very old account started by an ex-member, and we will see if we can get access to it.
6. Spring Calendar –

Yard sale fundraiser?
Matt wonders if there’s a good documentary about Cesar Chavez

March
Something feminist?

Discussion about the state of abortion rights?

April
Something ecological?

Garden Day? We’re interested! Jackson needs to follow up with Wyatt and a representative of a local group that may be interested in collaborating
Lincoln Earth Day is April 20th — we think we want to table again! Ty will take point on getting us signed up. Salem may make some kind of display about reducing plastic waste.

May
Something working class/labor?
“I Fucking Hate Amazon”

Meeting adjourned: 8:30 PM

In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Matt
Start time: 7:07 PM

1. Event Review – We had a movie night for Space Sweepers on Friday night. Our turnout was just a couple of Black Cats, probably because of the extreme cold. That was unfortunate, since it was a good film.
2. Upcoming Event – We’re counter-protesting the Walk for Life again this Saturday. We’re hoping for a better turnout than last year, but it seems we will not be offering childcare or a sign-making party.
3. February Events – We need to get blurbs drafted so we can start advertising our February movie and discussion!
4. Spring Calendar –

Yard sale fundraiser?

March
Something feminist?

Discussion about the state of abortion rights?

April
Something ecological?

Garden Day? (Jackson has heard a local group may want to collaborate with us on that)
Lincoln Earth Day is April 20th, if we want to table

May
Something working class/labor?

5. Meeting day – Matt reminds us that we had some brief discussion of shifting the meeting day from Monday to Tuesday. He wants to revisit the matter soon when the group is all present.

Meeting adjourned: 8:12 PM

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

1. Event Review – We had our Labor Wins discussion. Despite horrendous weather that probably scared people away, a couple of our hardcore friends still showed up and we had a nice discussion.
2. Upcoming Event – We have a movie this Friday! We’re ready for it.
3. Walk For Life Counter-Protest – Jackson reports that there has been no activity on the Facebook page. We would still like to offer childchare options at the House, but we have no leads on someone we know and trust who could be here to do that.

Meeting adjourned: 7:27 PM

In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Matt, Ty

Start time: 7:00 PM

We spent this meeting completing drafts for our January events.

Meeting adjourned: 7:45 PM

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

1. Upcoming Events – We have two events this weekend! We have our Killing Gaza movie on Friday night, and we are hosting the clothing giveaway from Winslow’s Wardrobe here on Saturday. We are going to have to hustle to get the word out, but the space will be ready for the events.
2. Winter Calendar – We are hoping to get them printed in the next few days and then we’ll be hustling hard to distribute them. We are waiting right now on Matt’s handbill design, but we are hoping to start putting up our propaganda around town by mid-week. We also need to get the Christmas discussion event up online ASAP!

Meeting adjourned: 7:30 PM

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

1. December Events – We need to get our first couple of December events up this week! Jackson will work on the Killing Gaza movie night, and Ty will tackle the Winslow’s Wardrobe Clothing Giveaway.
2. Winter Calendar – We finalized it! Hopefully we can get them printed this week!

Friday, December 8th, 7-10 PM: Movie Night: Killing Gaza
Documentary about Israel’s human rights abuses in Palestine

Saturday, December 9th, 1-3 PM: Winslow’s Wardrobe Clothing Giveaway
Community group giving away free gender-affirming clothing

Saturday, December 16th, 1-3 PM: Christmas’s War on Us (a community discussion)
How the holiday exploits with consumerist and Christian Right propaganda

Saturday, January 13th, 1-3 PM: Last Year’s Labor Wins (a community discussion)
What working people won in 2023, and what we learned

Friday, January 19th, 7-10 PM: Movie Night: Space Sweepers
Korean sci-fi film criticizing capitalism

Saturday, January 27th, 10 AM: Counter–Protesting the Anti-Choice “Walk For Life”
Meet at the North side of the Nebraska State Capitol

Friday, February 9th, 7-10 PM: Movie Night: 10,000 Black Men Named George
Movie about unionizing Black railroad workers in the 1920s

Saturday, February 17th, 1-3 PM: Why is Everything Racist? (a community discussion)
Examining White supremacy as a foundational value in U.S. history

(Leave Black Musicians and Liberation off the calendar)

Meeting adjourned: 8:30 PM

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

1. Event Review – We had our “Difficult Conversations With Your Bigoted Uncle” workshop/discussion on Saturday. We had a nice turnout of old and new friends; the latter came and visited with us after they met us at the Pride booth and were reminded of the event by our email newsletter. It was a timely discussion that seemed to have everyone engaged. Could it be worth revisiting this event concept again?
2. Winter Calendar – Matt has provided a draft of our winter calendar to the group Discord server. We are offering our corrections and adjustments there. It looks like we are on for Space Sweepers for our January movie. We have no other updates right now.

Meeting adjourned: 7:45 PM

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

1. Event Reviews – We have hosted two events since our last meeting: the Coco movie night and the community clean-up. Both were poorly attended. We need to do a better job of getting the word out. Salem recommends getting to our friends and family.
2. Upcoming Event – Our workshop on “Difficult Conversations With Your Bigoted Uncle” is this Saturday. It’s picked up a little bit of buzz on social media, and it might be a popular event. We have a couple of friends that we should try to specifically invite as we feel they have something to contribute.
3. Library Donations – We took some time to catch up with a bunch of donations and see which ones were appropriate for our library.
4. Winter 2023/2024 Calendar

Friday, December 8th, 7-10 PM: Movie Night: Killing Gaza
Saturday, December 9th, 1-3 PM: Winslow’s Wardrobe Clothing Giveaway? (hammer out a title!)
Saturday, December 16th, 1-3 PM: Christmas’s War on Us (a community discussion)

Saturday, January 13th, 1-3 PM: 2023 labor wins (community discussion)
Friday, January 19th, 7-10 PM: Space Sweepers (if available…)
Saturday, January 27th, 10 AM: Counter–protesting the Walk For Life (at Nebraska State Capitol)

Friday, February 9th, 7-10 PM: Movie Night: Black History Month (10,000 Black Men Named George OR The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation)
Saturday, February 17th, 1-3 PM: Everything is racist / White supremacy as a foundational value in U.S. history (community discussion)
February TBD: Black Musicians and Liberation?

Meeting adjourned: 8:30 PM

Jackson was all by himself tonight. We’ll try again next week.