Transparency Toolkit needs YOUR help (August 22, 2013)
We need information about governments, companies, and other institutions to uncover corruption, human rights abuses, and other problems. Unfortunately, the information provided by…
Category: Transparency
More PirateCon 2013 Talk Videos (July 23, 2013)
Maurice Morales put up a few more videos of the talks from PirateCon 2013: Open Government, Part 1 – Michael Morisy, Shauna Gordon-McKeon,…
Why the US needs a Party of Open (June 21, 2013)
In December 2005, the New York Times published an eye-opening story: the National Security Agency (NSA) was given authorization to tap into the…
TSA out of the MBTA & other actions today (February 2, 2013)
The TSA out of the MBTA action kicks off soon. Hope you can make it. I’ll be on The Two Hotheads show on…
Our 2012 ballot question endorsements (November 5, 2012)
At our last IRC meeting we endorsed the three statewide ballot questions. Our statement for each question is below: Ballot Question 1 –…
Reminder: Liquid Feedback Hackathon, this Sunday, 3pm (June 29, 2012)
A reminder that we will be holding a Liquid Feedback Hackathon this Sunday, 7/1, starting at 3pm. Folks are welcome to come and…
Pirate Party Supports Campaign Finance Reform (October 19, 2011)
Chris Walsh will present the following statement to the Massachusetts General Court’s Joint Committee on Election Laws hearing today: The Massachusetts Pirate Party…
Pirate Party to Support Occupy Boston (October 3, 2011)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PIRATE PARTY TO SUPPORT OCCUPY BOSTON Protesters have been Occupying Wall Street for three weeks. Thousands are protesting and hundreds…
Two wins for privacy and transparency (September 1, 2011)
Last week, Judge Nicholas Garaufis of the Eastern District of New York Federal Court ruled that the government needs a warrant and to…
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…