January 4th, 2024 Meeting

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Meeting to be held via video conference: https://communitybridge.com/bbb-room/mass-pirates-bbb-room/.

Recording: https://youtu.be/Em4xBrRB3p8

Reports

Decisions/Endorsements

Location Shield Act (H.537/S.148)

Mass. ACLU is asking for organizations to endorse the Location Shield Act (H.357/S.148). More at their page.

United States Pirate Party Issues?

Projects/Events

Planning for 2024

  • Restart democracy committee: Sat Jan 6th
  • Contact cities/town to get list of voters
  • Put together plan for local organizing and 2024 town/legislature campaign
  • Mail members/voters
    • Ask them to organize locally
    • Ask them to campaign/run
    • Ask them to give us their full contact info
  • Call potential candidates/supporters
  • ?

Winter Conference

Will be on-line in ~January. Posted survey and forms for signup/presenting.

Possible Topics:

  • 2024 Campaign
  • Planning for post-2024 election future

Video Newsletter/Podcast

Leader: Joseph

  • Next pirate news on Jan 7th
  • Pirate news recording scheduled for Sundays, 7pm with go-live at 7:30pm. Unless changed

Other To Do

Upcoming Events

Participants

  • jokeefe
  • Joe
  • srevilak

Observers

Summary

Reports

  • Form for officer candidate elections and winter conference is up. First email announcements up.
  • Posts about public domain day and Israel/Gaza conflict up.
  • Total funds available around $2k.

Endorsements

  • ACLU looking for groups to endorse Location Shield act, which would prohibit the sale of cellphone location data to data brokers.
  • Unanimous vote to endorse. Jokeefe will notify the ACLU about the endorsement.

2024 Planning

  • Democracy cmte meeting at noon on Saturday.
  • Winter conference forms are out. Conference page to be updated soon
  • Pirate news on Sunday the 7th, after snow.