June 15th, 2025 Conference

Schedule

Time	Session	Speaker
9:00am-10:00am	Setup
10:00am-10:15am	Opening Address
10:15am-11:15am	Policy and Platform Discussion
11:15am-noon	Monopoly Free Capitalism	Wendy Welsh
noon-12:30pm	Lunch
12:30pm – 1:00pm	How to navigate your local government	Steve Revilak
1:00pm – 1:45pm	Review of Party Initiatives
1:45pm - 2:30pm	Road to Town Meeting	Kolby Blehm
2:30pm - 3:00pm	Candidate Tutorial	James O'Keefe
3:00pm - 3:30pm	Election planning for 2026
3:30pm – 4:00pm	Closing Address
4:00pm – 4:00pm	Clean up

Notes

Policy and Platform Discussion

Pad

environment

• expand to include fishing, farming, mining, energy production, conservation

electoral reform

• specific ways to implement our goals

2nd amendment - drones as weapons

• surveillance and drones

elections

• more details on implementation

education

• using AI adaptive learning to learn how to students learn to develop better curiculums

stance on AI

• a machine can never be accountable, thus a machine must never make decisions
• open sourcing
• human centered design?
• human in the loop

individual responsibility

• to be informed
• up hold our society

Review of Party Initiatives

Pirate Initiatives / Things we do

• Mapping surveillance cameras
• Running candidates
• Teaching people how to run for office
• Testifying on state bills/local decisions
• Participating in events to tell people about the party
• Outreach ideas - voter sign up tabling/scheduled events
• Spreading word about us: Pirate News, Social Media, Podcast, etc.
• Bi-weekly meetings

Election planning for 2026

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Time line

• Post signature gathering
  • Candidate conference?
    • How to govern mentoring (State)
    • How to govern mentoring (town)
    • write a how to govern guide - A pirates guide to local government
• 2026/04/30 - State nomination papers due
• 2026/02/15 - State nomination papers available
• 2025/11/30 - 1st town nom papers available
• 2025/11/30 - Have started candidate training
• 2025/11/15 - Have identified all candidates
• 2025/10/15 -
• 2025/09/15 - candidate (org/vol) pep talk & regional organizing meetings
• 2025/08/15 -
  • have list of people to do stuff
  • have written specific plans for elections
• 2025/07/15 - initial outreach to volunteer +
• 2025/07/01 - all voter records
  • We have voters in 221 municipalities
  • We have lists from 93 municipalities
  • We need lists from 128 municipalities
• 2025/06/15 - now

Notes

write a how to run guide contact people who wanted to be candidates contact people who wanted to organized their communities

what would you like from us to succeed

what are the opportunities we want to present to volunteers

Massachusetts local government guide guide to town meeting - state/election doc local government / town FAQ

Issues housing/local government/transparency/surveillance/accountabillity

Attending

• James
• Steve
• Joe
• Alec
• Wendy
• Kolby
• another who left early
• Tim (remote)

Media

• WBZ NewsRadio 1030 interviewed us, but segment has not aired.