PPI board meeting Tuesday, August 2nd
All are welcome to PPI’s monthly board meeting, Tuesday, June 21st. Find us at BigBlueButton. An audio alternative is @PiratesOnAir’s live stream. Meeting times are: 16:00pm EST 20:00pm UTC 22:00pm CEST
Activism
United States Pirates become the newest addition to the PPI family!
Happy 4th of July to our American friends and we’re also happy to announce that at our General Assembly on Saturday the United States Pirate Party became the newest member of the PPI family. The vote has been unanimous; all members present voted to bring the USPP into the fold. This brings the current number of Pirate Parties gathered within the PPI to 31. Welcome!
Reminder: PPI General Assembly This Weekend!
Hello Pirates, Hope you are all doing well. We have a General Assembly this weekend! That is this Saturday, July 2nd. The event will start at 9:00 UTC/11:00 CEST/5:00 EDT. We will be meeting on the PPI Mumble Server: mumble.ppi.rocks in the room ‘Online GA’. Mumble is an audio chat tool and if you’ve never used it before, you can download it for free here: https://www.mumble.info Members of the PPI Board will join the Mumble room early so we will be there to answer questions and help you out with anything you might need before the event. You can find a draft agenda here: https://ga.pp-international.net/t/proposed-agenda-july-2022/373 Remember to review the Discourse …
PPI board meeting Tuesday, June 21st
All are welcome to PPI’s monthly board meeting Tuesday, June 21st. Find us at BigBlueButton. An audio alternative is @PiratesOnAir’s live stream. Meeting times are: 05:00am EST 09:00am UTC 11:00am CEST
New UN Convention on Countering the misuse of ICT for Criminal Purposes
Pirate Participation on the Work of the United Nations’ Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of ICT for Criminal Purposes This article is meant to inform you on the progress of creation of a new UN convention, whose goal it is to standardise member states’ approach to cybercrime and lay foundation to processes that will help fight forms of crime that knows no borders in a world that certainly still does have them. The PPI took interest from the very start of this initiative and now I took special interest in this topic and personally participated in it. Below follows my take on …
PPI board meeting Tuesday, May 31st
All are welcome to PPI’s monthly board meeting Tuesday, May 31st. Find us at BigBlueButton. An audio alternative is @PiratesOnAir’s live stream. Meeting times are: 16:00pm EST 20:00pm UTC 22:00pm CEST
INVITATION: PPI Mid-Year General Assembly!
Dear Pirates, We are pleased to invite you to the mid-year General Assembly of Pirate Parties International, which will take place on Saturday, July 2nd, 2022! As you know, we have been keeping the habit of having 2 GAs per term, our last one being in January which marked the end of the previous term. This upcoming GA will be one day long and will not include elections of PPI officers. As always we will have board and financial reports, acceptance of new members, statute amendments and motions. Please submit your membership applications, statute amendments and motions through our Discourse forum: https://ga.pp-international.net/c/july-2022-general-assembly/28. The deadline to submit statute amendments and membership applications …
Happy Birthday Pirate Parties International!
Happy Birthday, PPI. After 12 years, we look forward to our teens. Currently, 54 organizations are members of Pirate Parties International. Membership in PPI is open to parties and other organizations. Individuals can also become supporting members. The goals of the association are: a) to act according to the major interests and goals of our members, b) to raise awareness and widen the spread of the pirate movement, c) to support the Pirate movement and strengthen its bonds internally and externally, and d) to promote and support human rights and fundamental freedoms. To accomplish these objectives, the association shall, among other things: a) provide for and extend communication between the …
#Pirates4Ukraine: An International Pirate Campaign to support Ukrainian Refugees
Pirate Parties International in collaboration with various PPI members are pleased to announce the official start of the ‘Pirates 4 Ukraine’ campaign. Pirates all over the world are devastated and angered by Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the resulting humanitarian disaster, and the violence and repression towards both Ukrainians and anti-war activists in Russia. One of our brave colleagues and Chair of the Pirate Party of Norway, Svein Mork Dahl, is spending time at the Polish-Ukrainian border delivering aid to those who need it. This aid comes in a number of forms, be it food, housing, transportation, information and anything you might think of as being necessary for everyday survival. …
