April 18th, 2024 Meeting

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

Recording:

Projects/Events

Planning for 2024

Nomination papers available for county/state/federal elections.

• List of city/town election contacts added to database - Thanks Steve.
• Contact cities/town to get list of voters
  • Get list of contacts
  • Write email
  • Send it
• Mail members/voters
  • Ask them to organize locally
  • Ask them to campaign/run
  • Ask them to give us their full contact info
• Call potential candidates/supporters
• ?

Video Newsletter/Podcast

Leader: Joseph

• Next pirate news on April 21st.
• Pirate news recording scheduled for Sundays, 7pm with go-live at 7:30pm. Unless changed

Upcoming Events

• April 21st, Joseph Onoroski Signature Gathering
• April 28th, Joseph Onoroski Signature Gathering
• June 15th, Boxborough Fifer's Day
• June 15th, TransResistance Stand Out and Picnic, Harambee Park, Dorchester/Mattapan

Participants

• jokeefe
• srevilak
• eli

Summary

Technical issues with the videoconference system, so we fell back to IRC.

Jokeefe reorganized pirate news into per-year playlists.

USPP decided on a theme for their conference. Something along the lines of "Steal this Conference"

Joe is up to 157 certified signatures.

Trans resistance march coincindes with Fifer's day in Boxboro.

== Transcript

21:26 <~jokeefe> Agenda: https://masspirates.org/wiki/April_18th,_2024_Meeting 21:26 <~jokeefe> ids 21:26 <~jokeefe> James O’Keefe, Somerville 21:26 < srevilak> Steve Revilak, Arlington 21:26 < Eli> Elijah McGee, Leominster 21:27 <~jokeefe> Joe notified me he would be unable to attend tonight, but can attend Pirate News on Sunday. 21:27 < srevilak> I am the opposite 21:27 < srevilak> (won't be able to make in on Sunday) 21:28 <~jokeefe> Thanks for the update. 21:28 <~jokeefe> Reports? 21:28 <~jokeefe> I got the two previous Pirate News videos up and the video for the last meeting. 21:28 < srevilak> thx 21:29 < srevilak> Arlington town meeting starts Wednesday 21:29 <~jokeefe> Busy time 21:29 < srevilak> yup 21:30 < srevilak> Other than that, nothing to report 21:30 < Eli> Nothing to report here either 21:30 <~jokeefe> Thanks. FWIW, I reorganized the Pirate News into Pirate News 20XX yearly playlists. Most of them were in one massive playlist. 21:31 < srevilak> Makes sense 21:31 <~jokeefe> Any updates on United States Pirate Party Issues? 21:31 < Eli> The theme of the conference was decided, other than that nothing major 21:32 < srevilak> What's the theme? 21:32 <~jokeefe> What is the theme? 21:33 < Eli> Forget the exact wording but something along the lines of "Steal this conference!" Ill double check right now 21:33 <~jokeefe> Cool 21:33 < srevilak> Home recording is destroying the music industry. We've left one side of this tape blank so you can help, lol 21:34 <~jokeefe> lol 21:36 <~jokeefe> https://masspirates.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/HomeTapingCassette.jpg 21:36 <~jokeefe> Joe mentioned that elections office (not sure which one) notified him that he has 157 certified signatures. Planning to go out Sunday and get some more to make sure he has a cushion. 21:36 < srevilak> Nice 21:39 <~jokeefe> Trans Resistance March is the same day at Boxborough Fifers Day, unfortunately. It will be a picnic and standout. 21:40 <~jokeefe> Working on the Boxborough Fifers Day sign up form and the next email update. 21:40 < srevilak> thx 21:41 <~jokeefe> unfortunately, I don’t have any more updates. any suggested topics for Pirate News? 21:41 <~jokeefe> Arlington Town Meeting is one or two weeks? 21:42 < srevilak> Runs until it ends 21:42 < srevilak> I'm guessing six nights this year, two per week 21:42 <~jokeefe> good luck 21:42 < srevilak> Arlington is a city that can't bring itself to admit it, lol 21:43 < srevilak> (most towns have open town meetings, the vast majority of which are over in one night) 21:43 < srevilak> We have a city-sized population, a city-sized budget, and a city-sized degree of legislative complexity 21:44 <~jokeefe> City governments have much less participation. Same 7-13 people for two years. 21:44 < srevilak> But city council can meet all year around. Towns have an annual crunch 21:45 <~jokeefe> Germany has smaller cities that have 50-100 city councilors, IIRC. 21:45 < srevilak> That wouldn't be bad 21:45 < srevilak> Anything else for this evening? 21:46 <~jokeefe> Yeah, being able to spread it out would be helpful. 21:46 <~jokeefe> I don’t have anything. 21:46 <~jokeefe> Motion to adjourn? 21:46 < srevilak> Second 21:46 < Eli> Third 21:46 < srevilak> will post transcript 21:46 <~jokeefe> All in favor then 21:47 <~jokeefe> Thanks, Steve. Hope to talk with you on Sunday, Eli.