Checkins

Present: Kiran, Anthony, Chris, Charlie, Anders, Zach

• Anders : I fliered Spazz, contacted the weeklies (east bay express, gaurdian, etc). The "weekly" required two weeks prior to publication, so we might not get in. Haven't gotten any info from homes not jails. I sent an email to crucible and tinkers, asking for general things they want to do. They have really cool skillshares, and think the next time around we ought to work together with them.

  Chris : I finally got the actual permit in the mail today, so we have that. I got confirmations from indymedia and indybay. Indymedia wants to table for sure, and they could do mini informal workshops. Indybay wants to do webcasting, but needs a wireless internet connection. I fliered the apartments and got the stuff on indymedia and indybay. Our student group is up and running, but we need an ASUC senator to sponsor us in order to get the money. We also need to work out the signatories - we need Kiran to sign on. We need to attend some workshops whose dates I can't remember, but I can post them up - One to become a student group, and one to find out who can request funds from the ASUC. There's another workshop that the Berkeley Mic wants to host, and that's a planning meeting for the next disorientation guide, DIY, at the fest.

  Anders : Liz from CZ will do a guerilla theater.

  Anthony : I got Simon Gelder from The People, and he will be doing it. I talked to someone in AK press, he will put some flyers in the warehouse. They will try to park the bookmobile nearby. I found contact info for the biodiesel people, who are enthusiastic about it. I'm also going to the Ecology Center tomorrow to talk to them about it. I contacted Fran and he never called me back. I'll ask him about the Crucible stuff. I talked to people from the Cellspace at the alternative expo too, and gave them flyers so they can come.

  Kiran : Confirmed with Terry Compost. She listed us in her publication, which is cool - brings in the elders. I talked to my friend Corey, she's going to do a workshop on how to grow your own food in a back yard garden. She might also do a medicinal plants workshop. I have officially made friends with Dan from Midnight Special on Friendster. They want to do two workshops, Legal Observer and Nonviolent Direct Action. They want lots of people to be trained as legal observers so they know what to do. I flyered a lot.. I've been talking to the crew of kids at Santa Cruz, and instead of a workshop on how to do your own feminine hygiene products, they're going to have a table on it throughout the day. They are working on fundamentals like soap, too. There's another group from Santa Cruz who haven't confirmed, but told me they were going to workshop on how to do your own forrest squat. They also emailed me and said two other groups from Santa Cruz are doing two other themes...

  Chris : Spoon was contacting the Zami house coop.

  Kiran : One of my friends is going to come and teach people how to crochet. With the table with fabric, needles, scissors, we'll have paintbrushes and stencil making supplies.

  Anders : I'm going to try really hard to find a non-electric sewing machine.

  Anthony : They're REALLY heavy.

  Anders : There's a silkscreening workshop that happens every week at the long haul, I want them to do it.

Schedule

• Chris : Who's doing Berkeley Worms?

  Chris : Charlie, these notes are verbetum!

  Anders : stupid clownarchists not responding...here's this thing (hands paper to chris)

  Chris : Right now we have 10 workshops. Two an hour from 1 to 5... but we need to give people breaks. We could take people off workshops, like Beehive Collective or Adopt an Activist, for example.

  Kiran : Adopt an Activist would be good for an ongoing sort of thing.

  Chris : Does ride your bike across the country need to be a workshop?

  Kiran : I think so - he came to us really wanting to do a workshop. And Midnight Special's two hour workshop had 40 people. I don't think overlapping will be a big deal as long as we prevent common interests from overlapping. I'm iffy about starting them at Noon, because that's when it officially starts... Maybe 1 to 2, 2 to 3, etc...

  Chris : There ought to be in tables and workshops, but in general, people like to be in a structured setting.

  Anthony : I'm interested in making the guide. I want to start before the night before.

  Chris : I'm making an hour to hour layout. 1 to 5 will be workshops, so we have 4 workshop slots and 10 workshops. So we have 9 workshops, three per block.

  Kiran : I say we put nonviolent direct action from 2 to 4, because that's the middle, and they're a big draw.

  Chris : But if the legal observer is simultaneous with direct action, is that conflicting interests of people that would want both?

  Kiran : Bands at noon, we need to email them and tell them that. However, the time overlaps aren't a big deal, probably, they can all probably just play.

  Anders : While we're setting up everything, we ought to have a breakfasty sort of deal, even though the "day in the life" theme kindof fell through.

  Kiran : I told the tablers that I talked to to be ready to table at noon. Should I call them and tell them otherwise? I think we should have the goal that we have all the tables set up already before the tablers get there. Let's set a group goal of having the entire setup at 11:00.

  Chris : Let's get the Santa Cruz people to come up the day before and help out.

  Kiran : We should clear out and be packed up by dark, cause that's when the fights and bad stuff started happening last time. But we could still have bands kind of at 5, or evening... We could be taking down while they're playing, and they would have the whole audience around them watching. But what time will we meet in the park?

  Anthony : How about 9:00? We should exchange phone numbers and have cell phones to coordinate the table crew. Anthony, Anders, Driver, whoever shows up..

Tables and Workshops

• Longhaul, Slingshot
• Berkeley Free Clinic
• Beehive (though they don't necessarily need a table..)
• Simone with nitting, share with Sonya doing yarn, cloth, etc.
• Food Not Bombs - two tables.
• Tina from Femina Potens
• Bound Together
• Santa cruz Radical Fem Hygiene etc.
• BC Info/Checkin/Info Center
• Indymedia
• Fabric/patches (non-personed table)
• Berkeley Mic
• Adopt an activist, share with DASW
• Two tables for SC kids whose groups and purposes are unknown.
• Four extra tables.

Total: 20 tables.

• Anders : So what can we do to help you, Chris, get all the tables?

  Anthony : D can't hook up the tables like she did last time.

  All : Loth has 5, Chris will ask. CZ has at least 2 that can fold, and maybe more. Kiran/Anthony will ask Chateau. Clonye might have them, Anders will ask them.

  Chris : I can talk to Eschelmann about folding chairs, find out how much it will cost.

Flyering

• Kiran : Let's review who was flyering where, and cross off what has been hit.

  Anders : We should start doing non-specific place flyering (the street)..

  Anthony : I will do the ecology center and good vibes.

  Anders : nabalom? (Kiran volunteers).

  Kiran : Oakland is us. We have a scheduled day for Thursday. Everyone should go to the show at 21 grand (International Maggot Theater and Stripmall Ceizures) on Thursday.

  Kiran : <b>We're going to bike through the city with flyers, staple guns and have fun in Berkeley, this Friday at 3:00. Meet at people's park. You should all come and have fun.</b>

NOT YET DONE:

• Purple House - Kiran
• Missing Link - Kiran
• Hilarity - Kiran
• Nabalom - Kiran
• Bat Cave - Anthony
• Humanist Hall - Anthony
• AK Press - Kirhony
• 21 Grande - Antan
• Mamabas - Kirhony
• Cafe Van Clief
• All the various random small coops and USCA north side - Anders
• Ecology center - Anthony
• Good Vibes - Anthony

  Kiran : Thursday we'll need a full set of sheets, that lists not only the bands, but some of the groups (Midnight Special, Food Not Bombs, Beehive Collective). We should also have all of our copy sources secured. We need to print before Thursday. Drop names. Santa Cruz Kids. These all need to be full size; we're posting around the city. So.. <b>Wednesday, 11:30 p.m. at CO.</b>

  All : If anyone has ideas for ways to get free copies, speak up.

BC Table

Half of the table just BC, the other half info flyers for whoever brings them.

Flyer side:

• Things other people bring.

BC side:

• Disorientation Zine
• Pamphlets
• "What is BC?" and Contact Info
• Email-list sign up sheet for discuss AND announce
• T-Shirts

Leap Day Events

• Anders : I got to the meeting late.. In some ways I'm excited, but in some ways it's a protest. There are cool aspects. THe call is to gather at 6 and see how many people are there. They'll have a "war map" flyer with various corporate institutions that are bad on it. It ends up at Safeway, and maybe Chez Panise... The targets may be dubious. Beyond that, it sounds like the goal is pretty positive and joyful. The things they call for to bring are masks, potted plants to plant, and pillows for pillow fights. They want to make a bunch of fake foam bricks and rocks and bottles, and throw them at various things instead of the real thing, just play on the whole "black block" nonsense. So the idea was to leave wreckage of fake things wherever we go. That's the whole first part, whatever happens.

After that, a Safeway thing. Sculptures in the parking lot. I basically agree with it except that Safeway is the cheap place for people to get food around here... and the ideas are creative.

• Chris : We could give away food

  Kiran : Do a shop in. Put signs on the carts.

  Anders : There's a thing in West Oakland, the "Concrete Air Band". A bunch of people get together and just make random noise. I think it would be a cool thing to do. We can get a bunch of people to do that. We could probably get 50 people or more and tell them about the other stuff as well, and have two parties.

  Kiran : Any other leap day?

  Anders : Do people want to help make foam stuff?

  Anthony : Yeah, Saturday. T-shirt day, foam day.

Three other Group Activities

• Kiran : Barrington Collective has been invited to three other groups' events.

• Arts and Activism Festival, San Francisco. They want us to table. I'll forward the info to discuss.
• 35th aniversary of people's park is on April 25th. A huge celebration in the park, but they want us to be there, to have participatory things. They want us to do some sort of skill share thing, representing the group, and sharing some sort of skill or something. Also will be forwarded to discuss.
• Girl from Stebbins is putting on a thing for earth day on campus, and wants to know if BC wants to table, perhaps make your own free shirts or something. Do we wanna do it? (consensus: yes.)

COMMITMENTS:

Anthony

• Talk to Biodiesel
• Go to ecology center

• Make in case of rain signs - Anthony

Foreplay

• make a guide/program

• Make a sign for each workshop & table

Anders

• Ask Cloyne council for tables
• Ask CZ council for table
• Ask about truck
• Non-electric sewing machine

Chris

• Email Senator
• Berkeley Worms, check up on andy
• Ask Loth council for a table

Kiran

• Fabric, Scissors, Needles, Thread
• Email clownarchy
• Email SC kids to come friday
• Ask Chateau council for table
• Talk to Chris

• Make T-shirt design by Friday: Kiran

Calendar for the next week:

Tuesday: Fat Tuesday, Berkeley Mardi Gras, celebrations, parties in the streets. 2 pm in people's park, 4 pm at the farmer's market on milvia and derby. Tuesday Night: Cafe Van Clief (Telegraph, 17th, right before Broadway). International Maggot Theater is playing to end the celebrations.

Wednesday: Situationists at 8 at Cafe Med.

Thursday: 8 or 9ish - 21 Grande, International Maggot Theater and Stripmall Ceizures playing together.

Friday: 3:15 pm. People's park, meet for flyering bike ride to end in Albany. Friday night: Bonfire at the Bulb.

Saturday: T-shirt making, foam object making.

Sunday, 6:00 p.m.: Leap day action. Meet at Berkeley bart. 3:00 p.m.: Coop parade.

Next Meeting: Monday, 8:30 p.m., Chateau.