{"id":9543,"date":"2025-10-20T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=9543"},"modified":"2025-10-20T10:41:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T14:41:41","slug":"pirate-news-no-to-kings-and-to-flock-in-cambridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2025\/10\/20\/pirate-news-no-to-kings-and-to-flock-in-cambridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate News: No to Kings and to Flock in Cambridge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>If you live in Cambridge, work in Cambridge, travel through Cambridge or live in the Greater Cambridge-area, please tell the Cambridge City Council that you oppose the introduction of Flock ALPR surveillance cameras there. <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9zGsUH5n9QI?si=KB_crl0pUiS-qZRh&amp;t=32\">We talk about it in the latest Pirate News<\/a>, but <a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2025\/10\/19\/mon-thu-speak-out-against-cambridge-alpr-surveillance-rollout\/\">you can find out more especially about today&#8217;s meeting at 5:30pm at our post about it<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joe, Steve and James discuss why we oppose Cambridge&#8217;s effort to install Flock ALPR cameras, what we are doing at the Boston Anarchist Bookfair, the Boston NoKings protest and CycloMedia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9zGsUH5n9QI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/event\/boston-anarchist-bookfair\/\">Join us at the Boston Anarchist Bookfair Nov. 1-2<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/crew\/civicrm\/profile\/create?gid=16&amp;reset=1\">Sign up to our newsletter to get notified of new events<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/crew\/forms\/support-the-pirate-party\">volunteer<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/social.globalpirates.net\/@masspirates\">Join us on<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/social.globalpirates.net\/@masspirates\">Mastodon<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/masspirates\">Facebook<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/masspirates.bsky.social\">Blue Sky<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/masspirates\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2025\/10\/19\/mon-thu-speak-out-against-cambridge-alpr-surveillance-rollout\/\">Mon. &amp; Thu., Speak Out Against Cambridge ALPR Surveillance Rollout<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/wiki\/Surveillance_Memory_Bank_and_Resources\">Surveillance Memory Bank and Resources<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/wiki\/2025_Administrative_Coup_Memory_Bank\">Our Administrative Coup Memory Bank<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/wiki\/Things_to_Do_When_Fascists_are_Taking_Over\">Our Things to Do when Fascists are Taking Over<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Some links we mentioned:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bostonanarchistbookfair.org\/\">Boston Anarchist Bookfair<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/purplebandanna.bsky.social\/post\/3m3iphza52k2h\">Steve&#8217;s Bluesky post about Boston Lobsters at the Boston NoKings rally<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/purplebandanna.bsky.social\/post\/3m3hy2inwss2h\">Steve&#8217;s Bluesky post about CycloMedia mapping SUV<\/a>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CycloMedia\">CycloMedia Wikipedia page<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Image Credit: James O&#8217;Keefe, CC By-SA 4.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you live in Cambridge, work in Cambridge, travel through Cambridge or live in the Greater Cambridge-area, please tell the Cambridge City Council&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9546,"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":[32,9,47,51,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider","category-out-and-about","category-podcasts","category-surveillance","category-take-action"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/TeaPartyNoICE.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-2tV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9543","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=9543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9545,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9543\/revisions\/9545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}