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Pirate Parties International First Online General Assembly
The first Online GA for Pirate Parties International was held on Sunday 29 March 2015. It was held in a specially designed conference room in the Mumble instance held on the servers of the Pirate Party of North Rhine Westphalia…
Swiss Pirate Party Elects Co-Presidents, Passes Resolutions Regarding Upcoming Votes
On Saturday, 21st of March, 2015, Pirate Party Switzerland elected two co-presidents for the first time! The General Assembly elected Guillaume Saouli and Stephan Thöni to replace outgoing President Alexis Roussel. Stephan Thöni is from the canton of Zug. He…
Israeli Pirates Protest Against Election, Reaches 981 votes
Traditionally Israel has had numerous different parties participating in their elections (in 2013 there were 32). This made the Knesset (Israel’s parliament) raise the threshold from 2% to 3.25% a year ago. In December 2014 the government was dissolved and called…
Pirate Party of Finland May End Up In Court For Collecting Too Many Bitcoins
To fund their election campaign Pirate Party Finland (PPFI) is accepting bitcoins. Finnish law states that you are allowed to collect up to 1,500 Euros annually in anonymous donations. Since there is no precedent on bitcoin donations and it’s not recognized…
Pirate Party of Portugal is Rising to Activity Again
The Portuguese Pirate Party (PPPT) has not been very active lately but now it seems they are ready to get active again. Last week, on 14 March, the Portuguese Pirate Party Movement revealed their tough and long work on their party…
Expensive Election Campaign? Crazy Video: Priceless
On the 19th of April Finland will hold their National Elections. To help the Finnish population make up their mind the nationalTV station ‘Yle’ created an election compass and made an interview with every candidate in the election. They interviewed…
Limiting Liberty: How Governments Capitalize on Tragedy
Around the world, tragedy has been capitalized upon in order to curtail civil liberties. From the attacks on 9/11, the London Metro bombings, to shooting incidents like the George Zimmermann case and the Sandy Hook shooting. Mass media and legislators…
Flattr Appreciation During Jan/Feb 2015 (6.65E/2.44E)
We have noticed a steady trend of declining support through flattr, especially compared to a year ago when there was a significant drop of support. Last month we received our lowest amount so far with 2.44 Euros from four unique supporters….
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Rolando Benjamin Vaz Ferreira: 1st January 2016, The Pirate Re-Birthday [Pirate Visions]
During the last EU elections the Pirate Party of Slovenia chose to have only one candidate in order to focus all attention on him. Today this candidate, Benjamin, tells us about how he felt proud over the past international pirate…
Mumble Discussion on how to Fix Copyright @20.30 today
Let’s talk about copyright. The German Pirate MEP Julia Reda would like to hear your opinions on what should be done with the current copyright reform. Update 20/3: You can listen to the recording of the talk if you missed it….
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