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

1. Event Review – We had a Fight Against Rape Culture discussion on Saturday, and it was great! Lovely turnout and everyone was engaged and got a chance to speak. We even got a request to provide notes from the discussion which are posted on the Facebook event page. All in all a great time, and the enthusiasm might be even better if we schedule it at a different time (that is, not spring break).

2. Treasury – Jackson made the yearly update, and we’re pretty good on funds! A paper cutter and a long-arm stapler are penciled down as needs. We also talked about rearranging furniture to better encourage people to take free zines, with the possibility of buying a new bookshelf in the future.

3. Tabling – TDoV tabling is basically ready, there still needs to be some pronoun button pressing but no zines need to be made before then. Before Earth Day we’ll need to print more handbills, the sooner the better. There’s also a few zines that should be printed beforehand due to projected high interest in them.

4. Events – Children of Men has been put on Facebook and the website. Due to an event scheduled on an overlapping time, we’re going to change the time for What is… Environmental Justice? to 2 to 4 PM on the same day. Ty will make edits to the calendar and do a replacement printing and flyering. We’ll keep the non-edited, already printed copies for Earth Day, since that will be after the changed event anyway so those copies don’t go to waste.

Meeting adjourned: 7:23 PM

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

1. Event Review – We showed Tangerine! It was an interesting movie and good discussion, though we did have to postpone it an hour due to the Democratic caucus. We really need to be better about keeping those things in mind.

2. Upcoming Event – Boom: The Sound of Eviction is this Saturday! We have it on DVD so setup will be super easy. Jackson is going to try and acquire speakers for the projector.

3. Emails – Joe sent us some articles regarding pro-reproductive rights events and legislation that we can share around. We also got another email from Alexandra accepting our offer to help find some speakers. So we’ll ask around our pro-choice friends to see if anyone can help her out.

4. Zines – Since a lot of zines are just sitting around and not getting sold, we sorted through to see which ones we’d like to keep and which we plan on donating to SP CE.

Meeting adjourned: 7:55 PM

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

1. Event Review – We showed The Black Power Mixtape last night. The Facebook event got a really good response, though turnout was still pretty low in comparison.

2. Spring Calendar Distro/Reimbursement – Ty got the calendars printed, for 6.99. Reimbursement is approved. He has also distributed calendars to the Haymarket area and The Coffee House. He’ll be whittling away at the list of locations they need to go up, with the goal to make sure they’re everywhere they need to be by the 29^th.

3. Library – Ty has book donations! A children’s book about transgender issues, a comic book about trans issues for the general library, a book of political labor cartoons, and a book on intersexuality. All have been accepted.

4. Email – Alexandria, an organizer of a pro-choice support walk coming up, emailed us asking for advice. We got together the information she’d need to get it set up with the city and offered to get in contact with speakers for her.

5. Lincoln Earth Day – We got an email back from the organizers of Lincoln Earth Day, saying we are eligible for the non-profit rate. We agreed to pay the $35 to get a table. We tabled talking about creating another “kid’s kit.”

6. Organizational Vision – We talked a while about how we were running the house, what we could improve as far as outreach goes, and how much we can accomplish.

Meeting adjourned: 7:57 PM

Tabled: Lincoln Earth Day, Organizational Vision (see 1/26/16 minutes)

In Attendance: Jackson (moderator), Ty (secretary)
Start time: 7:00 PM

1. Event Review – We watched Panther, and it was very enjoyable! Wish we had a bigger turnout for it though.

2. Upcoming Event – Revisiting Ferguson is coming up this Saturday. We really just need to brush up on potential talking points – some history of the movement for those who might be unfamiliar, but mostly what BLM’s current strategies are. We’d also like to tie it to Alicia Garza coming back to UNL soon.

3. Spring Calendar –

March:
March 5^th, 7 PM – 10 PM: Movie Night: Tangerine
March 12^th, 7 PM – 10 PM: Movie Night: Boom: The Sound of Eviction
March 19^th, 1 PM – 3 PM: The Fight Against Rape Culture (a community discussion)

April:
April 9^th, 7 PM – 10 PM: Movie Night: Children of Men
April 16^th, 1 PM – 3 PM: What is… Environmental Justice? (a community discussion)

May:
May 1^st, 1 PM – 3 PM: May Day Today: The Fight For $15 (a community discussion)
May 7^th, 7 PM – 10 PM: Movie Night: Chi-Raq
May 20^th, 7 PM: Concert Fundraiser for Porchfest

Meeting adjourned: 8:34 PM

Tabled: Spring Calendar, Organizational Vision (see 1/26/16 minutes), April 23^rd Lincoln Earth Day Tabling

[Note: Only one person was able to come to the usual scheduled Monday meeting – necessity required we meet on the following Tuesday instead]

In attendance: Jackson (moderator), Ty (secretary)
Start time: 6:40 PM

1. Upcoming Event – The counter-protest is at the end of this week! We have snacks and markers for the poster making party, and Ty will get some more poster boards. Morning of the protest, Jackson will get the donuts. We also have the childcare volunteers lined up. However, we spaced on asking ACLU for a legal observer, and Jackson will see if one can be lined up last minute.

2. Spring Calendar – We had a brainstorming session as far as events we wanted to fill the calendar with. Ty cannot have anything scheduled on the second Saturdays, but other than that we would like mostly Saturday events.

March: We’d like to do feminist-centered events for this month. For movie considerations, Ty brought up “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry,” “Tangerine,” and “The Girls” as possible showings. As far as discussions, we thought about rape culture and/or a historical overview of feminisms that may or may not be called “Making Waves”

April: Jackson wants to do at least one event that is environmentally focused. Animal rights is on the table, as we haven’t done something about that in a while. Ty suggested “environmental destruction as classism and racism,” using the poisoned water in Flint as an example of environmental racism in action. We also need to take into account Lincoln Earth Day as well, which is on April 23rd. TBD for a movie.

May: We wanted an anti-war film for May, and we decided to do “Sir! No Sir!” We also need something to do on May Day, which is on a Sunday this year. TBD for a discussion.

3. Graphics – Ty has a friend that has offered to help with graphic design work. We might have a few projects that we will see if he can assist with.

4. Group Organization – Ty went to the Creating Change conference, and he went to a workshop that gave organizing tips. Something he really took away from that is “defining organizational vision,” and so he’d like to go over the mission statement and our “About Us” description to make sure that 1) it reflects what we actually do and 2) it is specific about what we want to accomplish. We’re gonna table it for one of our slower meetings.

5. Black Power Mixtape – Facebook event needs to go up!

Meeting adjourned: 8:28 PM

Tabled: Spring Calendar, Organizational Vision (see 1/26/16 minutes)

In attendance: Jackson (moderator), Ty (secretary)

Start time: 7:00 PM

1) Event Review – We had LSH’s Winter Solstice Party. We got less attendance than expected. Jackson still needs to talk about Brian about reimbursement for the food and updates on the status of the LSH account.

2) Treasury – It’s been a while since we’ve had a treasury update in the minutes, so Ty inquired. Jackson said that the treasury is currently up to date in the current document for it.

3) Graphics – Ty had some ideas for buttons and patches that he wanted to pitch. But it requires a bit more graphical expertise than what either he or Jackson has. He’ll write up a request and see if we can get some interest on social media for volunteers.

4) January Events – January Facebook events need to get up! We worked on that for the rest of the time.

Meeting adjourned: 7:30 PM

In attendance: Jackson (moderator), Ty (secretary)

Start time: 7:00 PM

1. Event Review/Reimbursement: We showed No Woman, No Cry on Saturday. We had to resort to renting the movie off Amazon, which was 1.99. Ty was approved for reimbursement of this cost. While it was an interesting discussion, we probably won’t show it again. We need to be more mindful about scheduling though, because SP CE was doing an event at the same time.

2. Upcoming Event: Lincoln Secular Humanists will be having their meeting here on Thursday. Since we don’t have much on the agenda, we’ll set up the room for this event tonight.

Meeting adjourned: 7:10 PM

In attendance: Jackson (moderator), Ty (secretary)
Start time: 7:01 PM

1. Event Review – We had a few people show up for our trans rights event, and it was a very energetic discussion between the visitors and the panelists!  It was a lot of fun.

2. Button Stickers – Ty’s getting them made and printed!  We can slap them on the back of our stickers now.

3. Calendar Distribution – Downtown is done.  South Street needs to be done though.

Because we didn’t have much else to talk about, we filed books into the library for the rest of the time.

Meeting adjourned: 8:30 PM

In Attendance: Jackson (moderator), Ty (secretary)
Start time: 7:00 PM

1. Event Review: We watched Reds, but it was just us. Enjoyable film though! We need to get Facebook events up sooner.

2. Web Presence: The Tumblr has been tanked. We don’t really have the time to maintain it, and it’s not really the right medium for what we’re trying to do. Ty wants to put more focus into the Twitter account. Our Facebook posting has increased, but we haven’t really put up the engaging posts we have wanted to yet, so that still needs to be something to work on.

3. Winter Calendar:

No Woman No Cry – Saturday, December 5th, 7 PM
LSH meeting – Thursday, December 10th, 7 PM
Winter Solstice Party – Saturday, December 19th, 6 PM

What is… Communism? – Saturday, January 9th, 1-3 PM
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country – Saturday, January 16th, 7 PM
Counter-Protest Against The Anti-Choice “Walk For Life” – Saturday, January 30th, 10 AM, north side of the Nebraska State Capitol

Movie Night: Panther – Saturday, February 6th, 7 PM
Revisiting Ferguson: Where’s #BlackLivesMatter Now? (A Community Discussion) – Saturday, February 13th, 1-3 PM
Movie Night: Black Power Mixtape – Sunday, February 21st, 7 PM

Ty will whip up a calendar plus handbills, to be finished by the 17th at the latest.

Meeting adjourned: 7:59 PM

In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Ty (moderator)
Start time: 7:02 PM

1. Upcoming Event:  The Great Swamps will be playing here on Wednesday at 7 PM.  We emailed them and asked whether they had any food preferences while they are here, and Jackson will put up a last minute flier at his work.

2. Police Brutality Event: Alicia and Devin came to our meeting and told us what they could about their story.  We gave them all the resources and names we had available as far as people who could potentially help them organize an event of the caliber they are thinking of.

3. Winter Calendar:

No Woman No Cry – Saturday, Dec 5th, 7PM
LSH meeting – Thursday, Dec 10th, 7PM
Winter Solstice Party (maybe?) – Friday the 18th or Saturday the 19th of December

Revisiting Ferguson: Where’s #BlackLivesMatter Now? – February

Potential movies:
Che (Part 1) (Jan), Ma Vie en Rose (Jan), Panther (1995 film; Feb), Black Power Mixtape (Feb), Angola 3 (Feb)

Meeting adjourned: 8:20 PM