In attendance: Ashley (moderator), Jackson (moderator), Tati (secretary)
Start time: 7:00 PM

1. Event Review: The BDS did not have as much turn out as we expected, but it was still a very moving event. We’ll be doing a similar event in the fall calendar, and Ashley will make a flier for it. The movie night went awesome! It seems like our science fiction showings have been doing really well. It didn’t illicit much of a discussion, so it might not be worth repeating in upcoming years.

2. Upcoming Events: What are… Animal Rights? is on its way! Brian’s been bringing it up to his animal rights activist contacts, and we need to read up on talking points. We will also have vegan snacks. We also had a request from Sammi to be Skyped in, so we’ll facilitate that.

3. Zine Drop: We have a ton of zines concerning Columbus and why Columbus Day shouldn’t be celebrated. Ashley thinks we should leave them at locations along with our regular fliers in order to educate people on the issue. We think that’s a solid plan.

4. Wholesale Buttons: We didn’t establish a price for when we sell buttons in bulk to other organizations in town. We think 50 cents a button, for an order of 10 buttons or more would be reasonable. We also discussed selling them online and what the prices will be for that, but we decided to table that discussion for now.

5. Calendar Revision: On the current list of events for the next calendar, it says “Anti-Columbus Day Protest.” This is inconsistent with how we usually have it, as “Abolish Columbus Day Protest.” Ashley will be revising this in the past minutes.

6. Pasta Feed: The Lincoln Secular Humanists are having their Pastafarian Pasta Feed Fundraiser on September 4th, at 6 pm, co-sponsored by the Lincoln Atheists. It will be by suggested donation. We’ll prepare spaghetti, fettuccine, and whole-wheat penne, have alfredo and marinara sauce, and both veggie and meat mix-ins to the sauce. We’ll have garlic bread as a side and cupcakes as a dessert. We’ll ask other people if they’d like to bring sides and desserts as well. Tati will ask around his family for additional pots and serving bowls. Ashley will acquire crock pots to keep the sauce heated.

7. Library: Since updating the website has been delayed, we’ll be resuming adding books to the library database.

Meeting adjourned: 7:43 PM

Tabled: Speaker stipend, Networking, Website, Buttons

In attendance: Ashley (moderator), Jackson (secretary), Tati (moderator)
Start time: 7:00 PM

1. Upcoming Events – We are hosting a BDS discussion on Thursday. All that Charles needed from us was a projector, which we have. We’re also showing Godzilla on Saturday night. No problems there, either.

2. Reimbursement/Website – Fatcow has renewed our hosting for another year, and Jackson needs reimbursement for $148.36. We’ll be on their hosting for another year. Jackson also sought, and received, reimbursement for $1.07 for printing button papers last week.

3. Calendar correction – Ashley forgot to add the letter-writing to prisoners event to the calendar last week. Here’s the updated schedule:

Lincoln Secular Humanists Pastafarian Pasta Feed Fundraiser Sept 4th @6
Lincoln Secular Humanists Meeting Sept 11 @7
What is… the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict? Sept 13th @7
Writing Letters to Political Prisoners Sept 16th @3-6
Trekkies for Humanism: “Who Watches the Watchers” (TNG) Sept 19th @7

Abolish Columbus Day Protest (16th and O) Oct 13th @5
Zine Making Workshop Oct 18th @2
Trekkies for Humanism: “Catspaw” (TOS) Oct 24th @7

Movie Night: (A)sexual – Nov 8th @7
Trekkies For Humanism: “Critical Care” (VOY) Nov 14th @7
How to Organize Protests Nov 15 @1
Writing Letters to Political Prisoners Nov 18 @3-6

4. Books – We spent some time looking at books that have been offered to the lending library.

Meeting adjourned: 7:20 PM

In attendance: Ashley (secretary), Jackson (moderator), Phoebe, Sammi, Tati (moderator)
Start: 7:00

1. Event review: the feminist discussion group went well, even through the turn out was a bit low because Ashley didn’t get the event up soon enough.

2. Button: Ashley made some designs for buttons, anarchy flags and identity flags. We look at the rough designs, and agree to do a test batch. Ashley will send those to Jackson this week. We also decide that we’ll sell our buttons for $1. Sammi also drew some ideas for BCH buttons, Ashley will see if she can make them into buttons.

3. Beehive Collective: Tyler sent us another email, giving more details about the event. He’s making progress getting things ready at UNL, and he’s decided how the events are going to look. He’s wanting to do a brainstorming session here on Friday, and then do the actual graphics making the next. He sent us some questions to ponder before the event.

Are there currently existing, ongoing, or proposed public art projects
in Lincoln? (not necessarily “official,” just publicly viewable)

Are there issues/campaigns/events that you/your group could use graphics
for?

Are there issues in your community that are very multi-faceted?
something that would benefit from diverse perspectives coming into
conversation?

Do you have graphics/flyers/logos/whatever that could benefit from a
group rethinking and redesigning them?

Does your space allow for hands-on art-making mess? ie screen-printing,
stencil-making, or other stuff that may leave behind stains, plus we
also will need multiple tables and big sink, etc

4. Calendar: Ashley talked the collective into letting her organize a zine-making workshop.

Lincoln Secular Humanists Pastafarian Pasta Feed Fundraiser Sept 4th @6
Lincoln Secular Humanists Meeting Sept 11 @7
What is… the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict? Sept 13th @7
Trekkies for Humanism: “Who Watches the Watchers” (TNG) Sept 19th @7

Anti-Columbus Day Protest (16th and O) Oct 13th @5
Zine Making Workshop Oct 18th @2
Trekkies for Humanism: “Catspaw” (TOS) Oct 24th @7

Movie Night: (A)sexual – Nov 8th @7
Trekkies For Humanism: “Critical Care” (VOY) Nov 14th @7
How to Organize Protests Nov 15 @1

Jackson wants to add an off-calendar Trekkies for August, Enterprise’s “Stigma”. We’ll do it on the 22nd.

End Time: 7:58