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

1. Upcoming Event – We’re showing Godzilla this Saturday. We’re ready for it.

2. Book – We’ve been offered a free book for supporting the Antifa fundraiser a few weeks ago. We’ve emailed them to accept the offer.

3. Fall Calendar –

Tenative schedule:
September
Friday the 9th: Movie Night: Dr. Strangelove
Friday the 16th: Movie Night: Just Do It
Saturday the 24th: Liberate Your Computer (An Open House/Workshop to Install Ubuntu)

October
Saturday the 8th: Movie Night: Joe Hill
Monday the 10th: Indigenous People’s Day/Protest Against Columbus Day
Saturday the 15: Discussion on debt

November
Saturday the 5th: Electoral Politics
Friday (preferably)/Saturday the 18th/19th: Film (preferably documentary) on queer issues

Days not to schedule events on:
September 3rd, 10th, 17th
Also out: Sunday the 4th

October 1st, 22nd
Also out: Friday the 28th
Probably not: Sunday the 9th

November 12th, 19th

Interesting anniversaries: Occupy Wall Street camp formed Sept 18th; October is LGBTQ History Month (and Asexual Awareness Week is in there somewhere too?); Joe Hill born Oct 7th; US invades Afghanistan Oct 8, 2001; Indigenous Peoples’ Day October 10th; Million Man March was on October 16th; Malcolm X released from prison Nov 4th; Berlin Wall fell Nov 9th; March on Washington to protest Vietnam War on Nov 15th; Trans Day of Remembrance Nov 20th; Buy Nothing Day is Nov 25th (also eliminating violence against women day?); Harvey Milk shot Nov 27th; International Day of Solidarity with Palestinians Nov 29th
Ideas suggested to us: electoral politics, death penalty, queer anarchism, debt

Meeting adjourned: 8:10 PM

Tabled items: Stuff to buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, longarm stapler, paper cutter), Fall Calendar, Moderation methods

Reminders: “Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?” for Winter Calendar

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

1. Event Review – We had our intro to libertarian communism discussion on Saturday. We had a little bit of difficulty keeping it on topic, but we’re not sure what could be done about that. Perhaps we need to work on our moderating skills. We’ll look into ways to do that, maybe read up on other collectives and similar spaces’ means of doing that. However, that will have to be on the back burner until the calendar is done.

2. Book – Jason brought over his new book, and there is no reimbursement required as the $19 came directly out of the treasury funds.

3. Fall Calendar –

We still need to schedule the Linux programming event that Ju Ping suggested. We will ask whether he is interested on scheduling it on September 24th. He was thinking about doing so in September anyway, and though Ty will not be available, such an event would be open house style and would only require one of us here.

Tenative schedule:
September
Friday the 8th: Movie Night: Dr. Strangelove
Tentative Linux/freeware programming workshop
Tentative second film

October
Saturday the 8th: Movie Night: Joe Hill
Monday the 10th: Indigenous People’s Day/Protest Against Columbus Day
Saturday the 15: Discussion on debt

November
Saturday the 5th: Electoral Politics
Saturday the 18th/19th: Film (preferably documentary) on queer issues

Days not to schedule events on:
September 3rd, 10th, 17th
Also out: Sunday the 4th

October 1st, 22nd
Also out: Friday the 28th
Probably not: Sunday the 9th

November 12th, 19th

Interesting anniversaries: Occupy Wall Street camp formed Sept 18th; October is LGBTQ History Month (and Asexual Awareness Week is in there somewhere too?); Joe Hill born Oct 7th; US invades Afghanistan Oct 8, 2001; Indigenous Peoples’ Day October 10th; Million Man March was on October 16th; Malcolm X released from prison Nov 4th; Berlin Wall fell Nov 9th; March on Washington to protest Vietnam War on Nov 15th; Trans Day of Remembrance Nov 20th; Buy Nothing Day is Nov 25th (also eliminating violence against women day?); Harvey Milk shot Nov 27th; International Day of Solidarity with Palestinians Nov 29th
Ideas suggested to us: electoral politics, death penalty, queer anarchism, debt

4. Winter Calendar Ideas: In our brainstorming, Jackson suggested the film “Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?” for Noam Chomsky’s birthday.

Meeting adjourned: 7:43 PM

Tabled items: Stuff to buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, longarm stapler, paper cutter), Fall Calendar, Moderation methods

Reminders: “Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?” for Winter Calendar

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

1. Event Review – We showed Libertarias on Friday night. We enjoyed the film, and think we should do it again sometime. The turnout was disappointing, though, probably because of a feminist event also going on at The Commons at the same time and the fact that we were kind of late in promoting the event. It would’ve helped if we’d managed to track the film down sooner, too, as Ty was disturbed by some of the scenes of graphic violence and sexual violence depicted in Libertarias. He recommends that we do more to screen the films in advance to offer proper warnings in our event descriptions.

2. Upcoming Event – Our discussion on libertarian communism is this Saturday. We spent some time deciding on some of the talking points we want to be ready to make.

3. Reimbursement – Jackson made donations that the group pre-approved last week, sending $50 to the Sacramento anti-fascists and $10 to the prisoner-solidarity distro. He requests reimbursement for sending those donations, and it is agreed to. He has also been in contact with Jason about the book we decided to order last week; we’ll be arranging an in-person meeting to bypass the shipping charges.

4. Website – Jackson reports that it’s nearly time for us to renew our blackcathouse.org domain and privacy. It’ll be $27.87, and we decide to take care of it immediately. Jackson made the purchase during our meeting, and he will be reimbursed for the expense.

5. Fall Calendar –

We still need to schedule the Linux programming event that Ju Ping suggested.

Days not to schedule events on:

September 3rd, 10th, 17th
Also out: Sunday the 4th
Questionable: 23rd-24th (possible engagement for Ty with campus… that would negate our last possible Saturday for a discussion)

October 1st, 22nd
Also out: Friday the 28th
Probably not: Sunday the 9th

November 12th, 19th

Movie Ideas: Dr. Strangelove (Peter Sellers born Sept 8th),
Interesting anniversaries: Occupy Wall Street camp formed Sept 18th; October is LGBTQ History Month (and Asexual Awareness Week is in there somewhere too?); Joe Hill born Oct 7th; US invades Afghanistan Oct 8, 2001; Indigenous Peoples’ Day October 10th; Million Man March was on October 16th; Malcolm X released from prison Nov 4th; Berlin Wall fell Nov 9th; March on Washington to protest Vietnam War on Nov 15th; Trans Day of Remembrance Nov 20th; Buy Nothing Day is Nov 25th (also eliminating violence against women day?); Harvey Milk shot Nov 27th; International Day of Solidarity with Palestinians Nov 29th

Meeting adjourned: 8:12 PM

Tabled items: Stuff to buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, longarm stapler, paper cutter), Fall Calendar

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

1. Upcoming Event – Our movie night is this Friday, and we’re showing Libertarias. Looks like the DVD works fine, so we just need to set the room up and invite more people!

2. Contributions – We’re going to send $50 to the Sacramento anti-fascists (rally.org/june26th), and $10 to BLEAECK (gofundme.com/bleaeck). We will also buy the latest book from Equality Press in hardcover, which will be $19 out of the library treasury.

3. Fall Calendar – Brainstorming started for the fall schedule. October scheduling has to be put off until next week, so that Ty has a schedule for the UNL LGBTQA+ Resource Center’s LGBT History Month. September Saturdays will also be tight, because scheduling around football Saturdays this close to downtown is near impossible. We also need to take note of the Linux programming event that Ju Ping suggested.

Days not to schedule events on:

September 3rd, 10th, 17th

October 1st, 22nd

November 12th, 19th

Meeting adjourned: 7:55 PM

Tabled items: Stuff to buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, longarm stapler, paper cutter), Fall Calendar

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

1. Zine – We received a letter with a new zine from anarchist prisoner Sean Swain.

2. Work Time – Ty added our August movie night (Godzilla) to Facebook, and added our July/August events to our website. Jackson updated the treasury.

3. Alternatives to Windows – Ju Ping would like to host a workshop here sometime in the fall to help people install Linux-based operating systems and liberate themselves from Microsoft. We’re cool with this, and we’ll continue thinking of this as we begin to build our fall calendar.

4. Contributions? – We have a very healthy treasury, and we’re going to consider donations to a couple of causes next week when we have a little more time to talk about them. Ones noted were the crowdfunding for the Sacramento anti-fascists who were attacked by white supremacists and need help with medical bills (rally.org/june26th) and the zine distro that sent us the Sean Swain zine. Tabled.

Meeting adjourned: 8:30 PM

Tabled items: Stuff to buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, longarm stapler, paper cutter), Causes to contribute to

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

1. Event Review – We had our discussion, which was a low turnout because we didn’t realize when Juneteenth was and scheduled it on the same time. A good discussion for those who were there though.

2. Pulse Contribution – We are going to donate $100 to Equality Florida’s GoFundMe to help the victims and survivors of the Pulse shooting.

3. Bookshelves – Ty acquired some bookshelves, and is donating at least one for Black Cat House use, if not more if we can find room for them.

Meeting adjourned: 7:21 PM

Tabled items: Stuff to buy (longarm stapler, paper cutter, canopy, hardware to secure the bike rack to the ground)

In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Ty (moderator)
Start time: 7:01 PM

1. Event Review – We showed Free Angela and All Political Prisoners on Friday. We enjoyed the film, and the discussion afterward.

2. Upcoming Event – Our discussion, “Setting the Record… Straight?” is coming up on Saturday. It will now also be a bake-sale fundraiser to raise donations for the victims of the Pulse shooting in Orlando. Ty and a friend are going to make cupcakes.

3. July Events – We spent the remainder of the meeting adding our July events to Facebook.

Meeting adjourned: 7:40 PM
Tabled items: Stuff to buy (longarm stapler, paper cutter, canopy, hardware to secure the bike rack to the ground)

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

1. Upcoming Event – We have Free Angela coming up as our movie night. Most of the work will be cleaning up the room for it.

2. Bike Rack – We got it and assembled it! Now we need to figure out a way to affix it to the ground. For now it will be secured to the side of the porch.

3. Stuff to Buy – We still have some stuff on the wishlist, so Jackson will look into the best options we have for the most affordable cost.

We spent the rest of the time cleaning the space.

Meeting adjourned: 7:10 PM (not including cleaning time)

Tabled: Stuff to buy (longarm stapler, paper cutter, canopy, hardware to secure the bike rack to the ground)

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

1. Bike Rack – Jackson has found a decent-looking bike rack for $44.95. Ty also likes it, so we agree to buy it for the house. Jackson will be reimbursed for making this purchase.

2. Misogyny in Nerd Culture – Emilio of Social Justice Education Network is returning to Lincoln tomorrow night to give another of his talks. We’re going to promote it on our Facebook, and donate $20 from our treaury to help cover his travel expenses.

3. Website Comments – Our site’s comments are literally 100% spam, and it’s a drag having to delete everything that gets commented on our site. We decided to disable the comments.

4. Adding June Events to Facebook and Website – We spent the rest of our meeting time adding our June events to our website and Facebook pages.

Meeting adjourned: 7:30 PM

Tabled: Stuff to buy (longarm stapler, paper cutter, canopy)

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

Start time: 7:05 PM

1.  Event Review: We hosted a fundraiser for Porchfest, which was a big success! Folks seemed to enjoy the space, and the concert was a great time and pulled some money in.
2. Reimbursement: Ty got calendars last week. The printing cost was $6.44, and he was approved for reimbursement.
3.  Email: We got an email for someone booking a show. It’s not an acoustic band, or an explicitly political one, so the answer’s going to be no.

Tabled: Stuff to buy (bike rack, longarm stapler, paper cutter, canopy)

Meeting adjourned: 7:14 PM