[FlyingBrickAnnouncements] General Meeting notes 12/06 AND *FINAL BOOK ORDER FROM AK PRESS* (bottom of email)

[Megan Osborn]

I was at the meeting too!

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Ramey Connelly <rameysaurus at gmail.com>wrote:

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>  General Volunteers Meeting
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> 12/06
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> In Attendance: Ramey, Nathan, Salem, Matt, Ellen, Brianna, Malory, Nic,
> GiGi, and Micah
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> Facilitator: Nathan
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> Notes: Ramey
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> Agenda Items:
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> Money from the Benefit/Report Back
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> Events
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>   Possible Benefit Show
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>   How-to Facilitation
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>  Eating Disorder Awareness Week (Last week of February)
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> Sorting through books in Library/Cataloguing
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> Finishing Zines
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> Wayside Center – Organize!
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> 1.     “Normal” stuff (things that get taken care of each meeting)
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> Volunteer Schedule Coordinator – Ramey will bottomline
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>  - Ramey will also bottomline researching “Google Calendar” option for
> volunteer signup & will report back on it at next meeting
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> General Meeting Scheduling – Malory and Salem
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> Consensus overview – everyone present was familiar with consensus, but it
> was noted that this should be done first thing! J
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> 2.     Report back from Benefit Show – Super fun! Tim Barry talked about
> Burial Ground and Monroe Park. Super happy, upbeat, fun atmosphere. Total
> money was $871. Kontra wrote a great piece about it, which Nathan will link
> on the blog asap, as well as writing another piece specifically for the
> blog.
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> 3.     Events:
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> Upcoming: Poetry Reading on December 11th at 6, reading starts at 7
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>                        LIPS meeting Saturday December 11th at 3 – will be
> discussing
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>                       possibility of movie screening
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> Movie Screening: Slingshot Hiphop.  Monday January17th. ; potluck at 6,
> movie starts at 7. Jen will bottomline. Passed.
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> Movie Screening: Mind(ful) Liberation wants to do a movie screening on
> December 14th, , 7pm.  Passed. (*Update*: The movie decided on is
> Tarnation)
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> Possible Event: Nathan will bottomline contacting Liz about How-To
> Facilitation workshop/meeting.
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> Eating Disorder Awareness Week – possible event last week of February.
> Thursday February 24th at 7pm. Matt, Malory, Salem, Ramey, and possibly
> GiGi (if she’s in town) will talk more about it and plan.
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> 4.     Sorting books- sorting through all the books in the library &
> getting rid of ones that are outdated, non-radical, or easy to find
> elsewhere- (possibility of lock-in- shelved for an event for the next month)
> Formed a temporary work group - Megan, Ellen, Nathan, Malory, Salem, Ramey.
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> Passed with full consensus
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> 5.     Organizing Zines – possibility of another organizing zine Brunch.
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> Temporarily shelved until January.
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>        6.     Idea for reading group – Matt would like to do a reading
> group for the book
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>  *Body Wars *– to be temporarily shelved until around Eating Disorders
> Awareness Week. To be meeting in the library.
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>       7.    Getting in touch with Wayside Center to talk about information
> from
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> Organizing Workshop – Jen will bottomline.
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>       8.    Money from Benefit
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>             More Shelves (file cabinets will be moved to utility room) –
> Brickdwellers
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>               will find out about earlier shelving – guestimating $100
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>                      - Ellen knows someone in Church Hill who is selling a
> huge shelving unit
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>                        at negotiable price, will contact re: price and
> measurements
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>             Zine Display – Brianna will bottomline researching/pricing
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>             Magazine Subscriptions – Left Turn, Mother Jones, RAG,
> Cultural Survival
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>               Quarterly, The Economist, ReadyMade, The Sun – Ramey will
> bottomline
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>                Researching/pricing
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>              Warm beverages for Open Hours – coffee/tea urn – Jen will
> look for a
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> coffee/tea urn
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>               AK Press Budget - $200 – passed – People interested in
> ordering will stay
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>              after meeting to discuss
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>             *UPDATE*!! : Megan, Nathan, and Ramey got together on Tuesday
> night and
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>  worked through the AK Press book order. If we didn’t get a book you
>
> wanted, don’t fret – we weren’t ignoring you! We took into consideration
>
> several factors including the following:
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> 1.     We prioritized sections that were lacking (Indigenous, Psychology,
> Sex, Queer, etc)
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> 2.     We made sure that AK Press was the best place to buy them (ie, they
> weren’t way cheaper on Amazon, or they were difficult to find elsewhere).
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> 3.     We had a lot of requests for Gardening/Vegan books, but we got a
> last-minute donation on Monday evening of books in these sections.
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> 4.     We also had a lot of requests for books that had similar subject
> matter to books we already have – not to say these books should be excluded,
> but we thought it best to get books in this order that were unique.
>
> 5.     IF you requested books that we didn’t order, don’t fret – we didn’t
> get rid of the lists! We will compile them all in to one BIG WISHLIST to be
> discussed at the next meeting, when we talk about what to do with the rest
> of the benefit money!
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> *ANNNND THE FINAL LIST IS AS FOLLOWS*
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> 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance by Gord Hill
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> Abortion Without Apology: A Radical History for the 1990s by Ninia Baehr
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> After Makhno: Hidden Histories of Anarchism in the Ukraine by D.I. Rublyov
> and Anatoly V. Dubovik
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> Anarchism and Education: A Philosophical Primer by Judith Suisa
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> Anarchism: What it is and What it Isn't by Chaz Bufe
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> Anarchist Black Cross Information and Resources by Firestarter
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> Assata by Assata Shakur
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> Bakunin: The Creative Passion by Mark Leier
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> Black Bloc, White Riot: Anti-Globalization and the Genealogy of Dissent by
> AK Thompson
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> Bourgeois Influences on Anarchism by Chaz Bufe and Luigi Fabbri
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> Buffy the Anarcho Syndicalist by Nihil Press
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> Come Hell or High Water: A Handbook on Collection Process Gone Awry by
> Richard Singer and Delfina Vannucci
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> Free Comrades: Anarchism and Homosexuality in the United States by Terence
> Kissack
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> I Was a Working Class Anarchist by Terry Morgan
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> The Lexicon of Labor: More than 500 Key Terms, Biographical Sketches, and
> Historical Insights concerning Labor in America by Thomas Geoghegan
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> Non-Western Anarchisms: Rethinking The Global Context by Jason Adams
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> People Without Government: An Anthropology of Anarchy by Harold Barclay
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> Red Genes, Blue Genes: Exposing Political Irrationality by Guillermo
> Jimenez
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> Re-Emergence of Philippine Anarchism by Bas Umali
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> Revolutionary Political Dictionary by Anarchist Black Cross
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> Shut Up & Love the Rain by Robnoxious
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> The Spanish Anarchists: The Heroic Years 1868-1936 by Murray Bookchin
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> This is Class War by Class War
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> Towards a Citizen's Militia: Anarchist Alternatives to NATO & The Warsaw
> Pact by Cienfuegos
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> Transgender History by Susan Stryker
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> Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink Or Blue by Leslie Feinberg
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> When There is No Doctor: Preventive and Emergency Home Healthcare in
> Challenging Times by Gerard S. Doyle
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> A Zine About Women's Self Defence by Anarchist Teapot
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-- 
Megan Osborn
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