Election Results for Pirate Party of Switzerland: 0.94% of total ballots October 25, 2015 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Elections Last Sunday, 18 October, national elections were held in Switzerland. The pirates did well, receiving 82,635 votes in total—0.94% of ballots cast. The turnout for the election was 49.99%. Before the election took place the Pirate Party of Switzerland attempted to get them […]
Flattr and Bitcoin Appreciation During August and September 2015 (28.33E) October 16, 2015 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Inside Pirate Times Our support through Flattr is steady altough with only a few supporters. Most of the support comes from people subscribing to donate to our profile on Flattr every month. Thanks a lot to the ones that keep us going money-wise, it makes […]
PPI Agrees to Support the Snowden Treaty October 12, 2015 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Pirate Party News At the Pirate Parties International board meeting, board member Henrique Peer announced he had been approached by David Miranda, who asked the organisation to participate in the Snowden Treaty project. Miranda is the partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald, a long-time critic… Surveillance Hangs Heavy Over Vienna […]
PPI Agrees to Support the Snowden Treaty October 12, 2015 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Pirate Party News This post is also available in: Spanish At the Pirate Parties International board meeting, board member Henrique Peer announced he had been approached by David Miranda, who asked the organisation to participate in the Snowden Treaty project. Miranda is the partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald, a […]
Internet Ungovernance Forum Italy #IUFitalia2015 November 4, 2015 · by Guest Author · in Conference On 12 October 2015 Felice Zingarelli (a.k.a. Felynx), member of the Italian Pirate Party, was invited to the IGF Italy, as a representative for civil society. The conference was supposed to be “multi-stakeholder” and open to debate and discussion, but this is not the impression that we had. “Most of the […]
Trans-Pacific Partnership: A Setback for Intellectual Property Policies October 11, 2015 · by Lorena Müller · in Pirate Topic The TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement) has been finalized. Now that the negotiators have agreed on the text all that is left is approval by the twelve involved nations: Canada, USA, Mexico, Peru, Chile, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Brunei and Japan. However, none of these countries […]
Freedom of Speech: When Books are Burned… [Bokmässan] October 10, 2015 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Conference This post is also available in: Spanish ‘Bokmässan’ (The book fair) is the largest cultural event in Sweden. With more than 3000 programme events there is plenty to cover. Pirate Times covered part of the conference together with another 1300 journalists present at the conference. ‘The […]
PPIS is Largest Party on Iceland for 6th Month October 7, 2015 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Pirate Party News If there were elections in Iceland today 34.6% of the population would vote for the Pirate Party. This is the result from the latest Gallup poll, a slight decrease in support for the Pirate Party of Iceland. However, it is still the second highest poll result they […]
Results of Catalonian Election October 3, 2015 · by Lorena Müller · in Election This post is also available in: Spanish On September 27th there were elections in Catalonia. Pirates de Catalunya were only able to participate in the province of Girona and had no presence in the other three provinces. PPCAT had a difficult time collecting signatures (a requirement to participate in the elections) from the […]
The T-Shirt Every Pirate Should Have October 2, 2015 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Pirate Party News The Pirate movement has not been a beacon for fashionistas even though some of us have been seen sporting the most fetching Pirate costumes. However there is now a T-shirt available signed by the prominent Pirates who will be speaking at the Internet Ungovernance Conference being held […]
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