There was no meeting tonight, but our Star Trek showing on Friday, December 13 at 7 PM and then the Winslow’s Wardrobe pop-up on Saturday, December 14 from 1-3 PM!

In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Salem

Start time: 7:15 PM

1. Winter Calendar – Finishing touches: Movie Night: Zapatista will be on January 10th. We will be going ahead with the LGBTQ Outlook (Co-hosted with OutNebraska) on January 25th. Jackson exchanged a few emails with Aryn, and that date was confirmed earlier this afternoon.

Matt is out of town this week; Jackson will check with Marc to see if he can finish the calendar draft that Matt started.

December
Saturday, December 7th, 1-3 PM: Being Prepared for Trump (a reading discussion)
Friday, December 13th, 7-10 PM: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Past Tense Parts I and II Saturday, December 14th, 1-3 PM: Winslow’s Wardrobe

January
Friday, January 10th, 7-10 PM: Movie Night: Zapatista (1999)
Saturday, January 25th, 1-3 PM: LGBTQ Outlook (co-hosted with OutNebraska)

February
Saturday, February 1st, 10 AM-Noon: Walk For Life Counter-Protest (@ the State Capitol)
Saturday, February 8th, 1-3 PM: Deconstructing the Valentine’s Day Gift (a community discussion)
Friday, February 21st, 7-10 PM: Movie Night: Free Angela and All Political Prisoners

Meeting adjourn: 7:40 PM

In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Matt, Morgan, Salem, Shade

Start time: 7:10 PM

1. Event Review – We brought back our “How to Talk to Your Racist Uncle” workshop/discussion on Saturday. It didn’t have the same turnout that it did last year, which is especially disappointing given the overall increase in our attendance since the election. We did still meet one new person, who seemed to enjoy the discussion here.

2. Winter Calendar – We just need to finalize our January discussion topic and dates for it and the January movie. We will continue this on the Discord and hopefully get these done this week, especially since Matt will be unable to work on them next week.

December
Saturday, December 7th, 1-3 PM: Being Prepared for Trump (a reading discussion)
Friday, December 13th, 7-10 PM: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Past Tense Parts I and II
Saturday, December 14th, 1-3 PM: Winslow’s Wardrobe

January
Saturday, Date TBA, 1-3 PM: LGBTQ Outlook (if OutNebraska is available/interested) OR What is Mutual Aid? OR What is Anarchism?
Friday, Date TBA, 7-10 PM: Movie Night: Zapatista (1999)

February
Saturday, February 1st, 10 AM-Noon: Walk For Life Counter-Protest (@ the State Capitol)
Saturday, February 8th, 1-3 PM: Deconstructing the Valentine’s Day Gift (a community discussion)
Friday, February 21st, 7-10 PM: Movie Night: Free Angela and All Political Prisoners

Meeting adjourned: 8:20 PM

In attendance: Andy, Jackson (secretary), Salem

Start time: 7:10 PM

1. Event Reviews – We had two events this past weekend. We had our movie night for Transexual Menace on Friday night. We had a good discussion, and met some new friends and old friends that we hadn’t seen in a long time. We also had our “Now What?” discussion on Saturday afternoon, which was organized on a couple of days’ notice last week, to give our community space to come in and process the return of Trump after our recent elections. We drew several new people in for that discussion, and we went on strong for 3 1/2 hours!

2. Upcoming Event – We’re bringing back our workshop on “Talking to Your Racist Uncle” in time for the holidays. We think it will resonate with our community especially given the aftermath of our recent election. Jackson will get online advertising going for it, as we have materials from doing it last year which should be easily repurposed.

3. Winter Calendar

December
Saturday, December 7th, 1-3 PM: Being Prepared for Trump (a reading discussion)
Saturday, December 14th, 1-3 PM: Winslow’s Wardrobe
Friday, Date TBA, 7-10 PM: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Past Tense [Part I and II]

January
Friday, Date TBA, 7-10 PM: A documentary about the Zapatistas
Saturday, January 31st, 10 AM-Noon: Walk For Life Counter-Protest (@ the State Capitol)

February Movie Ideas: Rebel Ridge (if still available), Free Angela! documentary, something else to commemorate Black History Month

Odds and Ends:
Something critical of Valentine’s Day in February (Salem)
LGBTQ Outlook (Matt; seek collaboration with OutNebraska?)
Intro to Mutual Aid (Matt)
Something to encourage new activists: How to Get Involved / “Activism Fair” (Jackson)
Salem might be able to get us a digital discussion/presentation from a semi-famous hacktivist
Andy likes the work of psychologist Jeremy E. Sherman

Meeting adjourned: 8:20 PM

No attendance for the weekly meeting today.

In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Salem

Start time: 7:05 PM

1. Event Reviews – We’ve had two events since our last formal meeting. We had our They Live movie night about a week and a half ago. Jackson says that the turnout was low, but the folks there had a good time. We also had our latest edition of “Can We Vote Our Way Out of This Mess?” this past Saturday. We had an interesting mix of people, and Salem thinks the discussion was civil and informative.

2. Winter Calendar – Winslow’s Wardrobe has asked about doing their distro here on December 14th. Jackson will reach out to them to confirm that date, as it seems to work for us. Jackson remembered that we had a post-election discussion here in 2016 after Trump won. If Trump wins again, we may need to revisit that. Salem had some thoughts about doing something critical of Valentine’s Day.

Notes from Previous Discussions:

LGBTQ Outlook?
Mutual Aid 101?

December
Winslow’s Wardrobe
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Past Tense [Part I and II]

January
Movie about Zapatistas?
Walk For Life Counter-Protest – January 31st

February
Movie Ideas: Rebel Ridge (if still available), Free Angela! documentary

Meeting adjourned: 7:45 PM

No meeting today, just open hours.

There was not enough attendance to hold a meeting today.

We didn’t have enough people present to have a meeting tonight.

In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Matt, Salem

Start time: 7:20 PM

1. Event Review – We had our garden open house yesterday as part of Lincoln TRUE. It was a long afternoon on a hot day, but we got to meet several other people that are doing similar things with their yards and/or looking for inspiration in our yard for things they might also try. It was a good opportunity for cross-pollination, and there may have been a couple of folks that we may see again down the line at other Black Cat events.

2. Winter Calendar – Jackson thinks a January movie night about the Zapatistas (anniversary of their first uprising is Jan 1st) would be good, but most films are from 1990s and may be somewhat outdated

Matt found La Montaña online – a 2023 documentary about a Zapatista delegation traveling to Europe; very interesting, but might be very hard to track down

From previous meetings:
LGBTQ Outlook?
Mutual Aid 101?

December
Winslow’s Wardrobe
(Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Past Tense [Part I and II])

January
Movie about Zapatistas?
Walk For Life Counter-Protest – January 31st

February
Movie Ideas: Rebel Ridge (if still available), Free Angela! documentary

Meeting adjourned: 7:55 PM