In attendance: Jackson, Ty (secretary)

Meeting Start: 7:12 PM

Event Review: Unfortunately, the second medical training event was a bust. Nobody showed up. We need to advertise these better. Wyatt accidentally posted on his personal Facebook page as opposed to our account page. We do have some connection with a local street medic group that we could network with.

Library Donation: Jackson has a children’s book donation, “Our House is On Fire: Greta Thunberg’s Call to Save the Planet.” He has ordered more books, but this was the first to roll in.

Black Musicians and Liberation Video: Ty is putting together the subtitles for the Black Musicians and Liberation event, and will be getting it posted publicly soon.

Yard Sale: Marc got the description written up, and Ty proofed it… and then personal stuff happened so it never got posted online. Ty shared it with the rest of the group and we’ll get it up in the next couple days. Then we need to start soliciting for donations!

Ty let his grandpa know about it, and he’s fine with loaning his yard sale supplies again.

Meeting Adjourned: 7:36 PM

In attendance: Jackson, Marc
Meeting Start: 7:15 PM

1. Upcoming Event: Wyatt is spearheading another medical training workshop. We’ll keep sharing it and spreading it around. Otherwise, we’re moving ahead with it. We may be able to run it outdoors with the promised nicer weather. We’ll be on standby if Wyatt needs anything prepared.

2. Library Donation: Jackson got a stack of books, including a couple duplicates by Naomi Klein – “Shock Doctrine.” It’s a good haul covering wide topics.

3. Yard Sale: Ty was working on drafting a yard sale Facebook description. But things got complicated this past week, and so Marc will take point on drafting it instead with Ty’s assistance.

Adjourned: 7:38 PM

Post-Meeting Item – Black Musicians and Liberation Recording: Ty’s working on uploading the final edit of the panel video on YouTube, but it’s a large file and so it’s taking a bit of time to do so.

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

Start time: 7:10 PM

1) Naomi’s Library Update: Naomi emailed saying she’s still available to help library organization stuff. She tried experimenting with WordPress library catalog widgets to no avail with her personal account, but said she’s down to jump right into it. Barcode scanning would be done on-site, but further cataloging can be done anywhere with a Black Cat website account.

2) Black Cat Web Account: Marc needs a Black Cat website account, but we need access to the admin account to do that.

3) Pro-Choice Activism: We received a Facebook message regarding local pro-choice activism. We’ve invited the messenger to chat with us sometime about their ideas.

4) Event Review: The medical training went well – though only one new person was in attendance out of four (Wyatt included), it still went really well. We thought of other people and group we can reach out to in regards to advertising these events, particularly the one about treating chemical burns on April 22.

5) Fundraiser Yard Sale: The yard sale will be May 21^st and 22^nd. Ty will work on getting a Facebook event up so we can solicit for item donations. The only items that we will not accept is clothes. He’s also going to be reaching out to family for supplies like folding tables, signs, etc.. Jackson got a box of disposable masks for the medical training but they’re not likely to be used up before the sale so that can be put at a sanitation station with hand sanitizer pumps. Marc and Ty will also design new buttons and press a bunch to sell as well for the sale.

Meeting adjourned: 8:14 PM

No one was available to meet with Jackson tonight, so there was no meeting. We’ll try again next week!

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

1. Hawley Hamlet – Grant from the Hawley Hamlet met with us. We had a broad discussion on the history of our respective projects, and we brainstormed the possibilities of doing a workshop at their space. We are tentatively looking at late April or early May, as Grant thinks there will be greater opportunities for hands-on activities at that time.

2. Event Review – We had our reading discussion on Saturday. The turnout was a little low, but it was a really good discussion for what was a late addition to our calendar.

3. Black Musicians and Liberation Video – Monte has sent us an edited version of our panel discussion for YouTube, and it looks incredible. Jackson noticed one typo on one of the cards, so he will review the video once more for possible minor errors and see if Monte can fix those and send an updated version. Ty will get a YouTube channel started, and look into getting accurate closed-captions added to the video. Ty will also look into how to edit YouTube videos to add links, so that we can link to the music videos that we deleted from the panel. We are very eager and excited to finally get this video on YouTube.

Meeting adjourned: 8:35 PM

Meeting Minutes, 03/22/2021. Upcoming Events. Yard Sale!

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

Upcoming Event.

We have an upcoming reading discussion. Looks like people are interested, at least on facebook. We decided to do a popcorn style reading. We will allow people to jump in whenever they are ready. Will try to prepare a couple discussion questions in advance.

April Events

Wyatt will host two medical events, April 8^th and April 22^nd. BCH will host a garden day on April 17^th 1 to 3pm.

Annual Yard Sale.

We decided for the BCH house Yard Sard to be May 21^st and 22 and 23^rd. Talking about maximizing social distancing abilities by table placement. We are talking about doing it big this year, so give us your stuff! No clothes, please. We will start reaching out to our contacts for getting donations.

Black Musicians and Liberation Video Update

Jackson has been in email contact with Monty. A full list of things we were thinking about was sent but there are a few more details to be discussed. He has volunteered to put the video together with us.

Meeting Adjourned at 8:05

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

Black Musicians and Liberation Video: Marc still hasn’t gotten a lot of time or means to work on editing the video. But we got an offer for some help with the video editing last week! Some miscommunication happened, and we’ve yet to reach out, but Jackson will do so ASAP.

March Reading Discussion: Ty still hasn’t heard back about Hawley Hamlet, so we will have to work with them a different month. Marc is not here to provide a Women’s History Month article, but our favorite from last week was “What Ulysses Grant Can Teach Joe Biden About Putting Down Violent Insurrections” (https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/30/what-ulysses-grant-can-teach-joe-biden-about-putting-down-violent-insurrections-463976). We’ll schedule it on Saturday, March 27, 1-3 PM, on Jitsi Meet.

Title – Biden’s (In)Action Against Racism: A Reading Discussion

Jackson is going to work on an event description and Facebook posting.

Street Medicine Workshop Series: Wyatt couldn’t be here, but he pitched starting the street medic workshop series in April. They’ll be held at The Black Cat House, with masks and social distancing required, either inside or outside if weather permits.

Thursday, April 8, 7-9 PM – Traumatic Injury
Thursday, April 22, 7-9 PM – Environmental Injuries: Hot and Cold

Other topic ideas for the future: chemical injuries, treating diabetic symptoms, respiratory emergencies, emergency mental health care, talking to your doctor, overdose treatments

Wyatt’s going to work on the Facebook event for this. He also wants us to think of anyone who might be interested in these workshops.

Yard Sale: We’re leaning towards having the yard sale this year. We have multiple people reaching out wanting to donate things, most of our folks who would volunteer for it would be vaccinated by the usual point we have it (early to mid-May), and we have enough space to space out tables as well as have a specific table with hand sanitizer and disposable masks that we’ll encourage people to use whenever we can.

It will likely be May 14 and 15. We’ll table the actual decision on whether we do go ahead with the yard sale for next meeting.

Tabled: Yard Sale
Meeting Adjourned: 8:45 PM

In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Marc
Start time: 7:15 PM

1. Hawley Hamlet – Ty has reached out to the folks about a meeting, but we haven’t heard anything back yet. We’ll keep our channels open, but we may need an alternate event for March now.

2. Reading Discussion? – Marc thinks a reading discussion may work better on Jitsi than an open discussion. Marc suggested a gender-themed issue to tie into Women’s History Month, but he doesn’t have a specific article yet.

Jackson also had the suggestion of doing the developing direction of the Republican Party and/or current American Right. He has two recent articles that may facilitate a good start on that issue:

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/30/what-ulysses-grant-can-teach-joe-biden-about-putting-down-violent-insurrections-463976?utm_source=pocket-newtab&fbclid=IwAR3w92DDuVoyQNCBwa-5Dl5MUn77Nu1QdcWo2EHGvC6YgvPfKYcP0ya34rM

Or

https://bostonreview.net/politics/jacob-whiton-where-trumpism-lives?fbclid=IwAR3odYPGj93qf3Tgu_Bi2f_N_Re-xdq6CX1Doh7xOseZk_KwhI4JKKQZYMA

Jackson emphasized at the end of this discussion that we really need to make a decision on this next week, if we’re going to pull this off this month.

3. Black Musicians and Liberation Video – Marc hasn’t made much progress yet, because he hasn’t found good software yet to edit the video.

Meeting adjourned: 8:00 PM

In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Lory, Marc, Ty
Start time: 7:05 PM

1. Event Review – We had our Black Musicians and Liberation panel last Thursday. It went really well! We got rave reviews from many of our audience, and the panelists were all really excited to be part of it. There are many tentative plans moving forward to repeat this format, both as in-person workshops and as further digital panels. We are very interested in hosting another one of these next February.

Follow-up items for this year’s edition:

1) Marc recommends sending each of the panelists a hand-written card to thank them for their efforts. Dance also suggests sending each of them the really slick intro cards that Marc made for the event.

2) We have a recording and we need to get it online! There’s a little bit of editing we want to do to the raw video that we are currently working with. We will probably need to remove the full YouTube clips of the copyrighted songs. We probably want to replace the intro that cut off, and have the cards for the event flier and the panelists better inserted into the final video. Oh, and we’ll need to start a YouTube account.

2. March Event – Ty needs to make another contact with the Hawley folks. He will suggest that we either meet with them during next week’s Black Cat meeting, or ask them to offer an alternative if Monday nights are bad for them.

3. Yard Sale – We started a discussion on whether we feel it will be safe or appropriate to attempt our annual-ish yard sale fundraiser in May. Jackson reports that several of our regular sources are offering donations, so that will not be a problem. We’re not ready to make a decision tonight, but we realize that we need to figure this out soon.

Meeting adjourned: 8:10 PM

Tabled items: Black Musicians and Liberation video, Hawley Hamlet collaboration, Other Spring Events?, Yard Sale?

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

1. Upcoming Event – Black Musicians and Liberation is this Thursday! We will be recording, as we have the consent of the whole panel. Ty is confident that he can handle the technical stuff on the backend. We need to check with Marc to see if he got the graphics made for introducing the panelists.

2. Hawley Hamlet – Ty has made promising contact with Grant of Hawley Hamlet. We should try to get a meeting with Grant and/or other Hawley representatives very soon and see what kind of event they’re interested in doing and when.

Meeting adjourned: 7:55 PM