{"id":5084,"date":"2017-04-03T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=5084"},"modified":"2017-04-02T22:29:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T02:29:54","slug":"annoy-legislators-for-freedom-video-posted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/03\/annoy-legislators-for-freedom-video-posted\/","title":{"rendered":"Annoy Legislators for Freedom Video Posted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On\u00a0March 24, Alex Marthews,\u00a0National Director of Restore the 4th, talked\u00a0about how the Massachusetts legislature really works and how we can hack it to get Pirate-friendly bills further.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fHlXbfIlTYA\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Massachusetts Legislature has thousands of bills to consider. \u00a0Quite a few are of interest to Pirates including\u00a0whether to\u00a0give\u00a0millions of dollars in subsidies to video game companies, revising the cannabis legalization law passed by voters, or defining standards for police body cameras.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, most bills never even have a committee vote, nevermind get to a floor vote. \u00a0The power of the leadership of the legislature is extreme and it isn&#8217;t democratic. The legislature doesn&#8217;t work the way you were taught in your high school civics textbooks.<\/p>\n<p>Alex\u00a0lays bare\u00a0the inner workings of the legislature. We hope you find this talk informative.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to\u00a0Encuentro 5 for hosting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On\u00a0March 24, Alex Marthews,\u00a0National Director of Restore the 4th, talked\u00a0about how the Massachusetts legislature really works and how we can hack it to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29,32,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-issues","category-slider","category-organizing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/statehouse.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-1k0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5085,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5084\/revisions\/5085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}