We are looking forward to a great summer! (June 13, 2011)
We have some exciting events we are organizing or will be a part of during this Summer. But first … Meet your new…
Category: Civil Liberties
The Surveillance State Expands, Will You Help Stop It? (May 27, 2011)
As AP and other news sources have written, the Democratic and Republican party leadership worked to extend the expiring provisions of the PATRIOT…
Patriot Act renewal up for a vote (May 20, 2011)
… and this time it’s worse! The House Judiciary Committee approved renewing three awful provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act: Extend through Dec…
COICA is dead, PROTECT IP Act rises in its place (May 12, 2011)
The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) bill is dead it seems. However, the entertainment industry and their lackeys supporters in Congress…
COICA has not been refiled, but domain seizures continue (March 24, 2011)
The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) has not been refiled yet, but the US government has continued seizing domain names. It…
Now You Can Register as a Pirate Voter! (February 26, 2011)
You can now register as a Pirate when you fill out your voter registration form. When choosing a party, simply enter Pirate in…
Senate approves USA PATRIOT Act 90 day extension (February 16, 2011)
The US Senate approved a 90 day extension to the expiring provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act, including: The government’s power under USA…
Brain Candy (February 15, 2011)
No one ever established that the press was meant to do anything more than inform the public of what any given publisher wants…
Thanks for opposing extending the PATRIOT Act, now to the Senate! (February 11, 2011)
Thanks to those pirates who contacted our Representatives, especially Keating, Lynch and Tsongas, to urge them to vote against extending various anti-privacy provisions…
Keating, Lynch and Tsongas vote to extend Patriot Act (February 10, 2011)
Yesterday, the US House of Representatives had a fast-tracked vote on whether to renew several troubling provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act. The…