In attendance: Casey, Jackson (secretary), Ty (moderator), Wyatt (late)
Start time: 7:12 PM

1. Event Review – We held our Open House/200th Birthday Party for Marx on Saturday and it went really well. We had a ton of food, saw a lot of friends, and even introduced a couple of new people to our space. The timing may not have been ideal, with the yard sale the next week and it being UNL graduation day, so we may choose a different day the next time we use this format.

2. Upcoming Event – Yard sale fundraiser is this weekend! Jackson would prefer to get the street signs up on Thursday night, unless it looks like rain overnight. Jackson and Ty will continue pursuing leads on tables and donations with family and friends. Jackson will get ads up for it online.

3. Summer Calendar –

June
Friday, June 1st, 7-10 PM: The Black Cat 5th Anniversary People’s Choice Movie Night
Saturday, June 9th, 1-3 PM: What is the Prison-Industrial Complex? (a community discussion)
TBA: Popcorn Politics

July
TBA: Reading Discussion (on antisemitism)? Documentary?
TBA: Popcorn Politics

August
TBA: Popcorn Politics

Blackout days: June 16 (Juneteenth), July 5-8 (ISO conference), last three weeks of August (Ty out of town and start of UNL school year)

Link June 9th discussion with June 11th: International Day of Solidarity with Marius Mason and All Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners

People’s Choice Options: Salt of the Earth (again), Dr. Strangelove, Terminal City Ricochet(?), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine “Past Tense, Pt. 1 and Pt. 2”

_In the Intense Now_ will probably not be on DVD in time to commit it to the summer calendar. We should check back when planning for fall.

Health care as a discussion subject?

Ty would like to screen the movie Moonlight for June (Pride Month) and Shin Godzilla for August (Popcorn Politics?).

4. Worktime – We moved on pretty quickly to getting to sorting and pricing donations for our yard sale.

Meeting adjourned: 8:00 PM

Tabled items: Summer Calendar, 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 (moderator), Ty (secretary)
Start time: 7:02 PM

1. Upcoming Event – We have the open house party on the horizon (Saturday, to be specific). We got several delicious treats, red decorations, and miscellaneous things like plates and straws for the punch, and Ty’s grandpa just delivered the punch bowl today. So we think we’re good to go. We were a little over-budget, but not by much and we’ll be enjoying the food anyway, so Jackson has been approved for reimbursement of the $50 we originally stated our budget to be. We will begin decorating for the event starting tomorrow.

2. Summer Calendar

June
Friday, June 1st, 7-10 PM: The Black Cat 5th Anniversary People’s Choice Movie Night
Saturday, June 9th, 1-3 PM: What is the Prison-Industrial Complex? (a community discussion)
TBA: Popcorn Politics

July
TBA: Reading Discussion (on antisemitism)? Documentary?
TBA: Popcorn Politics

August
TBA: Popcorn Politics

Blackout days: June 16 (Juneteenth), July 5-8 (ISO conference), last three weeks of August (Ty out of town and start of UNL school year)

Link June 9th discussion with June 11th: International Day of Solidarity with Marius Mason and All Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners

People’s Choice Options: Salt of the Earth (again), Dr. Strangelove, Terminal City Ricochet(?), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine “Past Tense, Pt. 1 and Pt. 2”

_In the Intense Now_ will probably not be on DVD in time to commit it to the summer calendar. We should check back when planning for fall.

Health care as a discussion subject?

Ty would like to screen the movie Moonlight for June (Pride Month) and Shin Godzilla for August (Popcorn Politics?).

Meeting adjourned: 8:12 PM

Tabled items: Summer Calendar, 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)
Start time: 7:10 PM

1. Event Review – We ran our latest installment of Popcorn Politics here on Friday night. Pom Poko drew a pretty good crowd, and a decent (if somewhat sad) discussion.

2. Package – We received a package of buttons and stickers from the June 11th Collective. June 11th is International Day of Solidarity with Marius Mason & All Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners. We’ll give them out. This might also be a good idea for an event for our summer calendar.

3. Speakers’ Money Update – We tried to donate $50 to the ISO speakers when they were here a couple of weeks ago, but their travel expenses were so light that they gave us $20 back. This will be updated in our treasury log.

4. Marx’s Birthday – We agree to commit $50 out of our treasury to covering expenses for the party

Things we want/need: red food coloring, punch, (borrow) punch bowl, chips & salsa, pickles, cheese or smoked salmon/crackers?, party hats, balloons, streamers, a Karl Marx cardboard standup?

5. Summer Calendar

Blackout days: June 16 (Juneteenth), July 5-8 (ISO conference), last three weeks of August (Ty out of town and start of UNL school year)

June 11th (International Day of Solidarity with Marius Mason & All Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners)

Friday, June 1st – Black Cat House Five-Year Anniversary!

Saturday, June 9th – Prison-Industrial Complex discussion (the 11th is International Day of Solidarity with Marius Mason & All Long-Term Anarchist Prisoners)

_In the Intense Now_ will probably not be on DVD in time to commit it to the summer calendar. We should check back when planning for fall.

Health care as a discussion subject?

Reading discussion on anti-Semitism?

Ty would like to screen the movie Moonlight for June (Pride Month) and Shin Godzilla for August (Popcorn Politics?).

Meeting adjourned: 8:27 PM

Tabled items: 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)
Start time: 7:01 PM

1. Event Review – We hosted a reading discussion here on Saturday. We had an average turnout and a decent discussion.

2. Upcoming Events – Popcorn Politics returns this Friday to show Pom Poko. We should be good to go!

3. Library Updates – We’ve got a lot of news here! Ty got in and donated the book, Cartoon Punk: Artists Against Fascism (reimbursement was pre-approved last week. We also got our first couple of books for being Friends of AK Press! We also had a friend make a recommendation for a relevant title for us to look out for: _Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City_.

Jackson also brought back a couple of books and a bunch of zines from a radical store in New Orleans for the library. We will reimburse him the $27 he spent on the stack. Jackson also bought a couple of the For Beginners series of graphic novels that we like having in the library (on Anarchism and Climate Change) for $11.58. We will reimburse him for them, too.

Jackson also brought up an exciting moving sale offer from Haymarket Books on some select titles. We may have an opportunity to pick up a couple dozen of their overstocked titles for the price of shipping (!!!). We’re tentatively planning to order one of everything. Jackson will follow up.

4. May Events – Ty got the yard sale and Marx’s Birthday Party up online!

While on the yard sale, we also started to discuss logistics for that. Jackson says we’ll need more tables. Ty thinks his family can help, and will check on that. Jackson also has some ideas for places to borrow more tables. We will also need more help sorting and pricing the donations, especially with our work schedules being unusually problematic this year. Ty doesn’t want to solicit for more donations, but we will accept donations that we are directly offered.

5. Summer Calendar – Ty would like to screen the movie Moonlight for June (Pride Month) and Shin Godzilla for August (Popcorn Politics?). Jackson would be interested in running _In the Intense Now_ if available or perhaps another documentary about the revolutionary upheavels of France in 1968.

Meeting adjourned: 8:30 PM

Tabled items: 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 (moderator), Tanner, Ty (secretary)
Start time: 7:01 PM

1. Event Review – We ran Anarchism in America, and Jackson asserts that it’s still a so-so documentary, but it gets people talking so it’s worth showing. It did not disappoint, as the turn-out was a pretty fair one for our documentary showings, and there was a lively discussion. We will definitely show it again in a few years.

2. Upcoming Event – We have a reading discussion on “Fueling Dissent” upcoming, not this week but as we don’t have a weekly meeting next week, we’re discussing it today. Tanner would like to introduce a supplemental reading of a report on Exxon Mobile in order to give people more context for our reading We haven’t included supplemental readings to these events before, but given that the executive summary is only a page-and-a-half and in fairly accessible terms, it won’t add too much length or complexity to the reading so it’ll be acceptable. Tanner’s suggestion is to lead with the summary, which Jackson and Ty think is fine.

We also worked on compiling the documents into a single one, and putting the Facebook event.

3. Pom Poko – We got the DVD in! So we’re ready for that event too.

4. Books – We got a copy of the book “Gay Berlin” donated to us for our library, which we gratefully accepted. Ty also wants to buy a copy of Cartoon Punk: Artists Against Fascism, which is an antifa comic anthology, for our library and would like to be reimbursed the $20 to purchase it. Everyone else says that’s cool, so he went ahead and ordered it.

5. Button Order Follow-Up – Jackson cashed the check for the button order we filled, so that’s $155 that will be added to our treasury records soon.

Meeting adjourned: 8:16 PM

Tabled items: 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)
Start time: 7:04 PM

1. Upcoming Event – We’re showing Anarchism in America on Friday night! There’s not much to prep for it, so we should be good to go!

2. Reimbursements – Ty needs to be reimbursed $4.50 for button parts for that order we agreed to at the March 12th meeting. Jackson also needs $65 for renewing the House’s subscription to the Militant for the next two years. This was pre-approved at the February 12th meeting.

3. Buttons – Ty has completed the button order for his friend in Omaha. We’re planning to hand them off this week. Ty also reports that we are very low on button parts and should order more soon.

Meeting adjourned: 7:35 PM

Tabled items: 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 (moderator), Ty (secretary)
Start time: 7:00 PM

1. Event Review – We had a Popcorn Politics event, which went well and the discussion was good. We did get one person back who had only been to one other event here prior, the Russian Revolution discussion. We got some feedback on that event, though we’re not entirely sure as of yet how to use it and improve events to come, but it’s something we can ponder, process, and evaluate for further discussions like it.

2. Meeting Cancellation – Next Monday there is a forum on organized labor that we don’t want to compete with (and that we most likely will go to ourselves). So we are opting to cancel next week’s weekly meeting. Jackson will also share as much on the Facebook, as well as share info on the forum in question. Jackson also brought up that he will be gone on April 9th, so we are preemptively canceling the meeting that would have been on that date as well.

3. No Ban, No Wall – ISO is sending two people for the “No Ban, No Wall” immigrant rights discussion that we are cosponsoring. UNL isn’t charging for the room rental, and ISO is really only asking for gas money, so any money we donate will be going far to cover this event. There is talks, with the low expenses, of spending our extra funds on snacks for the event.

4. Button Order – A friend of Ty’s contacted us on behalf of his pride group to make a bulk order of pronoun and pride flag buttons. We’d need some more details, but since the friend needs an answer back from us by this Friday, Ty’s going to determine whether we offer to do it, or opt to direct him to another button source, and report back the next meeting we had on what he decided to do.

5. Friends of AK Press – We are officially Friends of AK Press! Ty reports back with the email we received saying as much, and we will begin to scheme soon about the anarchist literature we want to purchase for the library!

Meeting Adjourned: 7:45 PM
Tabled items: 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 (moderator), Ty (secretary)
Start time: 7:03 PM

1. Event Review – We had our What is Transfeminism discussion on Saturday, and it was a good turnout and a lively talk. Ty thinks he might have been able to structure it a bit better, though he is unsure how he would have done so.

2. Upcoming Event – We have Popcorn Politics coming up, Mad Max: Fury Road! We’re confident we’ve got it ready to go!

3. Speaker – Jackson is working with the committee that was planning on organizing a leftist conference, to bring in a speaker instead. ISO is pushing for a speaker tour through the country in the spring and the committee is working with a few local reps of ISO to bring in a speaker from the ISO, specifically speaking about immigration. This will be on Tuesday, April 10, in the Heritage Room of UNL’s City Campus Union. We have been asked if The Black Cat House be one of the sponsors of this event, and we think that would be a good idea given that Jackson was already a part in getting the event organized.

4. Friends of AK Press – We’re still pondering whether we want to sign up for Friends of AK Press. The 1-year membership is $300, and Jackson believes we have the money for it now. We have agreed to bolster our anarchist literature with a membership, and signed up for it tonight.

Meeting Adjourned: 7:38 PM
Tabled items: 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)
Start time: 7:02 PM

1. Event Review – We watched the documentary Whose Streets? on Friday night. It was a great film, and we had a pretty good turnout and pretty good discussion after the film.

2. Upcoming Event – We’re hosting the community discussion “What is Transfeminism?” on Saturday. Ty is confident he can handle leading the discussion; he just needs to invite his friends and work on the social media hype for the event.

3. Work time – Jackson put up the Facebook event for Anarchism in America while Ty did the above prep for the Transfeminism discussion.

Meeting Adjourned: 7:30 PM

Tabled items: Friends of AK Press, 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 (moderator), Ty (secretary)
Start time: 7:00 PM

1. Upcoming Event – We have “Whose Streets?” documentary showing coming up this Friday. We have the film, we just have to hype it on Facebook and clean up the room for it.

2. Reimbursement – Ty has been reimbursed $10.19 for printing our spring calendars.

3. Calendar Distribution – Now that the calendars have been printed, Ty needs some help distributing them. Jackson volunteers to distribute calendars south of A street and in the Haymarket.

Meeting adjourned: 7:30 PM

Tabled items: Friends of AK Press, 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