In attendance: Jackson, Marc, Ty (secretary), Wyatt

Meeting start: 7:10 PM

November Event: We have three very interested panelists, we just need to get a date agreed on. We decided to propose postponing it to December, to give the panelists more time to prep and us more time to promote it. The date we’re going to propose is December 12, 1-3 PM central time. If that doesn’t work for our panelists, we’ll reevaluate.

We’ll also want to get some bios for our panelists in order to give attendees an idea of why we asked these folks to be speakers on police repression. We’re also going to have some questions prepared ahead of time for the Q&A portion of the discussion in order to break the ice. We also discussed recording the discussion though doing so would be entirely dependent on the panelists’ comfort level with doing so. We’ll pitch the idea and see what they think.

Winter Events: The police repression panel is now a winter event!

We’re pretty dedicated to counter-protesting the Walk for Life (January 16, 10 AM). We don’t really have the means with COVID to have the pre-protest organizing meeting like we wanted, but we will plug away with this regardless. Marc and Ty will work on creating the web event description for it.

A SCOTUS discussion might be a good one to have. The issue is forefront on people’s minds right now, plus there’s a lot of historical and political ground to cover there. We’re thinking to do that in January.

Wyatt would be down to host a street medic training anytime, and the rest of us are all for it! Though it may not be very productive to host it in The Black Cat House itself given its size, so we’d considered other venues for it. He’s thinking January or February for that, at least for our first event of this nature.

Tabled: November Event, Winter Events

Meeting Adjourned: 8:10 PM

We weren’t able to meet tonight. We’ll be back next week.

In attendance: Jackson, Marc, Ty (secretary)

Meeting Start: 7:01 PM

Event Review: We had our digital installment of Can We Vote Our Way Out of This Mess on Saturday. Small turnout, good discussion. Probably should’ve thrown the event up sooner, but we also decided on it last minute, so we can’t beat ourselves up too much about it.

November Event: We have two panelists confirmed, but it’s been hard to get in touch with them this week to confirm date/time. If we can do that though, we might already have a third panelist ready to go, as they were also pretty interested.

Winter Events: We discussed the possibilities of making sure the digital link to the Black Cat House Monday meetings are readily accessible, and an online social gathering event to keep people connected during winter. We also might do a digital follow-up to the election, regardless of results.

Other discussion ideas brewing: different communities’ responses to COVID-19, World AIDS Day (December 1) event regarding the queer community’s aftermath in the wake of the 80s/90s and how they’re dealing with HIV (and how their response to COVID is influenced by it), discussion about courts/SCOTUS specifically?

February is Black History Month and we would want to do something for that but we’re not sure a more specific topic yet.

Ty wants to do something involving music but he’s not sure yet whether he wants to discuss political music or whether he wants to get leftist musicians in a video chat together to have an online concert.

January 16 is the Walk for Life – what do we want to do to counter this year?

Tabled: November Event, Winter Events

Meeting Adjourned: 7:39 PM

In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Marc, Ty (moderator)
Start time: 7:10 PM

1. Event Review – We had our first in-person discussion in seven months on Saturday. The turnout was small, but there was still some good discussion with some old friends (who also took advantage of our library!).

2. Upcoming Event – Marc is still excited to move ahead with our digital part two of the election discussion this Saturday on Jitsi, but hasn’t had the time to put the event up online yet. He’ll try to get that up tonight.

3. Library Donation – Jackson is donating two more books to the library.

4. November Discussion – Jackson has secured one panelist for our November discussion, and needs to get in touch with Wyatt regarding his potential panelists. Ty has a couple of leads, but wants to wait until we settle on a date (with Jackson and Wyatt’s leads) before making contact.

Meeting adjourned: 8:15 PM

In attendance: Jackson, Marc, Ty (secretary)

Meeting Start: 7:10 PM

1. Library Donation: Jackson made a very hefty PM Press purchase for real cheap, and donated much of his haul to the Black Cat library, in addition to some other books he’s found.
2. Upcoming Event: It’s this Saturday! There’s not an event description or a Facebook event up! Ty proposed pushing back the event for more time to advertise but since we had some regulars referencing the event as scheduled, that isn’t going to work. Joe brought a canopy over – he’s downsizing and will let us hold onto it for use in our events! Thanks, Joe! We discussed social distancing and mask wearing while outdoors – Jackson had some concerns over people being able to hear each other with masks on and making sure it’s accessible, but safety is still paramount. Marc suggests relocating it to Standing Bear Grounds (more secluded from traffic sounds) but the bare minimum of ads we have had says it’s at Black Cat. After a pretty in-depth discussion about it, we opted to do an in-person event as scheduled this Saturday, and an online discussion with the same topic next Saturday, 1-3 PM. That way people who do not want to risk face-to-face interaction can still participate in the discussion. Jackson will get the event for the in-person one up tonight, while Marc will prep the online one later this week.
3. November Discussion: We had some potential panelists not work out, so we’re not sure what to do about the November discussion right now.

Meeting Adjourned: 8:35 PM

Tabled: November Discussion, Library Cataloguing Project, Website Remodel

Meeting didn’t happen, because Jackson was sick and nobody else showed up.

– Ty

In Attendance: Jackson (secretary), Marc, Ty (moderator)
Start time: 7:03 PM

1. Event Review – Our cleanup event was a bust! We definitely could have advertised it better.

2. October Discussion – Jackson still needs to get that event drafted and ready to be advertised online. We should also still be looking into getting some a canopy/tent for the yard for that day.

3. November Event – Jackson has had some trouble getting back in touch with our prospective panelists. He will keep trying, and has also thought of a couple of other interesting candidates to reach out to as well.

Meeting adjourned: 7:25 PM

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

Meeting start: 7:10 PM

1) Upcoming Event – We posted the neighborhood cleanup event on Facebook, as well as the website. Jackson’s going to double-check to see if we have enough trash bags; he’ll get some if not. There may be another Everett clean-up happening this Saturday? Ty saw a yard sign about it but we’re not sure about the details. We may also need grabbing sticks, sharp sticks, and gloves.

2) Library Donations – Marc donated a couple books.

3) October Event – Jackson will draft and post the event for Can We Vote Our Way Out Of This Mess on Facebook.

4) November Event – We haven’t heard back from one potential panelist. Jackson is in contact with other potential panelists. We’re going to set a firm date and time soon to make scheduling easier for the panelists.

5) Domain Renewal – Jackson donated the cost of domain renewal and security for the year for the Black Cat website. (Treasury should probably be updated soon)

Meeting adjourned: 7:35 PM

Jackson was the only one available to meet tonight, so it didn’t happen. We’ll try again next week.

9/7/2020 Meeting minutes. Fall Calendar. Medic training location change.

In Attendance : Ty (moderator), Wyatt (Secretary) , Jackson

>This week. The street medic training got moved to a larger venue. We were not told where exactly this new venue is…. Jackson will continue to investigate and try to find the location.

>Calendar image
Ty made a beautiful calendar meme for the interwebs. We shall post on FB. We need to post the two known events on the website and. asap, post the trash pickup as a facebook event.

We are still searching for a canopy for the October outdoor discussion. We want a white or canvas looking one. We might decorate it later.

>November event updates
We invited one more potential speaker and are waiting to hear back. Our other speakers are still looking OK. We have invited a total of 4 people so far.

Meeting Adjourned 7:40