July 13th, 2023 Meeting
From Mass Pirate Wiki
Meeting to be held via video conference: https://ca.meet.coop/mas-ub4-8ox-vtj.
Recording: https://youtu.be/o1wlLJPqyEA
Reports
Decisions/Endorsements
Fifers Day Moved to Sat., 9/2
Review bills to see what we want to say about them
Two upcoming hearings we can submit testimony to:
- https://malegislature.gov/Events/Hearings/Detail/4626 - Written testimony by Friday, July 21, 2023
- https://malegislature.gov/Events/Hearings/Detail/4637 - Written testimony by Tuesday, July 18, 2023 ?
What bills do we want to support/oppose?
What should we say about them?
United States Pirate Party Issues?
Instagram/Threads ;-(
Projects
July 22nd Conference Planning
Local Outreach
Video Newsletter/Podcast
Leader: Joseph
- Pirate news recording scheduled for Sundays, 7pm with go-live at 7:30pm. Unless changed
Other To Do
- Application to PPI - Will go over it at the conference
Upcoming Events
- July 22nd, noon-2pm, Summer Conference, Somerville?
- Red Umbrella Summer Event?
Participants
- jokeefe
- srevilak
Observers
Summary
Updates
- Have gotten email and blog posts out, regarding upcoming hearings and the Pirate Conference.
Fifer's day (Boxboro).
- Jokeefe & srevilak will go for the day.
Bills (MA legislature)
- Joint Committee on Advanced Information Technology, the Internet and Cybersecurity. Various bills coming up. https://malegislature.gov/Events/Hearings/Detail/4626
- Joint Committee on the Judiciary. Also various bills coming up. https://malegislature.gov/Events/Hearings/Detail/4637.
- Joint committee on housing. https://malegislature.gov/Events/Hearings/Detail/4604
- Will discuss on activists list
US Pirate Party
- No representatives here tonight
- In an effort to create a Threads account, we managed to get banned from instagram. They thought we were "not legitimate"
Projects
- July 22nd conference at the West Branch of the Somerville Public Library. We'll do a bill bonanza, to go through bills being considered in the ma legislature.
