November 7th, 2024 Meeting

Meeting to be held via video conference: https://communitybridge.com/bbb-room/mass-pirates-member-meeting/

Recording: https://youtu.be/5PGN2K1zOdA

Projects/Events

Winter Conference

Our Winter Conference will be Saturday, January 25th. We need to find a location for it. Some possible locations are:

• Cambridge Community Center - $70/hr? - https://www.cambridgecc.org/rent-space.html
  • MBTA/Parking a 10 minute walk
• Somerville Kennedy School - $50/hr? - https://somerville.k12.ma.us/district-leadership/central-administration/finance-and-facilities/rent-facilities
  • Near public transit, ample parking. Library is not close to the entrance.
• Somerville Public Library, Central Branch - Free
  • On several MBTA bus lines, limited parking near the high school and city hall
• Somerville Public Library, West Branch - Free
  • On MBTA and bus lines. No parking
• Cambridge Public Library, Central Sq. Branch
  • Near public transit, ample parking. Need a resident to book
• Lowell Public Library - Free
  • Ample parking

Video Newsletter/Podcast

Leader: Joseph

• Video quality of Jitsi has started to suffer. Would be good to find a better streaming/recording alternative.
• Pirate news recording scheduled for Sundays, 7pm with go-live at 7:30pm. Unless changed

Voter Outreach 2024

Current letter to cities and towns:

Dear 

Please allow me to introduce myself, I am the chair of the Massachusetts Pirate Party. You can find us at masspirates.org.

I am writing to you obtain the following information from you:

1. a copy of all voters in your municipality. We would prefer this data in a delimited file format. The current voter database pipe (|) delimited export format is acceptable to us. Additionally, if you could tell us how frequently we can request a copy of this data (yearly, quarterly, etc., we would appreciate that information;

2. If it is not possible to provide all registered voters to us, we request that you send us the same data on all the register voters in the Pirate designation so that we can contact our members;

3. the dates for when nomination papers are available, when they are due and any other dates related to your 2025 election. We have the date of your municipal election from the Massachusetts Municipal Association website. If the election calendar is on your website, we are happy to look at it if you would kindly provide the link to us;

4. a list of the offices up for election in 2025 and the number of nomination signatures required for each.

If you have any questions about my request, please feel free to email me or call me at ...

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Sincerely,

James O'Keefe

• Contact cities/town to get list of voters a week after the election
• Mail supporters

2025 Local Campaigns

Actions:

• Videos:
  • Selecting campaign
  • Planning campaign
  • Get on the ballot
  • Fundraising
  • Voter Id
  • GOTV
• Outreach to volunteers:
  • Ask them to organize locally
  • Ask them to campaign/run
  • Ask them to give us their full contact info
  • Call potential candidates/supporters

Participants

• Joe
• Eli
• Jamie

Observers

• A