updates: bakery needs + workteams + assembly + upcoming party!

[Bread Uprising Bakery]

Greetings members, supporters, dreamers, and bread revolutionaries!

While Durham has spent several months wrapped in a deep winter chill,
Bread Uprising has been kneading, reading and meeting up an oven-full of
deliciousness. We'd like to share some updates with you, and tell you
about some exciting ways to get involved!

In this email:
1. Upcoming events
2. Bakery wish-list
3. Muffins you might like to be a part of
4. Reading the zine, online
5. Notes from September's assembly

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1. Upcoming events:
*Saturday, Jan 22 at 2PM: 'Zine muffin meeting
*Evening of Friday, February 18th: Bread Uprising Birthday Party!
*Thursday, February 24th: Special springtime bake-day
*Week of March 20 (date TBA): Bakery Assembly

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2. Bakery wish-list:
There are a few things on our wish-list that would help make bake-days
smoother and really increase our capacity. If you have access to any of
these, let us know!
*Extra bread pans that we can dedicate specifically to gluten-free bread 
*A very large bowl we can use to mix up gluten-free bread
*A spare inkjet (with ink) or laser printer. Right now we're using Paola's
laser printer to produce the 'zine, leaving her without a printer. If
anyone has a spare laser printer to donate we could move to producing the
'zine on that, or if anyone has an inkjet printer with ink Paola could use
it.
*A bread slicer that makes 3/8" slices

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3. Muffins you might like to be a part of (aka. work-teams):
At the bakery assembly last September, folks agreed to a new bakery work
structure which incorporated self-organized work committees called
muffins. Muffins are organized around particular work areas, and the idea
is to create a more democratic bakery structure in which more folks are
able to participate in the day-to-day decision-making process of producing
bread. The Bread Team has been working to refine the muffin structure, and
there are currently four active muffins that have been meeting regularly
since December: the 'zine muffin, the Self Carin' Sustainable Vibe's
Watchin' Muffin, the Mirror and Identity Muffin, and the subscriptions
muffin. Full descriptions of each muffin follow. If you'd like to join any
of the muffins, let us know!!

Zine Muffin:
The Zine Muffin works to make a zine that is awesome and that is deeply
connected to the bakery community. Toward this goal, team members meet
monthly to plan out the zines for the coming month, ask for and coordinate
contributions to the zine from other bakery members, coordinate blog
updates, and dream wildly about new media and distribution methods for the
zine. Where possible, we also take a hand working on zine layout, writing,
drawing, and copyediting. The next 'zine muffin meeting is scheduled for
Saturday, January 22 at 2 PM (drop us an email for location info).

Self Carin' Sustainable Vibe's Watchin' Muffin:
Supports the overall sustainability and pick up the slack and support
other muffins directly. Folks who you call when you need an extra hand,
emotional support, pressure relievers. Helping to regulate and balancing
work loads.

Mirror and Identity Muffin:
Asks "Are we who we say we are? And how do we become who we want to be?".
This muffin would be looking at how we are addressing  Race, Queerness,
Class, Age-ism, Institutional Education Background. Questions how we are
to notice and be proactive about how class, race, and queerness function
in our space/community (which is intentionally multi-class, multi-race,
muito-queer.) We would like to find ways to use (storytelling) within the
Bread Community to talk about Class, and Identity.  We will meet the (2nd
or 3rd) Mondays of each month.

Subscription Muffin:
Tasks that our muffin intends to take on are as follows --
*gather information regarding particular needs Tim & Noah or the bakery
has prior to each new subscription and modify the subscription form
appropriately
*create a Spanish subscription form to increase bakery & bread access
*send out email reminder/subscription form prior to beginning each
quarterly subscription
*make phone calls to remind folks to subscribe and/or collect subscriber info
*respond to questions/concerns folks have about subscriptions [this may
particularly include filling new people in on the way that the
subscription works through our anti-exchange/alternative exchange model]
*evaluate the subscription process, both internally and by gathering
feedback from bakery members through an evaluation form [which may also
require making phone calls]

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4. Reading the zine, online:
We have a bakery website/blog.  We are trying our best to update it each
week, to post what we baked and the zine from that week.  So, if you don't
get bread each week and want to read the zines, you can download them
from:
breaduprising.wordpress.com

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5. Assembly notes:
At our second bakery assembly, the bread team planned a packed agenda
focusing on vision and structure for bread uprising. We discussed a
proposed new structure and vision statement, and approved the structure.
We spent some time defining key terms that are part of the bakery’s work,
and
shared ideas about money, resources, and how to have a sustainable,
anti-capitalist, multi-class bakery.

The full notes are attached as a PDF.
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