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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 number of corporations have locked up in for-profit journals. He spent the fortune he received from the sale of Reddit on his legal defense. Living with depression and facing 50 years in prison and $1 million in fines, he took his own life. He died …

Call For Assistance to Help Secure the Release of Elizabeth Tsurkov Who Has Been Held Captive in Iraq for 6 Months

Elizabeth Tsurkov was kidnapped in March 2023 in Iraq. Elizabeth volunteered together with PPI’s General Secretary and other Pirates to assist refugees in the Middle East, albeit with no direct connection to the Pirate movement. She might be surprised herself to hear that PPI has issued this call to assist her, but owing to the failure of formal diplomatic channels we might represent one of the best chances she has left. Elizabeth is a doctoral student at Princeton University. Her research focuses on human rights and sectarianism in the Middle East. One of Elizabeth’s remarkable qualities was her fluency in Arabic. She supported Palestinian and Muslim communities, and she is …

Public Statement from Pirate Party of Chile on the 50th Anniversary of the 1973 Coup d’Etat in Chile

September 11, 2023. Fifty years after the bombing of La Moneda and the beginning of a terrorist dictatorship led by the military and right-wing civilians, the Pirate Party of Chile, along with condemning the events that occurred five decades ago, the seventeen years of horror, the thousands of human rights violations and the permanent obstruction to the clarification of the facts, the timely action of justice and reparations to the victims, declares that the wounds and traumas that still affect our society must necessarily be addressed in order to move forward in the construction of a healthy society, in which every person and every community can grow and develop fully. …

Democracy Technologies Article About Pirates

Pirate Parties International is proud to share the following article that was written about us in Democracy Technologies by the Innovation in Politics Institute. https://democracy-technologies.org/participation/pirate-is-a-state-of-mind/ PPI’s Treasurer Bailey Lamon and PP Australia’s Miles Whiticker. spoke with Democracy Technologies about how Pirates have championed the fusion of digital technologies with democracy and human rights advocacy. They discuss how they personally and Pirate parties in general share common values around human rights, digital rights, and social justice. They share information on tools that we use, along with our achievements. Pirate Parties remain committed to the pursuit of digital democracy on a global scale.    

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