June 16th, 2021 IRC Meeting

Review

Decisions/Endorsements

Statehouse testimony

Testimony on Sex Work Bills

Platform

What should we do next: https://github.com/masspirates/planks

Projects

Outreach

Leader: Malt

Next Pirate Moot: June 26th, 4-6pm
Setup local video meetups by region with people who said they were interested in organizing a local chapter
Organize candidate trainings

Video Newsletter/Podcast

Leader: Joseph

Pirate news recording scheduled for Sundays, 7pm with go-live at 7:30pm. Unless changed

Trans Advocacy Telethon

Boston Pride Festival

Leader: jokeefe

While in-person events, including outdoor events, are on hold until COVID-19 numbers go down, we should plan for our table at the Boston Pride Festival. Festival is on hold, likely for the year.

Tasks:

setup signup sheet
Announce
Need to purchase insurance
Need volunteer sign up form
Tie to an activity, mapping the CCTV cameras in Boston or along the Pride parade route?

Other To Do

Application to PPI

Upcoming On-line Events

Every Thursday, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, on-line
Sat., 6/26, ?pm, Pirate Moot, on-line

Participants

jokeefe
malt
srevilak

Observers

davidd
Deffy
hvxgr
Mikaela
mikey
slerman

Summary

Statement in support of decriminalizing sex work. https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/MAPPStatementOnSexWorkBills. Adopted.

Planks. Will probably work on addiction policy next. https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/MAPPDrugPolicy

Minutes

 
21:04 <@jokeefe> ahoy
21:04 < srevilak> hi jokeefe
21:04 <@jokeefe> Joe is unable to attend
21:05 < srevilak> malt: found this and thought of you:
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWMzog3ekS0
21:05 < malt> aw :(
21:05 < malt> he's been busy lately
21:05 < malt> HAH!
21:05 < malt> that's perfect
21:05 <@jokeefe> he has
21:06 < malt> i never heard back from any trans folk on places doing
        specifically transit-related funding
21:06 < malt> we could probably work something out with the mass trans
        poltiical alliance
21:06 <@jokeefe> Decisions/Endorsements - Statehouse testimony
21:06 <@jokeefe> Proposed
        https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/MAPPStatementOnSexWorkBills
21:07 < malt> brb bio
21:07 <@jokeefe> Thanks to Desmond and Rikki
21:08 < srevilak> I like the statement
21:11 <@jokeefe> malt, others?
21:13 <@jokeefe> Any objections?
21:13 < srevilak> motion of support
21:14 <@jokeefe> all in favor?
21:14 <@jokeefe> aye
21:14 < srevilak> aye
21:14 < malt> aye
21:14 < malt> im back
21:15 <@jokeefe> motion passes. I will email it out tonight
21:16 <@jokeefe> Platform - what to tackle next?
21:16 < malt> huzzah
21:16 < malt> we covered environment, education, privacy,
21:16 < malt> health?
21:17 <@jokeefe> fine with me
21:19 <@jokeefe> we got a suggestion in the comments that we need
        to include more details of the policies we want to implement in
        https://masspirates.org/blog/2021/05/28/environment-energy-plank-adopted/
21:19 < malt> pulling up the link now
21:19 < malt> okay, do you want to focus on that for now?
21:20 <@jokeefe> not at the moment, just something to act on going forward
21:20 < malt> gotcha
21:20 < srevilak> sounds reasonable
21:20 < malt> ahhh frig what's my GIT account
21:20 < malt> fwiw i don't usually think to include technical details
        in policy suggestions because it gets bogged down
21:24 < malt> GIT's password reset service is... unique
21:25 <@jokeefe> nothing there on health
21:26 < malt> there's the addiction policy
21:28 <@jokeefe> yes, but that doesn’t cover health care specifically
21:29 < malt> shall we cover drugs and addiction under the same policy,
        then?
21:29 < srevilak> I think that makes sense
21:30 <@jokeefe> https://masspirates.org/blog/ourissues/addiction-policy/
21:32 <@jokeefe> https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/MAPPDrugPolicy
21:39 < malt> back
21:44 < malt> btw racialized is more inclusive than "black and brown"
        as it explicitly puts the impetus on the state for designating people
        targets of violence in the first place
21:45 < srevilak> Okay, I've put that back
21:47 < malt> thanks!
21:59 < srevilak> I'm going to have to hop off, but will post transcript
21:59 <@jokeefe> Thanks. Let’s pick this up next week.