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Know your voter rights and be your own best advocate on ELECTION DAY Tuesday, November 3rd!

Olivia October 29, 2020 October 29, 2020

I wrote this in August on the 55th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In it included resources on how to register to vote, check your voter registration how people have “mysteriously” fallen off the rolls, fill out your census, and if voting by mail where to look for guidelines and deadlines for each state. People have to address the big voter intimidation factor during elections especially now when armed militias who are supporters of Trump show up fully armed during peaceful gatherings many times in communities they’re not even from thinking anyone other than themselves are the problem. Whenever you go to vote in-person or submit an …

The @MassPirates Party Conference is November 14th – 15th! Please notify MassPirates by Friday, October 30th, if you’re attending, if you’re interested in presenting or participating in a panel.

Olivia October 29, 2020 October 29, 2020

@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 onto the MassPirates YouTube channel. The conference will be a mix of video conferences, streamed discussions and pre-recorded presentations. They will email registrants the streaming details, especially participant details for the video conferences. If you are interested in presenting or participating in a panel, please …

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@PiratePartyUK to Close Down

Olivia October 29, 2020 November 28, 2020

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 or energy to keep going and to justify collecting membership subscriptions. As a result, we will shortly be holding a ballot of all members on the simple proposal: • Pirate Party UK shall be dissolved consistent with article 7 of the constitution. The ballot will …

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Register your delegates early for this year’s Online General Assembly. And a pre-GA tech test will be held November 6th.

Olivia October 24, 2020 October 24, 2020

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 to a technical test on Friday, November 6th, at 6:00pm UTC / 8:00pm CET. We will meet in the PPI BigBlueButton room. The point of this test is to see if BigBlueButton will work for a General Assembly, so it is important that all of …

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ANNOUNCEMENT: PPI General Assembly December 2020

Bailey Lamon October 7, 2020 October 7, 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 UTC/10:00 CET. Our last GA was on May 30th and it was only one day, but this next one will need to be 2 days because there is simply more to cover. There will be more reports to give as well as elections, in addition …

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Invite: SCULL Meeting #4, Internal Party Structure and Management

Bailey Lamon September 30, 2020 October 11, 2020

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 the past, we’ve discussed tech, graphics, and design, democracy tools, and now we would like to talk to you about internal party structure and management. We want to know how you manage things in your party–what are the positions, what do they mean, and who …

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Invitation to PPI‘s Standing Committee on UN Bureaucratic Activities (SCUBA)

KG September 21, 2020 September 21, 2020

We’d like to invite you to the meeting of PPI‘s Standing Committee on UN Bureaucratic Activities to be conducted online: Wednesday September 30th 14:00 – 15:00 UTC (16:00-17:00 CEST). https://bbb.piratensommer.de/b/gre-cnw-a9v As you know, PPI was admitted as an observer to the United Nations Council on Economic and Social Matters (ECOSOC) which gives us the opportunity to visit (almost all) UN meetings and to submit short verbal or written statements. We are also allowed 2+5 UN ground passes at UN headquarters in Geneva, New York and Vienna, as well as additional guest passes for you our esteemed members who wish to attend events on our behalf. While on-site …

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Invitation: SCURVY meeting #2!

Bailey Lamon August 19, 2020 August 19, 2020

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 this year with the goal to foster cooperation among PPI’s members. This standing committee aims to extend direct communications not only between international coordinators of Pirate Parties, but also between actual subject matter experts. The upcoming SCURVY session will focus primarily on finance topics: membership …

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Standing Committee on Universal Liason on Party Labour (SCULL), Meeting #3 – Democracy Tools

Bailey Lamon July 14, 2020 July 14, 2020

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 Pirate Party. The first SCULL meeting was centered around information technology, while the second meeting topic was graphics and design which resulted in a new PPI graphics vault that all Pirates can connect to through Nextcloud: https://nextcloud.ppi.rocks. The topic for this meeting is Democracy …

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ECHR: Network blocking in Russia violates human rights

Bastian June 26, 2020 June 28, 2020

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 the ECtHR. He is the owner of the Internet domain rublacklist.net, which is used by the Russian NGO “RosKomSvoboda” (in English: Russian Committee for Freedom) to provide detailed journalistic coverage of the Russian network closures. Among other things, it keeps statistics on the websites blocked …