September 19th, 2024 Meeting

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

Recording:

Projects/Events

Video Newsletter/Podcast

Leader: Joseph

• Video quality of Jitsi has started to suffer. Would be good to find a better streaming/recording alternative.
• Pirate news recording scheduled for Sundays, 7pm with go-live at 7:30pm. Unless changed

Voter Outreach 2024

• Contact cities/town to get list of voters
• Mail supporters

2025 Local Campaigns

Actions:

• Videos:
  • Selecting campaign
  • Planning campaign
  • Get on the ballot
  • Fundraising
  • Voter Id
  • GOTV
• Outreach to volunteers:
  • Ask them to organize locally
  • Ask them to campaign/run
  • Ask them to give us their full contact info
  • Call potential candidates/supporters

Participants

• jokeefe
• emcgee
• jonoroski
• srevilak

Summary

Joe's campaign update. Plan was to do a zero dollar campaign, with lots of door knocking. Has been somewhat successful. Challenge is getting ill this weekend, which makes door-to-door a challenge. Will need some help with other forms of outreach, like flyers and mailing. Especially with design, messaging, and getting things printed.

Events. Had a gathering in Somerville, to map cameras in Assembly Square. Need more camera mapping to the west and south.

KOSA got out of committee. There's also a senate bill that would allow patenting of genes.

No USPP updates at the moment. No advancement on the AI policy.

Today is international talk like a pirate day.

Upcoming events.

• Sunday Sep 22th in Central Square - mapping surveillance cameras.
• Sep 24th 6pm Boston Public Library - Corey Doctorow talking about book banning
• BSides Boston on Oct 5th at Arts at the Armory.
• Oct 19-20th - Boston Anarchist Book Fair.