August 30th, 2022 IRC Meeting

Decisions/Endorsements

Support XR Boston Week of Rebellion

https://xrboston.org/news/september-week-rebellion-events/

Projects

Outreach

Meeting poll

Party Conference & Elections

• October 8th. noon-4pm? later? earlier? two day?
• Speaker sign up at https://masspirates.org/crew/forms/speak-our-2022-party-conference
• Elections set for Nov. after election day

Fostering Locals

• Boston-area meeting, September 10th

Planning for 2023 Local Elections

• https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/MAPP2023LocalElections

Video Newsletter/Podcast

Leader: Joseph

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

Other To Do

• Application to PPI

Upcoming Events

• Boston-area meeting, September 10th
• XR Boston Week of Rebellion, September 17-25th.
• Monthly member meeting, Sat., September 24th, noon-2pm
• Party Conference, October 8th
• Boston Anarchist Bookfair, October 22-23. Apply to Present by Sept. 22 or table by Sept. 4

Participants

• jokeefe (James O’Keefe, Somerville)
• srevilak (Steve Revilak, Arlington)
• Joe (Joseph Onoroski, Lowell)

Observers

• davidd
• hvxgr
• slerman

Summary

XR Boston week of rebellion

• https://xrboston.org/news/september-week-rebellion-events/
• We vote to support XR Boston's efforts

Outreach

• only good times for the poll were Tue/Wed/Th 8pm+
• We'll move meetings to Thu 9pm, starting next week

Conference

• Signups: https://masspirates.org/crew/forms/speak-our-2022-party-conference
• Folks in the USPP were interested in speaking/having a panel discussion
• Ranked choice voting could be a good topic
• Possibly ask someone from XR to speak? jokeefe will ask

Pirate News

• Planning for the usual recording on Sunday

Upcoming Bills (financial, not legislative)