November 16th, 2025 Member Meeting

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Meeting to be held via video conference: https://communitybridge.com/bbb-room/mass-pirates-member-meeting/

Recording:

Reports

Decisions/Endorsements

United States Pirate Party Issues?

National party selected twelve cities as the finalists for the July 2026 national convention. It includes Boston and Providence. Emailed the survey to our supporters.

Projects/Events

Pirate News

Leader: Joseph

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

2026 Campaigns & Voter Outreach

Leader: Jamie

Based on Mass. Election Division data, we have 721 voters. Alec is contacting all of the municipalities that have not fulfilled our public records request.

Jamie and Alec drafted a 2026 Campaign Plan for review and approval. Final version will be done this week.

Commonwealth Bills to Review

The Mass. Senate passed An Act establishing the Massachusetts data privacy act unanimously. It has been referred to the Committee on House Ways and Means.

Other bills:

  • An Act relative to unmanned aerial systems (H.3749 / S.2438)
  • An Act relative to protecting Massachusetts residents against federal government surveillance (H.2687)
  • Dignity Not Deportations Act (H.1588 / S.1122)
  • Right to Repair Bills:
  • Decrim Sex Work Bills from https://bswac.org/. Emailed Rikki and Desmond their thoughts on them as they are the most up to date on the issue:
    • An Act to promote the health and safety of people in the sex trade (H.1980)

Here is an etherpad for people to offer suggestions.

Bills We Decided On

Endorsed:

  • An Act to provide accountability in the use of biometric recognition technology and comprehensive enforcement (H.96/S.36)
  • Civil Asset Forfeiture reform (H.1953)
  • H.1973. An Act protecting personal security. We support the bill, and its senate counterpart.
  • S.1731. An Act to promote transparency of facial recognition and driver's license photos. Not great, but we'll support it, because it sucks less than the status quo.
  • H.1946/ An Act to implement the recommendations of the special commission on facial recognition technology. We support the warrant requirements, and the bills provisions for transparency and reporting.
  • An Act to study the decriminalization of sex work (H.2467)
  • An Act relative to safe reporting (H.1747)
  • An Act relative to sexual assault by an officer (H.2634)

Federal Bills to Review

A reconsideration of Member Meeting Articles

We haven't adhered to our Articles of Agreement's Member Meetings section strictly since we have existed, specifically the [ https://masspirates.org/wiki/Articles_of_Agreement#4.2_Form Form] and Time sections. Meetings have met weekly and bi-weekly (our current form) and not twice a year each over six weeks.

Rework them to:

  • Have a section on conferences (possible spring/fall, at least one a year)
  • Rework the member meetings to be on-line at least once a month
  • Set when elections for the pirate council is and that we can elect people at a conference or on-line by secret ballot

Working on a draft document at https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/MAPPRevisedMemberMeetingsArticles

Other To Do

Upcoming Events

Participants

  • Jamie
  • Steve

Observers

Summary

Reports:

  • On Thursday: criminalization of self-defense talk, in Cambridge. Food and childcare provided.
  • We were at the Boston Anarchist Bookfair, mapping surveillance cameras in the area. Also verified that Cambridge's Flock cameras (license plate readers) had been taken down
  • Cambridge will have a public safety committee meeting on 12/9 to review use of Flock cameras. At Cambridge City Hall, noon - 2pm.
  • USPP - selected 12 cities as finalists for the next annual convention. Boston and Providence are two of the finalist cities.

Pirate News

  • Next Sunday, 7pm.

Campaigns and Voter outreach

  • Federal and state elections in Massachusetts in 2026. We'd like to get pirates to run for town and state elections.
  • Town nomination papers start to become available at the end of November (varies by town)
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