June 22nd, 2025 Meeting
From Mass Pirate Wiki
Meeting to be held via video conference: https://communitybridge.com/bbb-room/mass-pirates-member-meeting/
Recording: https://youtu.be/DlIKd-PyIcI
Reports
Decisions/Endorsements
Commonwealth Bills to Review
Met organizers for BSWAC.org. They have four bills they would like support on:
- H1980
- H2467
- H1747
- H2634
Other bills:
- An Act relative to unregulated face recognition and emerging biometric surveillance technologies (H.1538)
- An Act establishing a moratorium on face recognition and other remote biometric surveillance systems (S.1385)
- 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)
- Civil Asset Forfeiture reform (H.1953)
- Right to Repair Bills:
Here is an etherpad for people to offer suggestions.
Federal Bills to Review
- Senators working on a bill that would repeal Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Section 230 is the primary reason we have freedom of speech on the Internet. See this explainer. We have long supported Section 230 implicitly, but we never wrote up a statement why. Including why we support free speech seems important right now, as well.
- TAKE IT DOWN Act / Analysis - Passed the Senate
United States Pirate Party Issues?
Projects/Events
Pirate News
Leader: Joseph
- Pirate news recording scheduled for every other Sunday, 7pm with go-live at 7:30pm. Unless changed
2025 Voter Outreach
Leader: Jamie
We are still gathering all 721 voters. Alex is contacting the remaining cities and towns.
Once the list is complete, we will add to our database and contact voters.
2026 Campaigns
Leader: Jamie
Working on plan and outreach to volunteers, etc.
Other To Do
Upcoming Events
Participants
- Jamie
- Steve
Observers
Summary
Conference
- Conference went will.
- Video editing in progress.
Reports
- Tabled at Boxboro fifers day
- Were out at harvard square and mapped ~ 50 cameras. Still more to be done, esp on Harvard's campus
- Marched in 2025 Boston Dyke March. Met the Boston Sex Workers and Allies collecive. They have several MA legislative priorities. We'll discuss further at the next meeting.
- No updates on status of other bills. Can check status for next meeting.
Pirate News
- Will do an episode on July 4th weekend
Voter outreach
- 721 registered voters in about 221 cities and towns
- Continuing to request voter lists from municpalities with pirates. Hope to have them collected in a few weeks.
- Later, will go about contacting voters.
- Mailed 320 for the conference (using the addresses we had)
2026 Campaigns
- Working on a plan. Have some tentative dates (see conference wiki).
- Once we've reached out to voters, will look for volunteers.
