{"id":5125,"date":"2017-04-27T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=5125"},"modified":"2017-04-27T07:24:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T11:24:23","slug":"our-annual-conference-is-this-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/27\/our-annual-conference-is-this-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Our annual conference is this Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week was busy:\u00a0participating in the March for Science, holding a cryptotable at the Boston Socialist Unity Conference and holding a\u00a0Western Mass. campaign workshop. To finish the week, we getting ready for our annual conference this\u00a0Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/conference\/\">PirateCon 2017<\/a>\u00a0will be at the\u00a0Community Church of Boston.\u00a0The Community Church is in Copley Square at 565 Boylston St #2, Boston. The conference will start at 10am and end at 6pm.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Grace Ross, 2006 candidate for Governor and anti-foreclosure\/social justice organizer<\/li>\n<li>David Day, founder of the Together Boston music festival<\/li>\n<li>JPat Brown, Executive Editor of Muckrock<\/li>\n<li>Maya Shaffer, CoFounder of The Bay State Examiner<\/li>\n<li>Sevan Chorluyan, Chief of BadMirror Broadcasting<\/li>\n<li>Alex Marthews, President of Restore the Fourth, a national privacy organization<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Registration is $10 and anyone who\u00a0donated to the party this year is already signed up. Youth under 18 are free.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secure.piryx.com\/donate\/ZeBuHGQi\/Massachusetts-Pirate-Party\/piratecon2017\">You can pay in advance<\/a>\u00a0or just\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/crew\/forms\/register-piratecon-2017\">tell us you will attend<\/a>\u00a0if you prefer to pay at the door or are under 18. Unfortunately, we haven&#8217;t had enough interest in child care\u00a0so we will not be offering it.<\/p>\n<p>Please invite anyone you think would be interested. You can share this link:\u00a0<a  href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/conference\/\">https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/conference\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The schedule will be:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Start Time<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>End Time<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Topic<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10:00am<\/td>\n<td>10:45<span>am<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Qualifying the integrity of Media Sources<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10:50<span>am<\/span><\/td>\n<td>11:35<span>am<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Electoral Action<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>11:40<span>am<\/span><\/td>\n<td>12:25pm<\/td>\n<td><span>Media &amp; Liberation<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>12:30<span>pm<\/span><\/td>\n<td>01:30<span>pm<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Lunch<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>01:30<span>pm<\/span><\/td>\n<td>02:15<span>pm<\/span><\/td>\n<td>FOIA: Transparency by a Thousand Papercuts<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>02:20<span>pm<\/span><\/td>\n<td>03:05<span>pm<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Organizing for a Sustainable, Accountable Movement<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>03:10<span>pm<\/span><\/td>\n<td>04:10<span>pm<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Lightning Talks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>04:10<span>pm<\/span><\/td>\n<td>04:55<span>pm<\/span><\/td>\n<td>State of Surveillance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>05:00<span>pm<\/span><\/td>\n<td>06:00<span>pm<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Pirate Policy Breakout Groups<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>We are looking for a few volunteers to help make PirateCon a success. \u00a0If you can help, please add your name to an item at\u00a0<a  href=\"https:\/\/piratenpad.de\/p\/MAPPPirateCon2017\">our conference pirate pad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pirate Council elections at PirateCon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We will elect the Pirate Council and three Arbitrators at PirateCon. We are looking for people who want to build the Pirate Party. <a  href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/crew\/forms\/be-leader-2017\">Please submit your nomination by Friday, April 28th<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week was busy:\u00a0participating in the March for Science, holding a cryptotable at the Boston Socialist Unity Conference and holding a\u00a0Western Mass. campaign&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29,32,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-issues","category-slider","category-piratecon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/PirateCon2015GroupPicture.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-1kF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125","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=5125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5126,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5125\/revisions\/5126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}