The Brand Spanking New Minutes of the Barrington {Ghost} Collective Meeting: October 13, 2002
We started at about 8:45PM in the CZ lounge. Present: Stevie, Matt, Alexis, Ben, Becky, Jameel, Krista, Blake, Sharone.
Check-in.
Agenda.
1. Facilitator: Each week the designated facilitator must prepare the agenda. E-mail additions to the agenda to the person listed in the minutes as the next weeks facilitator. The agenda will be written on our lovely dry erase board and brought to the meeting by the facilitator.
2. Updates: Has everyone been getting the emails? {If you havent you wont get this either}. Stevie is creating a calling triangle in which Kingman kids call Loth kids and Loth kids call Stebbins kids and Stebbins kids call CZ kids and so on to remind each other about meetings, events, etc. He will try to email the call list out this week.
3. Bicycling Backpacking Trip: Jameel and Ben are launching their first bicycling backpacking trip this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Tell Jameel or Ben if you want to participate in this or future trips. {The date for the trip has already passed thanks to the laziness of your minute taker. And I have good knowledge that the trip did not occur. But Im sure they will plan another for the near future.)
4. Recruitment: Stevie passed around a list on which BGC members wrote the name, email address and phone number of people they wished to recruit. Thomas will add these names to our email list. Send any other email addresses of people you have recruited to Thomas at tfiori@uclink.berkeley.edu and he will add their names to our email list.
5. Re-Use Day: On November 6 from 11-2PM on Sproul, Krista and Information Dissemination, a group she is part of, will make notebooks and journals from old cereal boxes and one-side-used paper. She needs help setting up a tent for the event and also needs musicians to play guitars, drums, etc. during the event. Please email her at kgasper@uclink.berkeley.edu if you are interested in assisting.
6. Garden Tour: A biking garden tour of co-op and community gardens is being planned for November. The tour will include workshops on gardening, cooking and composting and possibly a few hours of hands-on work at a garden. Becky, Krista and Ben E. are organizing this event. {As of Monday, this event has not yet been planned and the one gardener I spoke to thought most plants would begin their winter hibernation very soon, so maybe this event will be put off until the spring.}
7. DIY Festival: A Do-It-Yourself Festival at Davis Park {the grassy area behind Rochdale and Fenwick} on November 16 {tentative date} is being planned. The festival will include workshops on how to support yourself as a film maker, a writer or a comic book artist, on bike repair, self-publishing, vegan cooking, ultra-lightweight backpacking and/or anything else people would like to share. Tables for disseminating knowledge or bartering or selling homemade goods will be set up. The film DIY or DIE will be projected in the Rochdale common room. Thomas, Zoe, Stevie and Alexis are the main coordinators of the event, but everyone can participate: lead a workshop, help advertise, help set-up and clean up, etc.
8. Teach-in / Benefit with SOJA and the Columbian Support Network: Stevie wants to collaborate with these two groups to throw a benefit video screening and band show. A video about the murder of several Columbian labor leaders would be followed by a question and answer period with labor organizers and other activists and then bands. A tentative plan for the event to take place at Castro on the first weekend in November was made.
9. Drag Show: Cloyne and Wilde would like to throw at drag party. Jade from Wilde hopes to use this party as a forum for educating people about the queer community. We thought Jade or the Cloyne social managers should come to our next meetings to enlist our help.
10. Discussion about what we, the BGC, are: Are we laborers? Are we co-organizers? Are we advertisers? Food providers? Venue providers? We are all of these things and our niche will be apparent on a case-by-case basis.
11. Sub-Groups: Several sub-groups are currently forming. Anyone can join or start a new one. These include a Womens Group (Alexis and Krista), a Discussion Group (Ben E. and Jameel), a Music Group (Eve, Thomas, Blake and Stevie), possibly a Writers Group (Matt G.). Other suggested groups include art and film.
12. Theses Lecture Series: Matt and Sharone hope to organize a lecture series in which students present their thesis topics and findings to other students.
13. History of the Co-ops: Stevie and Thomas want to compile a record of individual co-op house stories and histories so they can live forever in co-op memory.
If you are interested in participating or helping with any of the events, groups we discussed, contact the person listed as the organizer.
Check-Out: Didnt happen, we all wanted to go home.
Next meeting: October 27 at 8:30 at Castro Co-op. Ben Elitzer will facilitate.