Immigrants Welcome Plank Adopted (February 24, 2022)
We continue to update our platform and have added our Immigrants Welcome plank. If you want to help, join our Wednesday 9pm IRC…
Category: Issues
Stop the EARN IT Act! (February 22, 2022)
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act of 2022 (EARN IT, S.3538) out of committee.…
Pirate News: Gov. tries to expand wiretap law (February 21, 2022)
Malt, Joe, Steve and James discussed Governor Baker’s attempt to expand Massachusetts wiretap law to make it easier to spy on people. Join…
Pirate News: EARN IT Act Moves to the Senate Floor (February 13, 2022)
Last Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act of 2022 (EARN IT, S.3538) out…
Pirate News Live: SOPA Protests A Decade Later (January 23, 2022)
This Sunday’s Pirate News will look back at the SOPA 2012 protests. We will live stream today at 7:30pm: If you want to…
Tuesday: Guantanamo 20th Anniversary Protest (January 10, 2022)
From Susan McLucas of Boston Area Assange Defense: Tuesday is the 20th anniversary of the opening of the detention center at Guantanamo, in…
Tuesday, 11am: Hearing for pro-FOSS bill in NH legislature (January 10, 2022)
New Hampshire State Rep Eric Gallager (D) submitted AN ACT relative to the use of free and open source software (HB1273). It will be heard by…
Pirate News: Worcester Nurses Strike & Public Domain Day (January 3, 2022)
Malt, Steve and James discuss what’s up with the Pirate Party and the latest news of interest to Pirates. We talked about the…
New Year, New Public Domain Works! (January 2, 2022)
For the 4th year in a row, new works will enter the public domain in the United States. Works created in 1926 or…
Boston PD used stolen money to spy (December 24, 2021)
Last week WBUR and ProPublica dropped a story on how Boston Police secretly purchased a Stingray spy tool with civil asset forfeiture money…