2014 Event Notes
5/9/2014 Fundraiser
- Held at the Democracy center in Cambridge, 7-11pm on a Friday night. Weather was nice.
- 21 in-person donations, ranging from $5 to $200 dollars.
- Ten of these donors were new donors.
- Approximately 30 attendees, including pirates
- two advance donations (one of which was from a Pirate officer)
- One new voter registration
5/18/2014 Cryptoparty
- Held at General Assembly Boston. Done in conjunction with Together Boston
- Sunday afternoon, very nice day
- Approx 7 attendees (plus several pirate activists)
- We probably had too many concurrent sessions for the audience size. We might have been able to get away with one track, and three presentations.
- Met one person interested in working with us on future cryptoparties/crypto classes.
5/24/2014 March Against Monsanto
We marched to the State House and Copley Square with Pirate literature and a large Pirate sign. Many members of diverse political parties were in attendance including Socialist Alternative, Green-Rainbow, and We The People. We had a lot of great conversations and handed out pamphlets: generally, the reaction to us as Pirates was very positive. It may be possible to do collaborations with the Socialists and the Green-Rainbows.
The action itself: Entirely outdoors demonstration with a march to the State House, speeches, March to Copley Square, speeches and then breakout sessions called teach-ins.
Numbers: ~3,000 participants, the entire event clocked in at about 5 hours, and this was the 3rd official MAM in the Boston area.
I highly recommend we continue to go to events that rally against corporate interests, especially corporations like Monsanto who abuse IP law flagrantly.
5/24/2014 WEMF Interview
Noe Candidate (that's me!) and Joe Candidate did an interview at WEMF tonight. It went well, and will probably be up on YouTube for your perusal at Mike Cann's channel.
5/24/2014 Boston Security Meetup
- Captain James gave a presentation called "How Dare You Molest the Sea"?
- Approximately 60 people attended the talk.
