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Party Conference. Remote conference was the predominant choice. One day event most popoular. Focus on deciding a party platform and presentations/group discussions. General feeling is to hold the conference after the election. Will do survey for dates and speakers. General feeling is for two days rather than one, even if the two days are shorter. | Party Conference. Remote conference was the predominant choice. One day event most popoular. Focus on deciding a party platform and presentations/group discussions. General feeling is to hold the conference after the election. Will do survey for dates and speakers. General feeling is for two days rather than one, even if the two days are shorter. | ||
Joe posts some articles about protests in Kenosha | |||
* https://www.opb.org/news/article/portland-police-arrest-3-journalists-during-violent-protests/ | |||
* https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/police-federal-agents-arrest-seattle-based-riot-kitchen-crew-that-stopped-in-kenosha-to-serve-free-food/ | |||
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Revision as of 20:36, 2 September 2020
Review
Free the Moderna Vaccine protest
Decisions/Endorsements
Party Conference
There were 11 submissions for our conference survey. I sent the results to the activists email list.
9 would prefer to meet remotely, 5 outsides with masks and social distancing and 3 inside with masks and social distancing.
7 wanted the conference to be one day, 5 over Sat/Sun, 3 over a week. Over two weeks or a month got 1 vote each.
Focus:
- 9: Focus on deciding on a party platform
- 9: How to workshops: protecting your privacy, file sharing, organizing, running for office, etc.
- 8: presentations or groups discussions
Top topic choices were:
8 votes:
- A pirate approach to education
- Running campaigns
7 votes:
- Building third-party coalitions
- Ensuring we all have privacy
- Fostering Free Software
- Proposing local legislation
- Pirate strategy
- Surveillance and countersurveillance
6 votes:
- Corporate power
- Decentralized auditing of governments and corporations
- Income inequality
- Municipal organizing
- Open government
- Universal Basic Income, Job Guarantee and other approaches
Projects
Goals for Q3 2020:
- Organize meetups
- Revise platform
- Organize Fundraiser
- Organize candidate trainings
Video Newsletter/Podcast
Leader: Joseph
- Next pirate news recording scheduled for Sunday, 7pm unless changed
Democracy and Dogfood (Tech)
5 in attendance. Set a list of objectives for the month.
Next one set for for 9/26, 11am-1pm
Regional Meetings/Events
Leader: jokeefe
- Surveillance Mapping Event
- Come up with a how to video
- Paper
- iPhone
- Android
- Boston (jokeefe) - Sept 12th
- Worcester (Malt) - Oct 17th
- Come up with a how to video
- Party Conference - Fall
- 2021 Boston Pride Festival
- 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
Federal
- EARN IT Act
- PATRIOT Act renewal
State
- Legislature extended session
- Push to get Right to Repair bill to a vote.
- Some of facial recognition moratorium is in the police reform bill
Computer donations
Platform Discussion
Moved to 2020 Platform Discussion
Other To Do
- Application to PPI
- Post statement on Archive.org Suit
- Post statement on our support for Question 1: open access to vehicle telematics systems.
- Post statement on our opposition to S.4051 - Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act.
- Post statement on retaining section 230 protections. Docket RM-11862
Tabled Projects
National Party
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
- Every Tuesday, 7-9pm, Mass MeshNet Tech Meeting, on-line
- 8/29, 11am-1pm, Democracy and Dogfood (Tech) Meeting, on-line
- 9/12, Boston Surveillance Mapping Outing
- 10/17, Worcester Surveillance Mapping Outing
- Fall, Party Conference
Participants
- jokeefe (James O’Keefe, Somerville)
- BobC (Bob Crowther, Hatfield)
- Joe (Joseph Onoroski, Lowell)
- srevilak (Steve Revilak, Arlington)
- Malt (Sam capradae, Worcester)
Observers
- davidd
- ChanServ
- hvxgr
- Deffy
- mikey
Summary
Free the Moderna Vaccine protest. Well attended. Last for around an hour. See https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx2c_9B8YzXl_Ed4-a0y1646RuAcLOKme for video. The organizers are planning future events.
No Pirate news recording this week.
Party Conference. Remote conference was the predominant choice. One day event most popoular. Focus on deciding a party platform and presentations/group discussions. General feeling is to hold the conference after the election. Will do survey for dates and speakers. General feeling is for two days rather than one, even if the two days are shorter.
Joe posts some articles about protests in Kenosha
- https://www.opb.org/news/article/portland-police-arrest-3-journalists-during-violent-protests/
- https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/police-federal-agents-arrest-seattle-based-riot-kitchen-crew-that-stopped-in-kenosha-to-serve-free-food/
