April 6th, 2023 Meeting

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

Recording:

Decisions/Endorsements

Attend Upcoming Events?

• April 21st, 3:30pm, XRBoston Earth Day Rally and March, Boston City Hall
• June 3rd, Trans Resistance March and Festival
• June 10th, Boston Pride Parade and Festival. Cost for a festival table is $300-400. Unclear what the parade costs.
• June 17th, 12:30pm, Boxborough Fifers Day, Flerra Meadows, 400 Stow Road, Boxborough, MA. Setup starts at 7am.

RESTRICT Act

Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communications Technology (RESTRICT) Act

Text: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/686?s=1&r=15

• https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a3ddb/restrict-act-insanely-broad-ban-tiktok-vpns
• https://www.dontbantiktok.com/

Pro-Cash Plank

Make suggestions for plank text at https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/CashPlank

Placeholder: American Data Privacy and Protection Act

Review this for next meeting.

Projects

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

• April 21st, 3:30pm, XRBoston Earth Day Rally and March, Boston City Hall
• May 13th, noon-2pm, Spring Conference, 3 Foundry Industrial Street, Lowell, MA 01852
• June 3rd, Trans Resistance March and Festival
• June 10th, Boston Pride Parade and Festival
• June 17th, 12:30pm, Boxborough Fifers Day, Flerra Meadows, 400 Stow Road, Boxborough, MA. Setup starts at 7am.
• Red Umbrella Summer Event?

Participants

• jokeefe
• Joe
• srevilak

Summary

Agree to attend XR march, Trans pride, Boxboro fifer's day.

srevilak find the restrict act amusing, recalling how the EU ended safe harbor agreements with the US over concerns that EU citizen data held by private companies could be accessed by US govt. intelligence agencies. We oppose the restrict act, though.

Cash plank. Outline isn't bad. Needs someone to take the points in the outline and rewrite them into a narrative.

US Pirate Party

• USPP Conference announced (end of May, early June)

American Data Privacy and Protect Act

• HR.8152