Chair/Facilitator(s): Tiffany S.

Attendance:  Tiffany S., Brian T.S., Sophie D., Anthony L., Casey L., Jaden P., Jesser S., Tyler C., Crystal C., Sand H., Kurtis C., Juni L., Shaun N.,

Notetaker: Sophie D., Sand H.

Agenda

Meeting Minutes

• Call to order at 7:05

• Tyler motions to adopt the agenda
  • Jesser seconds
  • Anthony motions to move No Kings discussion to be the first agenda item
    • No opposition
  • Approved unanimously
• Anthony motions that we amend last meeting’s minutes to note adjournment
  • Passes unanimously
• Last meeting’s minutes adopted unanimously
• Quick check-ins
  • Tyler all good
  • Lorenzita good
  • Anthony good, but busy, thinks Slack convos are going well
    • Lots of work to do
  • Brian good
  • Casey good
  • Jesser good
  • Jaden good
    • Had applications for comms writers
    • Coming together
    • Still need to recruit
  • Sophie been better
    • Took an informal light week
• No Kings
  • PSL & 50501 No Kings rally fell through
    • Various personal reasons, no one stepped up
  • Indivisible has added us to their logo without permission
    • They’ve offered us a speaking spot
      • Cannot be Shaun or Val
    • Looking for marshals
  • Brian thinks there’s no reason to put something new together
    • Jaden agrees
  • Casey notes that national is promoting participation
  • Anthony is conflicted on pros and cons
    • Cons: makes us look awful & liberal to leftists
    • Pros: We can reach the frustrated attendees
  • Crystal states that working with indivisible had caused negative feedback for 50501 in the past
    • Thinks we should push back
    • Offers to pitch in for May Day coalition funding
  • Shaun apologizes for communication with Barb
  • General consensus: not a fan of the event, we’re stuck in a rock and a hard place due to the circumstances, weighing pros and cons
  • Sophie and Jaden advocate for certain harsh talking points & caveats to be included in response we are not dragged to the right
    • Anthony suggests that caveats, talking points, speakers be voted on later
    • No opposition
  • Anthony motions to accept our invitation to the Indivisible no kings protest, as long as they allow us one speaker. We will send protest marshals and mobilize our contact list to the event via socials and email.
    • Brian seconds
    • Approved 8-1
• April GBM
  • No resolutions sent in
  • Tiffany requests ideas for what should be included in the meeting
    • Tiffany suggests organizing trainings
      • Anthony will not be attending
    • Tyler suggests Poli-Ed
      • Jesser agrees to do an imperialism presentation
    • Shaun suggests inviting a speaker, Leslie Turner, from Mass Liberation
      • Anthony in support, could tie into Mutual Aid
    • Sophie suggests Office Space and Electoral fundraisers
      • Tiffany suggests opening the dialer
      • Anthony opposed for venue issues
      • Sophie offers to do a presentation on the previous survey of Office Space wants
    • Anthony suggests campaign updates, wins, recaps
      • All of our campaigns doing good work right now
    • Tiffany suggests having a discussion question
    • Give AdCom a shoutout
    • Anthony suggests a Nuts & Bolts on chapter structure
      • Tiffany volunteers
    • HGO nominations
      • Brian will take care of this
    • Anthony motions to invite Leslie Turner from Mass Liberation to speak about the Rickie Slaughter case
      • Tyler seconds
      • Passes unanimously
      • Shaun will invite her
• Debrief of mutual aid
  • Sunsol Medic proposal
    • Tiffany motions to adopt, Brian seconds
    • Focused on providing service to the community, promotion is not necessary
    • Crystal will be the POC with MAWG, can get info ready to promote next teaching event at Sun Sol
    • Passes unanimously
  • Hebron
    • Meal train worked much better than expected, got non members involved and should be used in the future
    • Anthony – Kathleen did a great job, relational organizing with small specific asks is important to get people involved
    • Tiffany – notes that meal train specifically worked really well
    • Kathleen – intended goal was to find members of community who are interested in order to get them involved and take pressure off our members to provide food, this is a model that worked and we should stick to, community signal has been made and more people are joining, meal train could also reduce the costs for the chapter by getting more people to donate food and provide labor
    • Casey – notes that meal train pro is $15 per month, which MAWG has the budget for
    • Anthony – this is a great model for the chapter to build leadership, we need to get this ready to replicate for future needs like ICE action, Kathleen should give a presentation on this work and what we learned at GBM, this work is what the MAWG should have always been doing
• Electoral Updates
  • Tiffany – we are consistently falling behind on canvassers, Assembly Caucus has now begun canvassing and we need to compete, we are working on training new canvass leads to increase capacity, there will be a March Madness competition event to increase turnout, National wants us to send 15 volunteers to their phonebanks
  • Sophie – suggests giving out life size Shaun cutouts as prizes
  • Tiffany – At some point in April there will be a fundraiser, this and an event in May are being planned, campaign leadership is at capacity which makes planning difficult, everyone is watching our campaigns and it is important that we win
  • Anthony – Assembly Dems are specifically focused on our two races, we need to blast that to our members
• Office Space Fundraiser Updates
  • Sophie – Currently about $500/month raised, with the grant we would be about 25% of the way to the goal, direct asks have been very successful at getting people to donate and we need to put work into that, having a presentation at GBM could be helpful to get members excited
• May Day
  • Anthony – We are hosting a Solidarity School (part of May Day Strong coalition), designed as a mini Labor Notes, 5 hour presentation with lunch included
    • Potential other partners are Indivisible and Arriba Workers Center
    • Culinary Union may let us use their space, United Brothel Workers has limited capacity but may virtually attend and provide lit
    • We will be sending an invite to every union, most of them likely will not say yes
    • Partners would be given time during breaks to put focus on their work and how it relates to the presentations/panels
    • This isn’t meant to be advertised to train rank and file union members, this is focused on newly activated people/orgs who are looking for work, we can be the bridge between labor unions and nonprofit community orgs
    • Room has capacity for 100, we are capping at 75 to give room for tables and to be able to afford food
      • LVWOC budget won’t be sufficient to afford all of the food for attendants
    • We need to use our connections to unions to get them involved, look for opportunities for a larger venue
  • First Friday Tabling
    • Sophie – Pravda has booked Hola Habibi at 7PM to do an event, looking to do exhibits from orgs about different topics, VFP and PRF have been invited
    • Anthony – we should ask LVWOC folks to table
    • Brian – Mutual Aid should also be involved as it would be a good opportunity to recruit (Juni and Jordy are great options)
    • Sophie motions to participate in Pravda’s First Friday event
      • Anthony seconds
      • Passes unanimously
• National Required Changes
  • Tiffany – worked with Walker to get Hex working, Hex is laggy, can’t share a login like we do for Periscope, we need to vote on who will be given access, people with access to main email will already have access, Sarah and Gigi should be given access
  • Anthony motions to give Sarah and Gigi access to Hex
    • Tiffany seconds
    • Passes unanimously
• Anthony motions to rearrange agenda to put Executive Session after National Required Changes
  • Casey seconds
  • Passes unanimously
• Meeting adjourned following executive session