August 1st, 2024 Meeting

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

Recording: https://youtu.be/YnTCztjIBp8

Decisions/Endorsements

Worcester Pride

The festival is Saturday, September 7, 3 – 8 PM. Setup is 11 AM. It will be in downtown Worcester. The application deadline is Monday, August 5. The cost is $100. We would need to bring our own table, chairs and tent. Details ...

Tentative sign up form

Boston Anarchist Bookfair

The Boston Anarchist Bookfair will be October 19-20th. It will be at the Cambridge Community Center, 5 Callender St, Cambridge, MA 02139.

Should we have a table at it? Should we offer to do a talk?

Projects/Events

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

Participants

• jokeefe (Somerville)
• srevilak (Arlington)
• emcgee (Leominster)

Summary

Worcester pride. Fee for Worcester pride is $100/table (10x10 space). Jamie created signup form. At least one person interested. Festival goes from 3p - 8p, and setup starts at 11:30a. Gives us a month to encourage people to join us. Unanimous vote in favor of spending the $100 to register.

Anarchist Bookfair. OCt 19th and 20th. Steve adn Jamie available that weekend. Unanimous vote in favor of attending.

USPP issues. Doing some re-drafting to the USPP position on Artifical Intelligence, but final version not ready yet.

KOSA (Kids Online Safety Act) passed Senate by a margin. Markey and Warren supported. Bill appears to be DOA in the house (perhaps because they house is interested, or perhaps because the house would prefer something worse).

Video Newsletter. Have one unpublished episode, which will be released later this week. Still scheduled to record at the usual Sunday.