November 16th, 2015 IRC Meeting
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Review & Decisions
- H.2169 – An Act assuring municipal control of military equipment procurement by local law enforcement
Upcoming Events
Boston Anarchist Bookfair - Planning Pad
Campaigns Status
2016 Campaigns & Policies Update
Thoughts on 11/15 Meeting Notes?
Paris Attack Statement
With attempts to castigate encryption due to the Paris Attack, among other reasons, it would be good to have a statement up.
MAAPL form update (srevilak)
H.2487 & H.2606 Video Game Production Subsidy
Will have it up this week (jokeefe)
PirateCon 2015 Videos (jokeefe)
Ordered them in ease of processing / priority:
- Building 3rd party coalitions
- Lightning talks
- Keynote: How we won Net Neutrality
- Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and you
- Rethinking the City
- Income Inequality
Newsletter (Kendra)
- Design & Feedback
- Distribution Planning (besides emailing a pdf)
- Gather list of people to mail it to (?)
- Gather a list of places to distribute it (?)
- Decide on the print run (?)
- Distribute
Tech
- Bitcoin + Credit card gateway in CiviCRM (srevilak, js0000, Kendra)
- Improve UI navigation of wiki & expose more wiki bits on blog (Noe, jokeefe)
- Allow distributed organizing on CiviCRM (and pointers to get started) (Kendra, srevilak, Chris, jokeefe)
- js0000 and jokeefe will work on building a tool to manage twitter:
design(jokeefe) - posted at Twitter API design- coding (js0000 & jokeefe)
- Forum (or needed now that lists are publicized?)
Administrative
- Media
- Updated media list (noe)
- Nov. - 2016 Elections
- Blog posts
- Local/regional contacts (jokeefe) - Regional page up. Working on local pages.
- Materials
- Stickers (igel)
- Flyers
- Need update to general flyer
- ideas: UK Pirate Party materials / design ideas
- Need update to general flyer
Tasks: Wiki list, PiratePad version.
Helping with BINJ CCTV camera mapping project
Looking for someone to work on this.
Upcoming Events
- 11/21, 9am-5:30pm, Building Sustainable Security, Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall
- 11/21-22, 10am-6pm, Boston Anarchist Bookfair, George Sherman Student Center, Boston University
- 11/25, 6-9pm, Cryptoparty, Parts & Crafts, Somerville
- 12/6, 3-5pm, 2016 Campaign Planning Meeting, Pizzeria Regina, 353 Cambridge St, Allston
- Dec. IT Meeting?
- 12/30, 6-9pm, Cryptoparty, Parts & Crafts, 577 Somerville Ave, Somerville
Every Thu., Digital Fourth meeting, 11:20am-1:30pm, Voltage Cafe, Third Street, Cambridge
Participants
- jokeefe (James O’Keefe, Somerville)
- Bluestreak (Lucia Fiero Medway)
- srevilak (Steve Revilak, west of the Alewife)
- aquaticonions (Eli Haber, Lexington)
- Kendra (Kendra In Highland Park MI)
Observers
- davidd
- Pharyngeal
Summary
We discuss whether to endorse H2169, An Act assuring municipal control of military equipment procurement by local law enforcement. Vote to endorse passes, 5-0.
Minutes
20:57 < Bluestreak> ahoy
20:57 < jokeefe> ahoy
21:00 < jokeefe> ahoy aquaticonions
21:00 < jokeefe> agenda:
https://masspirates.org/wiki/November_16th,_2015_IRC_Meeting
21:00 < jokeefe> ids - James O’Keefe, Somerville
21:00 < aquaticonions> ahoy
21:00 < aquaticonions> Eli Haber, Lexington
21:00 < srevilak> Steve Revilak, west of the Alewife
21:02 < jokeefe> Review & Decisions
21:02 < jokeefe> H.2169 – An Act assuring municipal control of military
equipment procurement by local law enforcement
21:02 < jokeefe> https://malegislature.gov/Bills/189/House/H2169
21:03 < Bluestreak> Lucia Fiero Medway
21:04 < jokeefe> “Notwithstanding any general or special law to the
contrary, no police or fire department in any city or town may apply
to the United States Department of Homeland Security, the Department
of Defense or the Department of Justice or any other body or agency
to procure or accept as gifts any aircraft, including unmanned aerial
vehicles, armored vehicles, bayonets, bombs, directed-energy weapons,
grenade launchers,
21:04 < jokeefe> international mobile subscriber identity catchers,
launch vehicles, mines, missiles, radioactive or nuclear weapons, rockets,
silencers, torpedoes, toxicological agents, including chemical agents,
biological agents, and associated equipment, or ultrasonic devices used
for crowd dispersal without the prior authorization of the mayor and
city council, in a city, or the board of selectmen, town meeting or
other govern
21:04 < jokeefe> body, in a town."
21:05 < jokeefe> It is pretty short
21:05 < jokeefe> Comments?
21:05 < srevilak> I chuckled at the text of H2169. Either Denise has
a sense of humor, or her legal staff is quite thorough
21:05 < srevilak> No nuclear weapons for you, Weymouth!
21:05 < jokeefe> Think that came from elsewhere
21:07 < jokeefe> unmanned aerial vehicles, armored vehicles, international
mobile subscriber identity catchers, ultrasonic devices used for crowd
dispersal
21:08 < jokeefe> doesn’t ban automatic weapons, though
21:09 < jokeefe> any comments?
21:09 < Bluestreak> I don’t have a problem with police having automatic
weapons.
21:10 < srevilak> I'm in favor of endorsing
21:11 < Bluestreak> 2nd
21:11 < jokeefe> ok, then. all in favor of endorsing?
21:11 < srevilak> aye
21:11 < aquaticonions> aye
21:12 < Bluestreak> aye
21:12 < Kendra> Hi All, Kendra In Highland Park MI
21:12 < jokeefe> ahoy
21:13 < jokeefe> voting on endorsing H.2169 – An Act assuring municipal
control of military equipment procurement by local law enforcement
21:13 < jokeefe> https://malegislature.gov/Bills/189/House/H2169
21:13 < jokeefe> aye
21:13 < jokeefe> Any opposed, say nay
21:15 < Kendra> aye
21:15 < jokeefe> Motion passes
21:16 < jokeefe> Boston Anarchist Bookfair this weekend -
https://piratenpad.de/p/BAB2015
21:16 < jokeefe> … to sort out details - we have a table
21:17 < jokeefe> srevilak, have you heard about the talk?
21:17 < srevilak> jokeefe: no, haven't heard anything yet
21:18 < Kendra> I am uploading what I have tonight before it turns into
a novel, adding picture s right now. I will put it on the wiki before
the meeting is done
21:18 < Bluestreak> This is the newsletter?
21:19 < Bluestreak> That would be great to have for the bookfair!
21:19 < jokeefe> How many pages?
21:20 < Kendra> at the moment 20, but feel free to edit
21:20 < Kendra> 10 stapled, sorry,
21:20 < jokeefe> Is there a pdf of Halley’s zine?
21:21 < jokeefe> I have one that I can get photocopied if need be
21:21 < Kendra> Maybe email her and ask for a copy, I expect she will
be attending that
21:21 < Kendra> If in town
21:24 < jokeefe> she will be, but for another group, IIRC.
21:25 < jokeefe> Well update the pad if you have anything to add
21:25 < jokeefe> Next up: Campaigns Status
21:25 < jokeefe> We had a good 2016 Campaigns & Policies Update
21:25 < jokeefe> meeting
21:25 < jokeefe> Notes at
https://masspirates.org/wiki/November_15th,_2015_Campaign_Planning_Meeting
21:26 < jokeefe> Meetings on the 6th and 19th
21:27 < jokeefe> Some good campaign issue ideas
21:27 < jokeefe> and task list
21:28 < jokeefe> If there are ask task you can help with, either add
your name to wiki or email the list
21:29 < jokeefe> comments?
21:29 < Bluestreak> Looking ahead to regional...
21:29 < Bluestreak> Framingham might be a good place to meet
21:29 < Bluestreak> or Natick
21:29 < Bluestreak> I can think of a couple of good spaces.
21:30 < jokeefe> cool
21:30 < Bluestreak> I think it was Eli who was talking about a speaking
event Lessig was doing on the 23rd
21:30 < Bluestreak> still think we should ask him to run.
21:31 < jokeefe> you can ask him now
21:31 < Bluestreak> if I can get my butt out to the thing
21:31 < jokeefe> what is the even aquaticonions
21:31 < jokeefe> ?
21:31 < aquaticonions> Yeah, there's something at Harvard he's doing. You
need to RSVP, and I don't know if there's still space
21:31 < jokeefe> event
21:32 < Bluestreak> Oh you aren’t going, Eli?
21:32 < aquaticonions> I RSVPed, so I hopefully am
21:32 < Bluestreak> Awesome.
21:32 < aquaticonions> but I'll be getting back from another statethat
same day
21:32 < jokeefe> thanks
21:32 < aquaticonions> So I'm not 100%
21:32 < Bluestreak> OK I hear you
21:32 < Bluestreak> Im not 100% either ;-)
21:33 < Bluestreak> so the 23rd is … monday?
21:33 < aquaticonions> yeah
21:34 < Bluestreak> IDK, I will try.
21:34 < Bluestreak> oh
21:34 < jokeefe> is there a link?
21:34 < Bluestreak> link to RSVP aquaticonions?
21:34 < Bluestreak> lol
21:35 < aquaticonions> getting it now
21:35 < jokeefe> thanks
21:35 < aquaticonions>
http://www.evite.com/event/0273EWDLVEBMFMAWAEPFQ7O46L75LQ?utm_source=NA&utm_medium=sharable_invite&utm_campaign=send_sharable_link
21:36 < jokeefe> thanks
21:36 < jokeefe> Paris Attack Statement -
https://piratenpad.de/p/ParisAttackStatement
21:37 < jokeefe> I put down some possible things to include. LIke the
Pirate Party Dormund’s image
21:37 < Bluestreak>
http://www.wired.com/2015/11/paris-attacks-cia-director-john-brennan-what-he-gets-wrong-about-encryption-backdoors/
21:38 < srevilak> I started writing something about Paris, but it's more
op-ed than position statement
21:38 < jokeefe> what were you going to cover?
21:39 < srevilak> So far, I have a lot about mass shootings in the
united states
21:39 < srevilak> Gun homicide rates in different countries
21:39 < srevilak> And the way we paint different shooters.
21:39 < Kendra> It is intersting to compare teh per capita rates around
the world
21:40 < Kendra> Also interesting comparison between school shooting and
mass murders and these recent tactics, obvious correlations
21:40 < srevilak> The unfinished parts will explore "what is terrorism",
along with opinions on what we can, and cannot do about it
21:40 < Bluestreak> US mass shootings are alos terrorism
21:40 < srevilak> Then finally, I'll go into 9/11 and "connecting dots"
21:41 < Kendra> Same frustrations coming out in different ways
21:42 < Bluestreak> added to your pad jokeefe
21:42 < jokeefe> thanks
21:42 < Bluestreak> Gun control is so strict in Paris.
21:42 < srevilak> No objections to a more position-oriented statement
though
21:43 < srevilak> I'm just warning y'all :)
21:43 < Bluestreak> Just write what strikes you most
21:43 < jokeefe> well the pad exists. will post the link to the list
and see what people add
21:43 < Bluestreak> Not happy about the refugee stance. So not afraid
of Syrians
21:44 < Kendra> I think there is no point in having a platform if you
do not have strong positions
21:44 < jokeefe> agreed
21:44 < Kendra> My mother just stopped ranting about this about half an
hour ago, it's an emotional time
21:45 < Kendra> But I am about to upload this newsletter, so if we want
to add that op ed let me know by Wednesday
21:45 < Bluestreak> Luckily my parents didn’t want to talk politics
21:45 < Bluestreak> when they last visited on Sunday
21:46 < jokeefe> MAAPL form update - how goes it srevilak?
21:48 < srevilak> goes okay. Spent sunday evening reverse-engineering
webform_civicrm's database interaction, and figuring out
21:48 < Bluestreak> Guys… I am barely awake...
21:48 < Bluestreak> I’m going to go a little early
21:48 < srevilak> how to incorporate several template pages into a
CiviCRM page controller class
21:49 < Bluestreak> See y’all this weekend, I hope.
21:49 < srevilak> Heh, soon as I start talking tech, Bluestreak nods
off :)
21:49 < Bluestreak> lol
21:49 < Bluestreak> night
21:50 < jokeefe> I will be working on the H.2487 & H.2606 Video Game
Production Subsidy petition this week and will get it up
21:51 < aquaticonions> My house's wifi is dying a slow, painful death
so I'm afraid I'll have to say goodbye too
21:51 < jokeefe> thanks srevilak
21:51 < jokeefe> That is all I have. Anything else?
21:51 < aquaticonions> adios amigos
21:51 < jokeefe> take care
21:51 < Kendra> Newsletter is uploading to wiki in pdf form, I can sent
the sla file as well.
21:51 < jokeefe> thanks
21:51 < Kendra> That's all I got
21:52 < jokeefe> Kendra, would you send out the version you saved it as?
21:52 < Kendra> Oh, are we trying to go the the HOPE conf next summer
21:52 < jokeefe> I am hoping to
21:54 < srevilak> I got logistics about the Surveillance Panel happening
tomorrow night
21:54 < srevilak> long bike ride, but will try to make it
21:54 < Kendra> I am uploading the .sla file to the wiki, it might be
too big to email
21:54 < Kendra> Where is the surveillance panel?
21:55 < srevilak> Near Dudley Square
21:55 < jokeefe> https://www.facebook.com/events/1123180467715807/
21:55 < Kendra> Yeah that's a hike after work
21:55 < jokeefe> Doubt I will make it, but if my family plans change,
I will head over
21:56 < jokeefe> Motion to adjourn?
21:56 < srevilak> aye
21:56 < Kendra> aye, nite all
21:56 < jokeefe> aye
21:56 < jokeefe> motion passes
21:57 < jokeefe> srevilak, will you post the transcript?
21:57 < srevilak> jokeefe: will do
21:57 < jokeefe> thanks
