Our annual party conference is this Saturday, September 21st at Encuentro 5 in Boston. The conference will focus on planning, expanding our platform and organizing how-tos. Formal sessions will start at 10am and end around 5:30pm. We plan to video stream the conference. The schedule is:
| Time | Session |
|---|
| 9:00am-10:00am | Breakfast, Meet & Greet |
| 10:00am-10:30am | Year in Review / Where We Stand as a Party? |
| 10:30am-11:15am | MassMesh: Building a People’s Internet |
| 11:15am-noon | Building a Just Economy: Universal Basic iIncome, Job Guarantee and Other Alternatives |
| noon-1:00pm | Lunch & Crypto How-To |
| 1:00pm-1:45pm | Surveillance in Our Neighborhoods: RING DOORBELLS – What Can We Do? |
| 1:45pm-3:00pm | Platform Development, Part 1 |
| 3:00pm-3:30pm | Lightning Talks |
| 3:30pm-4:45pm | Platform Development, Part 2 |
| 4:45pm-5:30pm | What Should be Our Plan for 2020? |
| 5:30pm-6:00pm | Cleanup |
Registration is $10. You can pay in advance or just tell us you will attend if you prefer to pay at the door. Youth under 18 and anyone who is not a citizen or permanent resident are free due to campaign finance rules.
Encuentro 5 is at 9A Hamilton Place, Boston, MA 02108-4701. It is in downtown Boston near the State House and easily accessible by public transit. Only a minute walk away from the Park Street MBTA station, it is at the intersection of the Red and Green lines. It is a few stops away from the commuter rail and Amtrak stations and the South Station Bus Terminal. Unfortunately, it is not wheelchair accessible.
Conference/talk details and updates are up at the Party Conference page. If you can help run the conference, email us at info@masspirates.org.
Also, please share the Facebook event to anyone you think would be interested in it.
Our annual party conference is this Saturday, September 21st at Encuentro 5 in Boston. The conference will focus on planning, expanding our platform and organizing how-tos. Formal sessions will start at 10am and end around 5:30pm. We plan to video stream the conference. The schedule is:
Registration is $10. You can pay in advance or just tell us you will attend if you prefer to pay at the door. Youth under 18 and anyone who is not a citizen or permanent resident are free due to campaign finance rules.
Encuentro 5 is at 9A Hamilton Place, Boston, MA 02108-4701. It is in downtown Boston near the State House and easily accessible by public transit. Only a minute walk away from the Park Street MBTA station, it is at the intersection of the Red and Green lines. It is a few stops away from the commuter rail and Amtrak stations and the South Station Bus Terminal. Unfortunately, it is not wheelchair accessible.
Conference/talk details and updates are up at the Party Conference page. If you can help run the conference, email us at info@masspirates.org.
Also, please share the Facebook event to anyone you think would be interested in it.