In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Marc, Matt, Salem, Ty
Start time: 7:20 PM

1. Library Donation – Marc found us an anthology about disabled women. As our current disability offerings are pretty meager, this is a welcome addition.
2. August Movie – We still need to get online advertisements up for our Hail Satan movie night! Rae offered a very rough draft on the Discord, but she was understandably busy with getting ready to move away. Matt has seen the movie, and volunteers to work on the next draft.
3. Website Update – Marc has updated the little box on our homepage to suggest visitors check out some of the new stuff on our website.
4. Listserv – Marc is drafting our August listserv update. We want to send that out at least a week before our next event, which only gives us a few days.
5. Fall Calendar

Saturday, September 9th, 1-3 PM: Fast Fashion’s Impact on Climate Change (a reading discussion)

Saturday, October 7th, 1-3 PM: American Health Care: A Horror Story (community discussion) for October

Monday, October 9th, Time TBD: Anti-Columbus Day Protest

TBD: Movie Night: The Young Karl Marx

Possible Coco Movie Night on November 3rd if we do it

Probable November discussion date will be on the 18th because of Husker schedule

No movies on October 6th or November 24th

Meeting adjourned: 8:45 PM

In attendance: Alex, Jackson (secretary), Matt, Rae, Ty
Start time: 7:10 PM

1. Event Review – We hosted Rae’s workshop on conflict transformation on Tuesday night. We had a great turnout, and our guests seemed highly engaged with the material. We think it was an endorsement of both the subject matter and the interactive workshop format. There was enthusiasm for more of these workshops, but we’re not sure if and when we’ll be able to follow up with Rae leaving Lincoln soon.
2. Library Donation – Rae brought us a book about climate change myths. We’ll add it to our library.
3. August Events – Marc has submitted a draft for our discussion on conspiracy theories. We like it. Rae will try to get us a draft for Hail Satan in the next few days.
4. Fall Calendar:

We’re enthusiastic about an open discussion on healthcare, as everyone seems to have a horror story… de facto support group?

We’re also wanting to do a climate change event, but we need to continue to workshop how we want to brand/emphasize that event. Extreme weather? Or the proposed fast fashion and/or Amazon and/or planned obsolescence as capitalism driving climate change? Ty: “Better Stuff. Slower” Salem has submitted a couple of articles about fast fashion onto our Discord.

We are strongly leaning towards doing The Young Karl Marx as a fall movie, and we also discussed the possibility of doing Coco for Dia de los Muertos.

Briefly: We will need to further discuss doing another Columbus Day protest, and Salem strongly wants to do a neighborhood clean-up as was discussed last week.

Meeting adjourned: 8:40 PM

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

1. Upcoming Event – We’re hosting a workshop here tomorrow night. Rae’s friend is in town now, and they will be ready to go tomorrow night!
2. Midwest Queer & Trans Zine Fest – We received some fliers for an upcoming zine fest in Minneapolis in October. We’ll help spread the word!
3. August Events – We still need to post them online ASAP!
4. Fall Calendar Brainstorming – Salem still wants to do a neighborhood clean-up. Should we do an event on climate change? Reading discussion on climate impact of fast fashion? Salem might be able to find an article… A defense of Marx? “Was Marx Right?” community discussion? A screening of the Young Karl Marx? Maybe an open discussion on health care?

Meeting adjourned: 8:30 PM

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

1. July Event – Our workshop is a week from tomorrow. Rae reports that she and her friend are ready for the event. Jackson added some suggested language to the comments section of the Facebook that our attendees may benefit from bringing a notebook to the event. We’re not sure what to expect for the event turnout, but there are pros and cons to both a smaller group and a bigger one.
2. August Events – We need to get cracking on drafting our advertisements for the right-wing cults discussion and the Hail Satan documentary. Ty will try to draft a description for the discussion, and Rae will work on the draft for the documentary. Jackson will start shopping around for a DVD copy of Hail Satan.
3. Button Parts – We need more. Jackson will be ordering more for us soon. It may be a good idea to buy some extra mylar tops for the buttons with the next batch, because we have a tendency of running out of those before the metal bottom bits.
4. Space Accessibility/Concerns – We need to do a little bit of cleaning and moving before our next public event next week. The library cart in particular will need to be moved a bit back in case we need to get a wheelchair into the space. We also discussed possibilities for getting some blackout curtains installed.

Meeting adjourned: 8:10 PM

In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Marc, Rae, Salem
Start time: 7:20 PM

1. Event Review – We were small on turnout, but had a really good discussion with some very engaged visitors. The article was a bit thinner on content than most of our previous readings, but it was still adequate to get the discussion started.
2. Newsletter – Marc is making progress on getting our newsletter back online. He reports that RiseUp isn’t the most powerful or user-friendly, but he’s getting stuff done. He may even have something distributed this week!
3. Next week’s meeting canceled – Jackson will be out of state, and several of our other people will be unavailable next week. We have decided to cancel the July 3rd meeting.
4. Reimbursements – We had to catch up on some old financial business. Ty will be reimbursed $8.57 for some printing related to our Earth Day tabling back in April. Ty is also reimbursed $147 for picking up pizza and cupcakes for our 10th anniversary party on June 1st. Finally, Ty will also be reimbursed $83.87 for picking up a bunch of printing related to our booth at Star City Pride.

Meeting adjourned: 8:35 PM

In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Rae
Start time: 7:20 PM

1. Upcoming Event – We have a reading discussion on Saturday. We should have enough readings for the event, if we can find them. Rae says she can get more copies for us if we let her know by Thursday. Jackson will be straightening up the room over the next few days.
2. July Event – We took some time to preview a draft for our July event. Jackson thinks it looks good, aside from a few minor grammatical issues. Rae is still waiting on her collaborator to fill in a few biographical details. It should be online soon.
3. Pride Event – Some local folks are doing an alternate Pride event this Saturday afternoon, and it’s even right after our trans safety discussion. We probably don’t have enough materials to do a formal table, nor do we likely have time or energy to prepare them in time for Saturday. But it will probably be a good community event, and we should probably make an appearance there.

Meeting adjourned: 8:10 PM

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

1. Event Review – Our yard sale fundraiser was last weekend. Jackson reports that we currently have $1116.59, with a handful of IOUs left to collect and a few items that he will be listing online. Jackson thinks that our crowd was smaller than in the last couple of years, possibly because of our late scheduling putting this sale on Memorial Day weekend. It would be more ideal to do this earlier next year.
2. Upcoming Event – Our 10th Anniversary celebration is this Thursday night! The event is now up online. We have advertised pizza, but this may be somewhat complicated as some of our friends (including Salem) are vegan. We will have to settle some of these details on the Discord chat. Jackson will have the room cleaned up of yard sale leftovers by Thursday.
3. Summer calendar distro – Progress on this is unclear as none of the people who volunteered to distribute last week are here tonight to report back. TABLED.
4. Tabling at Star City Pride/Reimbursement – Ty and Marc continue to take the lead on organizing our upcoming tabling at Star City Pride. We’re still trying to work out some of the specifics as far as who will staff the table and when. Salem may be available to help Ty set up on Friday, since he still needs a second set of hands and Marc has a work conflict. We will also be printing some stickers, and have “pre-imbursed” Marc $152.19 to get those printed in time for Pride.

Meeting adjourned: 7:35 PM

Tabled: summer calendar distro

In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Marc, Ty
Start time: 7:15 PM

1. Summer Calendar – Our summer calendar is ready and going to the printer this week! Jackson will pick them up. We will be printing a lot more handbills than usual between our yard sale and tabling at Star City Pride.
2. Yard Sale Prep – We spent the remainder of the meeting preparing for the yard sale but pricing and sorting a few of our early donations already on hand.

Meeting adjourned: 8:30 PM