2015 March | PirateTimes – Part 2
Andrew Norton: PPI Became a Pirate Chimera [Pirate Visions]
Being one of the founders of Pirate Parties International, Andrew Norton looks back on how it all started, before gazing ahead on what is to come. He reflects on his initial efforts with PPI and wishes for a future similar…
Lost in translation — an Interview with Gregory Engels
The online GA for PPI is coming up and this allows members to submit motions to be voted upon. The German Pirate Party proposed “MO-1, Access to medicine” which ruffled a few feathers when it was proposed. Ed Geraghty (responding in a personal…
In memoriam: Bojan Kopitar (1982-2015)
The following is a guest post by Maša Čorak. — On Monday morning, March 9 2015, our fellow pirate Bojan Kopitar has left us after a brief but aggressive fight with leukemia. With him passing away, our community has lost…
Watch LIVE: Glenn Greenwald, Carl Bernstein, Peter Sunde, and More!
Currently, a conference called the Media Days (Mediedagarna) in Gothenburg is happening here in Sweden. The conference attracts a large section of the media industry in Sweden. One of the main themes at the conference this year is ‘Freedom of…
Sarah van Liefferinge: We pirates should be the change we wish to see [pirate visions]
Sarah van Liefferinge invites everyone on board to keep an eye on the horizon as politicians, while reminding us of what the pirate movement was started for. These articles are part of the weekly series ‘Pirate Visions’ from different prominent…
PPI Board Responds to PPAU Membership Termination
This is a guest post from the board of PPI stating their response and view on the recent resignation of PPAU. Since PPAU resigned PPUK followed suit and PPBE just decided to suspend their membership in past few days. —- The Board…
PPBE Suspends Their PPI Membership
Following the resignations of PPAU and PPUK, the coreteam of PPBE have decided to follow suit. The Belgian pirates can’t officially withdraw until their General Assembly confirms the will of the coreteam to leave, but until then they have suspended…
Greece Can’t be Hope for Europe Whilst Children Starve at Schools
On February 18th an open letter was posted to the website of PPGR from ‘The Monetary and Financial Policy Working Group of the German Pirate Party to the Greeks’. The open letter had the title “Greece: Hope for Europe.” This…
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