August 13, 2019
Quartermaster Joseph is organizing a Pirate Picnic in the Lowell-area on August 24th starting at 1pm. It will be at 35 Whitney Ave., Lowell, MA 01850. Email us at info@masspirates.org if you want to help or can bring food.
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Lowell Pirate Picnic August 24th
Tell Senators Warren and Markey to put a hold on the CASE Act!
August 12, 2019
Thankfully, we haven't seen any advance in the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2019 (CASE Act) since the Senate Judiciary Committee voted it out of committee. The House version is still being considered by the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet. This bill would create within the Copyright Office a Copyright Claims Board which would have the ability to hear claims of copyright infringement and award damages up to $30,000.
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Help plan our fall party conference
August 10, 2019
We are planing our party conference for late September or October. We want your feedback on how we should structure the next conference, when and where it should be, etc. Please fill out our survey. We will be closing it soon. Thanks!
Tech Meetup This Saturday
August 9, 2019
Our next tech meeting will be this Saturday, August 10th from 11am to 12:30pm. It will be in Arlington. Email us for the location and directions.
While we will focus on updating the wiki to the latest wikimedia version, additional topics we want your help with include:
find a discussion/voting system;update CCTV camera map data to include older cameras outside North America we didn't include;write an mobile app to record the location/ownership of CCTV ca...
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Say No to the CASE Act!
July 26, 2019
On July 18th, the Senate Judiciary Committee marked up and voted out of committee the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2019 (CASE Act). This bill would create within the Copyright Office a Copyright Claims Board which would have the ability to hear claims of copyright infringement and award damages up to $30,000.
This law is supposed to be an easier way for photographers and other artists to gain recompense when they claim their copyrights were infringed. However, ...
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Party Conference Survey
July 18, 2019
It is time to plan our party conference for late September or October. We want your feedback on how we should structure the next conference, when and where it should be, etc. Please fill out our survey. Thanks!
Thanks for Lobbying for RCV!
July 17, 2019
Thanks to everyone who came out to lobby for RCV yesterday, to Voter Choice Massachusetts for organizing it and to Common Cause Massachusetts, MassVote, League of Women Voters Massachusetts and other groups for turning supporters out. It was awe inspiring to see so many Ranked Choice Voting supporters advocating for greater democracy in the State House.
If you did not get a chance to lobby yesterday, please take a moment to look up your state representative and state senator and give them ...
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Tuesday, Lobby for RCV!
July 15, 2019
Voter Choice Massachusetts has an RCV lobby day this Tuesday, July 16th, 11am - 2pm. We fully support their efforts to bring ranked choice voting/instant runoff voting to Massachusetts. We urge you to join them and other electoral reform advocates to lobby legislators to support RCV.
They will meet on the State House steps at 24 Beacon St. starting at 10:15 to pass out t-shirts, signs and stickers. They will take a group photo at 10:45am. Lobbying is from 11am to 2pm. The State House is a w...
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