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Invitation to the Standing Committee on External Networking Engagement (SCENE)

Bailey Lamon April 15, 2020 April 16, 2020

Dear Pirates, It is time to launch yet another standing committee! We happily invite you to the first meeting of the Standing Committee on External Networking Engagement, also known as SCENE. When: Monday, April 20th, 2020 at 20:20 CEST [yes, really at 20:20, just to switch things up ;)] Where: https://zoom.us/j/513729528 As the name suggests, the focus of this standing committee is public relations and networking. This includes things like best practices when dealing with the press as well as the work we do within our own press teams. It includes campaigning and what that looks like during elections and throughout the time in between elections. It also includes networking …

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Standing Committee on Universal Liason on Party Labour (SCULL) – Graphics and Design Teams

Gregory Engels March 17, 2020 March 24, 2020

Dear Pirates, We hereby invite you to the second meeting of the Standing Committee on Universal Liason on Party Labour, also known as the SCULL Committee. When: Sunday, March.29th, 2020 at 21:00 CET Where: https://zoom.us/j/599022949 As per our introduction of this standing committee in January, 2020: “We initiate the SCULL meetings this year with the goal to foster cooperation among PPI’s members. This Standing Committee aims to extend the direct communications not only between the international coordinators of the Pirate Parties, but also among those, who is helping to run them – the IT, the Graphics and Design teams, those who handle the Membership registers, and so on.” You may …

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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 …

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The Prague Think Twice Conference, April 24-26

KG February 17, 2020 March 3, 2020

The title of this year’s Think Twice Conference is Ante Portas (near future technologies and their implications). Below you will find information about speaking at the event, as well as basic information about attending the conference. Think Twice is an international conference organized by Pirate Parties International, Pirate Party of Czechia and MEP Markéta Gregorová of parliamentary group Greens/ EFA. There will be no admission fee for this year’s Think Twice Conference. However, people can support the conference with voluntary donations. The event is entirely non-profit. Registration will take place on site. The conference will offer space for up to 200 participants to meet over the course of two days …

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Invitation to the first Meeting of SCURVY

Gregory Engels February 1, 2020 February 1, 2020

Invitation to the first Meeting of the Pirate Parties International Standing Committee on Usual Requisitions of Various Yields (SCURVY) We would like to invite you to the first meeting of PPI‘s SCURVY to be conducted online, Sunday February 9, 2020 from 19:00 – 21:00 CET in Zoom – Meeting ID 930 362 7084 https://zoom.us/j/9303627084 Who should attend: international coordinators, finance officers. We initiate 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: …

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, …

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Invitation to the first Meeting of the Pirate Parties International Standing Committee on Universal Liaison on Party Labor (SCULL)

Gregory Engels January 10, 2020 February 18, 2020

Invitation to the first Meeting of the Pirate Parties International Standing Committee on Universal Liaison on Party Labor (SCULL) We like to invite you to the first meeting of PPI‘s SCULL to be conducted online, Monday Januar 20 2020 20:00 – 22:00 CET in Zoom – Meeting ID 322 832 033 Password: 082251 https://zoom.us/j/322832033?pwd=Z1JXaUVpYVkzZ0VXOE5TeVZEeVJKUT09 who should attend: International Coordinators, IT officers. We initiate the SCULL meetings this year with the goal to foster cooperation among PPI’s members. This Standing Committee aims to extend the direct communications not only between the international coordinators of the Pirate Parties, but also among those, who is helping to run them – the IT, the …

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 …

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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, …

Activism

Stop the Violence in Chile!

KG October 24, 2019 February 18, 2020

Stop the Violence in Chile! The Pirate Party of Chile (PPCL) is calling on other Pirate parties to intercede with their governments to demand an end to violence against citizens and the state of emergency from the government of President Sebastián Piñera in Chile. They ask us to be attentive to what is happening and to help spread the news as it emerges. Please communicate this situation with your government representatives. Please encourage human rights organizations to observe the events taking place in Chile. For months different social sectors have been repressed, such as Mapuche communities (one of the native nations of Chile and Argentina), and also schoolchildren, with riot …