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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.

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

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

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)

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!

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

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

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 …

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REMINDER: PPI SPRING GENERAL ASSEMBLY TOMORROW!

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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PPI Public Statement on the COVID-19 Crisis

Pirate Parties International wishes for all of its members, non-members and citizens of the world to remain safe and healthy. We present this statement as one of both hope and concern for everyone to get through the current COVID-19 crisis. In these months we face a dire situation on our planet. Around the world, while a dangerous pandemic continues to spread, many people are losing their lives while others are increasingly required to stay indoors with very limited if any physical social interaction. This isolation takes a toll on all of us, on how we function on a day to day basis, as well as on our mental health and …

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Announcement: Spring General Assembly 2020!

Greetings Pirates, A few months have passed since our General Assembly in December. The PPI board, along with the Pirate community at large, have been working hard.  In addition to ongoing projects, regular online meetings and social events, we have increased activities and communication with our members through the launch of 4 standing committees. We are examining the ways that we can provide practical support to our members and the public to further grow and strengthen our vibrant international community. While we are making progress, there is still a lot of work to do. Hence, there are a few things we would like to talk to you about! It is …

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