February 27th, 2025 Meeting

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

Recording:

Decisions/Endorsements

Meeting Date/Time Change?

Joe requested that we move member meetings to Sunday, Monday or Tuesday nights, preferably at 8pm. Would any of those dates work better or at least ok?

Other bills to review

• Location Shield Act (SD 501/HD2965)
• An Act relative to unregulated face recognition and emerging biometric surveillance technologies (HD2726)
• An Act establishing a moratorium on face recognition and other remote biometric surveillance systems (SD671)
• An Act relative to unmanned aerial systems (HD2542)
• An Act relative to protecting Massachusetts residents against federal government surveillance (HD4038)
• Dignity Not Deportations Act (HD3596/SD1107)
• Civil Asset Forfeiture reform (HD2971)
• Right to Repair (SD 732, HD 397, HD 1300, HD 3779, HD 3617)

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.

Should we rework them. Specific issues:

• Should we only hold them over the Internet?
• How do conferences fit in?
• Are two meetings "enough"?

Projects/Events

Pirate News

Leader: Joseph

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

Voter Outreach 2025

• Letters to city election committee/town clerk asking for pirate voters/election dates
• Follow ups as necessary
• Snail Mail supporters in December to tell them about:
  • Conference
  • Call for officer nominees
  • Municipal elections
  • Other events/efforts
  • Donate/join our mailing list

2025 Local Campaigns

Need a leader for this effort.

Actions:

• 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
• Videos:
  • Selecting campaign
  • Planning campaign
  • Get on the ballot
  • Fundraising
  • Voter Id
  • GOTV

Participants

• Jamie
• Eli
• Steve

Summary

Reports.

• Jamie met with an MIT student that's doing a project on Public Data and how it can be used to aggregate and draw insights into people's behavior. Interested in the surveillance mapping effort, https://cctv.masspirates.org. Inmann, Porter, Harvard, Alewife, and Lechmere are potential areas to map in the future.
• Cambridge public safety committee is having a meeting next week, to decide if they will allow the police to use surveillance drones.

Collections of information

• https://masspirates.org/wiki/2025_Administrative_Coup_Memory_Bank
• https://masspirates.org/wiki/Things_to_Do_When_Fascists_are_Taking_Over

Meeting date and time.

• Joe suggested Sun, Mon, or Tues around 8:00.
• We'll try Sunday at 8:00 pm.

Bills to review.