DIY Meeting

Minutes for Friday, February 28th, 2003

When?? Sunday, April 13 – 2wks after spring break

Where?? Cloyne – pending .Tom made motion last week in council; Stevie will try to go Monday 7 PM to answer Q’s for motion

Panelist Brainstorm

• Gilman (Stevie)
• Long Haul, Food Not Bombs, Slingshot (Tom talks to Peter)
• Batcave (Katharine)
• Mission Records (S)
• Housing coops
• SPAM wherehouses – possibly sketchy intergroup dynamic here (S)
• 40th St. wherehouse (S delegates to Lauren)
• Black Box (Ingrid)
• Cheeseboard (I)
• Missing Link (T)
• Bent Spoke (S)
• Nabbalom Bakery (K to ask friend Crow)
• Organic Café (40th St) (S)
• Berk. Lib. Radio (C)
• Heart Attack (S)
• Indy Bay Media (C)
• AK Press (T)
• In Defense of Animals (S)
• Earth First! (C)
• Cellspace (Alexis)
• Biodeisel (K)
• CCBlack Panther Party (T)
• Maximum Rock n’ Roll (S)
• Bay Area Alternative Press (I)
• Good Vibrations (DIY pleasure wrskshp oh baby! (J) (A)

We narrowed these down to 5 panelists: Gilman (housing), ~IndyBay (media), Long Haul (community), 40th Street wherehouse (housing), and Nabbalom Bakery (business) with the idea of a diversity of collectives that may less known or accessible, and with a history of business/coop transitioning

the rest of this list can table. Tom suggested Plea for Peace, a record label group/peace organization (ask Tom for more info) as a "keynote" speaker beforehand

Workshop/tables rainstorm – what worked well last semester?

• One complaint about last time was that too many were happening at once

.this time we decided to focus on fewer, longer workshops for skill-intensive activities and encourage folks to have tables with continual informal workshopping – obviously most could be either tables or workshops, but we prioritized the BOLD skills as workshops rather than tables)

• Barrington Collective history – Wendy from Radical Relationships wkshp (T)
• (idea to have theory wrkshp – i.e. what are collectives vs. coops? - with Wendy and Gilman old timers)
• Notebookmaking
• Sewing/knitting – Revolutionary Knitters (C), Amy and Jen from Kingman on crocheting (T, I)
• B. Worms/composting (Paul, Caroline, Peter)
• Pirate Radio (T)
• Urban Ore – Reuse Center (A)
• Fem. Hygene (Ingrid will talk to Kiran)
• Silkscreen (S will talk to Kyle)

• Puppetshow – Puppetry 101 (C talks to Tyler or ~DavieDave)

• BREAD (No Ingrid not yeast bread) (T)
• Beermaking (Oron)
• Breakdancing – this would be fabulous (I)
• DIY and the Disabled Community – lots more needs to be said about this. A friend of mine submitted a proposal to USCA @ making the coops all accessible, and after receiving no response he’s trying to organize his own non-USCA accessible coop and wants support. We need to emphasize that DIY is about empowerment, not just hippies making their own tampons (not like there’s anything wrong with hippies or DIY tampons)

.(T, I) Gardening – Urban Roots? (J)

Tom suggested we incorporate BC goals from last semester, like:

• Skill sharing among group to shift burden off folks who are leaving next

semester

• Outreach
• to houses: announcement at Councils including DIY as a BC event
• to dorms: talk to your RA friends about announcing at Hall ASS meetings (C, I), leave info in SM booths, find out about posting Co-op info session April 9th – perfect timing for 5 min blurb on BC and DIY (S)
• Casa Jauquin Murieta
• Afro House
• to larger East Bay: we’re doing it!
• to Freshmen: lots in BSTW coalition (C)

Performers Brainstorm (idea to have 2 stages; one hard-core loud stage downstairs, one quieter acoustic/open mike stage upstairs. Tom will coordinate acoustic stage, Stevie’s roommate Nick will take care of band line-up):

• Poetry4People (I)

• Puppetry 101 (C will ask Tyler)
• Art n’ Revolution (S)
• Dancers w/o Borders (S)

• Hip Hop (De-cal classes, Students4HipHop, Patrick and Brendan at Kingman) (I)

• Maximum Rock n’ Roll (S)

Other Logistics

• No workshops first hour
• Maps and schedules to get oriented (it’ll be spread out – downstairs, kitchen, patio, etc.)
• Will run longer (12-6 or 7 depending on Cloyne)
• Talk to Cloyne social managers (T)
• Advertise specific workshops early

For the future a DIY week!!

By next meeting: make contact w/ panelists and advertisable workshoppers

NEXT MEETING TENATIVELY SUNDAY 8 PM KINGMAN is that OK w/ y’all?