[FlyingBrickAnnouncements] Flying Brick Meeting Notes 9/5/11 and IMPORTANT info on listserv security

[Nathan Stickel]

Hey y'all, my notetaking sucks, I'm really sorry. If I missed anything,
please add it. Thanks to Ellen for finishing for me when I had to leave
early.

THE INFO ABOUT SECURITY WILL BE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE NOTES.


Flying Brick Meeting, Monday, Sept. 5th, 2011

Attendance: Jeremy, Robert, Greg, Antony, Scarlett, Ramey, Nathan, Christie,
Ellen, Megan

Facilitator: Christie
Notes: Nathan, Ellen

Agenda:

- Food Not Bombs Fundraiser for the Fall (Nathan, Jeremy, Ellen)
- Stickers (update, Nathan)
- Outreach!
- Funds (reportback)
- Forming Collective (update, Nathan)
- The List (Ramey)
- Flash Zine Event (Megan)
- *Meeting/Listserv Security (Megan, Nathan)
*- Friends of Programs (Ellen)
- Book Drive (Robert)
- Film Screening Series (Christie)
- Field Trip (Greg, Nathan)
- Marx Class (Nathan)
- Event Report Back on "Work" event

*Food Not Bombs Fundraiser*

Ellen, Nathan, and Christie will bottomline a documentary screening that
focuses on Food Not Bombs.
If no documentary exists, we will work on a multimedia presentation that
would tell the history of Food Not Bombs internationally,
and locally here in Richmond. This would double as a fundraiser and to
garner new interest in Food Not Bombs in the city.

*Flying Brick Stickers* (update, Nathan)

Stickers come from Jakprint, $120 for 1,000 vinyl stickers. This amount was
approved at a meeting a few months back.
Most folks did not like the idea to just use the old flier and cut it in
half, so *Megan and Ellen volunteered to design a few images*
to be approved by the group next meeting, Thursday the 22nd at 6:30.

Robert has been trying to contact Tim Lamb about printing t-shirts, since
Nathan has almost found a decent priced shirt package.
Tim lives in DC, so it has been hard, and since we have a template for the
screen already, so Robert says we could do it ourselves.

*Outreach *(Nathan)

Now that VCU is back in session, Nathan wants to start a push for outreach.
Some people suggested tabling at events for often, and
Zinefest will be one that we do every year, as well as upcoming student
events to be looked out for. *If anyone hears of appropriate tabling events,
please contact us!

Budget and New Books Programs

*The current Library balance is $506. Ellen tallied up the expenses on a
sheet that will be kept in the meeting notes folder, behind the PC.
Nathan keeps the money. Megan was reimbursed $16 for the book they bought at
Red Emma's in Baltimore.

Ramey and Ellen bottomlined and completed the task of subscribing to our
first "friends of" program to PM Press. This will be $40 a month,
to be revisited every 3 months. Others to be subscribed to later will be AK
Press, Microcosm, and others. With PM we receive ANYTHING they
release in those months. Jeremy highly recommended this program, as the
Wingnut uses it for their lending library and they feel that they get
their money's worth.

The group also voted that we would allot $20 a month for unforeseen
expenses, like fliers, stamps, special book offers, etc.

*Book Drive *(Robert)

Robert suggested we do a book drive to raise money. *The group approved the
drive will start immediately, and we are asking for books to be donated
during open hours,
and the day before the Book Sale on October 1st. It will go from 8am until
2pm*. All leftover books will go to the Really Really Free Market.

*Film Series *(Christie)
*
*Christie thinks it is time for another film screening to highlight books we
have here in the library. The group decided *One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
will screen on
Friday, Sept. 30th at 7pm. This will also be a potluck!

Field Trip to DC* (Greg, Nathan)

The Field Trip to DC has to be rescheduled because of the hurricane. Greg
and Nathan are working on a date in October.

*Marx Free Class* (Nathan)

Kenny and Eleanor of the IWW want to use the Flying Brick to hold a free
class on Marx's "Das Kapital", using David Harvey's free, online, 13 class
series.
The group approved, and the class will be meeting *Tuesday Nights at 5:30,
starting on the 19th.* Anyone is welcome to attend, but they would really
like
for people to attend as much of the entire series as possible, so that they
can build on ideas and discussions from each previous session.

*Event Reportback: WORK* (Nathan, Robert, Ellen, Antony)

Everyone seemed to enjoy the event, and the ongoing discussions that it
inspired afterwards. The CWC folks were very friendly, and the library
bought their new book
for $7. It was checked out the same night and will be available again soon.
They gave us a "Support Eric McDavid and Marie Mason: Anarchist Political
Prisoners"
poster that still needs to be put up in the library. The CWC folks really
seemed to enjoy Richmond, and were glad to see so much interest in anarchism
here.
There were many new faces at the event as well, which is very exciting!

*Meeting and Listserv Security* (Nathan, Megan)

Our meeting notes can be googled! Megan discovered this by accident, and it
looks as if anyone can view the notes that finds them. Nathan looked into
changing settings
but so far has not found a way to change the privacy. As we are not a group
that does illegal activities, the group did not seem to feel this should be
a major cause
for concern, HOWEVER, it was decided that we should warn people and take
precautions anyway. *If you do not want to be easily associated with this
space, use a
fake name on the listserv and you can request a fake initial to be used in
meeting notes. However, we should also remind you that anyone can subscribe
to
this listerv, and therefore see anything you say, linked to your email. This
is not hard to trace back to an IP address, so you should still assume that
people
you don't know can see what you are saying.*

*
The folks from Seattle that spoke on the 7th also sent a friend of theirs
who is on a booktour our way. Ellen volunteered to take this event on, and
the event will be
at 7pm on Sept. 20th. It will be about the author's time in the Balkans, as
an anarchist, and all the friends he made and the repression they have
experienced.
View the book synopsis here:
http://akpress.org/2009/items/suffledhowitgushakpress
*
-- 
Always with Solidarity

Nathan
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