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

1. Upcoming Events – We have the pro-choice rally we’re co-sponsoring on Saturday. We also have our discussion on environmental justice right after it. We’re focusing on getting people invited, and doing some web hype.

2. Emails – We got two messages. The first is from a pro-LGBTQ minister who actually addressed the message as if we’re leaders in PFLAG. Ty will respond to the minister, as he’s got the connections to that community. The second message was from a musician wanting to book a gig here. As they’re not directly related to our mission, and the date they’ve asked for is inconvenient for us, Ty will send them a short message and link them to the Request Event page on SP CE Commons’ website.

Meeting adjourned: 7:43 PM

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

1. Transgender Day of Visibility: We’re tabling in Omaha for this event on Thursday! Ty’s got a ride and the only supplies he needs are mentioned in the next point, so he’s ready to go.

2. Printing: Ty’s got the new handbills and calendars ready, he’ll get them printed on Wednesday so he’ll have some ready by Thursday. He’ll also redistribute so that our usual areas have a correct time for What is Environmental Justice.

3. Computer: We noticed that the communal laptop has missing keys, and Jackson will make sure it gets repaired.

4. Woman’s Right to Choose Forum: That’s coming up this Friday at Indigo Bridge at 5:30 PM. We’ll share it on our Facebook page to promote it and the walk event. Ty contacted some friends to ask if they would be willing to speak, but they didn’t respond.

5. Library: We spent the rest of the time brainstorming new methods of organizing the library and ways of incorporating the library and other books into our events.

Meeting adjourned: 7:40 PM

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

1. Event Review – We had a Fight Against Rape Culture discussion on Saturday, and it was great! Lovely turnout and everyone was engaged and got a chance to speak. We even got a request to provide notes from the discussion which are posted on the Facebook event page. All in all a great time, and the enthusiasm might be even better if we schedule it at a different time (that is, not spring break).

2. Treasury – Jackson made the yearly update, and we’re pretty good on funds! A paper cutter and a long-arm stapler are penciled down as needs. We also talked about rearranging furniture to better encourage people to take free zines, with the possibility of buying a new bookshelf in the future.

3. Tabling – TDoV tabling is basically ready, there still needs to be some pronoun button pressing but no zines need to be made before then. Before Earth Day we’ll need to print more handbills, the sooner the better. There’s also a few zines that should be printed beforehand due to projected high interest in them.

4. Events – Children of Men has been put on Facebook and the website. Due to an event scheduled on an overlapping time, we’re going to change the time for What is… Environmental Justice? to 2 to 4 PM on the same day. Ty will make edits to the calendar and do a replacement printing and flyering. We’ll keep the non-edited, already printed copies for Earth Day, since that will be after the changed event anyway so those copies don’t go to waste.

Meeting adjourned: 7:23 PM

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

1. Event Review – We watched the documenatary Boom on Saturday night. Turnout was good, and the discussion was too.

2. Upcoming Event – Our discussion, “The Fight Against Rape Culture”, is this Saturday! Our Facebook event is getting a lot of responses, so we might get a really good turnout on Saturday. We spent some time discussing our format for the event to be better prepared for the possible crowd.

3. Reimbursement – Jackson found us a new speaker to improve audio for our movie nights. He spent $32.79 on it, and would like to reimbursed. It is unanimously agreed to. Also on the subject of money, we’re probably needing more calendar handbills printed, and we agree to reimburse Ty if he gets more printed for us.

4. Transgender Day of Visibility – March 31st is Transgender Day of Visibility. A friend of Ty’s would like to distribute our pronoun buttons at a public event at University of Nebraska-Omaha on that date. He’s also invited us to officially table at that event, but Ty will need to investigate the logistical possibilities of actually doing so.

5. Zines – We spent the remainder of our meeting sorting through our zine collection to see what we would take along to our proposed tabling opportunites at Transgender Day of Visibility and Earth Day.

Meeting adjourned: 8:30 PM

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

1. Event Review – We showed Tangerine! It was an interesting movie and good discussion, though we did have to postpone it an hour due to the Democratic caucus. We really need to be better about keeping those things in mind.

2. Upcoming Event – Boom: The Sound of Eviction is this Saturday! We have it on DVD so setup will be super easy. Jackson is going to try and acquire speakers for the projector.

3. Emails – Joe sent us some articles regarding pro-reproductive rights events and legislation that we can share around. We also got another email from Alexandra accepting our offer to help find some speakers. So we’ll ask around our pro-choice friends to see if anyone can help her out.

4. Zines – Since a lot of zines are just sitting around and not getting sold, we sorted through to see which ones we’d like to keep and which we plan on donating to SP CE.

Meeting adjourned: 7:55 PM

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

1. Upcoming Event – We’re gearing up for our Tangerine movie night on Saturday. Because of the scheduling conflict with the Primary Caucus, we’re going to push our start time back to 8 PM. We’ll publicize this last-minute change, but we’re otherwise ready to go.

2. Calendar distro update – Ty just has to finish on South Street tomorrow morning. We’re looking good.

3. Lincoln Earth Day – We are now registered for a booth at Lincoln Earth Day. Jackson will be reimbursed $35 for reserving that for us. Ty thinks we should look into making some environmentally-focused button designs.

4. Organizational Vision – We talked a little bit more about our efforts at outreach and extending our message and information outside the house. Ty suggests that some of those ideas are simply unrealistic given our currently available energy. Perhaps we should try again to do more with our social media? That may be our most feasible tool for outreach at this time.

5. Event Promotion – We spent the rest of the time putting our March events up on Facebook and our website.

Meeting adjourned: 8:35 PM

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

1. Event Review – We showed The Black Power Mixtape last night. The Facebook event got a really good response, though turnout was still pretty low in comparison.

2. Spring Calendar Distro/Reimbursement – Ty got the calendars printed, for 6.99. Reimbursement is approved. He has also distributed calendars to the Haymarket area and The Coffee House. He’ll be whittling away at the list of locations they need to go up, with the goal to make sure they’re everywhere they need to be by the 29^th.

3. Library – Ty has book donations! A children’s book about transgender issues, a comic book about trans issues for the general library, a book of political labor cartoons, and a book on intersexuality. All have been accepted.

4. Email – Alexandria, an organizer of a pro-choice support walk coming up, emailed us asking for advice. We got together the information she’d need to get it set up with the city and offered to get in contact with speakers for her.

5. Lincoln Earth Day – We got an email back from the organizers of Lincoln Earth Day, saying we are eligible for the non-profit rate. We agreed to pay the $35 to get a table. We tabled talking about creating another “kid’s kit.”

6. Organizational Vision – We talked a while about how we were running the house, what we could improve as far as outreach goes, and how much we can accomplish.

Meeting adjourned: 7:57 PM

Tabled: Lincoln Earth Day, Organizational Vision (see 1/26/16 minutes)

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

1. Event Review – We had our “Black Lives Matter” discussion on Saturday. We were disappointed in our turnout, especially as the event concept seemed to “interest” dozens of people on Facebook. We had some discussion about what we could possibly be doing to try and push more people from “interested” to attending.

2. Upcoming Event – We’re showing the Black Power Mixtape on Sunday night. Hopefully it’s not too much of a conflict, given that UNL is also doing a documentary on the Black Panthers on Sunday afternoon. We’re not sure if that showing was already scheduled when we decided on our documenatary, but we did reiterate the need to stay in the loop on relevant events on campus.

3. Calendar – We forgot to add a yard sale! We decide to add one on May 13-14th, as that will best fit our work/school schedules. We also had to move around our April events, because we accidentally put our discussion last week on the same day as the Huskers’ spring game. Ty has also completed the calendar designs, and they will be printed this week!

4. Lincoln Earth Day – We tentatively agreed that we should table there again this year. Jackson has emailed the organizers to see what our cost would be.

Meeting adjourned: 8:05 PM

Tabled: Lincoln Earth Day, Organizational Vision (see 1/26/16 minutes)

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

1. Event Review – We watched Panther, and it was very enjoyable! Wish we had a bigger turnout for it though.

2. Upcoming Event – Revisiting Ferguson is coming up this Saturday. We really just need to brush up on potential talking points – some history of the movement for those who might be unfamiliar, but mostly what BLM’s current strategies are. We’d also like to tie it to Alicia Garza coming back to UNL soon.

3. Spring Calendar –

March:
March 5^th, 7 PM – 10 PM: Movie Night: Tangerine
March 12^th, 7 PM – 10 PM: Movie Night: Boom: The Sound of Eviction
March 19^th, 1 PM – 3 PM: The Fight Against Rape Culture (a community discussion)

April:
April 9^th, 7 PM – 10 PM: Movie Night: Children of Men
April 16^th, 1 PM – 3 PM: What is… Environmental Justice? (a community discussion)

May:
May 1^st, 1 PM – 3 PM: May Day Today: The Fight For $15 (a community discussion)
May 7^th, 7 PM – 10 PM: Movie Night: Chi-Raq
May 20^th, 7 PM: Concert Fundraiser for Porchfest

Meeting adjourned: 8:34 PM

Tabled: Spring Calendar, Organizational Vision (see 1/26/16 minutes), April 23^rd Lincoln Earth Day Tabling

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

1. Event Review/Reimbursement – We had our counter-protest against the Walk For Life on Saturday. We had one of our better turnouts for this year’s version. We need to do a better job next year of marshalling the marching portion, as we had a couple of protestors fall behind while the people at the front were moving pretty quickly. Jackson also needs to be reimbursed $5.34 for buying extra posterboards for the protest. This is approved by consensus.

2. Upcoming Event – Our movie night for Panther is this Saturday! We’re ready for it.

3. Porchfest Fundraiser – Maya wants to do something in Mid-May. We came up with a handful of days that would work with us, and we’re sending them to her to see what she prefers. We also reiterated that we can’t accomodate noisy stuff here.

4. Spring Calendar –

No discussions on second Saturdays.

March:
Rape Culture Discussion (do we revive the Feminist Discussion Group brand?)
Film? “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry,” “Tangerine,” and/or “The Girls”

April:
No events on April 23rd (Lincoln Earth Day) — Are we tabling there?
Discussion: Environmental Justice/Classism/Racism of Environmental Destruction
Movie: Children of Men
And possibly: The Superior Human?

May:
Movie: Sir, No Sir!
Discussion: Modern-Day Labor Struggle (Fight For $15?)
Porchfest Fundraiser

Meeting adjourned: 8:34 PM

Tabled: Spring Calendar, Organizational Vision (see 1/26/16 minutes)