Okay. I'll call to order then this general meeting, June 6, 2024 for the working class unity, Stockton, California. This is our order business. Think there's been any changes?
Yeah, we did change it. Do you want
to go over that refresh my memory? How do we change it again?
So, yeah, so since we always run out of time at the end, we've reconfigured the default order business. So we'll go through the beginning as usual, get through unfinished business, since we should address that first, since we talked about at the last meeting. But then new business will always start with kind of state or the organization, which will be about half an hour, where steering committee and campaign leadership and whoever else, basically presents what's been going on in the past month, and then also puts into context what we're going to be doing in the next month. That way, if you're new to the org, or you stepped away for a month or so, you still have like context for what's going on, for the votes that are going to be happening that day. And then after that, we do any events that need to be scheduled, we'll vote on first so, but if it doesn't have anything to do with scheduling, and it's like a bylaw or something, we push that at the very end, and then about an hour in, we'll do the calendar. So that's when we'll show the calendar. We'll pick days when we need to, like, oh, Canvas, or whatever. We'll sign ourselves up for that. But then that way that is all done and taken care of while people are here and we're not rushing, and the last half an hour can be boring where it's okay if it gets pushed to next month, because it's just, you know, BSW got to take care of,
yay. Could you move the camera down so we can see the room? There we go. Thank you. Yeah, so since this is a deviation from what we have in our bylaws, then I would move that we use this as the amend or the updated, or, I don't know, the temporary order of business. And did we want to do that for multiple meetings or to try it out? Or I here.
I think what we said was that it was like until we determine whether this order is like better or not, that we were going to try it
out, right? Makes sense to me. So then, well, that's what I'll move then, that we adopt this order of business. Don't further notice until we decide how we like it. Can I get a second?
Non steering second? Rhett, that's my second. Okay? Thank you.
It's been moved by me and seconded by besma that we adopt this order of business for going forward. All in favor, raise your hand. Probably can you take notes on the votes then?
Okay, I can go ahead, because I, this is a went ahead and took over. Oh, okay, thank you. Oh, hands up, please. We have 123456, and Riley and Harpreet is your was your hand up, and Harpreet, so that's seven, eight. Okay, any opposed, none. Any abstentions. Okay, oh, we have one abstention. I
All right, I'm going to ask if we can move. We can move to the next slide. We want to do that? Did we do a record check already? Okay? I think it's easy way to remember. All right, so we're going to do roll call and introductions. So meeting leaders. Do we have our steering committee? Want to start by introducing? Yeah, okay. Anyone need a refresher? Never know. I hear no's okay. I hear silence, okay, and so we're gonna check for quorum. Okay, that's Robbie. Got it cool. Cool.
What is the quorum amount for today?
I think Robbie might be checking.
Oh, okay, cool. Um yeah, it was four for the last meetings. I forget if it was going to go up to five, and I didn't calculate. Sorry, I'll get that updated. But so four or five, we have a quorum.
Yeah, okay, we made it perfect. Anyone want to reintroduce themselves? Just in case?
You know Robert Hemphill, Secretary, I wasn't here last meeting. Oh,
yep, thank you.
I'm Adriene. Okay, we'll go ahead and move on. Then. Thank you. Anyone want to share report of members sick or in distress?
I'm not in distress. I just feel like I
feel that also no pressure. Don't have to.
Okay, all right,
help. Help is out there you need it. Sorry, clinician, talk Okay. On any unfinished business. We do have unfinished business. Surprise, okay, so we're gonna, for now, we're gonna pause the bylaw votings Yay. I'm sure everyone's a little relieved by that. Doesn't mean it's gone forever, though, so just keep that in mind. But some notes here that during the previous meeting, we did not address certain bylaw votes regarding the treatment of abstention votes, and specifically, we need to decide whether the abstention counts as a yes or no vote or should be completely excluded from the vote total. So we'll be tabling that vote for now. But according to the current bylaws, we're required to hold the second annual bylaw review in July, which is open to all members. So stay tuned. It's coming up. Okay, the steering committee has received significant feedback from members expressing that the bylaw review process is tedious and unproductive. So in response to the feedback, we'll propose changes in August to streamline the process. One key proposal is to modify the requirements for amending bylaws, the new process will require that any proposed bylaw modification be posted on the forum two weeks prior to a general meeting. Members wishing to submit amendments must do so within this two week period. The proposed bylaw can then be presented with a brief summary rather than being read in full, and can be improved, can be approved at the first general meeting where it is presented, eliminating the need for a first and second reading. So hopefully that simplifies things. And if there's any other suggestions, you know, send them now. But yeah, that might be a lot to then consider in different way, but if there's a better way, then that's perfect. Alright? So with that said, we'll move on to other unfinished business. We have the no votes for campaign. So we're talking about leadership. So yeah, campaign leadership will be elected by a simple majority of members in good standing attending the general meeting one month after the approval of the campaign. This is just how to nominate and have leadership members for campaigns. This leadership will be responsible for overseeing the ongoing operations of the campaign. Any member in good standing is eligible to run for campaign leadership once a campaign has been authorized. So we want to have some nominations. Do we have a nomination?
I'm guessing he's nominating Bismarck right now, but I can't I
was about to summarize, but yes, Harpreet is Harpreet. Yes,
I was nominating her. Okay, yeah, she's been helping out with the baseline stuff we need to launch the campaign, and I think it would be in capable hands if we nominated her or elected her as a leader of the novotrogen side campaign.
Awesome. Any other nominations would you like to nominate yourself? That's always an option too. I'm
just checking the volume. Okay, that's better. Okay,
Chris, oh, look like you had your hand up. Okay, yeah. So still figuring it out. I get it, yeah. All right, well, could we always like, add more nominations? Okay, cool. So. Can keep that open, and then this, as far as voting for nominations or for individuals, it's a simple majority vote. So okay, we'll go home, blah, blah, blah, sorry, we'll go on to the new business we should vote for. Oh, we should vote right now. Oh, okay, okay, yeah, no, I thought we were going to leave it open. Sorry. Okay, all right, so we'll go ahead and I'm going to make a motion to to vote on the nominee that we instate the nominee besma as campaign leader for no votes for have a second
clarification. Are we voting to vote or we vote? Is this the vote?
This should be the vote. You don't. You don't need to make a movement to vote. It's part of the agenda.
Okay? So we'll just call to vote and then so we are voting yes for besma, no, reject.
All right, call to vote for Basma as campaign leader for no votes for So all those in favor, wait. I
will do after second. I'll second, just in case. Okay,
sir.
All right. Alright. So all those in favor of voting besma as campaign leader? Alright, we have three. Can besma
vote, yeah, she can Okay, that way. Yeah, everyone for yourself,
yeah for themselves, I guess. Yeah, yeah. So we have 789, 10. Everyone voted, yes. All right, any opposed, just make sure abstain,
lowering my hand one second, here we go.
Okay, um, so motion passes. Congrats, besma, you're now our campaign leader. No, I'm kidding. No, I'm kidding. All right, awesome, yay. We got confetti. Okay, so on to new business, yes, so new business and schedule events, so, like it was mentioned in WhatsApp, we are kind of restructuring today where we're going to do the state of the org, talk about things that need to be get need to get done, and then talk about what our super working Monday meeting is going to look like, scheduling events, reading group updates, just updates in general, about the campaigns that we have going on. All right, state of the organization. So I'm just going to kind of read some of the notes of feedback that we had received. Some of the feedback we received is that it can be unclear what is happening in the organization for those involved in day to day activities, and this can lead to confusion and people not knowing how they can help. So to address this, we're implementing some some changes, several changes. First, we refresh the forum to make it more user friendly. Campaigns are now clearly categorized with tasks listed under each campaign thread. We will also parentheses try to provide weekly updates to keep everyone informed about ongoing discussions and activities so those would be sent out by email so that you can kind of stay in touch, even if you know maybe you had to take a step back from the org, or, yeah, you're just like, maybe still trying to figure out what's going on. That's a way to kind of just stay in touch. Harpreet, go ahead.
Robbie, are you keeping time? Or do you want me to I can do it.
How am I doing?
Yeah, you go ahead. Okay,
so we put the time like in the top slide at the start of the section, and then I think we said that we'll try to cap everyone at like three minutes per sections, not like three minutes per turn, just three minutes per section. Okay, sorry. Thank you.
Thank you. So with that, we're also, at every general meeting going to have going to introduce a state of the organization section, and during the segment, the steering committee and campaign leaders will present a monthly overview of recent activities and upcoming plans. And the hope is it will help contextualize the votes that we will be taking as well, and then kind of summarize what we have going on. So these are going to be some of the things we're going to kind of update today. Okay, so going over the threads. Oh, wait, wrong one. Okay, so on the forum, you'll notice the new categories on the left side, including General tenant union, no votes for education committee and membership committee. All the meeting minutes have been consolidated into one category, so you can see at the bottom I. Um within this category, this weekly updates category as well, can see the little blue tab, and this section will provide a quick review of the previous week's discussions upcoming meetings and events and a breakdown of goals for each campaign. And we're going to use the latest weekly update thread to help us present the state of the org section today. Wow. Okay, so we have the weekly update. So you can see week 23 weekly update as an example screenshot there. So at the top of every weekly update thread, we will list the upcoming meetings and events for that week. So for example, this week includes canvassing events, today's meeting, flyering at Costco, no votes for campaign on June 8, and these entries will link directly to the calendar sweet. Additionally, we have introduced a new scheduling link through cal.com similar to Calendly, where you can arrange a Zoom meeting with a member of the steering committee. You can choose the duration of the meeting, 1530, an hour, etc, based on your needs. Steering committee's role is to help members achieve the goals that were collectively voted on. So please do not hesitate to schedule a meeting, whether you need clarification on a task, or have questions about upcoming events, steering committee is there to assist you. When you schedule a meeting, an email will be sent to the shared inbox, and any steering committee member can respond. So this is on behalf of Harpreet, saying he's found these one on one meetings to be very beneficial. The regular communication methods sometimes fall short, so sometimes working together for a short period over zoom can help clarify the work that needs to be done, both for others and himself, because at the end of meetings, we usually only have a vague idea of what we need to do. So working together over zoom for an hour can ensure that everyone is on the same page, and let's Everyone move forward confidently in their work. Yeah, I can say on my um from my perspective as well, the weekly those hourly meetings help too. Okay, so we're going to move on to tenant union focus campaign. Now I think Harpreet was going to do an update on this.
Yeah, um, any questions so far?
All right, so I'll keep time while you're doing this.
Sorry,
I'll keep time while you're doing this. Okay? And
we have half an hour to get through all of it. Don't give me only three. Yeah, we got plenty of time. Okay, so the first topic we'll address is attending campaign. This is how it appears on the weekly update too. So this is not like uniquely just for the presentation. So the current project is the letter to code enforcement about cockroach infestations. So there's a large scale cockroach infestation at the cow Villa townhomes development affecting multiple units. If you map it out, it's basically the entire neighborhood up and down both streets of the development. And our review of Calvillo governing documents indicates that the HOA is responsible for the common areas, which is everyone, everything that's outside of like the unit's walls, is HOA responsibility. And since this is an issue that's affecting everyone, you can't say like this is because one tenant is dirty, it's causing the entire neighborhood to have an infestation. And instead of addressing the issue on a landlord by landlord basis, we need to urge Stockton code enforcement to come out and impose fines on the HOA until they fix the issue. And but the primary goal of this campaign is not just to fix the cockroach issue. That's like what a normal nonprofit would be like. Oh, let's go fix something, just fire grant money. Our aim is to identify local tenant leaders who are willing to organize their neighborhoods or their neighbors, and by doing so, they can handle issues like this more on their own without out our involvement, and then that way, we can move on from here to a different place after
that. Do we have any guarantee that we know of that push like have pushing code enforcement to start hopefully finding HOA like those aren't going to trickle down to the HOA fees that the people already pay. I just mean that if everyone's paying into their Hoa, will their actual payment go up as a as a result of HOA being fined? Do we have a guarantee that that won't take place.
So I talked to Hoa on, or the code enforcement on, what Wednesday. And so the way they said it is, the warning goes into place, and then something has to change, and then if nothing changes, then a fine goes into place. The HOA cannot like defer. Those fines onto the like general tenants, they have to actually do something about it. But the thing is, this first letter we send is going to trigger a warning for the parcel. So it doesn't they there's no action taken until there's a reasonable amount of time that nothing is done. And then the next action would be either a fine or, I mean, I imagine they just are going to have to figure that out and then use the HOA fees that are in their reserves to actually do something.
Thank you. One thing I've also read in reviewing the law two tenant handbook is in their in their handbook, they list cockroach infestation, cockroach infestations as health code violations as well. So that can also be like, like, public health thing. So that can also be another just like course route that, or direction that we can take to or if we even want to involve them as well, just like as another entity. Yeah.
All right, good question. Oh no.
Okay, so some highlights, which, again, this is all part of the weekly update. New long term tenants have reported persistent cockroach infestations and initial attempts by the landlords to address the issue basically fail every time. Fail every time, since the cockroaches are present everywhere, and the landlord just kind of gives up. So they'll try for a couple months, and then they'll say, Well, we tried doing all this stuff, nothing works. It's on you. And one person we talked to yesterday basically said their landlord said they were going to try for three months, and then the HOA told them that, yeah, after a few months, they don't have to do anything. They only have to try for a couple of months
not to interject. Really, there was no warning triggered on the parcel, according to code enforcement, which means that code enforcement was contacted in the past. We have no record of it, so this is going to start the process over again, the formal, you know, code enforcement way, okay,
which wait real quick, sorry, admittedly, might not even the best route for us to go. It might be that like that might be a route that we could take and organizing the community some other way. Might also be an alternative that we could go down road, that we could go down.
This is definitely like a let's do the normal way and then watch it fail, and then use that to get people better. We got, no,
I'm not doing the more tenants we and they can be anonymous, the more unit numbers we have, the more likely that at least we'll create pressure, because we can create a campaign around that.
And code enforcement hates getting political, just from Yeah, my dad being involved before.
Okay, so tenants have expressed fear of landlord retaliation, but they are willing to confront the HOA. So once you tell them, hey, this is not like really, the HOA is ripping off your landlord, and once you say that, they kind of, they hop on board. And then, yeah, I think the fact, once we connect the fact that their rent is going towards the HOA fees that they're paying into this and being charged extra by their landlord for service that's not happening that convinces people even more. And then for recent updates, we completed our letter of Code Enforcement, hypothetically working with a few tenants. We also created a one page explainer that outlines the importance of contacting Stockton code enforcement, challenging the HOA, and then the importance of collective action, which shout out to other Peter who helped us draft that. And then this document will distribute to tenants once we get into a fire form. So far, we have 11 signatures. Several tenants have expressed interest in asking their neighbors to sign up, or asking, you know, like a sister or someone that else lives there to sign up and also to meet with us again. So we believe we're making progress in building local Tenant Association leaders that hopefully we can recruit to build something stronger by the end of the month and then goals. So use the widespread cockroach infestation, like I said, to motivate tenants to join and participate in the cow Villa tenant association. So the tenant union is us. Each area gets a tenant association. And again, the aim is to obtain signatures from a majority of the affected tenants to demonstrate collective concern and support, and then hopefully, by the end of the month, plan a meeting with calvilla, the cowboy Tenant Association, to discuss next steps. Ideally, we can include the tenants who have been more engaged and have worked with us throughout the month, and then we, maybe we can hold that meeting there. They did say, the HOA lady goes home, and so now that we can be there at like seven, 730 and. Still light out, then maybe we can just hold the meeting there without the tenants being worried about the HOA because they were barbecuing there, and one lady told me that they're doing it because the HOA lady has gone home. And so yeah, we might be able to just meet there without them being afraid of retaliation. And then also, hopefully this month, we can finalize the WCU to you handbook. All right, so gonna speed up a little bit.
Nine minutes. Sorry. Okay, thank you. Got nine minutes left, the
tenant union focus campaign, right? This at the very end is the action item. So this is kind of where we list. This is the this is the stuff we got to work on. The links there with the details here that is linked to another thread. So if you go back to the website, this is the tenant union focus campaign under there's tasks, and each one of those links in the weekly update under action items is a thread. So if you click on letter to code enforcement, you will see this. And so this is basically a detailed breakdown of like these items, so you see them here. So at the top of the link thread again, you have another link to schedule a meeting with us. We'd much rather just talk to you for like half an hour and then make it so you can do like, an hour or two of work, because that's better than us doing two hours of work like on our own. And then if you're logged on, if you hit the pencil icon here, you can go in, just type in your name under assign to that way we know you're taking care of it. Once you start working on it, do the pencil icon again. Press X, but in progress that we know you're working on it. And once you're done, just leave a reply so we know you're done. And then if everything looks good, then whoever made the thread can go ahead and just put the X there. These are not the only things you can work on. So if you feel like, hey, this, I have this other idea that we haven't talked to anyone before, just reply on the thread. And if everyone agrees, everyone agrees that we should do it, we just add it to the table. We'll continue working. So this is not like steering, coming up with like stuff for people to do. This is ideally everything we all decide to do. We're just organizing it a bit so everyone knows what's going on. And yeah, the ultimate goal of the weekly update threads and these task details is to enable anyone to hop on and start working on something without having to be at the latest meetings and have gone to the latest canvassing, etc. I know that's been a problem so far, but hopefully with these threads it helps. But if you still feel like they're not really helping give us feedback, because that's what we want them to do, if they're not really help, not really enabling that, then they're kind of, you know, not up to par, and a waste of time. And then the last right, and then also underneath the thread, we have more detail than just like these bullet points. Hopefully this is enough detail to get you going, and then we always try to link to a Google Doc. That way, everyone's always working on the same document and you're not. We don't have, like, three different Google Docs for, you know, the draft letter or something. Okay. Last thing, we also want to use this as an opportunity to ask if folks would like to help right now. So we're mostly done with the tenant union focus campaign, like outside of canvassing, which we'll schedule in a bit. But for the toolkit, the toolkit is essentially a way for people to, like, we'll put the petition on the website, and then that way people can just go talk to their neighbors, like, hand up a flyer with the QR code and be like, hey, to sign on to this. But on our end, we need kind of a short paragraph on top of the form. So I know for the Palestine petition, we made it way too long. The form right now is way too long. So we need, like, three sentences, and that's kind of hard to like workshop. So does anyone want to try doing that? You basically take the letter to code enforcement and cut it down to three, four sentences. Yeah, who's good at summarizing?
I like cutting things all right. We're
assigning that. I'll try it all right.
And then the second thing is, we need to make some sort of map, yeah, some sort of map that we can hand off to people, just letting them know. Like, these are the units that have been canvassed already, or these are the units that you said you're going to Canvas. That way we can keep track, and people know where to knock all I've done is like the Google Map Overlay, and that's not super great. Anyone just would want to work that up. You can take the Google Doc or the Google Maps and add bigger font to it would be 1000 times better than what we have
now. Yeah, do. Yeah, okay, anyone want to do the map?
No, it's okay.
Okay, we could maybe just mention it again in the forum, or, yeah, see if there's anyone else.
What wait was the map of exactly
just the development, but also break up each like on Google Maps, you can't really tell unit 1234, just put like one on there. That way people know which homes have already signed on and which homes like if we ask them to sign on some homes, yeah, um,
yeah, where, if you have I can probably do that too, if you give me the data for it, which ones have signed up and which ones
haven't? Yeah, all right.
Thank you very much.
Can I add something? Yeah? As far as handbook, I've been reviewing the handbook, one of the things that has been taking me some time, or has been slowing me down, is having to make sure like the things that were adapted for law to still apply to us, like San Joaquin County. So right now, what I've been doing is I've just been highlighting those things and being like, Okay, we need to verify this. But if someone is like, loves looking at codes and civil codes and maybe like laws to make sure that that still applies. It likely does, but it's just a way of verifying it. I could definitely use help with that, so I'm just going to put it out there. But no one has to say yes, right now.
Oh yeah. And, but with that, we're going to go ahead and Well, are there any questions so far with tenant union dings?
How much time do we have left? Left, okay, for all the catch up. Okay, all right, sounds like there's no questions. So we'll go ahead and move on to the next section, the no votes for that Desmond's going to present. Okay,
so what we've been working on so far is getting all of the materials ready to launch campaigns and to start tabling and all that sort of fun stuff. So we have started to finish up a lot of the baseline stuff that we need, like flyers and starting on getting like the campaign language and the pledge language done, and also like social media posts for when we actually do that, we're still finalizing some essential stuff that we still need to launch it. But I mean, hey, man, we're almost there. So cool. That's awesome. We're going to start holding file flying events starting this weekend. It did show up in the screenshots that we had about upcoming events. We're going to be at Costco. I don't know if any of y'all have been at Costco recently, but they've been having, like, people in the parking lots just being like, hey, sign this to pay cops more. But we're going to be saying, sign this to stop a So we are going to need people to be there. Yeah, so we're going to be doing that at the end of the month. We're going to streamline the process of recruiting people, because we need people, yeah, and then also encouraging them to start engaging and to also come out to the flyering or tabling events, because, again, we need people, and hopefully, if everything goes as planned, by next month, we can start actually going through the approved items or the events that we had talked about before. That's like phone banking, the creation of the toolkit, the fun disruption of fundraisers, ooh, super fun. And also putting up flyers, yeah, and so, oh, okay, so the initial version of the petition is online. We I believe we launched that during the late Nakba Day Rally, and we've been getting some people, you know, signing up for it. If any of y'all haven't yet, now's your time, or later is your time. The feedback was pretty popular. Positive. Many people are very have been expressing like interest in participating and sharing their own ideas. And so the goal with this is to maintain this momentum, especially since, like with everything that's been happening in massacre, I feel like there's a lot of people that are really on top of it now. So let's maintain this engagement, because we don't want people burning out, and also, in a way, getting more a more diverse people, variety of people, variety of people. Sound so bad, a more diverse group of people involved. So we hope to that all of this, the campaigns will get a lot of people and recruit more.
Okay,
so the goal, the broader goal of the campaign, is to not only achieve a ceasefire, honestly, a ceasefire is just the first step. It's like stop bombing so we can actually have a conversation. But it's also to challenge the dominance of the two major political parties, which involves exposing the undemocratic nature of both parties. I don't need to explain that to you guys. I'm sure you guys are very well aware of our beautiful political system here in the United States, yeah, and so we need to work together to develop new democratic organizations and systems to replace the horrible ones that we currently have, and this means creating new ways to support one another, and to not only rely on the state or the or our elected officials because, you know, they've done a really good job of showing that they really don't care about us so we care about each other. Guys, we have to convince people that they cannot sit back and expect change from the was someone saying something. What happened?
No, I'm just waving my brother away because I'm in a meeting. Okay?
We have to convince people, sorry, no, you're good, that our government really isn't going to do anything to actually help us and get the change, the revolutionary change that we actually want to see. And so they need to be getting more involved on a deeper level to transform our system to what we want it to be, and what we think that, you know, voting for a different person will do okay. So in the weekly updates for the no votes for section, these are just like, briefly, the stuff that are taking place right now. We have, as mentioned before, we have the flyering event this June 8, that's Saturday, that's Saturday, and then the week after, on the 15th, we're going to be doing that on the at the mall. We want to finalize the language for the pledge, so please take a look at that and change any like, modify anything. Also design half page flyers for Josh Carter's voting record. Um, drafting the language for social media posts and also emails that we're going to send out to people to be like, hey, please sign this pledge. Um, that would also mean, like, explaining what the pledge is, and like, how they can share it, and what that would mean, and upcoming events, stuff like that. And written text on our on our the website, the no votes for website that explains what the campaign is and the purpose of, like, the broader purpose of what, why we're doing this. And again. More details on signing up for like to sign up for these tasks, just go on the forum. You can click on the Edit, put your name in. I would love to see y'all names there. It would look great.
Yeah. And then that's this one, yeah,
oh yeah. That's this right here. Um, like Harpreet mentioned before, everything up there, all of the tasks, have a short little like, summary of what it means. If you need any more clarity, go ahead and, I mean, campaign leader knows so fun. You could go ahead and reach out to me. Or, I mean, Harpreet knows a lot, but yeah, so go ahead and reach out to me if you're still confused about anything. Yeah. And then before I before we move. On. Oh yeah, go ahead. Okay, before we moved on, can I please get people to sign up for some of these tasks? I promise they're not as hard as it sounds. So the half page flyers, it does any is anyone interested in, you know, going on Google, looking at Josh harder's voting record and putting that into some nice little words, hell yeah, score, yeah,
I can work on the campaign launch
post. Yeah. Let's get it diverse days, okay, oh, for canvassing days is, are you guys available? Okay, never mind. Okay, for that,
any others, any other sign up, yeah, any
other sign up. So like for the social media posts, yeah, the you would just have to write, like a quick, you know, the captions of the social media posts. You would pretty much just be writing a draft. Yeah,
so it isn't like making the the graphic of it, it's just the text, pretty much
drafting the text.
We all think, okay, yeah, yeah, yay, yeah.
Anyone also want to work on the campaign overview? Like a brief summary. I mean, yeah, it's just talking about, like, why what we're doing and what the purpose of it is. I mean, I could help you work on these two okay. All right, awesome. Thank you guys.
All right, our next technology.
There's some notes there.
All right, should I? Should I just read off this? Okay, we, we got the database to work, and we linked it to all of our payment information. So we now have, when dues are ready, they are put into a database, and we have a record of those dues. And it's great. We used n a n, which is like an automation tool, so we basically take all of the data from the dues payment website and we put into our database, and then our database is going to have everything inside of it, so including like tenant data and email addresses, and it ideally will update you when your next due is due. So we'll I, I'm hoping this will make everything easier and make dues super seamless. We're also making, like a, basically a little platform, like a little website landing page, that will have this data at all times, so we'll know how much money we've raised in total, and all that good stuff. We're just starting, if you want to help, I mean, we're, we're just kind of taking ideas. So if you have an idea, or have a cool idea of maybe what you want to add,
Hey, real quick. Are we running on time for state of the org or what's up? That's the end of it, right? Yeah,
you got 20 seconds. Let's hear it. It's okay. We can do we want a motion to add more time, make a motion to add like three more minutes. Okay, all right, you know,
just go think the reading group's a separate category, right? No, no,
it's not. Yeah, go ahead. It's fine. It
says 10 minutes reading group updates, yeah,
it's fine. Go ahead.
Am I lagging? Like a lot?
We can't, we can't see your face, so I can't tell. But
sorry, Riley, this part was just to talk about the, like, what we read last week or last month, and then just bring up the issue of low attendance, and then we'll vote, like, in future slides, we'll actually talk about it. This is just a status update.
Ah, got it? Okay, and that our post. Okay, well, let's just skip it then until we'll take the 10 minutes later on. Okay,
we went 30 seconds over.
It's okay, all right. In that case, we're gonna go ahead and talk about the. Super Monday working meetings. So I guess I can say I kind of mentioned this a little bit, where the thought of maybe doing one of our working meetings in person, or kind of somewhat hybrid, I just personally work better that way. So I suggested it, and it might also allow us to kind of do, like, actual breakout rooms, or kind of where we can kind of focus more on one thing, rather than us talking over each other on Zoom and trying, like, Wait, are you talking to that? Are you talking about this thing? Or, oh no, Chris and Harvey are doing a code thing. Okay, never mind. And then some other people are working on something separate, and it gets a little confusing. So that's why this was kind of suggested. So right now it's being considered for the last Monday of every month, and they'll last approximately two hours. It's still going to be hybrid. So for those who can't make it in person, you know it's still going to be available on Zoom. But the idea is that we kind of have a strict timeline. So an example could be where we have 45 minutes on the focus campaign, 45 minutes on another focus campaign, 30 minutes on other remaining tasks. So that kind of totals up to the two hours, but the timeline will be announced ahead of time. So if there's something that you think needs more priority, definitely speak up about it, or else it's not going to get added. So that's how it works here this way. If you're only interested in a specific portion, you can join in person or online during that relevant timeframe. So yeah, we all have busy schedules, so if you can only make it for a certain section, perfect. So yeah, if you're working on a tenant union campaign in the first 45 minutes, that group, can continue working in the other room or use a phone or laptop to maintain a zoom conversation there. But yeah, the idea is to kind of have that physical space we could still collaborate more effectively, unlike zoom where, you know, sometimes breakout rooms don't always work, or we don't have to worry about it just being focused on one thing the whole time, and then we don't get a chance to work on other stuff. So just look out for that. And, yeah, it only works if we participate. So, you know, I encourage people to kind of also participate in that. Oh, we have to vote on it. Okay. So, yeah, I just thought we're doing it. But yeah, okay, so we're going to go ahead and put a vote, put it up for a vote. I would been fine without voting on it, honestly, but let's be democratic here. So alright, we're going to go, I'm going to go ahead and make a motion to vote that we implement the super Monday working meetings on the last Monday of every month. Bosma seconds, second, Riley as well. All right, so all those in favor of third, authored it super Monday. Chris is not here right now, but hopefully he meant, he said, wanted to vote in favor. 123456, here. Any online, we have seven, eight, Riley, a, nine. Okay, it passes you Yes, is that how you say it? Alright? Motion passes. Great Hope. See you all there. Okay,
two minutes under time, so good. Voted on
passing the super Monday, working, meeting, Chris, if you want to put on the record Chris abstained from his from the vote. We don't know what it means, though. We'll vote on it another time. Alright, so we're moving on to scheduling. So this is what we have so far, but we have a couple of things that we need to schedule so near the end of this month of June, we would like to schedule a meeting where we meet with the other organizers from Cal villa. We're going to try to zoom this in.
Wait, sorry, real quick before we do scheduling, should we move the reading group thing before scheduling? Because it might affect the scheduling. Yeah,
okay,
there you go, reading group. Okay, so we don't have the slide up anymore. Riley, so, but you wanted to kind of mention it. Okay, all right, so if you want to go ahead and give your update,
please? Yeah. Okay. So basically, the issue is that the reading group attendance has been trash the last couple of meetings, and people, even when people come, they haven't read what they were supposed to read right now, I don't know exactly what the issue is. I think that it partially, it's the time it's relatively late in the evening on a Wednesday, might be hard for people who have work or families, whatever, right? I think also, partially it might be the content where that we're reading. I. We had like, when I was doing it on the my Discord server, we were reading things that we thought were like interesting, at least in that was the idea, um, whereas we, when we brought it over to WSU, we kind of voted to read, to choose articles that were relevant to what we were doing. But I immediately noticed that no one was interested in reading those things. So I'm wondering if maybe we should both change the time and day and the content that we're choosing to read. So I don't know what time everyone would be more available. Maybe it'd be a weekend thing.
And I just add something and
obviously what we choose to read? Yeah, go ahead.
Sorry, yeah, I think you are liking, um, so I was just wondering if, before we do that or have a discussion on it, if you can also just summarize what we what we're what was talked about in the readings, the last rings. Or for those who attended, if you didn't attend, for example, um, if they're open to summarizing, well,
we had a total of two, so one of you
okay, but I didn't attend the last one. So, and I don't know if Riley did, so whoever attended that one can also,
no, you did. You did attend last one. I
meant the last last I meant the and, wait, oops, last one. Okay,
it's just the most recent one, then the last month. Yeah, okay, last month. Okay, Riley, do you want to, or should I?
Oh, you can, if you want, if you have it like off the top of your head. I don't really have the notes off the top of my head.
Yeah, I did write a summary. I can
grab them and find them. Oh, yeah, go ahead.
Okay, just from what we I can remember I listened to the reading. So thank you for making that the audio for the reading. That was very helpful. I still went back and got the like, the actual text to kind of reference back on, I think it's, I think it's a very good like, foundational or kind of introductory type of thing on how to like organize, or how to incorporate that, as far as, like, the types of behaviors and language that you might use to kind of invite or incentivize people to join your group or join a union organizing, etc. I think, you know, it would have been nice to have more people participate, or just read it, so that we can, you know, actually talk about, okay, do we think that this is a tool that would be beneficial for our organization? I think that it can be. And so we also talked about some of the, you know, some of the things that could be helpful, or how we can, I forgot the word, but basically just like, structure it so that it fits our needs. And so some of the, there were some of those questions posed by Harpreet of like, if, is, if this is some of these tools, or some of these, like acronym, like the aeiou, for example, is something that we can use in our methods of maybe even recruiting people for the no votes for or for tenant union organizing and Thinking about, you know, maybe are, have we been leading maybe a way that isn't as effective, and these things can maybe be more effective. So we talked about that briefly, and that's what I can remember right now. I don't know if you want to add anything else.
Riley, um,
no. I mean, I maybe not a question. I actually do think a lot of the content of the last reading, because it is just an introduction to a wider set of potential articles that we could read. Because I think that, I think there's an article that represents every single one of the letters, whereas we just read the introduction one. I do actually think that maybe not aeiou, but at least there's a bunch of different kinds of acronyms out in the space, but just picking one of them and running with it, I think is a good idea. AEIOU, where is easy to remember, so seems perfectly reasonable to that we should adopt it to me.
So the the other articles that Riley's talking about, if you do want to listen to it, it's also on our YouTube channel, so I made them public so you can just go find them that one's two hours long with all the articles combined,
but you can speed it up.
Oh, so it's short. Okay, easy, listen, okay,
the other stuff, yes, go ahead, yeah,
yeah, well, okay, so I just wanted to let everyone know about attending. Issues, all that kind of stuff. So yeah, time, I know that's what I'm saying. So when we go to do scheduling, let's take keep in consideration. All right, cool. Also, that was five minutes. That wasn't 10 minutes. I would say
for myself, I have therapy on those days, and sometimes I just want to chill at the end of the day. So that's my own thing,
all the more reason to reschedule it.
Yeah, I'm just going to speak for myself as well. Wednesday nights don't work for me anymore, and it makes me very sad, because I actually do want to be in the reading groups, and I've been reading a couple of the articles I have been going over, so I am totally for changing the day.
What about Tuesdays? I What My problem's Wednesday? Okay, yeah, what I we need to find a day that works. My problem with the Wednesday is it's the middle of the week, and I usually fall asleep immediately after I get home from work.
Okay, so, so far Tuesdays.
I mean, if we, if we can all pick, oh, sorry, Tuesday doesn't work for me, because it's, I have family dinners on Tuesday. I actually think that we should probably pick a weekend evening once a month, or something like that, because then, in theory, we could do it in person. I mean, unless, unless you have, like, a, you know, a service job where you're working in the evenings. That's, you know, whatever
nightlife job
my with weekends, we can do them like in the morning, but because, for, like, a lot of rallies or events that we do for the no votes for We usually do them on weekends so people can come out. We can still do a weekend. But I just want to know like, if we're planning to do the reading group morning, like weekend mornings or nights, and then we can plan rallies or events like that around it. I just did want to make that clear, just so we can bear that in mind. Good point.
Do we normally do rallies on Sundays, or we usually do on Saturdays? Right? Saturdays? Yeah, cuz I the thing is, like we Sunday seems like the main one of the days that, like no one ever tries to schedule anything. And I don't really know why, but we like never schedule anything for Sunday,
Sunday scaries, that's why.
Well, if we don't, we should talk about scheduling on the calendar slide, okay. But at least, does anyone else thought about it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Does anyone else have a reason for that they want to get for why they can't attend to spend more timing?
I mean, I can say another thing too, like, sometimes it could just be the time it takes to read the material, and then, you know, also being present for the reading group. So sometimes that's that can be a challenge for me, thankfully, with like, the video, the audio on YouTube, I can, like, listen to it, you know, in between, you know, going to work or whatever. And so there's a little bit more flexibility for that. For me, however, just keeping notes, okay, go ahead. Tina,
I think that at least listening to all this and, like, kind of digesting it and trying to think about, like, why haven't I been attending? I think that personally, I read a lot just for personal pleasure. I also read a lot for school. So why would I motivate myself to read something in addition to that? Well, leftist literature tends to be very dry, and which is fine because it's mostly informational. But I think that, like, instead of reading something that is meant to be directed at me, a leftist reading something that doesn't necessarily have to do with leftism and up then the reading group applying a sort of leftist mind frame to it might create better discussion. I don't know. That's just, that's my general thoughts, reading something that has to do with politics when we should be doing politics. I don't know, just kind of like feels a little redundant. That's just my thoughts.
I would just a quick suggestion, like, maybe there can even be we can always consider, like, not it not just always being text, it can always be like a documentary video or lecture, if people, like, kind of absorb information in different ways, and then we can just all watch it together and then talk about it after. Maybe could be. Other option. Okay, we went over time. Sorry, yeah, that was, that was, yeah,
I was gonna say that. All right, um, do we want to move on to scheduling? Yes, okay, okay,
so um, we're gonna also keep note of having to schedule or reschedule reading group, um, but we do need to think about scheduling with organizers from Cal villa, you know, whoever those people will be, but and then consider, you know, maybe having that at the cow Villa apartments, perhaps after 7pm to kind of wait for HOA lady to leave. Other things we need to also schedule is at least one Canvas canvassing event every week. We can do seven to 830 since the sun is out longer so after dinner on weekdays and weekends, more opportunities to participate if you can't make one of the weeks as well. We need a new member orientation as well. So perhaps a weekend, 22nd at noon, question mark. And we also need canvassing event for the perhaps 29th no votes for question mark. So we can start with, what do we want to start with? We want to start, sorry,
we do need to reschedule the the meet, the general meeting for next month, because it falls on the Fourth of July, according to Paulo, that's right. I mean, we could just have it on the Fourth of July and be real base socialist, but
I mean, that day, I don't know if I'll, like, I might be a little selfish and like, actually do something so, but that would be cool, too. I'll just invite everyone, hey, party at working class unity meeting. But okay, well, what do we start with?
Yeah, yeah. I guess let's start with canvassing. To get that out of the way, since that's
maybe start with this month. Yeah. Okay, so canvassing, since it's going to be at least every week for the rest of the month, we can, we can talk about that. How do people feel about having alternating days where maybe one week it's Tuesday, the other week it's Thursday? How do people feel about that? So that if you couldn't make a Tuesday, you can make a Thursday the week after, or are there other days that people might want to suggest
so Wednesdays will take off, since those don't work for anyone. Sundays, yeah, I guess we should leave off. So that leaves Tuesdays and Thursdays and Fridays and Saturday evenings, if someone wants to do it. And you can pick you can go to Palestine and then not go canvassing, or you go canvassing and not go to Palestine.
Should we just, yeah, typically, with weekends, we've done it sooner in the day, if, like, if we want to keep in mind, like, if people have other plans, but I, for myself, would probably do Thursday or Friday.
Okay, Basma agrees. All right, let's
just go. Let's just do Thursdays first, since that's our work, our typical day, who's available to go canvassing on the 13th, seven to 830 I'm
over here. Like, yes, and actually, like, Ooh, wait,
yeah. So we'd be at calvilla again, doing basically the cockroach petition sign ups.
Me. Adri can do 13th. Chris can do 13th. Tanner is a firm. Maybe we're doing seven. But if people change their minds and like, can we do six or something? Or 630
Yeah, if enough, if, like, two people want to go earlier, you can we just he's got a partner up before we go? Besma
also can do 13th anyone online. Paolo Riley, Robbie,
my work is running super late, like for the next like month, for sure. So thank you.
Okay, let's move on to the 20th or Canvas thing again,
yeah, or even the Friday, yeah.
We can do the 21st for that one. Well, who's good for, you know, we can switch it up. Who's good for the 21st
is the Friday? Yes, besma can do 21st Tanner can do 21st i. Um tentative 21st hang one online. Oh Pete,
Okay, moving on to the 27th then, which we can call our meeting for the with the capital attendance?
Yeah, end of the month, barbecue in Canvas.
End of the month post HOA going home, barbecue that they usually don't allow.
Yes, I can do that then, but yeah, I should be available the 27th
Okay, so 27 anyone else? We try to get as many people as possible. So I guess let's pick between 27 and 28 who can? Who can do 27
Thursday? 27th is a Thursday. That's my Chris, me,
and there's a maybe any for Friday. Oh, Pete, can do 27th sweet, anyone online, seven o'clock
at 27th Yeah,
all right. Well, let's just settle it for the 27th Um, all right, great. And then I think that should be enough canvassing. I think we'll ask again if people are available, like a random day, so we can go back more than just once a week. But for now, that's good. So 1321, 27 is settled for the new member orientation. Me and Riley had talked about maybe doing a Saturday, like a weekend day instead of another Thursday evening. So thoughts on 22nd at noon.
That is a Saturday
at noon. I should be should be brief.
Anyone else, and this is just like to be there for the orientation, socializing, meeting the new people, putting them up, making them up to date with the org and what type of org we are.
Yeah, yes, noon, yeah. Chris, yes. Basma, yes.
Anyone online? Maybe available.
I'm available on the 22nd okay.
22nd okay. And Riley, yeah, this would just be here, just for new members, in case anyone we do manage to recruit people, hopefully now we don't lose them post recruitment. Um, I think it was we scheduled three hours last time, but we got done in two, so just be 12 to
two, okay? And sometimes it kind of becomes a little like social thing too.
So yeah, we kind of hung out for half an hour afterwards, but you don't have to stay for that. Um, okay? And then so we had already scheduled the no votes for Who can go this Saturday to Costco?
I cannot. We have I can and Riley. It's maybe the Stockton. This is for the Stockton, Costco, by the way. Yes, sorry. Load, I
peeps, Al Riley, Robbie Riley said. Riley said, yes, okay,
I can't make it that morning, or I'm not tabling. We're
just going to hand out flyers. Yeah, we'll have people sign. We'll probably have to print the flyers at home, but we can do that and then just ask people to sign onto the petition.
Rob, you can't make it okay. Please have a hot dog or pizza for me, though.
Okay, so Peter uh, besma Riley, anyone else?
Can you make it? Um,
and then the 15th, uh, we're going to be at in front of webertown Mall. This is the one where a lot of other folks told us that they wanted to go. So hopefully we can get more outside recruitment for this one, but it'd be good to have more than just like two of us there. I was
about to say, No, I can't. I have this thing that says flying at weberstown Mall. My calendar, I hadn't booked
noon, when and where, Weber Town
Mall. Webbers. I'm all in Stockton. It would just be copy and paste of Costco, firing and recruiting. Sorry, what day the 15th? Can you see the calendar?
Sorry, on my My thing is blocked one second.
Oh, yeah, okay, okay, just checking in case.
All right,
yeah, I can probably go to that.
All right, so Riley's probably,
Riley said, probably I should, probably I should also be, yeah,
yeah, I don't think there's anything stopping me from going so i
Um, okay, and then we wanted one more um. We can either just keep up the trend of always doing Saturday, that seems to be when, like, a lot of the community is available. So this is more about like availability for them than it is like best time for us, I guess. But we don't have a time.
We just scheduled the orientation on the 22nd
sorry, I meant 29 Okay, yeah, so maybe we just make Saturdays, the tabling days, okay, I cannot make it. Okay. Can anyone else make it? I mean, if not, we can move it to some other Day. If no one else can make it 29th you
just to update those online, if you can't hear Bosma was suggesting that maybe after the orientation on the 22nd that we could always invite them have peer pressure people to go flying that same day as well. So how do people feel about that? Chris loves it. Heartbreaks down. Sure? Really Sure. Okay,
let's have a, let's have a week a day of rest.
Okay, so we still have, still have the 20th free.
Do we? Do we want to put the reading group there? Like,
yeah. I mean, other than that, I guess we could think about, I know Tuesdays are mostly free, but I we've tried to do canvassing events on Tuesday, and they're equally not great. Um, but if Mondays are good, like steering, we can move steering. I can do we can coordinate some time for but when
we move steering,
I know so we'd have to schedule steering right now, not later, because we do the round robin of messages and never get this done.
Okay, okay, okay,
so keep steering
20th for reading group.
How does that sound really?
What time the 20th? Do we want to start a six? Do you want to start a seven? Start at eight now, which I feel like is late, maybe
seven.
All right, can you guys decide
I think Thursday works for me. Yeah,
I was just gonna say for the reading group, since they do take quite a bit of time, at least for me, the later like eight would be fine, just because. I'm gonna go upstairs after dinner. Might as well just like, stay instead of, like, five go up half people wait for dinner. Or, you know, like, eight sounds good to me for the 20th that
that's the reason that I originally scheduled it kind of later in the evening, was because that was just when everyone happened to be available was, it's a good way to it's kind of a good way to close out the night too. It's like talking about some random BS, you know,
big brain idea, so
random.
Okay, so we're still considering to maybe keep it for the same time, at eight o'clock. Um, for, but are we? Are we good for Thursday, the 20th I mean, for those that can't make it or don't want to make it, that's fine, but for those that plan on making it, is that, is that um or hope to make it? Is that a time that works 20th? Yeah, can
I get hands on who can make it?
Do my best. I think I can. Think I can. I Okay, yeah, yep.
For the I just wanted to quickly add something. Since we are talking about the calendar, just real quick for the no votes for campaign, we have been talking about having social events. We were thinking about having a nice little movie night we can bring, like a projector go to like a local park, just like picnic style, and watch like documentaries or any movies that talk about like fullsteen or by like full stingy producers, anything. So two tasks. One, to figure out a day two, if you have any suggestions for movies, please put it in the forum. Or, yeah, just put it in the forum, actually, for everyone to see so we could vote on it. Um, yeah. So what days would everyone be free? I was thinking weekend, possibly
