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The Pirate Party Luxembourg @Piratepartei has started a fundraiser to help the refugees in Moria.

admin November 1, 2020 November 1, 2020

Two months ago fires destroyed Greece’s largest migrant camp on the island of Lesbos leaving nearly 13,000 without shelter. Gilles from @Piratepartei sent this to the PPEU Mattermost on October 26th: Hello everybody, FYI: PPLU has started an action together with the ONG Boderline Europe to help refugees in Moria (Greece). The collected funds will be used to buy warm clothes (essentially good shoes and socks) to the asylum seekers during the winter. For 30€, every donator receives a special “Coffee to help” mug and a reusable face mask. 100% of the donations will be directly forwarded to the refugees. Feel free to share or donate. https://www.piraten.lu/moria-spendenaktioun/ (English) https://www.piraten.lu/let-us-help-the-refugees-in-moria/?lang=en

2020 Conference North-America Pirate Parties Pirate Topic United States2 Comments

The @MassPirates Party Conference is November 14th – 15th! Please notify MassPirates by Friday, October 30th, if you’re attending, if you’re interested in presenting or participating in a panel.

admin October 30, 2020 October 30, 2020

@MassPirates‘ annual Party Conference will be Saturday, November 14th and Sunday, November 15th. The conference will be virtual. It will focus on planning, expanding their platform and organizing how-tos. There will be lightning talks and a number of discussions and panels. Registration is free and they encourage anyone who is interested in the Pirate Party to attend. Register here. Panel discussions will be live streamed onto the MassPirates YouTube channel. The conference will be a mix of video conferences, streamed discussions and pre-recorded presentations. They will email registrants the streaming details, especially participant details for the video conferences. If you are interested in presenting or participating in a panel, please …

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Register your delegates early for this year’s Pirate Parties International Online General Assembly. And a pre-GA tech test will be held November 6th.

admin October 29, 2020 November 2, 2020

Please register your delegates early by emailing the PPI board at board@pp-international.net. Submit motions, statute amendments and nominations for PPI positions on our Discourse forum. There will be a technical test on November 6th to see if BigBlueButton will work for a General Assembly. It’s important that all of our members send at least one delegate to this test. We would like to invite you to a technical test on Friday, November 6th, at 6:00pm UTC / 8:00pm CET. We will meet in the PPI BigBlueButton room. The point of this test is to see if BigBlueButton will work for a General Assembly, so it is important that all of …

2020 Europe Pirate Parties Pirate Topic UK3 Comments

The @PiratePartyUK to Close Down

admin October 29, 2020 November 9, 2020

On August 30th, Pirate Party UK announced their plans to hold a vote on whether or not to dissolve their Party: Dear Party members, It is with great sadness that we have reached the conclusion that PPUK has run out of steam. We hope that this will not be a permanent situation, but for the time being we think that there is not enough interest or energy to keep going and to justify collecting membership subscriptions. As a result, we will shortly be holding a ballot of all members on the simple proposal: • Pirate Party UK shall be dissolved consistent with article 7 of the constitution. The ballot will …

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ECHR asks Russia to friendly settle the case with the Pirate Party of Russia

Gregory Engels October 12, 2020 October 15, 2020

Do you remember the seemingly never-ending story of the refusal of Russia’s authorities to register the Pirate Party of Russia? It first started in March 2011, when “In a bizarre twist, the Justice Ministry has failed to distinguish between sea robbers and copyright infringers” as Moscow Times put it. Then a second refusal was received in December 2012 (Pirate Times reported) and a third followed in October 2013. The Russian Pirate had tried to take this decision to court, but by the end of 2014 was running out of options, as all Russian courts upheld the decision of the Russian Ministry of Justice not to register the Pirates in Russia. …