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IMPORTANT: GENERAL ASSEMBLY POSTPONED

Bailey Lamon December 7, 2022 December 7, 2022

Dear Pirates, We regret to inform you that the upcoming PPI General Assembly, which was originally set to take place this weekend, Saturday December 10th and Sunday December 11th 2022, will be postponed. The General Assembly will now take place during the weekend of January 28th and 29th 2023. We deeply apologize for any stress or inconvenience this may bring to you all. We understand that this situation is not ideal and it wasn’t an easy decision, but for various reasons we feel as though it is the right decision in the long run. The new deadline for statute amendments and member applications is Saturday, December 31st. There is no …

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INVITE: PPI Winter GA 2022!

Bailey Lamon October 8, 2022 October 8, 2022

Dear Pirates, We are pleased to invite you to the final Pirate Parties International General Assembly of 2022. This will take place on both Saturday, December 10th and Sunday, December 11th. As usual the event will take place predominently online using Mumble, however, there is an optional physical element this time. Our General Secretary has booked the Pirate Centre in Prague for the weekend and we invite all of our members to attend in person if you desire. This is entirely optional but will be a fun addition to the event. Everyone present in person should bring their own computer to vote but there will be an option to use …

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United States Pirates become the newest addition to the PPI family!

Mike July 4, 2022 July 4, 2022

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!

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Reminder: PPI General Assembly This Weekend!

Bailey Lamon June 28, 2022 June 28, 2022

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 …

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INVITATION: PPI Mid-Year General Assembly!

Bailey Lamon May 2, 2022 May 2, 2022

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 …

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Global Pirates elected new leadership for the coming two years

Mike January 11, 2022 January 11, 2022

January 11th 2022 – Pirate Parties International (PPI), the global umbrella organisation of Pirate Parties around the world, held its 16th General Assembly on Saturday, January 8th, during which new leadership was elected. Every year Pirate Parties from all over the world elect half of PPI’s board. In this weekend’s election, a German Pirate, Gregory Engels, was successfully re-elected as the organisation’s vice-chairman. The chairwoman, Canadian Bailey Lamon, still has one year remaining on her term. The rest of the board now consists of Pirates from Catalonia, Chile, Czechia, Israel, Russia and Switzerland. “We would like to welcome our newest member, the Pirate Party of Serbia, which brings our total …

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General Assembly THIS WEEKEND! Here is everything you need to know.

Bailey Lamon January 4, 2022 January 6, 2022

Hello Pirates, As you all know, this weekend (Saturday, January 8th and Sunday, January 9th) is the PPI General Assembly! We are very much looking forward to meeting with all of you again and having a productive and FUN weekend! If you haven’t already, please register your delegates by emailing the PPI Board: board@pp-international.net. You can register at the last minute if you choose, but it is much easier for all of us if this is done in advance. Each PPI member is permitted up to 6 delegates. Please submit your motions and nominations for PPI Officers on the Discourse forum: https://ga.pp-international.net/c/ga-jan-2022/26 There are no statute amendment proposals for this …

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INVITE: Reviewing the Year and Planning for Next Term!

Bailey Lamon November 29, 2021 November 29, 2021

Dear Pirates, Can you believe it is almost the end of the year? It seems as though 2021 just flew by, and we are already in the process of organizing the end-of-term General Assembly for January 8th and 9th of 2022. As the winter holidays get closer the PPI Board thought it would be a good idea to have one more event to bring Pirates together in an organized setting before the holidays and the GA. We thought about how oftentimes at GAs we try to gather your feedback and set aside time for brainstorming, but this does not tend to last long or even happen at all because by …

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ANNOUNCEMENT: PPI General Assembly January 2022!

Bailey Lamon October 21, 2021 November 13, 2021

Dear Pirates, It’s that time again! As we move into the final stretch of this year, it is time to start preparing for our main General Assembly of the year. Due to problems finding suitable dates in December this year, we are pleased to announce that the PPI General Assembly will take place on January 8th and 9th of 2022. Our last GA was on July 3rd and it was only one day long. This next GA will need to be 2 days because will have a much larger agenda. There will be more reports to give as well as elections, in addition to the usual voting on motions and …

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The PPI General Assembly is this weekend! Here’s what you need to know!

Bailey Lamon June 28, 2021 June 28, 2021

Dear Pirates, As you know this Saturday, July 3rd 2021 is the day of our mid-year PPI General Assembly. We are excited to connect with you all again and do some catching up as well as make plans for the future! Here are the things you need to know about the GA: Start time: 09:00 UTC, 11:00 CEST Location: Mumble! The server is mumble.ppi.rocks, port 64738. If you are new to this and have never used Mumble, you can download it here: https://www.mumble.info/ Scroll down and click on the room “PPI Board,” and then another room called “Online GA.” This is where we will meet. PPI Board members will be …