Urge Cambridge to End ShotSpotter! Vote is Monday! (May 16, 2026)
The Cambridge City Council will vote whether to cease the collection of ShotSpotter recordings at their weekly council meeting this Monday, May 18th…
Category: Corporate Welfare
Pirate News: What did Trump give to get his TikTok deal? (October 6, 2025)
Steve and James discuss The Black Response’s excellent Abolition and Alternatives Conference this weekend and Trump’s TikTok deal and what it could mean.…
Tell Baker to veto the Hollywood give away! (July 12, 2021)
The Massachusetts House and Senate approved a budget that makes the film tax credit permanent. In the past, we mentioned that we gave…
MA Legislature sells us out to Hollywood (July 10, 2021)
The Massachusetts House and Senate approved a budget that makes the film tax credit permanent. In the past, we mentioned that we gave…
Pirate News: COVID-19 Surveillance, Back to Work Astroturfing and Corporate Bailouts (April 22, 2020)
Pirates Joe, James, Steve and Malt talk about the latest news including: Google/Apple potentially violating your rights here in America with their contact…
Mass. Legislators aim to hand Hollywood billions for decades to come (March 4, 2019)
We mentioned recently that we gave nearly $90 million to Hollywood in 2016 and gave at least half a billion dollars to Hollywood…
Hollywood rakes in nearly $90 million in Massachusetts revenue (January 10, 2019)
We have long opposed the Massachusetts Film Tax Credit. Two years ago we noted that in 2014, Hollywood took us for $64.5 million.…
Pirate News: EU Update – Censorship Machines and the Link Tax (September 26, 2018)
In the latest Pirate News, we discussed the EU vote to impose an upload filter and link tax. We also discuss Saturday’s Party…
No Free Lunch for Amazon (October 19, 2017)
Amazon’s deadline is here and many states have fallen over themselves to sell their cities as the location for Amazon’s second headquarters. With…
This Friday: Learn how to annoy legislators for freedom (March 20, 2017)
The Massachusetts Legislature has thousands of bills to consider. Quite a few are of interest to Pirates including whether to give millions of dollars in subsidies…