Agenda

Times are approximate and subject to change at the Chair’s discretion.

RR = Period will follow Robert’s Rules; OD = Open discussion, Robert’s Rules suspended;
ES = Executive Session, rules established in session

Meeting Minutes

Attendance: Mike Y., Anthony L., Shaun N., Tiffany S., Minnie W., Paul John C., Jackie S., Alvin C., Jesser S., Aimee H., Lorenzita S.

Facilitator: Anthony L.
Notetaker: Mike Y.

• Treasurer’s Statement of Accounts, America First Credit Union (as of 6:50 PM)
  • General Fund – $9,243.91
  • Mutual Aid Fund – $798.40
  • Housing Justice Fund – $609.73
  • Back To School Solidarity – $1533.02
• Shaun motions to adopt agenda, Minnie seconds
• Tiffany motions to adopt meeting minutes, Lorenzita seconds
• Action items review
• Minnie: National Immigrants Rights Working group reaches out to local chapters to sign Oppose the Farm Workforce Modernization Act letter:
  • Ask is to sign onto a statement against an “immigration reform” bill
  • Minnie says agricultural workers were not consulted and big agri-business
  • “Anti-union bill,” “does nothing to address the root causes of labor exploitation”
  • Minnie recommends we sign it
    • Shaun seconds, reiterates immigrant workers were not consulted and this may lead to further exploitation
  • Minnie motions to sign, Aimee seconds
    • Motion passes
  • Tiffany recommends we bring this up to labor leaders within the chapter so they can bring it up to the union
    • Lorenzita emphasize if they’re part of an organization, individuals should sign on as well
    • Mike to add to call to action slack
• Shaun recaps school board meeting he attended
  • No Racism in Schools possible community partner
    • Lorenzita: Organizing around AB371. The CCSD meeting is about the implementation of the bill.
  • Right wing is incredibly persistent and causing chaos at these meetings
    • Counter-protest possibility? Shaun brings up; just to eliminate their presence
    • Right wing stack agenda make it hard for
  • Shaun said Mia Familia Vota attended as well
  • Shaun to consult with Kris and other labor leaders among educators to figure out plan of action
  • Can recruit even more teachers to DSA
  • Lorenzita: consistently tough to get on the agenda with right-wing causing such chaos (yelling indiscriminately, getting arrested, etc.)
    • Shaun among many non-right wing folks who made comments at 11 p.m.
  • Anthony suggests sending a small group of people to CCSD meetings
    • Signed statement, enter it into open comment, read off names of people who signed on
    • More sustainable, easier to organize around given energy/resources constraints
    • Shaun agrees, thinks people should sign up as soon as agenda is released so they can get on it ASAP — also mentions teachers are exceptional allies
    • Tiffany agrees; offers we extend an offer for a teacher’s roundtable of sorts – a vent session and an opportunity for them to explain call to action to us. Compares to when we did press release for CCSD
      • Shaun, Anthony, Minnie agree
      • Mike mentions it’s a good opportunity for recruitment, as last time we had a roundtable with them
      • Shaun wants to take lead
    • Shaun Motion to reach out to Clark County educators to figure out how we can best help them via a roundtable discussion
      • Tiffany seconds
      • Motion passes
    • Alvin C asks about timing since next CCSD trustees meeting Sept 23
      • Shaun suggests we promote the roundtable at this meeting and hold this meeting after Sept 23
      • Tiffany suggests we create flyer for this Sept 23 promoting the roundtable
      • Aimee: I was going to say make sure you check with the educators on what day/time is best for them.
• Aimee brings up topic of book club
  • Wants to make sure we’re thoughtful of members times when it comes to time, book club may stretch us too thin
  • Re: The Red Deal
    • Wants full buy-in from indigenous community if we do a book club on Indigenous issues, someone from that community to participate in this book club if we do move forward on this
    • Aimee thinks we could read Mutual Aid Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade
  • Minnie agrees with Aimee; suggests we read a mutual aid book or something to enhance understanding of mutual aid work
  • Shaun says it’s typically more talk than action in Nevada when it comes to doing things for indigenous community – so we need to center their voices and bring them in if we do this
    • We’ve started this process
  • Jackie: I would love to reread mutual aid with our chapter first and agree it’s a good idea to match poliEd with our priorities
  • Anthony: perhaps MA can help inform our future work and help us apply lessons we may learn from Red Deal
  • Minnie thinks we should reach out to general body and/or conducting vote in steering committee to figure out capacity for
  • Jesser: preparing night school on Latin America but should we prioritize mutual aid education over it
    • Tiffany: wondering if there’s a way to tie in night school to this book while keeping theme on Latin America
    • Jesser: could proceed as any other book club doesn’t need direct tie in
    • Anthony: don’t have to force it, don’t feel obligated
      • Cuba priority passed by DSA International Committee so night school would tie in well with national work
      • Shaun N: I would love us to read open veins of Latin America for a future book club
  • Anthony: Mutual Aid book would be a great follow up to Mariame Kaba’s book and willing to help facilitate book reading groups since it aligns with ideas on training sessions
  • Aimee: has copies and distributed copies of MA book, and interested in facilitating as well — thinks the mutual aid stewards should facilitate or co-facilitate and be a major part of that book club discussion group
    • Same with housing! All seem receptive to it
  • Anthony: MA leads into holiday solidarity so well!
  • Aimee motions for next book club to be Mutual Aid by Dean Spade
    • Anthony seconds
    • Motion passes
  • Anthony: we should get community partners to participate in this as well
• Updates from SC
  • Minnie: troubleshooting why people are having issues getting onto national committees, and if people are successful getting on committees we want to know why as well
    • Shaun: in eco-socialism and housing — a lot of working groups and committees are inactive, is a major issue all around
  • Mike gives comms update
  • Aimee says community aid is going well
  • Alvin will plan for first organizer training at the beginning of October
    • This Thursday – Spoke how-to training
  • Lorenzita: wants to keep doing outreach with community organizations
    • Led formal positions working group, next meeting will be a skeletal outline of chapter platform
    • In DC for coalition work next week
  • Anthony: impressed with formal positions working group and turnout
    • Facilitated mental health
    • With Tiffany’s help: created slack channel
    • Runs down suggestions for upcoming organizer training
      • 1) Running Meetings & Facilitation
      • 2) Chapter Structure & How-To’s for Members
      • 3) Intent-based Leadership (helping members increase self-ownership and engagement)
    • Formally appointed to growth & development sub committee – including running meeting & faciliations
    • Jackie: update on “Roberts Rules trainings”
      • Alvin C: applied for multiple Roberts Rules trainings, no word back
  • Shaun: update, working with Victoria Flores at Solidarity Fridge.
    • Wants to support street vendor event
    • Wants to go to event similar to sunday solidarity that multiple community organizations participate in
      • For example,
    • Gender Justice NV: Training on trans issues, gender identity possible for LVDSA; Sy a contact here
    • Paul John and Shaun talking with Animal Save about Halloween event
  • Jackie: member engagement 1 on 1s more automated, housing has issues bc of cancellation of research session — determining locations for canvass possibly for this weekend
    • Might have to cancel canvass for this weekend if we don’t determine location at Tuesday 9/14 meeting
  • Tiffany: created subgroups for action network for all priority stewards, sent them guide and offered them additional training opportunities
    • Housing justice group: opportunity for training with action builder
    • Wants to create member portal and post to website, creating ideas
  • Aimee: Budget Working Group
    • Merch is a necessity
    • Have to be mindful of what priority stewards need to have budgeted
    • Will set up When to Meet for next Budget Working Group
      • Wants to finalize budget in this one, ideally
    • Would like to bring forth purchasing resolution and set budget for next 9 months at the next steering committee — for vote at the next general meeting
• Shaun motions to move to executive session
  • Anthony seconds
• Executive Session begins at 8:10 pm
  • End of Executive Session at 9:02 pm
• Alvin wants to make sure language in electoral priority work – candidate questionnaire on google form vs changing resolution itself – does not violate FEC laws
  • Scrub mention of coordinated or IE campaign in electoral priority resolution?
    • Or just Google form question
  • Candidates should not answer that question as stated
  • Language should be directed at general body not candidate to make sure it isn’t in violation
  • Motion to set up text bank or phone bank to notify members of chapter who are also SCC members
    • Minnie seconds
    • Tiffany mentions We have a tagged list in Action Network
    • Motion passes
  • Tiffany: endorsement criteria was approved by general body, and we might need to call emergency vote to ratify it
    • Minnie: if it’s only about the google form itself not the resolution then we don’t need to go to emergency meeting; nothing to vote on
  • Anthony thinks we can scrub mention without consulting general body
    • Alvin: steering committee will determine process
    • Anthony: should we remove question from google form entirely?
    • Tiffany: helped write the question, thinks we can just get rid of question
      • Anthony motions on the floor to scrub specific question from google form candidate questions due to legal compliance
        • Article IX – no illegal campaign contributions
          • Within scope of steering committee to scrub this question
        • Seconded by Minnie
• Anthony motions Alvin has to inform general body that he will not directly engage in electoral priority work due to conflict of interest – member of steering committee and paid member of Amy Vilela campaign. Also: inform general body they can enact stricter transparency through a resolution
  • Minnie seconds
  • Anthony wants to protect Alvin and campaign by making members aware of situation
  • Motion passes
  • Slack and email draft via Alvin / Anthony / Mike to send out
• Meeting is adjourned at 9:20 p.m.