In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Ty (moderator)
Start time: 7:03 PM
1. Reimbursement – Jackson finally found a replacement keyboard for our damaged collective laptop. It cost him $37.39, and we agree to reimburse him for it.
2. Work time – We finished adding our September events to Facebook and our website.
Meeting adjourned: 7:40 PM
In Attendance: Jackson (secretary), Ju Ping, Ty (moderator)
Start time: 7:00 PM
1. Fall Calendar:
Our calendar is finalized! Ty will get them printed and distributed on Wednesday!
September
Friday the 9th: Movie Night: Dr. Strangelove
Friday the 16th: Movie Night: Just Do It
Saturday the 24th: Liberate Your Computer! An Open House Ubuntu Workshop
October
Saturday the 8th: Movie Night: Joe Hill
Monday the 10th: Protest Against Columbus Day
Saturday the 15th: Capitalism and Debt: A Community Discussion
November
Saturday the 5th: Can We Vote Our Way Out of This Mess? A Community Discussion
Friday the 18th: Movie Night: Ma Vie en Rose
2. Meeting Moderation
Ty did a bit of research on the subject, and we discussed the findings. Major tips included: appointing a facilitator, emphasizing the “step up” rather than the “step back” (asking quiet people, especially those who are looking for an opening “what’s on your mind?”), democratically preparing an agenda at the beginning of the meeting (“what were you hoping to discuss when you decided to come to this event?”; possibly encouraging off-topicish suggestions to be scheduled at later discussions), and prioritizing making everyone comfortable enough to contribute at any discussion.
Meeting Adjourned: 8:20 PM
Tabled items: Stuff to buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, longarm stapler, paper cutter)
Reminders: “Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?” for Winter Calendar
In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Ju Ping, Ty (moderator)
Start time: 7:00 PM
1. Upcoming Event – We’re showing Godzilla this Saturday. We’re ready for it.
2. Book – We’ve been offered a free book for supporting the Antifa fundraiser a few weeks ago. We’ve emailed them to accept the offer.
3. Fall Calendar –
Tenative schedule:
September
Friday the 9th: Movie Night: Dr. Strangelove
Friday the 16th: Movie Night: Just Do It
Saturday the 24th: Liberate Your Computer (An Open House/Workshop to Install Ubuntu)
October
Saturday the 8th: Movie Night: Joe Hill
Monday the 10th: Indigenous People’s Day/Protest Against Columbus Day
Saturday the 15: Discussion on debt
November
Saturday the 5th: Electoral Politics
Friday (preferably)/Saturday the 18th/19th: Film (preferably documentary) on queer issues
Days not to schedule events on:
September 3rd, 10th, 17th
Also out: Sunday the 4th
October 1st, 22nd
Also out: Friday the 28th
Probably not: Sunday the 9th
November 12th, 19th
Interesting anniversaries: Occupy Wall Street camp formed Sept 18th; October is LGBTQ History Month (and Asexual Awareness Week is in there somewhere too?); Joe Hill born Oct 7th; US invades Afghanistan Oct 8, 2001; Indigenous Peoples’ Day October 10th; Million Man March was on October 16th; Malcolm X released from prison Nov 4th; Berlin Wall fell Nov 9th; March on Washington to protest Vietnam War on Nov 15th; Trans Day of Remembrance Nov 20th; Buy Nothing Day is Nov 25th (also eliminating violence against women day?); Harvey Milk shot Nov 27th; International Day of Solidarity with Palestinians Nov 29th
Ideas suggested to us: electoral politics, death penalty, queer anarchism, debt
Meeting adjourned: 8:10 PM
Tabled items: Stuff to buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, longarm stapler, paper cutter), Fall Calendar, Moderation methods
Reminders: “Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?” for Winter Calendar
In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Ty (moderator)
Start time: 7:02 PM
1. Event Review – We showed Libertarias on Friday night. We enjoyed the film, and think we should do it again sometime. The turnout was disappointing, though, probably because of a feminist event also going on at The Commons at the same time and the fact that we were kind of late in promoting the event. It would’ve helped if we’d managed to track the film down sooner, too, as Ty was disturbed by some of the scenes of graphic violence and sexual violence depicted in Libertarias. He recommends that we do more to screen the films in advance to offer proper warnings in our event descriptions.
2. Upcoming Event – Our discussion on libertarian communism is this Saturday. We spent some time deciding on some of the talking points we want to be ready to make.
3. Reimbursement – Jackson made donations that the group pre-approved last week, sending $50 to the Sacramento anti-fascists and $10 to the prisoner-solidarity distro. He requests reimbursement for sending those donations, and it is agreed to. He has also been in contact with Jason about the book we decided to order last week; we’ll be arranging an in-person meeting to bypass the shipping charges.
4. Website – Jackson reports that it’s nearly time for us to renew our blackcathouse.org domain and privacy. It’ll be $27.87, and we decide to take care of it immediately. Jackson made the purchase during our meeting, and he will be reimbursed for the expense.
5. Fall Calendar –
We still need to schedule the Linux programming event that Ju Ping suggested.
Days not to schedule events on:
September 3rd, 10th, 17th
Also out: Sunday the 4th
Questionable: 23rd-24th (possible engagement for Ty with campus… that would negate our last possible Saturday for a discussion)
October 1st, 22nd
Also out: Friday the 28th
Probably not: Sunday the 9th
November 12th, 19th
Movie Ideas: Dr. Strangelove (Peter Sellers born Sept 8th),
Interesting anniversaries: Occupy Wall Street camp formed Sept 18th; October is LGBTQ History Month (and Asexual Awareness Week is in there somewhere too?); Joe Hill born Oct 7th; US invades Afghanistan Oct 8, 2001; Indigenous Peoples’ Day October 10th; Million Man March was on October 16th; Malcolm X released from prison Nov 4th; Berlin Wall fell Nov 9th; March on Washington to protest Vietnam War on Nov 15th; Trans Day of Remembrance Nov 20th; Buy Nothing Day is Nov 25th (also eliminating violence against women day?); Harvey Milk shot Nov 27th; International Day of Solidarity with Palestinians Nov 29th
Meeting adjourned: 8:12 PM
Tabled items: Stuff to buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, longarm stapler, paper cutter), Fall Calendar
In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Ty (moderator)
Late: Ju Ping
Start time: 7:00 PM
1. Zine – We received a letter with a new zine from anarchist prisoner Sean Swain.
2. Work Time – Ty added our August movie night (Godzilla) to Facebook, and added our July/August events to our website. Jackson updated the treasury.
3. Alternatives to Windows – Ju Ping would like to host a workshop here sometime in the fall to help people install Linux-based operating systems and liberate themselves from Microsoft. We’re cool with this, and we’ll continue thinking of this as we begin to build our fall calendar.
4. Contributions? – We have a very healthy treasury, and we’re going to consider donations to a couple of causes next week when we have a little more time to talk about them. Ones noted were the crowdfunding for the Sacramento anti-fascists who were attacked by white supremacists and need help with medical bills (rally.org/june26th) and the zine distro that sent us the Sean Swain zine. Tabled.
Meeting adjourned: 8:30 PM
Tabled items: Stuff to buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, longarm stapler, paper cutter), Causes to contribute to
In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Ty (moderator)
Start time: 7:01 PM
1. Event Review – We showed Free Angela and All Political Prisoners on Friday. We enjoyed the film, and the discussion afterward.
2. Upcoming Event – Our discussion, “Setting the Record… Straight?” is coming up on Saturday. It will now also be a bake-sale fundraiser to raise donations for the victims of the Pulse shooting in Orlando. Ty and a friend are going to make cupcakes.
3. July Events – We spent the remainder of the meeting adding our July events to Facebook.
Meeting adjourned: 7:40 PM
Tabled items: Stuff to buy (longarm stapler, paper cutter, canopy, hardware to secure the bike rack to the ground)
In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Ty (moderator)
Start time: 7:00 PM
1. Bike Rack – Jackson has found a decent-looking bike rack for $44.95. Ty also likes it, so we agree to buy it for the house. Jackson will be reimbursed for making this purchase.
2. Misogyny in Nerd Culture – Emilio of Social Justice Education Network is returning to Lincoln tomorrow night to give another of his talks. We’re going to promote it on our Facebook, and donate $20 from our treaury to help cover his travel expenses.
3. Website Comments – Our site’s comments are literally 100% spam, and it’s a drag having to delete everything that gets commented on our site. We decided to disable the comments.
4. Adding June Events to Facebook and Website – We spent the rest of our meeting time adding our June events to our website and Facebook pages.
Meeting adjourned: 7:30 PM
Tabled: Stuff to buy (longarm stapler, paper cutter, canopy)
In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Ty (moderator)
Start time: 7:01 PM
1. Event Review – We had our yard sale over the weekend, and we raised $597.30! We decided to put it all into our general treasury for now. We discussed the idea of buying a bike rack, a longarm stapler, a paper cutter, and a new canopy. We need to do some research on these items, and what we’ll expect to pay for them.
2. Upcoming Event – The Porchfest Fundraiser concert is this Friday! Our only homework for the event is to clean up the post-yard sale mess in the living room.
3. Summer Calendar – Ty has the files finished, and will get them printed and picked up on Wednesday. He is pre-approved for reimbursement for that expense.
Meeting adjourned: 7:22 PM
Tabled: Stuff to Buy (bike rack, longarm stapler, paper cutter, canopy)
In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Ty (moderator)
Start time: 7:00 PM
1. Earth Day – We tabled at Lincoln Earth Day. We passed out lots of goodies, we connected and re-connected with interested people, and we received $25 in donations. It was pretty successful overall. On the bad side, our canopy broke in the wind. We’ll have to think about replacing it.
2. Upcoming Events – We have a busy weekend coming up, with the Children of Men movie night on Saturday and a discussion on Fight for $15 on Sunday afternoon. We’re ready for the movie, and we’ll just have to re-arrange the chairs for the discussion on Sunday. We’ll try to read up a bit on the Fight for $15 campaign, but that’s the only preparation we think we’ll need.
3. Hipster Racism – SP CE is hosting an interesting talk on the subject of “hipster racism.” We decide we’ll officially chip in $20 from our Speakers Treasury to help with the travel costs of the speaker coming down from Omaha to give the talk.
4. Reimbursement – Ty needs to be repaid for the zine copying for Earth Day. It cost him $27.46, and we agree that he’ll be imbursed.
5. Summer Calendar –
No-schedule dates: June 25th (Heartland Pride in Omaha), Lincoln’s Star City Pride July 8-9, August 7th (PorchFest), August 19th-21st (weekend before UNL restarts classes).
Interesting dates/historical tie-ins: Tank man incident, Tianenemen Square, China (June 5th); International Day of Solidarity for anarchist prisoners (June 11th); Race Riot in Omaha (June 24th, 1969); George Orwell’s birthday, Little Bighorn (June 25th); Stonewall Riots start (June 28th); Frida Kahlo’s birthday (July 6th); Spanish Civil War starts, Eric Garner murdered (July 17th); Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (August 6th and 9th); Michael Brown murdered (August 9th);
Friday, June 10th, 7 PM – Movie Night: Free Angela and All Political Prisoners
Saturday, June 18th, 1-3 PM – Setting the Record… Straight?: The Queer Impact on Leftism (A Community Discussion)
Friday, July 15th, 7 PM – Movie Night for Spanish Civil War; Libertarias?
July discussion? TBA
Saturday, August 6th, 7PM – Movie Night to commemorate Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima; Godzilla (1954) or White Light, Black Rain?
Do we want to do an August discussion? TBD
End time: 8:20 PM
Tabled item: canopy replacement, bike rack, summer calendar
In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Ty (moderator)
Start time: 7:00 PM
1. Event Review – Saturday was pretty busy for us! We assisted with the pro-choice rally at the Capitol. We’re satisfied with our participation there. Then we had our discussion on environmental justice here, and it was ok. It was a bit hard staying on topic, as everyone in attendance had come over from the rally. But we did the best we could, under the circumstances.
2. Website – It has been recommended that Jackson should upgrade our webhosting to include the privacy service, which will reduce his chances of having his ID stolen or our site hacked. We agree that it’s worth the expense. It will cost us $12.42 to get privacy for our domains for the next year, and we agree it will be reimbursed from the treasury.
3. Bike rack – We’re thinking we should maybe invest in one for the house, to give our biking guests a secure spot to lock their bikes in our yard. Jackson will do some research on options and prices. Item tabled.
4. PorchFest Fundraiser – Our scheduled fundraiser for PorchFest is about a month away. Jackson messaged Maya to check in with her status in organizing that.
5. Summer calendar -We started brainstorming for our summer calendar.
No-schedule dates: June 25th (Heartland Pride in Omaha), August 19th-21st (weekend before UNL restarts classes). Lincoln’s Star-City Pride is not yet scheduled, as far as we can tell (but it should be sometime in July).
Interesting dates/historical tie-ins: Tank man incident, Tianenemen Square, China (June 5th); International Day of Solidarity for anarchist prisoners (June 11th); Race Riot in Omaha (June 24th, 1969); George Orwell’s birthday, Little Bighorn (June 25th); Stonewall Riots start (June 28th); Frida Kahlo’s birthday (July 6th); Spanish Civil War starts, Eric Garner murdered (July 17th); Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (August 6th and 9th); Michael Brown murdered (August 9th);
Tabled to next week.
Meeting adjourned: 8:30 PM
Tabled: Bike Rack, Summer Calendar