Ahoy Pirates, PPI’s first board meeting of the new board will take place on Jan. 7th, 2024 at 21:00 UTC. This board meeting will represent exactly 2 years since the last board was elected and the transition from one board to the next. Everyone is welcome to attend. The meeting will take place on Jitsi: https://jitsi.pirati.cz/PPI-Board If anyone wants an item on the agenda, you […]
75 years – Universal Declaration of Human Rights – we declare:
75 years after the promulgation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights [1], as a pirate movement, we renew our commitment to the defense and promotion of the rights established in the 1948 text and the treaties that have followed, which enshrine the ethical minimums we want for all people, communities and countries. We reinforce our work to overthrow all discrimination and subjugation of human […]
Dec. 6, 8, and 9th PPI Board, Beer, GA Links
Ahoy! We announce the big events in early December: Board Meeting, Pirate Beer, and the GA. On Wednesday, December 6th at 21:00 UTC, we will have an early PPI Board Meeting: Add to calendar This event will take place on Jitsi: https://jitsi.pirati.cz/PPI-Board On Friday, December 8th at 21:00 UTC, we will have a special Pre-GA Pirate Beer meeting. Pirate beer meetings have been known to last for many hours, […]
Aaron Swartz Day Event from Australia, UK, and USA pirates
INTERNET’S OWN BOY The following post is copied from the Massachusetts Pirate Party: https://masspirates.org/blog/2023/11/06/tue-wed-pirate-parties-screen-internets-own-boy/. They want to let the PPI community know about these great events. Aaron Swartz, born on November 8th, 1986, was an activist dedicated to an open Internet, freedom and transparency. He was hounded by the US government for sharing JSTOR research articles that we largely paid for, but that a small […]
Nov. 15th PPI Board Meeting and GA Updates
Ahoy Pirates, The next PPI board meeting is scheduled for November 15th at 05:00 UTC. Where: https://jitsi.pirati.cz/PPI-Board Please feel free to add comments for the board on our Discourse: https://ga.pp-international.net/c/ppiboard/ You can read about our last board meeting here: https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=PPI_Minutes_2023-10-11 A main topic of the meeting will be the upcoming Winter General Assembly (GA) that will take place on December 9th, starting at 12:00 UTC. You […]
Pirate Parties International Statement on the Ongoing Conflict in Israel and Palestine
Pirate Parties International expresses its strong condemnation of the ongoing conflict in Israel and Palestine. We are deeply saddened by the events in the region and extend our solidarity to the people of both nations who are suffering the consequences of this protracted conflict. We firmly reject violence and advocate for a peaceful and diplomatic solution. We encourage Palestinians and Israelis to pave the way for an […]
Statement from Pirate Party of Israel on the Hamas Massacre of October 7th and the Gaza-Israel War
At sunrise on October 7th, thousands of participants at the peaceful NOVA music festival were brutally attacked and massacred by Hamas terrorists, resulting in over 260 butchered, and hundreds shot and injured. As an after-party, thousands of Hamas militants continued to carry out brutal massacres, torturing and mutilating bodies across civilian populations bordering the Gaza strip, killing men, women, children and pets indiscriminately. All this […]
PPI Sends Delegates To The United Nations’ Internet Governance Forum
From October 7th to 12th PPI sent two of its board members, Alexander Isavnin and Keith Goldstein, to the UN’s Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Kyoto, Japan. They were joined by many other colleagues, some of whom are also Pirates formally and informally in Japan and around the world. The IGF fosters collaboration between organizations in order to shape the future of the internet. The […]
2023 Winter GA Updates
Ahoy Pirates, The 2023 Winter GA will be held on December 9th at 12 pm UTC. The meeting will take place on the PPI Mumble server: https://wiki.pp-international.net/wiki/index.php?title=Mumble (see details below) The primary outlet for sharing information for the GA is on our Discourse: https://ga.pp-international.net/c/december-2023-ga/33 To Guests: You are welcome to sit in and listen. If you would like to have time to make a […]
PPI sends delegates to the UN’s Cybercrime Committee
From August 21 to 25, 2023, PPI’s representatives at the UN Headquarters in New York, Dr. Ohad Shem Tov and Dr. Keith Goldstein, participated as delegates in the Sixth session of the Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes: https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/cybercrime/ad_hoc_committee/ahc_sixth_session/main. The committee was attended primarily by national delegations, as well as […]
