[Flyingbrickvolunteers] Meeting Minutes from the General Meeting, 04-18-2010

[Nathan Stickel]

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Flying Brick General Meeting, 04-18-2010

attendance: Claire, Christie, Jen, Kendell, Nathan, Salem, Kurt, Mara,
Ramey, Matt

Workshop/Events

Date set after meeting, April 29th at 7pm to discuss:
    - 23rd, Spirit Family Reunion
    - Brian Wysong, bike workshop
    - Salem's room mate, sewing workshop
     - Film list
     - Joon, Richmond native, arrested in Olympia, WA. Benefit?
     - any others people have

- Lisa (friend of Robert's) would like to borrow about 15 zines about
interpersonal violence to scan.
    - give deadline (2 weeks), contact info, and write down what she
borrowed.
    - Robert Cataldo is bottomlining
    - Also, if easy and possible, saving the scanned ones at .pdf files to
give to Library

- scheduling and accountability
    - Christie proposed and we passed that "Volunteer Coordinator" for the
month will use physical sign up schedule and e-mail to coordinate open hours
volunteers by the beginning of the month. Then it will be last shift
volunteer's responsibility to call people for the next day to remind them
they have a shift. Volunteer Coordinator will change to help prevent
informal leadership.
- working group organization
    - concerns that communication is confusing and that there aren't many
people consistently coming to work group meetings.
Christie proposed that we have a list of folks who want to be core members
of the work groups, so we know who to contact. Anyone will be welcome at
meetings of course, and people can leave groups anytime. (passed)
 - Kendell will bottom line contacting previous attendees and getting
commitments to be officially involved.


Security Culture!

 - try to keep attention down
 - be conscience of speech on Facebook, e-mail, public, coffee shops, etc
etc
 - we ARE on the radar. police know the house from past convergences and it
is marked already for just being associated with anarchists and radicals.
 - illegal activities should not be discussed openly. This includes:
    - illegal direct actions
    - illegal drug use/distribution
    - ANY illegal or questionable activity
 - Nathan suggested the person bottomlining an event should help watch door
for police/media. We don't want to create an atmosphere of paranoia. We just
should be aware of what's happening outside the front door, not only to
watch for media and police, but for people behaving in ways that could
attract unwanted attention. If police or media DO come to the door, a
resident should be found and they should go outside to talk to them, and
LOCK THE DOOR. Also, back door should be locked during events unless people
are in the kitchen.
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