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Take Back the Night meeting notes and plans, 1982

Assessment of Take Back The Night Meeting #4 Page 1

Assessment of Take Back the Night Meeting #4

the agenda was something like this:
contacts, city update, t-shirts, statement of purpose/demands, men policy, pat via colette, "name"

Pat couldn't make this meeting but relayed these messages via colette. A report from the Incest Task Force: they offer these suggestions/ideas: in a rally form lasting about 1 1/2 hours of music, interspersed with speakers. That the speakers be "non-professional", that there be tables with ample time for groups such as them to pull info and literature together. Agreed all around that these were good suggestions we discussed the "non-professional" idea. Defined it as meaning that a women's experience "qualifies" to speak. That we don't have to rely on the "experts" to express women's feelings. Colette used the phrase: expressing not educating. The Task Force also mention that from among themselves they woulddecide a woman to speak out about incest, and that the task force would support her at the rally. In general the comment and suggestions were very well recieved and appreciated.

Susan gave us an update concerning the City. She had secured the various forms needed to apply, and at first they seemed insurmountable with their requesting us to list every speaker and crowd control and all this shit. But others said that it didn't look like that much. (Which was heartening) Susan also called around to insurance companies to get a figure on liability. (Dale Helling at the city said liability to around $300,000. Which means [[underlined]] we think [[underlined]] paying out about $200-300 for the policy. The only insurance company that even sounded like they could take the policy was a place in Cedar Rabbits. (Susan has to talk to a guy named Mike [[underlined]] Lucky [[underlined]], do you believe it [[underlined]] Lucky [[underlined, we had good laughs at the meeting over that!!!!!) So she'll have better figures for Wednesdays meeting. It was then decided that we would go ahead and apply at both locations, the Pentacrest being our second choice (because of the incredible safety (or lack thereof) aspects.) But to apply at both in case the city messes us over. Copies of the application forms will be included in these minutes sometime. Also Tess will apply for student status, and draw up a budget.

Then we talked about the need for a "name" one that we would use for the rally and one for the city appliation to make us seem "harmless". For the city we decided on the wonderfully innocuous: Rally for Safety. (cute, huh??) After somediscussion we decided to keep "take Back The Night" but to make a greater effort towards addressing many issues in the PR. We had talked about trying to come up with a name that would more closely represent all the issues. We thought of Take Back the Night -- Take back our lives. Take violence from women's eyes that knind of stuff. This lead to discussion about how much we wanted to be attached to the last rally. Taking into account the "bad press" (ha) after the last rally. We decided that even with the ingornace of the press, the rally touched (and touches) on the one issue that women will always feel together. Violence against us. And that we were proud of our history, and wanted to continue the tradition. So we decided to call ourselves Take Back the Night.

Contact Letter: Susan's working on it, needed some clarification about our connection with the past, who the letter was going to ect.

This raised the issue of money (starting to worry us) Amy talked about how women have always been tapped for their resources (especially dykes) and we discussed the possibility of trying to take advantage of the guilt of liberal men's businesses. At first this seemed like a good idea. They would give us money and we would give them a little sticker for their business saying they supported women's safety. But the more thought about it the more it made us nervous. They would probably want to know what the money was going toward. (we did consider lieing about that) And that they'd want to be "involved", etc. And that when came to their domination over

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Assessment of Take Back the Night Meeting #4 the agenda was something like this: contacts, city update, t-shirts, statement of purpose/demands, men policy, pat via colette, "name" Pat couldn't make this meeting but relayed these messages via colette. A report from the Incest Task Force: they offer these suggestions/ideas: in a rally form lasting about 1 1/2 hours of music, interspersed with speakers. That the speakers be "non-professional", that there be tables with ample time for groups such as them to pull info and literature together. Agreed all around that these were good suggestions we discussed the "non-professional" idea. Defined it as meaning that a women's experience "qualifies" to speak. That we don't have to rely on the "experts" to express women's feelings. Colette used the phrase: expressing not educating. The Task Force also mention that from among themselves they woulddecide a woman to speak out about incest, and that the task force would support her at the rally. In general the comment and suggestions were very well recieved and appreciated. Susan gave us an update concerning the City. She had secured the various forms needed to apply, and at first they seemed insurmountable with their requesting us to list every speaker and crowd control and all this shit. But others said that it didn't look like that much. (Which was heartening) Susan also called around to insurance companies to get a figure on liability. (Dale Helling at the city said liability to around $300,000. Which means [[underlined]] we think [[underlined]] paying out about $200-300 for the policy. The only insurance company that even sounded like they could take the policy was a place in Cedar Rabbits. (Susan has to talk to a guy named Mike [[underlined]] Lucky [[underlined]], do you believe it [[underlined]] Lucky [[underlined, we had good laughs at the meeting over that!!!!!) So she'll have better figures for Wednesdays meeting. It was then decided that we would go ahead and apply at both locations, the Pentacrest being our second choice (because of the incredible safety (or lack thereof) aspects.) But to apply at both in case the city messes us over. Copies of the application forms will be included in these minutes sometime. Also Tess will apply for student status, and draw up a budget. Then we talked about the need for a "name" one that we would use for the rally and one for the city appliation to make us seem "harmless". For the city we decided on the wonderfully innocuous: Rally for Safety. (cute, huh??) After somediscussion we decided to keep "take Back The Night" but to make a greater effort towards addressing many issues in the PR. We had talked about trying to come up with a name that would more closely represent all the issues. We thought of Take Back the Night -- Take back our lives. Take violence from women's eyes that knind of stuff. This lead to discussion about how much we wanted to be attached to the last rally. Taking into account the "bad press" (ha) after the last rally. We decided that even with the ingornace of the press, the rally touched (and touches) on the one issue that women will always feel together. Violence against us. And that we were proud of our history, and wanted to continue the tradition. So we decided to call ourselves Take Back the Night. Contact Letter: Susan's working on it, needed some clarification about our connection with the past, who the letter was going to ect. This raised the issue of money (starting to worry us) Amy talked about how women have always been tapped for their resources (especially dykes) and we discussed the possibility of trying to take advantage of the guilt of liberal men's businesses. At first this seemed like a good idea. They would give us money and we would give them a little sticker for their business saying they supported women's safety. But the more thought about it the more it made us nervous. They would probably want to know what the money was going toward. (we did consider lieing about that) And that they'd want to be "involved", etc. And that when came to their domination over