In attendance: Bailey (secretary), Brandon, Jackson, Marcus (moderator), Max, Ty, Wyatt

Start time: 7:10 PM

1. Event review:
   • The Young Ones (movie screening) – Atrocious movie and acting, cool setting; we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves despite limited political commentary (other than the dog-eat-dog, back-stabbing mentality that capitalism breeds)
   • No War in Iran Protest (at the capitol) – 10 person turn-out (1 new person); positive responses from passersby overall; a few hecklers (one potential neo-Nazi…); more poster board available for future events
2. Upcoming January event: No Permission Needed movie screening and discussion about Nebraska this Friday 1/31 7-10 pm (posted)
   • Love Your Library (drafted – need to post)
   • Audre Lord reading discussion (Will and Bailey will post this week)
   • Movie Night and Know Your Rights Training – to post in next 1-2 weeks
3. Library donations: Bridge of Courage, Morbid Symptoms, and The System (courtesy of Jackson)
4. Treasury update: $200 donation from Richard and Christy
5. Spring Calendar: Black-out dates: April 18th husker spring game; Nebraskans for Peace will be having a 50th anniversary celebration April 24-25th

March – Women’s History Month
March 7, 1-3 pm: Fighting the Black Snake: No KXL Community Discussion

March 13, 7-10 pm: Screening of Libertarias (Mujeres Libres de España)
March 27, 7-10 pm: Screening of “Tending the Wild” with Adam Hintz and (probably Tony Laravie) which is about indigenous practices for living with nature.

April – Environmental/Religious
April 4, 1-3 pm:  Presentation and Discussion about religion/spirituality in Europe?
April 11, 10-1 pm: Gardening Day; we’ll have lunch together!
Later April, event TBD: Climate, Capitalism, Control. Video Essay – the way communication technology works to create a media ecosystem defining how we talk about the politics of disaster. Will says we could do an author TALK via video chat. Back up: Screening of JoJo Rabbit (will be available on DVD in early February)

May – Labor-Related Events and yard sale
May 1, 7-10 pm: Movie Screening: Parasite. Hot New Release.
May 22 8-6 pm, May 23^rd, 8-2 pm: Yard Sale. We need to schedule a pre-pricing party also. There was some talk of possibly advertising a percentage of our yard sale gross being committed to buying harm-reduction supplies or possibly helping to pay for the repainting of the house. Other ideas: fund for speakers, mural, flood donations

May 30 1-3 pm: Reading Discussion on History of Labor Movements

Tabled Items for next week (other ideas):
Discussion/workshop: “What Can I Do?” concrete means of helping out in climate disaster (combined with resource drive?)

**Think about cross-pollination with Dandelion Network resource drive/collection (try to plan this in general)

**Think about way to include a link on calendar for donations for disaster!

Meeting adjourned: 8:14 PM

Tabled Items: Presentations vs. Discussions, Radio Revival, Wellred Books, Event Outreach, Library Readership Development, Reviving the Email List, Stuff to Buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, new SSD hard drive for public laptop), procedure for posting things on Facebook (when do we allow it)

1/20/20 Minutes:

In attendance: Jackson (moderator), Brandon, Wyatt(secretary), Bailey
Start time: 7:18 PM

1. Event Review – Walk for life counter protest went well on Saturday. Sign making party on Friday night garnered minimal attendance but we did have a productive hour making new signs and sorting through our old signs. About 35 counter protestors met the 2000 walk for lifers at the capitol. It was very cold so the event was shortened. We see them again next year and continue to defend women’s rights to to choose!

2. Upcoming Event – We have two events coming up. A movie and a protest. Young Ones is a movie we are showing on Friday at 7. We are not sure of the quality of the movie but we are looking forward to a discussion. We are doing a independent anti-war protest at 16th and O outside the federal building on saturday at 11am – 1pm. Join us!

3. February Events –
Will and Bailey will post the Audre Lord reading event on fb. Thank you!
Jackson will post a fb event for the Love Your Library event.
Jackson will also post a fb event for the Black Power Mixtape movie. Thank you!
Will will make a special flyer for the Know your rights training and will post a fb event.

4. Spring Calander –
Black out dates:
April 18th husker spring game
NFP will be having a 50th anniversary celebration, not sure of the date yet

– March – Women’s History Month
screening of Libertarias (Mujeres Libres de España)
March 27, 7 – 9pm. possible date. Suggestion from Adam Hintz for a screening of “Tending the Wild” which is about indigenous practices for living with nature.
Wyatt proposed another noKXL community discussion

– April – Environmentalist Stuff
Saturday April 4th or 11th. History of religion/spirituality in Europe?
April 18th Garden Day
Climate, Capitalism, Control. Video Essay – the way communication technology works to create a media ecosystem defining how we talk about the politics of disaster. Will says we could do an author TALK via video chat.

– May – Labor stuff and yard sale
Friday, May 1st Movie: Parasite. Hot New Release
Saturday, Sunday. Perhaps May 15th and 16th. Or another time. Yard Sale. We need to schedule a pre-pricing party also. There was some talk of possibly advertising a percentage of our yard sale gross being committed to buying harm-reduction supplies or possibly helping to pay for the repainting of the house.
Labor documentary at the end of the month?

– unsorted
screening of JoJo Rabbit (will be available on DVD in early February)
resource drive for water protectors or flood victims
discussion/workshop: “What Can I Do?” concrete means of helping out in climate disaster (combined with resource drive?)

Meeting adjourned: 8:20 PM

Tabled Items: Presentations vs. Discussions, Radio Revival, Wellred Books, Event Outreach, Library Readership Development, Reviving the Email List, Stuff to Buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, new SSD hard drive for public laptop), procedure for posting things on Facebook (when do we allow it)

4. Global Day of Protest – We got a message about a Global Day of Protest against war with Iran on Saturday, Jan. 25. We’re going to meet that day at 11 AM to 1 PM at the Federal Building, with signs and potentially a few speakers. We’ll be making signs for that during the same sign-making party as the Counter-Protest.

1/6/20 Minutes: Spring Calendar, Wonderful New Library Donations, Treasury Update

In attendance: Brandon, Jackson, Wyatt (secretary), Ty (moderator), Bailey, Will
Start time: 7:45 PM

1. Upcoming Event. We are looking forward to our climate change discussion group! Baily will prepare a presentation. Jackson would clean the room.

2. Library Donations! Thank you Jackson for a big library donation of 24 new volumes include graphic novels!

3. Treasury Update. Our treasury sits at $213.28 as of the first of the year. Yay!

4. Action Update – Some Black Cats participated in two NoKXL / MMIWG (No Keystone XL Pipeline / Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls) rallies at the capitol over the last two weekends. Both events were well attended and led to further discussions. Suggestion that next time we should invite the media!

5. Web Events posting – January Movie night is posted, thanks Ty! And now its a good time to start thinking about Audre Lord. Thanks Will! And we just posted our upcoming “Trouble” screening.

6. Spring Calendar –

– March- Women’s History Month
screening of Libertarias (Mujeres Libres de España)
screening of JoJo Rabbit (if available; currently in theaters)

– April – Environmentalist Stuff
Saturday April 4th or 11th. History of religion/spirituality in Europe?
April 18th Garden Day
Climate, Capitalism, Control. Video Essay – the way communication technology works to create a media ecosystem defining how we talk about the politics of disaste

– May – Labor stuff and yard sard
Friday, May 1st Movie: Parasite. Hot New Release
Saturday, Sunday. Perhaps May 15th and 16th. Or another time. Yard Sard. We need to schecule a pre-pricing party also. There was some talk of possibly advertising a percentage of our yard sale gross being committed to buying harm-reduction supplies or possibly helping to pay for the repainting of the house.
Maybe a labor documentary at the end of the month

Meeting adjourned: 8:30 PM

Tabled Items: Radio Revival, Wellred Books, Event Outreach, Library Readership Development, Reviving the Email List, Stuff to Buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, new SSD hard drive for public laptop), procedure for posting things on Facebook (when do we allow it)

In attendance: Brandon, Jackson (secretary), Marc (moderator), Ty, Wyatt
Start time: 7:30 PM

1. Event Review – We had a good time at our fire pit for the Solstice on Saturday night. We had a good turnout, and everyone seemed to have a good time. Ty wonders whether we should have had a sign out there that said “Come join us!”, since so many people were sort of rubber-necking at us as they passed by. Marc wonders whether we should have put up signs in advance similar to the way we advertise yard sales.

2. January Events – We will reach out to Bailey about an event description for the climate change discussion, and to Will for the mutual aid event at the end of the month. We will also be dedicating our January 13th meeting to organizing the counter-protest of the Walk For Life, and we need to personally reach out to the folks we know are interested in this subject. Ty will draft something for our Young Ones movie night.

3. Website Renewal – Jackson has been emailed that our web domain is up for expiration in 30 days. Jackson will get that paid and we will reimburse him.

4. Spring Calendar –

We spent significant time discussing the logistics of our next yard sale. There was some talk of possibly advertising a percentage of our yard sale gross being committed to buying harm-reduction supplies or possibly helping to pay for the repainting of the house.

Possible discussion idea around Easter time: history of religion/spirituality in Europe?

Zine-making workshop?

Garden day?

Possible movie: The Irish Man?

Friday, May 1st Movie: Parasite

screening of JoJo Rabbit (if available; currently in theaters)
screening of Libertarias (Mujeres Libres de España)
Climate, Capitalism, Control – the way communication technology works to create a media ecosystem defining how we talk about the politics of disaster
Documentary about modern labor movements(?)
Jackson and Dance have many documentaries

March- Womens History Month
April – Environmentalist Stuff
May – Labor stuff and yard sard

We found a decent selection of documentaries and discussed the merits of those. In the past we have stuck to a few loose themes for the spring months. March is Women’s Month, April is environmentalist thanks to Earth day, and May is about labor thanks to May Day. We will likely use these themes as inspiration for the spring calendar.

5. December 30th Meeting – We will not be meeting next Monday. We will be back on January 6th.

Meeting adjourned: 8:45 PM

Tabled Items: Radio Revival, Wellred Books, Event Outreach, Library Readership Development, Reviving the Email List, Stuff to Buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, new SSD hard drive for public laptop), procedure for posting things on Facebook (when do we allow it)

In Attendance: Jackson (moderator), Brandon (secretary)

Start time: 7:25

Event Review – The Living End Movie Screening Good but short discussion. The movie was interesting but wild. Love Your Library Part 2: Didn’t really have any people show up. Could be due to people’s school schedules or perhaps these events are not very popular.

Upcoming Event – Solstice Fire Pit Wyatt will handle the fire. We need to have a plan for food. Perhaps we could make pizza with all the crusts we have. We have some other ideas, but we will figure it out in the coming days.

Calendar Distribution Update – Brandon hung calendars at most of the remaining locations, but Starbucks and the HUB were closed so those may have to be done later. Facebook Posting We need to get our climate change discussion event posted on Facebook soon, but the people organizing that event were not in attendance today.

Spring Calendar – We found a decent selection of documentaries and discussed the merits of those. In the past we have stuck to a few loose themes for the spring months. March is Women’s Month, April is environmentalist thanks to Earth day, and May is about labor thanks to May Day. We will likely use these themes as inspiration for the spring calendar.

Meeting concluded at 8:10.

Tabled Items: Radio Revival, Wellred Books, Event Outreach, Library Readership Development, Reviving the Email List, Stuff to Buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, new SSD hard drive for public laptop), procedure for posting things on Facebook (when do we allow it)

12/09/19 Minutes: Fundraiser success!! Update on Winter Calendar Distro, Brainstorming for Spring

In attendance: Jackson, Brandon, Wyatt (secretary)

Start time 7:15 pm

Event Review:
Our Self-Advocacy with our doctor fundraiser was a bust. Nobody showed. 🙁
We could have come up with a better event title that conveyed the political themes. We blame a perfect storm of bad advertising.

Upcoming Event:
We have a movie on Friday, we have the DVD!
We have the second installment of Love your Library, this time Haymarket Press. Anyone have any favorite Haymarket books to highlight?
Solstice Fire Pit coming up!

Calendar Distribution Update:
We agree to reimburse Jackson the $3 for printing an additional 10 calanders.
Remaining locations
Downtown – Brandon
South – Wyatt
Delaying campus posting until January.

Fundraiser Fund:
Wyatt is handing the 438 dollars, and will cut a check to Project Extra Mile, and provide a receipt to BCH.

FB posting:
We posted the Solstice FB event!

Potential Spring Calendar Ideas:
screening of Parasite – a South Korean movie about class dynamics
screening of JoJo Rabbit (if available; currently in theaters)
screening of Libertarias (Mujeres Libres de España)
Climate, Capitalism, Control – the way communication technology works to create a media ecosystem defining how we talk about the politics of disaster
Documentary about modern labor movements(?)
Jackson and Dance have many documentaries

March- Womens History Month
April – Environmentalist Stuff
May – Labor stuff and yard sard

Meeting adjourned: 8:10 pm

Tabled Items: Radio Revival, Wellred Books, Event Outreach, Library Readership Development, Reviving the Email List, Stuff to Buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, new SSD hard drive for public laptop), procedure for posting things on Facebook (when do we allow it)

In attendance: Jackson (moderator), Marc, Ty (secretary), Will
Start time: 7:12 PM

1. Event Review – Marc and Will went to the assembly, which went well! There was a good turnout of folks, and a good discussion of new imaginings of community. There’s also a lot of talk of alternative ways of communication. Related to that, we talked about a revival of the radio station we used to do, but that’s going to be tabled.

2. Upcoming Event – Jackson is working on getting ingredients for Ty’s curry, Will’s got mac and cheese covered, Marc’s bringing brownies. Ty’s going to arrive two hours early to start cooking. Weather might dissuade people from coming, but we’re expecting 15-20 people.

3. Donations – Thank you, Corncob Commie Collective, for the beautiful art donation! We also got new Slingshots in the mail! These are our last issues unless we email them so Ty’s going to send them an email to make sure we continue to get issues.

4. Calendars (Reimbursement/Distro) – The fliers and calendars are $12.87, Ty’s been approved for reimbursement. Will’s going to take some to distribute, Jackson will take some as well, and Brandon mentioned that they would be able to assist, too.

5. Free School – Free School will not have a calendar this December.

6. Email – Ty got an email regarding our big pile of logs outside, wondering if it’s up for grabs. Because of how fresh it is, it’s really not suitable for firewood now.

7. December Events –Marc’s going to draft his Self-Advocacy with your Doctor event, Ty will draft a description for The Living End, Jackson will come up with a description for Love Your Library, and Will said that he could potentially work something out for the Solstice Fire Pit. We need these up soon!!!

8. Zines – We’re going to work on zines! Jackson and Marc have a zine concept, a leftist primer. Jackson was also inspired to work on a zine that’s a summary of Fossil Capital, a book he’s become very enamored with that he encourages everyone else to read.

Meeting adjourned: 8:15 PM

Tabled Items: Radio Revival, Library Labels, Wellred Books, Event Outreach, Library Readership Development, Reviving the Email List, Stuff to Buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, new SSD hard drive for public laptop), procedure for posting things on Facebook (when do we allow it)

In attendance: Bailey, Brandon, Jackson (secretary), Marc, Ty, Will (moderator), Wyatt
Start time: 7:15 PM

1. Event Review – We ran Skins on Friday night. It had a decent turnout and a good discussion.

2. Upcoming Event – The assembly is this Saturday, and several of us are planning to attend. We are also looking forward to the Thankstaking dinner, and discussed the menu a bit. We decided on an all-veggie curry with tofu and meat on the side to make the pot as inclusive as possible.

3. Library Donation – Marc has donated a book of poetry for our library. Thanks, Marc!

4. Calendar Printing – The calendar has been designed and it will be printed this week. Our Thankstaking fliers are also done and will be printed and distributed together.

5. Free School – There’s another computer programming class this week. Bailey is currently looking for class ideas in December.

6. Zine Rack – Will might have an opportunity for a grant to pay for the printing costs. He’s also cooking up a lot of ideas for some new original zines, particularly on local history.

Meeting adjourned: 8:20 PM

Tabled Items: Library Labels, Wellred Books, Event Outreach, What to do about $80 ISO bucks, Library Readership Development, Reviving the Email List, Stuff to Buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, new SSD hard drive for public laptop), procedure for posting things on Facebook (when do we allow it)