July 8th, 2020 IRC Meeting

Decisions/Endorsements

Extend the Eviction Moratorium

Reps Connolly, Honan and Jehlen filed a Housing Stability bill:

• Tenants unable to pay rent due “directly or indirectly” to the effects of the pandemic could not be evicted for 12 months after the expiration of the current moratorium.
• Unlike the current moratorium, it would apply to only those who are unable to pay due to pandemic. The bill would also freeze rents at their March 10 level for a year after the emergency.
• The bill includes measures for homeowners and small landlords as well. It would ban foreclosures for mortgage nonpayment for a year after the current moratorium expires and would extend the mortgage deferment program for homeowners and landlords with fewer than 15 units.
• The bill would establish a fund to reimburse landlords for lost rental revenues and an oversight board to oversee the disbursement of the money.

Do we want to support this bill? Does it go far enough?

More at: https://thesomervillenewsweekly.blog/2020/07/06/extend-the-eviction-moratorium/

Projects

Goals for Q3 2020:

• Organize meetups
• Organize Fundraiser
• Organize candidate trainings
• Revise platform

Video Newsletter/Podcast

Leader: Joseph

• Next pirate news recording scheduled for Sunday, 7pm unless changed

Boston Sex Worker Event

Tentative Red Umbrella day on July 25th or Aug 22nd. JoeO send dates around for feedback.

Computer donations

• Rules
• Sign up form

Regional Meetings/Events

All meetings on hold due to Covid-19.

Leader: jokeefe

• Boston (jokeefe)
• Worcester (Malt)
• Lowell (Joe)
• Boston Pride Festival (emailed them that we transferred our table to 2021)
  • table booked
  • 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?

Bills

No clue where things are now due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Right to Repair

• out of committee
• next email will urge supporters to call their state senator/rep. and urge them to support it
• see if people willing to setup meeting with reps.

Facial Recognition and other bills still in committee.

Platform Discussion

Moved to 2020 Platform Discussion

Other To Do

• Application to PPI
• Conference survey
• Statement on Archive.org Suit

Tabled Projects

FOSS Tutorials

Worcester farm group is interested in having some FOSS tutorials. Perhaps:

• how to do basic labels in GIMP,
• work through a few sample spreadsheets related to seed cost and
• similarly applicable real-world situations, depending on the needs of the group

Basically how to do graph design & product management with open source tools. Malt will put together a one paragraph description of what we need and we can mail it out to ask pirates to help.

Upcoming Events

• Summer 2020, ?, Boston Meetup
• Summer 2020, ?, Worcester Meetup
• Summer 2020, ?, Springfield Meetup
• ?/?, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Culture House, Harvard Square
• ?/?, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNe Tech Meeting, Encuentro 5, Boston
• ?/?, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, Democracy Center, Cambridge
• ?/?, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting
• 5/?, 2pm-4pm, Democracy and Dogfood (Tech) Meeting, on-line

Participants

• srevilak
• jokeefe
• Joe

Observers

• davidd
• ChanServ
• hvxgr
• Deffy
• mikey