Marty Hart-Landsberg, Chair opened the meeting at 4:06 pm.
Welcome and introductions: Martin Hart-Landsberg, Zachariah O’Keeffe, Jim Smith, Dan McCrory, Jonathan Rosenblum, Kacey Carpenter
Agenda: Marty reviewed our Agenda
The Writers Corner
- Kacey Carpenter introduced the Writers Corner program and shared the presentation, READY, SET, GO! Engage, Energize, and Empower the Writers Community
- Group discussion for our vision statement: independent creative workers, for the future, nurture
- Check out the video recording here
Members Meeting
- July 14 Meeting Minutes
- Treasurer’s report skipped
- Organizer committee update and discussion.
- We have our new logo and buttons and plan to use a union printer to print bookmarks and possibly postcards as part of an organizing kit to be used by chapter members.
- An NWU merchandize committee is working to build a “swag” shop that will make it possible for individuals and chapters to order shirts and other swag.
- Discussion about good value of union shirts, buttons, signs, bookmarks, and postcards with compelling image on front and details about the who, why, and how to join our union
- NWU Delegate Assembly coming up in November
- Open to all
- Jim Smith, Marty Hart-Landsberg, and Bob Rossi will represent the Oregon chapter and plan to meet up to discuss likely issue and how best to represent our members
- Outreach
- Marty provided an outreach update. He has been in contact with the president of the Oregon Society of Professional Journalists and, after reading a few of their newsletters, will work with other chapter members to place a blurb on our work in one of their future newsletters. He is also working to contact someone at the Portland chapter of the Asian American Journalist Association
- Dan suggests PEN America as a good organization for partner coalition
- Discussion of promoting our work during Banned Book Week 9/22-9/28
- Organizing brainstorm discussion
- Dan suggested a speakers bureau to speak with students in writing and journalism college classes.
- Jim suggested building on Freelance campaign that is active in NY and LA in the Pacific Northwest
- Zachary shared the value of FSP newsletter
- Discussion about meeting with members from the Pacific Northwest Chapter to share experiences and explore collective organizing strategies.
Our next meeting will be Sunday, November 10, 2024 at 4:00 PM featuring the Writers Corner with Zachariah O’Keeffe. Stay tuned for more details.
The meeting ended at 5:30 pm.