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REMINDER: PPI SPRING GENERAL ASSEMBLY TOMORROW!

Bailey Lamon May 29, 2020 May 29, 2020

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 at 11:00am CEST. If you have not yet registered, please do so by filling out the following form which doubles as a Needs Assessment Survey: https://lime.ppi.rocks/index.php?r=survey/index&sid=667442. You also may register when you join us on Zoom, however we encourage you to do it beforehand so …

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Pirate Statement on Homelessness for the United Nations

Thomas Gaul January 19, 2020 December 9, 2020

The following statement was made by Pirate Parties International headquarters (PPI HQ) for the Commission for Social Development (CSocD58) conference [1] on “affordable housing and social protection systems for all to address homelessness”. This year is special for the CSocD, which is celebrating 75 years. PPI’s statement now appears on the UN website. https://undocs.org/E/CN.5/2020/NGO/44E_CN.5_2020_NGO_44_E Pirate Parties International (PPI) concludes in this paper that technology-based tools such as internet crowd sourcing of information and low threshold access to resource information better targets help where it’s needed. In areas where housing cannot be provided, PPI proposes structured and open use of apps, websites and manned computer labs to help homeless locate resources, …

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Speech at the 2019 UN ECOSOC High-Level Segment

KG July 28, 2019 February 18, 2020

On July 19, 2019 Pirates gathered again in New York City for the UN Sustainable Development Program and High Level Political Forum Pirate Parties International was chosen as one of 34 NGOs whose statements were approved to be made in front of the entire ECOSOC council. Dr. Ohad Shem Tov presented the following speech on behalf of PPI at the ECOSOC High-Level Segment. Watch a video of his speech from the event as broadcast live on the official UN TV channel: Pirates were guests of the UN Trusteeship Council and able to make acquaintances with numerous NGOs and leading governmental and UN officials. In doing so, they were able to …

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Speech at The United Nations Commission for Social Development

KG July 27, 2019 February 18, 2020

On February 19th, 2019 Dr. Ohad Bar Siman-Tov presented the following speech at the 57th UN Commission for Social Development (CSocD57) at UN Headquarters in New York. Over the course of February 11th to 21st several PPI representatives from around the world converged on New York for the event, including Mr. Raymond Johansen, Ms. Bailey Lamon, Mr. Ladislav Koubek, and Dr. Ohad Shem Tov. The following are some of their pictures from the event. The official publication of PPI’s full statement is available here: //undocs.org/E/CN.5/2019/NGO/34 A copy of the text of the statement: PPI is working to make a vocal presence at the UN by speaking at high level …