@MassPirates‘ annual Party Conference will be Saturday, November 14th and Sunday, November 15th. The conference will be virtual. It will focus on planning, expanding their platform and organizing how-tos. There will be lightning talks and a number of discussions and panels. Registration is free and they encourage anyone who is interested in the Pirate Party to attend. Register here. Panel discussions will be live streamed […]
@PiratePartyUK to Close Down
On August 30th, Pirate Party UK announced their plans to hold a vote on whether or not to dissolve their Party: Dear Party members, It is with great sadness that we have reached the conclusion that PPUK has run out of steam. We hope that this will not be a permanent situation, but for the time being we think that there is not enough interest […]
Register your delegates early for this year’s Online General Assembly. And a pre-GA tech test will be held November 6th.
Please register your delegates early by emailing the PPI board at board@pp-international.net. Submit motions, statute amendments and nominations for PPI positions on our Discourse forum. There will be a technical test on November 6th to see if BigBlueButton will work for a General Assembly. It’s important that all of our members send at least one delegate to this test. We would like to invite you […]
ANNOUNCEMENT: PPI General Assembly December 2020
Dear Pirates, It is almost the end of the year, and thus it is time to start preparing for our final General Assembly of 2020. We are pleased to announce that our end-of-year General Assembly will take place the first weekend of December: Saturday, December 5th and Sunday, December 6th, beginning at 10:00 UTC/11:00 CET both days. The communication channel will be open from 09:00 […]
Invite: SCULL Meeting #4, Internal Party Structure and Management
Hello again, Pirates! It’s time for another SCULL meeting, aka, the PPI Standing Committee on Universal Liason on Party Labour! We happily invite you to the 4th SCULL meeting this year. When: Wednesday, October 14th, 2020 at 18:30 UTC/20:30 CEST/14:30 EDT. Where: Big Blue Button https://bbb.piratensommer.de/b/gre-cnw-a9v We look forward to continuing the conversation about the everyday work that goes into running a Pirate Party. In […]
Invitation: SCURVY meeting #2!
Invitation to the Second Meeting of the Pirate Parties International Standing Committee on Usual Requisitions of Various Yields (SCURVY) We would like to invite you to the second meeting of PPI‘s SCURVY to be conducted online, Thursday, August 27th, 2020 from 19:00 – 21:00 CEST in Big Blue Button – https://bbb.piratensommer.de/b/gre-cnw-a9v Who should attend: international coordinators, finance officers. We have initiated the SCURVY meetings […]
Standing Committee on Universal Liason on Party Labour (SCULL), Meeting #3 – Democracy Tools
Dear Pirates, We are happy to announce the third meeting of the Standing Committee on Universal Liason on Party Labour, aka SCULL! When: Wednesday, July 22nd at 18:00 UTC/20:00 CEST Where: https://bbb.piratensommer.de/b/gre-cnw-a9v If you have been to a SCULL meeting before, you know that this is a standing committee focusing on inter-party cooperation and the day to day work of a running a […]
ECHR: Network blocking in Russia violates human rights
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR/ECtHR) in its judgment recognized the practice of blocking in Russia as incompatible with Articles 10 (the right to freedom of expression) and 13 (the right to a fair trial) of the European Charter of Human Rights. Gregory Engels, Representative for International Cooperation and City Councillor of the Pirate Party of Germany in Offenbach, has brought an action before […]
REMINDER: PPI SPRING GENERAL ASSEMBLY TOMORROW!
Hello Pirates! Just a reminder that TOMORROW, Saturday, May 30th we will be holding our online Spring General Assembly! WOOOOOOO!! You can find a copy of the agenda, as well as proposed statute amendments and motions on Discourse: https://ga.pp-international.net/c/online-ga-may-2020/19 The GA will take place in the Pirate Party of Norway’s Zoom room, which we will open at 10:00am CEST: https://zoom.us/j/9303627084. We will begin the GA […]
Announcement: Spring General Assembly 2020!
Greetings Pirates, A few months have passed since our General Assembly in December. The PPI board, along with the Pirate community at large, have been working hard. In addition to ongoing projects, regular online meetings and social events, we have increased activities and communication with our members through the launch of 4 standing committees. We are examining the ways that we can provide practical support […]