May 4th, 2025 Meeting

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

Recording: https://youtu.be/yP_CCtKg4-Q

Decisions/Endorsements

June Conference

Scheduled for June 15th, 2025 in the Lavender room at Arts at the Armory, 191 Highland Ave, Somerville

Internship candidate

Jamie met with him. Checking references.

Federal Bills to Review

• Senators working on a bill that would repeal Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Section 230 is the primary reason we have freedom of speech on the Internet. See this explainer. We have long supported Section 230 implicitly, but we never wrote up a statement why. Including why we support free speech seems important right now, as well.
• TAKE IT DOWN Act / Analysis - Passed the Senate

Commonwealth Bills to Review

• Civil Asset Forfeiture reform (H.1953)
• An Act relative to unregulated face recognition and emerging biometric surveillance technologies (H.1538)
• An Act establishing a moratorium on face recognition and other remote biometric surveillance systems (S.1385)
• An Act relative to unmanned aerial systems (H.3749 / S.2438)
• An Act relative to protecting Massachusetts residents against federal government surveillance (H.2687)
• Dignity Not Deportations Act (H.1588 / S.1122)
• Right to Repair Bills:
  • H.433 & S.189
  • H.398
  • H.1278

Here is an etherpad for people to offer suggestions.

Projects/Events

Pirate News

Leader: Joseph

• Pirate news recording scheduled for every other Sunday, 7pm with go-live at 7:30pm. Unless changed

2025 Voter Outreach

Leader: Jamie

• Letters to city election committee/town clerk asking for pirate voters/election dates
• Follow ups as necessary
• Snail Mail supporters in December to tell them about:
  • Conference
  • Call for officer nominees
  • Municipal elections
  • Other events/efforts
  • Donate/join our mailing list

2025/6 Campaigns

Leader: Jamie

Working on draft schedule.

Participants

• Eli
• Jamie
• Joe
• Steve

Summary

Reports

• Nothing beyond what's in the agenda

Boston Dyke March

• Friday June 14th. Join us to march

June Conference

• We booked the Lavender room @ Arts at the Armory for June 15th.
• Jamie will take a look at the room, and will provide an update.

Fifers day

• Following week

Intern candidate

• Jamie spoke a potential intern candidate. Went very well.

Federal Bills to review

• Take it down act
• Still talk about repealing Section 230. But no bills yet.

Mass Bills to review

• A number of bills related to civil asset forfeiture reform

Federal Goverment information security (or lack thereof)

• 404 Media reported that members of the Trump administration have been using an archiving communications to a third party service. Someone hacked into the third party service.
• https://www.404media.co/the-signal-clone-the-trump-admin-uses-was-hacked/

Meeting dates

• Jamie proposes May 11th and May 25th

Voter outreach

• Voter outreach continues. Jamie would like to do a mailing by end of may.
• Jamie has a draft schedule of when things need to be done.