2024-12-23 Steering Committee Meeting
Meeting Minutes
Attendance
Campaign Coordinator: @chima
Membership Coordinator: @HipGnosis Absent
Education Coordinator: @Englishpete08
Treasurer: @Turcotte
Secretary: @Bozzii
General Meeting
Date: 2025-01-03T02:00:00Z→2025-01-03T03:30:00Z
Recording Check
- Ensure that the meeting is being recorded.
Roll Call & Introductions
- Steering Committee
- Quorum
- Introductions (New Members)
Reports of Members Sick or in Distress
Unfinished Business
Steering Committee Updates
- Sign Conflict of Interest Policy and Conflict of Interest Disclosure Form
Vote: Schedule annual bylaw review
– Review language regarding Education/Membership Coordinator split
– Finalize online bylaws
– Review Conflict of Interest Policy and Disclosure Form
Discussion: New process for approving minutes
– Automatically approve meeting minutes without a vote if they are posted 2-week in advance of the General Meeting and there are no comments or discussion
Voting-by-Proxy
- Discussion: Should we implement a voting-by-proxy process?
501c4 Tax Status
- 501c4 Tax status submission update
Central Valley Working Class Unity Coalition Meetings
- Determine format, date, who we are going to invite
WCU Article
Select a topic for cycle one:
- Nakba Day
- Working class history (Local Labor)
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Living New Deal
- Issues with NGOs
- Occupation of Alcatraz
- Indigenous issues
- Local history and its connection to modern issues
- Farmworkers and the Bracero Program
- Communicating with non-leftists about issues
- Failures of progressive education reform
- Why liberals always lose
- Oligarchs and corporate power vs the people instead of cultural issues
State of the Organization
Campaign Updates
Tenant Union Campaign
- Review campaign plan for the next three months
- Tenant Union Handbook update
- CaVilla Campaign:
– Next month’s action plan - Strategy planning
– San Joaquin County landlord mapping
– New tenant recruitment process
– Capacity management
Educational Initiatives
- Tenant Union Campaign Onboarding / Theory Series
– Teach-in planning
– Onboarding development
– Integrate past presentations and reading groups - Basic political education
– Capitalism 101 primer
New Business
Medicare for All-esque Townhall Side-Quest
- Collect healthcare stories
- Townhall to take advantage of current heighten discussion around healthcare/CEOs
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- Vote: Details of what this town hall would entail, time, location, outreach, etc. We can also vote to create a thread on hashing out the details but we should set minimums and set a date at least. Set a 6-week timeline.
Labor for Palestine Side-Quest
- Discussion of involvement with Labor for Palestine
- Strategy for reaching out to local union political committee
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- Vote: Details for what this outreach would entail and what the short-term strategy is. Set a 6-week timeline.
Community Outreach
- Tabling for recruitment
- Local event participation opportunities
- Establish a regular social event (time/location)