In Attendance: Jackson, Jim, Marc (secretary)
Meeting Start: like 7:15

Event Review: Poster-Making Party for Trans Day of Visibility + Reimbursement

• Marc got supplies (big ol’ markers) for the poster-making party, totaling $25.13, and submits that total for reimbursement.
• A couple of folks showed up for the sign-making event and made signs, that were then used at the TDoV rally itself on Friday! All things considered, we had good turn-out despite the last minute announcement of the event.

Upcoming Events

• Wyatt typed up descriptions for the Snowpiercer movie night (April 21) and the garden workshop (April 29). Ty will edit the descriptions and get them posted soon.

Earth Day Boothing

• The stickers arrived and look beautiful! We’ve got plenty to give out to people.
• Ty has been pressing buttons with wildflowers on them. We need to print mini-labels with BCH information on them, and they’ll be ready to go.
• Ty and Marc have been working away at the activity board design.
• We will also need to browse the zine collection for relevant ones; potential topics would be Indigenous justice/land back, anti-lawn culture, info on ways to tangibly make a difference, etc.
• We will also need to make sure to bring the canvas table covering/BCH banner

Site Updates

• Site updates and content are still ongoing. Marc basically plans on pushing the new site layout soon (before April 15), even if it means some planned pages are hidden or lead to a “coming soon” type message.

Meeting adjourned: about 8:10ish

In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Jake (late), Jim, Marc, Margaret, Wyatt
Start time: 7:10 PM

1. Event Review – Our trans issues discussion drew a full house! Our great turnout is probably a testament to the timeliness of the issue and our co-sponsors at OutNebraska helping us to advertise. Marc sent a follow-up email out with some of the information that we were discussing. Wyatt thinks the conversation could have been a little smoother if we had a designated moderator.
2. Sign-making Party for Trans Day of Visibility? – There will be a potentially large protest at the Capitol on Friday evening, as it is also Trans Day of Visibility. Ty recommended via the Discord chat that we should open up the House for a sign-making party for folks. Marc will take the lead, and Jackson will be here as well. Jim volunteers to bring us more posterboards. We will go from 6-8 PM officially. Marc will spearhead the internet advertising for this.
3. Library Donation – Margaret backed the crowdfunding for a new PM Press book about sex workers. We are happy to add it to our lending library.
4. April Events – We don’t need a full Facebook event for our tabling at Earth Day, but Marc has a couple of ideas for posts as we get closer to Lincoln Earth Day. Wyatt will prepare a rough draft for the Snowpiercer movie night. He may also have a few ideas for the garden day, but he may need help with fleshing that out with Ty and Marc.
5. Sticker Order – Marc has quotes back from the sticker maker. We will be moving forward with 100 apiece of the two most popular designs and 50 apiece of the other designs. We will be spending $283.59, and Marc is going to be fronted the money to make that order this week.
6. Earth Day Tabling – Ty and Marc have a mockup for their “interactive activity” board for the Earth Day table. Marc says that they feel confident that they will be able to build this board.
7. Website – Marc met with Ty and Rae on Saturday before the event and made good progress on some of the pages that we need to get filled on the new version of the website. Wyatt has also been doing some writing for the new website. Jackson will start work on the group’s history page this week.
8. Summer Calendar Brainstorming – reusing the TRANSport article, another Gaming the System, a BCH birthday celebration (Thursday, June 1st?), Hail Satan? documentary showing, discussion about cultural hegemony? TABLED

Meeting adjourned: 8:45 PM

Tabled Items: Summer Calendar

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

Event Review

• We had to last-minute cancel the movie showing last week. In the future, we’ll do better to not cancel things in the final hour and are sorry for the inconvenience for those looking forward to it.

Upcoming Event

• We’ll print copies of the article to be read for the State of Trans Rights discussion this upcoming Saturday.

Black Musicians and Liberation

• We heard back from a panelist, but the confirmed date is coming up too soon. We will need at least two weeks to properly plan and promote the event, so we will continue working with the panelists to secure a date in the future.

Calendars & Reimbursement

• We noticed an unfortunate error in the spring calendars (they ready 2022 instead of 2023) and they needed to be reprinted.
• Jackson picked up the prints today, and we will distribute them to the usual spots.
• The cost of printing was $17.91; we voted unanimously to reimburse Jackson.

Earth Day Boothing

• We decided to get the following sticker designs in the following amounts:
• Compost the Rich x100
  Land Defender/Water Protector x50 of each (total 100)
  Sow the Seeds of Revolution x100
  No Planet B x50
  Green not Greed x 50
• Marc will contact the sticker shop for a precise estimate, and we’ll determine if we can get more or less depending on how close it is to our proposed budget.
• Some of these designs can also be used at other events, which is why we decided to get more of them. “Compost the rich” is on a mural on the Black Cat House itself, and “Sow the Seeds” is pretty applicable to any lefty-bent event.

Website Update

• We plan on working on expanding/revising the mission statement at a later time, and dedicating a meeting to just discussing that. Expanding the mission statement in particular might take some time.
• We also planned on having a working meeting for content creation/editing.
• We still aim to have the site’s new layout done by mid-April, before Earth Day.
• We determined a time/location for a working meeting to discuss site content.

Meeting Adjourned: 8:50 PM

These minutes are being posted late because Marc misplaced his handwritten notes.

In Attendance: Jackson, Rae, Marc (secretary), Ty
Meeting Start: 7:15 PM

Upcoming Event: Movie Night

• Marc and Ty burned a DVD for easy-viewing at the upcoming event, but it didn’t work in the DVD player. They will try again with a different format.
• Jackson also refilled the candy dish in preparation for the event.

Flyer-ing Update

• Ty, Marc, and Rae put up lots of flyers around town. There are just a couple places that need them still.

Earth Day Boothing

• Marc will make some edits to sticker designs based on feedback.
• Favorites were: Compost the rich, water protector/land defender.
• Jackson suggested a budget of about $200.00 for the stickers.
• Ty also discussed some ideas for the interactive board at the event, and named some specific businesses/companies that claim to be green, but were found to do very environmentally-destructive practices.
• We plan on requiring people to participate in the greenwashing identification activity to receive a sticker, but we’ll also have other educational/promo materials that we’ll just hand out.
• Rae pointed out the importance of having a takeaway message that inspires people to action, rather than makes them feel bad. “We can’t buy a green future” resonated with folks, and we also discussed ways to encourage people to fight for climate action.

Meeting adjourned: 8:50 PM

In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Marc, Rae, Ty, Wyatt (late)
Start time: 7:00 PM

1. Calendar Distro/Reimbursement – Jackson has done most of downtown and Wyatt has done South Street. We divided up the rest of the spots on our distro list. Jackson requests reimbursement for picking up the calendars; it was $20.70. Reimbursement was approved.
2. Earth Day Booth – We had an extended discussion about the themes of the materials that we want to make and distribute at our Earth Day booth. Marc has created a few designs and shared them via the Discord. We bounced a lot of other slogans and sticker/button concepts around, but we have not found consensus on whether we want to prioritize agitational/edgy stuff vs more inspirational stuff.

Meeting adjourned: 8:35 PM

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

1. Prep for Earth Day Booth – We spent time brainstorming ideas for buttons, zines, and information for our display critical of greenwashing.
2. Library Donation – Jackson has a new book for the library. Hooray!

Meeting adjourned: 8:05 PM

In Attendance: Ty, Marc (secretary), Jackson, Wyatt
Meeting Start: 9:00 PM

Before the meeting formally began, we shared a meal with friends, hence the very late start.

Spring Calendar

• We’re on the wire regarding the spring calendar, so we made some quick decisions. Our calendar of events for spring will be:
• March ? – Black Musicians and Liberation – we still need to confirm the day/time for this with the panelists. We will promote this event separately.
• March 17 – Movie Night: Killing Us Softly 4, a classic of feminist documentaries
• March 25 – Community Discussion: The State of Trans Rights, cohosted with OutNebraska
• April 15 – Boothing at Lincoln Earth Day
• April 21 – Movie Night: Snowpiercer, an environmental disaster sci-fi film that also goes into class analysis
• April 29 – Garden Workshop: Planting Native Plants – we will show attendees how to include native species of plants in their gardens and help them thrive
• May 5 – Movie Night: Salt of the Earth, a movie that explores gender/class dynamics with striking workers
• May 26 and 27 – Yard Sale Fundraiser

Website Redesign

• Marc showed the staging website to Wyatt and got feedback; he will make some minor changes, but otherwise the site is basically ready to go. Some content does need to be written up and added.
• We hope to get the site to a presentable place before Earth Day, since we’ll be promoting our site there.

Earth Day and Lincoln Pride Boothing

• We discussed potential button/sticker designs to give out at the event, as well as information to include for the “Behind the Greenwashing” activity at the Earth Day event.
• Ty has submitted the form for Earth Day
• We encountered a hiccup while trying to submit a boothing request to Lincoln Pride; Marc will reach out to the event coordinators for further guidance.

Meeting Adjourned: 10:00 PM

In Attendance: Jackson, Marc (secretary), Rae
Meeting Started: 7:10 PM
Minutes were posted late because Marc got super busy. He’s very sorry.

Event Review: The Killing Floor Movie Showing

• We had a decent turnout with a great discussion afterwards. Folks seemed to enjoy the movie really well.
• One attendee specifically expressed interest in the movie because of its connection to union history specifically.
• We discussed how The Killing Floor is a fairly unknown movie, and how that might have appealed to people. We talked about other potential films to show with this aspect in mind, including some ones that might have a (relatively) hefty screening fee because of their association with academic orgs, etc.

Upcoming Event: Gaming the System

• We’ll be playing The Great Dalmuti this upcoming Saturday. Marc and Ty will be there to explain the rules and get feedback/other game recommendations from attendees.
• Otherwise, it’s an event that doesn’t require a lot of set-up, since it’s a card game.

Spring Calendar

• Jackson is in touch with a potential panelist for the Black Musicians and Liberation digital event. However at this point, we likely need to push the event date back so we have adequate time to promote it.
• Earth Day booth – Ty will submit the form/payment for this boothing opportunity. $35.00 was taken from the treasury to cover the cost.
• Lincoln Pride booth – Though this will happen in summer, we’re going to submit our booth request soon. $90.00 was taken from the treasury to cover the cost.
• State of Trans Rights – Marc is in contact with OutNebraska to co-sponsor this event.
• Event Ideas: We discussed playing Pandemic, which is a cooperative board game instead of a competitive one, which might be an interesting comparison in and of itself. We also discussed playing Settlers of Cataan, which Jackson described as a zero-sum competitive game. In the past we’ve also talked about how Settlers represents a sort of colonialist fantasy that whitewashes the actual effects/process of colonization.

Meeting Adjourned: 8:50 PM

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

1. Upcoming Event – We’re running The Killing Floor on Friday night. We have some tidying of the space to do before then, but otherwise we’re good.
2. Library Update – Jackson has four more books for our library. Marc reports that he has found a way to attach our LibraryThing database to his draft to the new website!
3. New Website Updates – Marc has been hard at work designing the next version of our website. He has also made some tweaks to hopefully reduce the amount of spam we get to our “contact” email, and created a list on our Discord with a list of the content that we will need to write to fill out the core pages of the new website.
4. Tabling Opportunities – Marc has created task lists for what we need to get done to table at Lincoln Earth Day and Star City Pride and posted them on our Discord. Marc has also been working on our application for Lincoln Earth Day. Marc has been very busy! The application is probably ready to be submitted, but Ty and Marc will need treasury money in advance. Pride is actually less work to apply for, but more expensive.

Meeting adjourned: 8:40 PM

Tabled: Tabling Opportunities, Website, Spring Calendar

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

1. Event Review – We counter-protested the Walk For Life on Saturday. Our crowd was smaller than usual, probably because of the bitterly cold weather. Jackson noted that most of our regulars from years past were conspicuosly absent, and that almost all of our people were first-timers.
2. Library Donation – Jackson has more books for the library. Ty and Marc like them.
3. Tabling Opportunities – We are committing to tabling at Earth Day and Star City Pride. We are allocating $125 out of our treasury to cover the cost of tabling at both events. We need to figure out some specifics, but our time was short, so the issue is TABLED.
4. Spring Calendar –

Black Musicians and Liberation – Early March?

Tabling @ Lincoln Earth Day – April 15th

Yard Sale Fundraiser – Friday, May 26th and Saturday, May 27th (tentatively)

Trans Issues Reading Discussion – TBA

Movie(s)?

Something for May Day?

TABLED: Future Tabling, Website Timeline

Meeting adjourned: 8:40 PM