February 9th, 2023 Meeting

Meeting to be held via video conference: https://ca.meet.coop/mas-ub4-8ox-vtj.

Recording:

Projects

2/18/2023 Party Conference

• Conference page up: https://masspirates.org/blog/conference/
• Blog post reminders up

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

• Party Conference, noon, February 18th, 2023.

Participants

• jokeefe
• srevilak
• Joe

Summary

Reports

• email went out encouraging people to run for office

Budget and raising

• We should have a budget
• National party set up a way to take donations online
• Joe would like to sell T-shirts and bumper stickers. Have zazzle for tee shirt. Would need to design buttons.
• Joe would also like to get a set of door hangers to distribute. What the pirate party is about, etc.
• Possibly develop a pamphlet of core values, etc. Liz from USPP has a sample of such a pamphlet from a few years ago.

US Pirate Party

• Kentucky PP candidate ran for house rep. Got 4% of vote. Afterwards, Kentucky PP split with USPP. They're still a pirate party, but not associated with national
• USPP doing more video presentations to youtube.
• Getting ready for next national conference. Probably May 29th - June 2nd. Virtual. Hoping for an in-person conference next year.

Conference

• Coming up on Feb 18th.
• One suggestion was to come up with ideas to counter anti-lgbt bills that have been submitted to state legislatures.
• Topic suggestions are welcome
• In person conference tentatively schedule for April. Possibly in Lowell.

Local outreach

• Jamie still working with mesh Boston.
• Somerville holding hearings on renewal of Comcast's cable license.
• Steve working on MBTA Communities multi-family zoning in Arlington
• Jamie will post Mass Municipal Association document with election dates.