January 2nd, 2014 IRC Meeting

Agenda

1. Upcoming Events
   1. TPP/TAFTA protest?
   2. 1/5, Campaign Training
   3. 1/9, Somerville Pirate Party meeting. https://twitter.com/villepirates
   4. 1/11, Honor the Memory of Aaron Swartz; Demand Carmen Ortiz's Job
   5. 1/17-20, Arisia, Boston
      1. 1/18, Campaign Training
      2. Cryptoparty
   6. 1/18 Boston Common Smoke Out/Vape Up!
   7. 1/23, Medway Pirates Meeting. twitter youtube
   8. 1/25, Issue Meeting
   9. 1/25, 7pm, Activists Ball
   10. 1/30?, Somerville Pirate Party meeting. https://twitter.com/villepirates
   11. 2/17 (Monday), Snowden, Manning & other whistleblowers Airport Protest
2. Support Outreach & Fundraising
   1. Phone banking
   2. Valentines Day Fundraiser Status
3. 2014 Campaign
   1. Media List
   2. Mapping
   3. Voter registration app

Participants

• jokeefe (James O'Keefe, Somerville)
• srevilak (Steve Revilak, Arlington, MA)
• davidd
• ageis (Kevin Gallagher, Amherst)
• Joe (Joe Guertin, Bellingham, Ma)
• Igel (William Fleurant, Arlington MA)
• Garret
• passtab
• Bluestreak (Lucia Fiero Medway)

Observers:

• zby

Summary

• Airport protest. Suggest having signs for several whistleblowers. Bring press release, flyers, camera. No costumes. We'll do this on President's day. Mon, Feb 17th. (Motion passes, 4-0)
• Arisia. Planning to do cryptoparties and campaign training. Probable attendees: jokeefe, srevilak, Joe
• Ageis will try to find spaces to do Feb. campaign training in Western MA
• 1/11 - Demand Carmen Ortiz's Job.
• 1/18 Boston Common Smoke Out/Vape Up! protest. Protests on 3rd Saturday of each month. General opinion: Boston's no-smoking/vaping in parks law is a dumb law that will be selectively enforced, and a slap against Masscan. Motion to support protest passes, 6-0.
• Valentine's day fundraiser. Democracy center is not available on Feb 14th. We propose March 1st instead (at the Democracy center). 5pm-11pm booking; this includes time for setup and teardown.

Meeting Minutes

[9:02pm] jokeefe: Agenda - http://masspirates.org/wiki/January_2nd,_2014_IRC_Meeting
[9:03pm] jokeefe: starting with ids - James O'Keefe, Somerville
[9:03pm] ageis: Kevin Gallagher, Amherst
[9:03pm] srevilak: Steve Revilak, Arlington, MA
[9:04pm] Joe: joe guertin, bellingham, ma
[9:04pm] Joe: Joe Guertin, Bellingham, Ma
[9:04pm] Joe: Well that looks much better
[9:05pm] Igel: William Fleurant, Arlington MA
[9:05pm] Joe: As a warning, I may end up falling asleep at my computer. I'll try to last as long as I can
[9:05pm] • Igel looks at agenda
[9:06pm] jokeefe: np, Joe.
[9:06pm] jokeefe: We have a busy January
[9:06pm] Joe: I'll be there Sunday. I'm going to carpool with Lucia
[9:07pm] jokeefe: Cool!
[9:07pm] jokeefe: Please talk up the 1/5, Campaign Training event, if you can
[9:08pm] jokeefe: srevilak, would you introduce your Snowden Airport Protest idea?
[9:08pm] srevilak: I can't claim credit for the idea -- just passing it along
[9:09pm] srevilak: Idea is: head to airport, with sign that says "Edward Snowden"
[9:09pm] srevilak: wait around like you're waiting for him to arrive
[9:09pm] srevilak: There's a national effort to do this on Jan 3rd
[9:09pm] srevilak: But, could also do it later
[9:09pm] srevilak: IIRC, German PP may have come up with the idea
[9:10pm] davidd: yep, they started it after snowden had fled hongkong
[9:11pm] jokeefe: What about broadening it to include other whistleblowers as well.  Manning, Kiriakou, weev, etc.
[9:11pm] davidd: i think pp norway threw an actual trollbait at the national media
[9:11pm] jokeefe: oh, what did they do?
[9:11pm] davidd: that they were expecting him and he was already on the play
[9:11pm] jokeefe: haha
[9:11pm] srevilak: Here's where I heard of airport protest: http://lists.pirateweb.net/pipermail/pp.international.general/2013-December/014971.html
[9:12pm] davidd: http://www.aftenbladet.no/nyheter/utenriks/Piratpartiet---Snowden-reiser-til-Island-via-Norge-3203354.html#.UsYcdEPAORs
[9:12pm] davidd: that was just a few days after he arrived in moscow
[9:13pm] davidd: than next some german pirates went to airports with signs
[9:13pm] jokeefe: sound like an idea we should do?
[9:14pm] srevilak: jokeefe: no objections to including other whistleblowers.  Were you thinking of all @ once?
[9:14pm] davidd: well it makes less sense when you are doing it in the US
[9:14pm] jokeefe: yes, different people, have different signs
[9:15pm] jokeefe: Of course only snowden would appear at the international terminal
[9:15pm] srevilak: I'm game.
[9:15pm] jokeefe: so am i
[9:15pm] jokeefe: suggestions when, was thinking M-Th for best media coverage.
[9:16pm] davidd: so when you go do something like that, what kind of gear do you take with you?
[9:16pm] srevilak: Sure.  Snowden arriving with weev and Manning.  Heard about it on the internet.  Must be true 
[9:17pm] srevilak: davidd: probably pirate costumes and some leaflets
[9:17pm] jokeefe: press releases, video camera to record it
[9:17pm] jokeefe: for this I would suggest leaving the costumes
[9:18pm] jokeefe: signs of course
[9:18pm] davidd: you have some meeting planned yet?
[9:18pm] jokeefe: planning meeting?
[9:18pm] davidd: you have regular bar meets in boston yet?
[9:19pm] jokeefe: We have a monthly issues meeting, and local chapters are meeting once a month/three weeks