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In Cambridge, the city council approved a rollout of ALPR cameras throughout the city. The poles and conduits committee is meeting this week to approve use of cameras on city poles.  Meeting is Thursday at 9am.
In Cambridge, the city council approved a rollout of ALPR cameras throughout the city. The poles and conduits committee is meeting this week to approve use of cameras on city poles.  Meeting is Thursday at 9am.
Still waiting to hear from Boston Anarchist Bookfair as to whether we have a table.




Latest revision as of 20:48, 14 September 2025

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

Recording:

Reports

Decisions/Endorsements

The Abolition and Alternatives Conference (AAC) 2025 is October 3-5. It is a free, in-person event that brings together community members, organizers, and advocates for a weekend of in-depth learning and discussion focused on alternative public safety and community care, housing justice, and the impacts of surveillance technologies like ShotSpotter. It will be at The Black Response Offices, 245 Main Street, Cambridge, MA, 02142. Sign up form.

Should we offer to sponsor this conference and tell our members to join it?

United States Pirate Party Issues?

Projects/Events

2026 Campaigns & Voter Outreach

Leader: Jamie

Based on Mass. Election Division data, we have 721 voters. Alec is contacting all of the municipalities that have not fulfilled our public records request.

Jamie and Alec drafted a 2026 Campaign Plan for review and approval. Final version will be done this week.

Pirate News

Leader: Joseph

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

Commonwealth Bills to Review

  • 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:
  • Decrim Sex Work Bills from https://bswac.org/. Emailed Rikki and Desmond their thoughts on them as they are the most up to date on the issue:
    • An Act to promote the health and safety of people in the sex trade (H.1980)

Here is an etherpad for people to offer suggestions.

Bills We Decided On

Endorsed:

  • An Act to provide accountability in the use of biometric recognition technology and comprehensive enforcement (H.96/S.36)
  • Civil Asset Forfeiture reform (H.1953)
  • H.1973. An Act protecting personal security. We support the bill, and its senate counterpart.
  • S.1731. An Act to promote transparency of facial recognition and driver's license photos. Not great, but we'll support it, because it sucks less than the status quo.
  • H.1946/ An Act to implement the recommendations of the special commission on facial recognition technology. We support the warrant requirements, and the bills provisions for transparency and reporting.
  • An Act to study the decriminalization of sex work (H.2467)
  • An Act relative to safe reporting (H.1747)
  • An Act relative to sexual assault by an officer (H.2634)

Federal Bills to Review

A reconsideration of Member Meeting Articles

We haven't adhered to our Articles of Agreement's Member Meetings section strictly since we have existed, specifically the [ https://masspirates.org/wiki/Articles_of_Agreement#4.2_Form Form] and Time sections. Meetings have met weekly and bi-weekly (our current form) and not twice a year each over six weeks.

Rework them to:

  • Have a section on conferences (possible spring/fall, at least one a year)
  • Rework the member meetings to be on-line at least once a month
  • Set when elections for the pirate council is and that we can elect people at a conference or on-line by secret ballot

Working on a draft document at https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/MAPPRevisedMemberMeetingsArticles

Other To Do

No word from BABF if we have a table.

Upcoming Events

Participants

  • Eli
  • Jamie
  • Joe
  • Steve

Observers

Summary

Reports

Joe attended national meeting last week. Question proposed to transition to video meetings, with IRC as secondary; they'll try this for the next few meetings. Joe helped Mitch with video setup. We're coming up on 20th anniv of the pirates in the US. The next national conference might be held in Massachusetts, perhaps including mapping of surveillance cameras along the freedom trail. This conference would be in July 2026.

Steve and Jamie met with a group in Cambridge re: working together on surveillance camera mappings. They seem like a good dedicated group.

In Cambridge, the city council approved a rollout of ALPR cameras throughout the city. The poles and conduits committee is meeting this week to approve use of cameras on city poles. Meeting is Thursday at 9am.

Still waiting to hear from Boston Anarchist Bookfair as to whether we have a table.


Decisions and Endorsements

We had a conversation with The Black Response. THey're holding an abolition and alternatives conference on Oct 3-5. Jamie asks if we'd be interesting in sponsorship (no cost). Steve is in favor of sponsoring. We can provide material for their literature table. Joe thinks this is a great opportunity. Motion to sponsor is adopted.


Pirate News

We'll do one next Sunday night.


Legislative Reviews

malegislature.gov is showing an error page, so we'll have to do that another night.

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