August 10th, 2025 Meeting
Meeting to be held via video conference: https://communitybridge.com/bbb-room/mass-pirates-member-meeting/
Recording: https://youtu.be/hvCSCDMpJMw
Reports
Decisions/Endorsements
Attend Anarchist Bookfair?
BABF is 11/1-2. Should we have a table with Restore the 4th? Does anyone want to offer a talk?
United States Pirate Party Issues?
Projects/Events
2025 Voter Outreach
Leader: Jamie
Based on Mass. Election Division data, we have 721 voters. Alec is contacting all of the municipalities that have not fulfilled our public records request.
2026 Campaigns
Leader: Jamie
Jamie and Alec drafted a 2026 Campaign Plan for review and approval.
Notified members.
Pirate News
Leader: Joseph
- Pirate news recording scheduled for every other Sunday, 7pm with go-live at 7:30pm. Unless changed
Commonwealth Bills to Review
- 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)
- Right to Repair Bills:
- Decrim Sex Work Bills from https://bswac.org/. Emailed Rikki and Desmond their thoughts on them as they are the most up to date on the issue:
Here is an etherpad for people to offer suggestions.
Bills We Decided On
- An Act to provide accountability in the use of biometric recognition technology and comprehensive enforcement (H.96/S.36)
- Civil Asset Forfeiture reform (H.1953)
- An Act to promote transparency of facial recognition and driver's license photos ([https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/S1731 S.1731))
- An Act to implement the recommendations of the special commission on facial recognition technology (H.1946/S.1053)
- H.1946/ An Act to implement the recommendations of the special commission on facial recognition technology. We support the warrant requirements, and the bills provisions for transparency and reporting.
Federal Bills to Review
- Anti-File Sharing bills:
- Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act (H.R.791) - ...more
- American Copyright Protection Act (Not yet posted) ...more)
- ... more on the bills at https://torrentfreak.com/fears-of-overblocking-unite-critics-of-u-s-pirate-site-blocking-bill/
- The SCREEN Act (S.737)
- Pro Codes Act (H.R.4009 ...more
- American Music Fairness Act (H.R.861)
We already opposed the Kids Online Safety Act (S.1748)
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.
Rework them to:
- Have a section on conferences (possible spring/fall, at least one a year)
- Rework the member meetings to be on-line at least once a month
- Set when elections for the pirate council is and that we can elect people at a conference or on-line by secret ballot
Working on a draft document at https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/MAPPRevisedMemberMeetingsArticles
Other To Do
Upcoming Events
Participants
- Jamie
- Steve
Observers
Summary
Reports
- Email update went out
- We have an events calendar on website.
- Virtual meeting of Boston Public Safety Committee. Police want to use three tools for monitoring social medial. Starts at 4pm.
Boston Anarchist Bookfair
- Nov 1st and 2nd.
- We're interested in tabling. Will reach out to warrantless.org to see if they're interested in sharing a table, as we have in the past.
USPP
- Meeting tonight at 9pm Eastern
Voter Outreach
- On hiatus right now, due to vacations
- 2026 campaign plan drafted
Bills to Review
- https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H2467. Appreciate the focus on decriminalization. Involves a variety of stakeholders. No time period specified for producing the report, or guarantee that the report will be public. Support, with caveats.
- https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H1747. Support.
- https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/H2634. Support.
