All notes from our meetings are filed under this category.
In attendance: Jackson (secretary), Ty (moderator)
Start time: 7:03 PM
1. Reimbursement – Jackson finally found a replacement keyboard for our damaged collective laptop. It cost him $37.39, and we agree to reimburse him for it.
2. Work time – We finished adding our September events to Facebook and our website.
Meeting adjourned: 7:40 PM
In Attendance: Jackson (moderator), Ju Ping, Ty (secretary)
Start time: 7:10 PM
Meeting Adjourned: 8:10 PM
Tabled items: Stuff to buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, paper cutter)
Reminders: “Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?” for Winter Calendar
In Attendance: Jackson (secretary), Ju Ping, Ty (moderator)
Start time: 7:00 PM
1. Fall Calendar:
Our calendar is finalized! Ty will get them printed and distributed on Wednesday!
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 Ubuntu Workshop
October
Saturday the 8th: Movie Night: Joe Hill
Monday the 10th: Protest Against Columbus Day
Saturday the 15th: Capitalism and Debt: A Community Discussion
November
Saturday the 5th: Can We Vote Our Way Out of This Mess? A Community Discussion
Friday the 18th: Movie Night: Ma Vie en Rose
2. Meeting Moderation
Ty did a bit of research on the subject, and we discussed the findings. Major tips included: appointing a facilitator, emphasizing the “step up” rather than the “step back” (asking quiet people, especially those who are looking for an opening “what’s on your mind?”), democratically preparing an agenda at the beginning of the meeting (“what were you hoping to discuss when you decided to come to this event?”; possibly encouraging off-topicish suggestions to be scheduled at later discussions), and prioritizing making everyone comfortable enough to contribute at any discussion.
Meeting Adjourned: 8:20 PM
Tabled items: Stuff to buy (canopy, stuff to secure bike rack, longarm stapler, paper cutter)
Reminders: “Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?” for Winter Calendar
In attendance: Jackson (moderator), Ty (secretary)
Start time: 7:05 PM
1. Event Review – We had a good showing of Godzilla. The event turnout didn’t really reflect what we were expecting, but it’s hard to tell with Facebook anyway.
2. Fall Calendar –
We decided to put it to a poll on Facebook whether our October 10th event would be preferred as a Indigenous People’s Day rally or a protest against Columbus Day. Leaning towards a protest, but it was thrown into doubt whether we should do something, or whether we should see if a Native group is working on something that we can potentially help them with instead. We also still need to decide a time for the Liberate Your Computer event.
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 Ubuntu Workshop
October
Saturday the 8th: Movie Night: Joe Hill
Monday the 10th: Indigenous People’s Day Rally or Protest Against Columbus Day
Saturday the 15th: Capitalism and Debt: A Community Discussion
November
Saturday the 5th: Can We Vote Our Way Out of This Mess? A Community Discussion
Friday the 18th: Movie Night: Ma Vie en Rose
3. Antifa Books – The Antifa fundraiser we donated to got back to us, saying they will surprise us with a book or other things but will make sure it’s not Our Enemies in Blue as per our request.
4. Moderation methods – We had a bit of trouble trying to search for the right thing, but we did discover some articles for better discussion facilitation. Ty will look through them and bring some he thinks we should look over next meeting.
Meeting adjourned: 8:27 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), 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)