Chair/Facilitator(s): Brian T. S.
Notetakers: Sophie D.
| Doors Open 2:30pm |
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Call to Order 3:00pm Quorum requirement: 63 Approve agenda |
| Steering Committee Report |
| Treasurer’s Report |
| Mutual Aid Campaign Report |
| Workplace Organizing Campaign Report |
| Val for AD10 Coordinated Campaign Report |
| Shaun for AD34 Coordinated Campaign Report |
| Debrief on rapid organizing effort against CBP @ CSN & UNLV |
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Consent Agenda |
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Resolutions |
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Nuts and Bolts: Making an Ask A how-to presentation on an important organizing skill |
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Educational presentation on Imperialism By the Political Education Committee |
| Open Comment |
| Adjourn 5:00pm |
Meeting Minutes
- Meeting called to order at 3:12pm
- Quorum not yet met
- Community agreements read
- Steering report read
- Treasurer’s report read
- Met 63 quorum at 3:27pm
- Motion made to move the budget resolution to the consent agenda
- Seconded
- POI: request for explanation of budget resolution
- Motioning member explains
- No opposition
- Passes
- Seconded
- Motion to adopt the agenda
- Seconded
- No opposition
- Passes
- Motion to adopt the last meeting’s minutes
- Seconded
- No opposition
- Passes
- Report from Mutual Aid Working Group
- Sunday Solidarity went well
- Much more work for volunteers this time, lots of people working
- Brake Light Clinic, started, went well
- Might shorten the hours next time
- Was slow at start, busy by end
- Next meeting 3/4
- Report from Workplace Organizing Campaign
- Started Off the Clock Worker’s Circle
- Attendees thought it was really cool
- Third Saturday every month for workers to discuss progress, ask questions, share experiences
- Starting EWOC Workplace Organizing Fundamentals Training
- Ideal for people who want to organize in their workplace
- Qualified to host in-person
- Plans to work on May Day event
- Supplement what other unions are doing while furthering organizing
- Labor Power Mapping Survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScmhWGr3A5TnA_DnVgSVsEyEfa-jpijpozfsESdyIUTJ2QjHA/viewform
- Helps us to gauge which unions are aligned politically vs which unions have the most power
- Request for members to update their union status on their membership registration if they have not done so
- Anyone can take the survey if they have a good understanding of socialist values, even if they are not a member
- Started Off the Clock Worker’s Circle
- Report from Val Thomason for AD10 Campaign
- New Steward elected
- Canvass captain leaders discussed, shifts assigned
- Weekly voter contact updates:
- 124 volunteer actions total
- Weekly Phonebanks
- Over 16,000 phone calls
- Weekly door-to-door canvassing
- Over 2100 doors knocked
- Shoutouts for lead activists <3
- Weekly Phonebanks
- 124 volunteer actions total
- Ways to get involved:
- Phonebanking every Tuesday at 6pm on Zoom
- In person Canvassing Saturdays and Sundays
- Filing party at ReBar
- Friday at 6:00pm
- Speech from candidate Shaun Navarro for AD34
- Requests that attendees sign up for the next canvass right now
- Report on Rapid organizing effort UNLV CSN against CBP
- Grabbed list of students/ex students from our database
- Called and texted people off the list
- Created an organizing group chat
- Discussed talking points, tactics etc. on whatsapp
- Decided on letter campaign
- Shut down CSN CBP career fair involvement within the day
- Bonus: CSN group chat is now available to re-use in the future
- Found out UNLV had snuck CBP into their career fair as well
- Repeated tactics
- UNLV had theirs shut down by the next day.
- Over 200 letters had been sent out to career services within 3 hours.
- Repeated tactics
- Relational Organization is the big takeaway
- UNLV group chat has been made as well
- Important note: CBP withdrew themselves, neither school disinvited
- Students must continue to build power
- UNLV students offered to contact leads so that they can continue to organize the college campuses
- UNLV YDSA mentioned + plugged (30yrs old and under can join)
- NO response yet to if they will invite CBP to future events
- Might want to organize priority campaign
- Grabbed list of students/ex students from our database
- Report on community group chats that have been made
- Encourages others to make one
- Rapid response chats have been used regionally in minneapolis
- Consent Agenda
- Brief explanation of what a consent agenda is
- No opposition to adopting both items on the consent agenda
- Both items are adopted
- Reading list
- Budget amendments
- Resolution to send LVWOC to Labor Notes
- Advocated for by signers
- A question is asked about how many people are attending
- Since resolution was written: Labor Notes tickets have since sold out
- Only the two LVWOC stewards have applied so far
- These two would be the only ones receiving funds as opposed to resolution’s language of letting members apply
- Since resolution was written: Labor Notes tickets have since sold out
- A question is asked about what the content of the conference is
- It’s largely training, strategies, tactics
- Some of the top experts in the country are there
- Debate
- Motion to end debate
- Clear ⅔ majority
- Debate skipped
- Vote held
- Clear ⅔ majority
- Passes
- Resolution to adopt Shut it Down, Abolish ICE as a priority campaign
- Advocated for by signers
- Main demands: Defund, Abolish, and Prosecute ICE
- We will need two stewards
- At least 4 main objectives:
- Prepare our chapter for ICE response
- Support existing rapid response, not make new one
- Target systems that uphold ICE
- Develop militant labor landscape
- Cultivate socialist analysis of ICE enforcement in working class
- Prepare our chapter for ICE response
- Will allocate $800
- Will run until July
- Motion to end debate
- Multiple seconds
- Clear ⅔ majority
- Debate skipped
- Final vote
- Clear ⅔ majority
- Resolution passes
- Sign-up sheet already made: https://forms.gle/v1DegnQdRF9GumyVA
- Several groups to sign up for
- Nominations open for Steward
- Form will be open for 7 days
- Nuts and Bolts
- 101 on “Making an Ask”
- Question to the group: what are some asks we can make as organizers?
- Donate
- Change their mind
- Read
- Invite your friends
- Internally and externally, we have to be good at making asks
- Structured organizing conversations usually end in an ask; today, we’re only talking about the ask
- Parts of making an ask:
- What?
- So what?
- Now what?
- Example: (what:) There is increased ICE activity. (So what?:) We need to increase awareness of it. (Now what?:) We are organizing a rapid response. Final, hard ask: Will you join the rapid response?
- Some examples of hard asks we can make:
- Will you join our community group chat?
- Can we count on your support for Shaun/Val?
- Where can we improve at making a hard ask?
- Will you show up to the GBM?
- Can you commit to making food for Sunday Solidarity?
- Amendment to the agenda: Presenters for the class on Imperialism were not able to come
- Open comment
- Ask for help on Rose-Buddies cohorts
- Take responsibility for onboarding a cohort of new members
- Inviting to events, socials, etc
- Take responsibility for onboarding a cohort of new members
- Ask for anyone to run against Board of Regent member Byron Brooks (district 3)
- Info on next book club: Border and Rule
- There is already a QR code for people to sign up for the Abolish ICE campaign
- Question about Community Safety’s involvement with making protests safer
- Buddy system, etc?
- Response from Community Safety Working Group: we try to train marshals & de-escalation at protests
- Guest speaker (non-member) running for congress
- Project being built called We Vote Project
- Campaign resources
- Project being built called We Vote Project
- Question: could we have polls for people going to events together?
- Buddy system
- Ask for help on Rose-Buddies cohorts
- GBM adjourned at 4:58pm
- Special meeting to start in 5 minutes