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Think Twice 4 Conference COVID-19 considerations

Gregory Engels March 12, 2020 March 12, 2020

Dear Friends, The WHO have called the new COVID-19 illness, which is currently spreading, a global pandemia. As a result countries are taking drastic measures, limiting international travel and big gatherings. Yet the virus spread seems to closely follow an exponential curve, meaning that we all need to take precautions to slow down the infection rate, in order to protect the people in higher risk groups. The situation of international travel bans and country lockdowns is changing rapidly every day. Czech Republic is, as of today (12.03.2020), not on lockdown, so currently the events like the Think Twice conference are not banned. But we need to evaluate the possible scenarios …

ECOSOC News

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, …

General Assembly News

A Review of the 2019 PPI General Assembly

KG December 9, 2019 February 18, 2020

The PPI 2019 GA has officially ended, but it appears that we will have another GA in the near future. We want to take this opportunity to share a review of the GA. We resolved some issues, didn’t resolve others, and proposed new solutions. We thank everyone for coming to the event. It was a great turnout. We succeeded in our first ever all-online GA, which is an accomplishment in itself. =REVIEW OF THE 2019 PPI= Day One Complete Minutes of Day One: https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=PPI_Minutes_2019_12_07 Complete Minutes of Day Two: https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=PPI_Minutes_2019_12_08 Tally of countries present Austria Catalonia Germany Israel Italy France Czech Norway Netherlands Brazil Luxembourg Greece Russia arrived late but …

General Assembly News

Join the PPI GA Now, All You Need to Know

Raymond Johansen November 30, 2019 November 30, 2019

As many of you know our yearly General Assembly is held on December 7th and 8th. But from tomorrow you will be able to debate motions and give input through Discourse. This years assembly, GA hereafter, will be purely online. To do that we have set up software to make sure everything runs smoothly and that everyone gets heard. Naturally we will therefor need you to be registered with a user account in each of these, lets call them, apps. The success of our preparation and your participation rests fully on knowing who you are and who you formally represent. Lets run trough this step by step. General Assembly Webinar, …

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PPI General Assembly 2019!

Bailey Lamon October 19, 2019 February 18, 2020

Dear Pirates, We are pleased to announce that the 2019 PPI General Assembly will take place on the weekend of December 7th and 8th, and it will be entirely online. Please use the following form to sign up for the event: http://bit.ly/PPIGA2019 After you fill in this form, starting on the 1st of December you will get access to three places: a Discourse forum for debates, the meeting room in Discord, and Congressus for the agenda and meeting minutes. You will also need to submit your statute proposals no later than November 9th. There is no deadline for board nominations or procedural motions. As you may be aware, the PPI board …

ECOSOC News

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 …

ECOSOC News

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 …

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PPI General Assembly 2019: Callout for hosts!

Bailey Lamon July 16, 2019 July 16, 2019

Dear Pirates, It’s that time again! PPI is starting to prepare its 2019 annual General Assembly. The board is reaching out toward you, the member parties, to ask whether you would like to host this year’s GA. It is not very often that we are able to get all of us in the same place, so GAs are a great and invaluable opportunity for exactly this…to see each other face to face, network, make important decisions about our movement, brainstorm, share, and develop relationships among Pirates in the international community. Would you like to contribute to the development of the Pirate movement at large? Do not hesitate to take this …

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Pirates at the UNOG

KG April 12, 2019 February 18, 2020

This past week Pirate representatives Alex Kohler and Pat Mächler visited the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) at the United Nations Office At Geneva (UNOG). PPI has an amazing opportunity as a recognized member of the UN Economic and Social Affairs Committee (ECOSOC) to host and attend UN events in NY, Geneva, and around the world. We are working to make a difference by sending representatives to events who will voice our opinions and network with policy makers. Pirates are a global phenomenon and making a difference on a global scale. Pat and Alex graciously volunteered to travel long distance to Geneva and serve as representatives of our organization at …

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EU elections 2019: Top Pirate Candidate interviews organized by PPEU and PPI

Raymond Johansen April 10, 2019 April 10, 2019

In cooperation with the eminent Rico Brouwer at Potkaars, (production), we proudly present the first three Top Candidate/Spitzenkandidaten interviews with non other than outgoing Member of Parliament Julia Reda from the German Pirate Party, Chair of the European Pirate Party and second on the list for the Czech Pirate Party – Markéta Gregorová. Last but not least we also present and interview with the top candidate from the Pirate Party of Sweden – Mattias Bjarnemalm. MAB, as he is called, has worked in the European parliament since 2011 and is easily the most experienced pirate we have in these elections. In the coming weeks we will invite the three top candidates …