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

Start time: 7:03 PM

1. AK Press – There’s no update! Jackson has called again, Ty has email again, and we’ve heard nothing! Ty has suggested just splitting the order in half and send it in conventionally rather than wholesale if we hear nothing soon.

2. Reimbursement – Jackson bought us button parts that we were running low on, and he’d like to be reimbursed $66.23. We approve this.

3. Addressing Tabled Items – We brought up finding a new winter mat for the porch to Wyatt, and he thinks he’d be able to find a few mats that’ll work for our needs.

4. Books – We dug through a different website, Left Wing Books, because there’s a sale there too. We gathered up $84.95 worth of books, and we’ll allocate the money for that and reimburse you for it.

Meeting adjourned: 8:33 PM

Tabled items: AK Press Purchase, Graphic Designer, Stuff to Buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, labels, 7×7 no-slip outdoor mat for porch, new SSD hard drive for public laptop)

In Attendance: Jackson (secretary), Ty (moderator), Wyatt (late)

Start time: 7:04 PM

1. Event Review – We had our reading discussion on Puerto Rico on Saturday. Our turnout was a bit lower than expected, but it was a good discusssion in spite of that. Once again, the one non-Husker gameday in September had a lot of competition, perhaps most particularly the Nebraskans for Peace conference in Kearney.

2. AK Press – Jackson has tried to call AK Press about our bulk order in the last week. He had to leave a voicemail, and they have not followed up with us by phone or email. Jackson will try to call again.

3. Reimbursement – Jackson picked up our handouts and more handbills from the copy center last week. He spent $7.13, and needs reimbursement. We are cool with this. He also reports that they are bringing back the discount days on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, with 3 cent b/w and 28 cent color copies. We will keep this in mind as we schedule future printings.

4. October Events – We spent the rest of our meeting working on getting our October events posted online.

Meeting adjourned: 8:05 PM

Tabled items: AK Press Purchase, Graphic Designer, Stuff to Buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, labels, 7×7 no-slip outdoor mat for porch, new SSD hard drive for public laptop, more button parts), Getting all fall events to website

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

1. Event Review – Popcorn Politics: Free State of Jones was last Friday. Jackson reports that it was cool, enjoyable film about a bit of forgotten history. There was an OK turnout, and a decent discussion.

2. Upcoming Event – The reading discussion for “The Politics of Survival” is coming up, and Ty will pull together print-outs for the article, and print off 15 copies of them for Jackson to pick up (he’ll also take care of printing off 25 more sheets of fall calendar handbills).

3. AK Press – We got a children’s book from AK Press, which will go in the Kitten Corner! We also have yet to get a invoice from them for our bulk order. Ty will email them… again. But first, Jackson’s gonna try calling them.

4. October Events – Ty will get the “To Each According to Their Needs” discussion description drafted by the end of the week, and Jackson will talk to DSA Lincoln to draft a description of Alien

5. Work Time – The rest of meeting time was spent sorting through potential books for the library.

Meeting adjourned: 8:30 PM

Tabled items: AK Press Purchase, Graphic Designer, Stuff to Buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, labels, 7×7 no-slip outdoor mat for porch, new SSD hard drive for public laptop, more button parts), Getting all fall events to website

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

1. Upcoming Events – Popcorn Politics returns this Friday! We have the movie; we just need to set up the room! Before that, we’re probably hosting the debrief for the Red State conference sometime this week, so we’ve got to get cleaning for that as well!

2. Calendar Distro – We still need to hit Bluestem, Cultiva, and Ten Thousand Villages (handbills). Jackson will work on finishing these.

3. AK Press – Ty is continuing to sort out our technical SNAFU as we try to place the bulk order with them that we’ve been working on for the past several weeks.

Meeting adjourned: 7:35 PM

Tabled items: AK Press Purchase, Graphic Designer, Stuff to Buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, labels, 7×7 no-slip outdoor mat for porch, new SSD hard drive for public laptop, more button parts), Getting all fall events to website

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

1) Distro Update – Ty has STILL not yet gotten to The Black Market, the Scooter’s next to The Black Market, Cultiva, Indigo Bridge Books, Ivanna Cone, The Mill, and Bluestem Books. He is listing the locations here to help Jackson if he’s able to assist at any point.

2) Fall Events – Jackson is getting up the Free State of Jones event on Facebook, and Ty put up placeholders on the website for events to come.

3) AK Press Purchase – AK Press has still not gotten back to us about the shipping issue. We’re emailing them again about it.

Meeting adjourned: 7:25 PM

Tabled items: AK Press Purchase, Graphic Designer, Stuff to Buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, labels, 7×7 no-slip outdoor mat for porch, new SSD hard drive for public laptop, more button parts), Getting all fall events to website

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

Event Review – We had the Red State conference on Saturday! Our workshop seems to have gone well, with Jackson only thinking of one thing afterwards that we should’ve covered but didn’t. (He added to our outline in case we ever do this presentation again.) Our table was also popular at the lunch hour; we had several books checked out from our mobile library, as well as many zines and calendars taken. Ty reports that we were officially extended an offer to table next year at Omaha Zine Fest. We would be interested in sponsoring a second Red State if our partner organizations decide to bring it back next year.

Distro Update – Ty has not yet gotten to The Black Market or the spots in the Haymarket. We’re not sure if Wyatt got to the spots on Near-South spots.

September Events – We spent meeting time to work on getting our September events online.

Meeting adjourned: 8:15 PM

Tabled items: AK Press Purchase, Graphic Designer, Stuff to Buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, labels, 7×7 no-slip outdoor mat for porch, new SSD hard drive for public laptop, more button parts), Getting all fall events to website

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

1. New Book from AK Press – We got a package with a new book about a Mexican anarchist called I Am Action.

2. Calendar Distro – Jackson picked up the fall calendars from the printer. He’ll be reimbursed $10.73 for getting them printed. We’re going to get ’em up around town soon!

3. Red State – Jackson reports that he distributed the $200 we allocated from our treasury to the ones responsible for catering the conference; in short, we’re helping to pay for the meal. We spent most of the rest of the meeting discussing our tabling and our workshop at the conference.

Meeting adjourned: 8:30 PM

Tabled items: AK Press Purchase, Graphic Designer, Stuff to Buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, labels, 7×7 no-slip outdoor mat for porch, new SSD hard drive for public laptop, more button parts)

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

1. Event Review – Popcorn Politics: Shin Godzilla happened last Friday. It went pretty good! There were definitely some things we disagreed with as far as the political takes of the movie, but hey, we show these for the discussion, not because we agree with them all the time!

2. Book Donation – Jackson accidentally bought a second copy of “A Hundred Little Hitlers” for his own library, a book about the rise of neo-Nazism in America. His loss is the library’s gain! He’d like to donate it, and it seems to be a good fit for our antifascist collection, so the donation is accepted.

3. AK Press Purchase – We made a list of books to consider for our upcoming AK Press purchase, but we need to table this so we have time to finish the fall calendar.

4. Fall Calendar – We finalized the fall calendar! We basically just needed dates for the events, which we worked on getting tonight. Ty will whip those up, send them to print, and Jackson will pick them up this week.

Friday, September 14, 7-10 PM: Popcorn Politics: Free State of Jones
Saturday, September 22nd, 1-3 PM: Reading Discussion: Puerto Rico: “The Politics of Survival”
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/04/puerto-rico-left-hurricane-maria-colonialism-independence

Saturday, October 13th, 1-3 PM: To Each According to Their Needs: How Marxism Empowers the Impaired
Friday, October 26th, 7-10 PM: Popcorn Politics: Alien

Saturday, November 3rd, 1-3 PM: Men’s Rights Vs. “Men’s Rights”: Why Men Need Feminism, Too
Friday, November 9th, 7-10 PM: Popcorn Politics: Johnny Got His Gun
Friday, November 16th, 7-10 PM: Movie Night: Tough Guise

Meeting adjourned: 8:35 PM

Tabled items: AK Press Purchase, Graphic Designer, Stuff to Buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, labels, 7×7 no-slip outdoor mat for porch, new SSD hard drive for public laptop, more button parts)

In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Ty (moderator)
Start time: 7:04 PM

1. Upcoming Event – Popcorn Politics returns this Friday with Shin Godzilla. We have the movie; we just have to set up the room.

2. Fall Calendar –

September: Reading Discussion: Puerto Rico: “The Politics of Survival”
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/04/puerto-rico-left-hurricane-maria-colonialism-independence
September: Popcorn Politics: Free State of Jones
October: To Each According to Their Needs: How Marxism Empowers the Impaired
October: Popcorn Politics: Alien
Saturday, November 3rd, 1-3 PM: Men’s Rights Vs. “Men’s Rights”: Why Men Need Feminism, Too
TBA Friday Night in November: Movie Night: Tough Guise
TBA Friday Night in November: Popcorn Politics: Johnny Got His Gun

Black-Out Days: September 1, 8, 15, 29; October 20; November 10, 17
Grey-Out Days: September 14, November 24

Nov 19 – International Men’s Day
Nov 25 – International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

Meeting adjourned: 8:35 PM

Tabled items: Fall calendar, AK Press Purchase, Graphic Designer, Stuff to Buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, labels, 7×7 no-slip outdoor mat for porch, new SSD hard drive for public laptop, more button parts)

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

1. Donation – We received a donation of $200 from some dear friends of ours! We’re pretty solid on the general treasury fund, so we opted to put this money into our library fund so that we may fund the AK Press book purchase we so desperately want to make. We’ll table the actual purchasing of books until after the fall calendar is finalized.

2. Fall Calendar – We’re still working on potential Popcorn Politics films. There was a suggestion in the group chat for a horror movie for October – Alien was a favorite suggestion for that – and an anti-war film for the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. Jackson is suggesting Johnny Got His Gun for that. Though a different war, Full Metal Jacket would also be a good choice. Alien will likely be the film for October, but things are still brewing for November (Dr. Strangelove and Paths of Glory are also potential options), and no specific leads for September.
We really do need to have some solid discussions, and we really want to commemorate 1968 somehow but we’re not sure how at this point. Ty is fairly confident in his ability to do a discussion on disability rights.

Meeting adjourned: 8:30PM

Tabled items: Fall calendar, AK Press Purchase, Graphic Designer, Stuff to Buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, labels, 7×7 no-slip outdoor mat for porch, new SSD hard drive for public laptop, more button parts)