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Call for Action: Support PPUA January 28, 2014 · by Guest Author · in Europe, Pirate Party News Edit: 16/2/14 The deadline has been extended so keep sending videos to the new e-mail added below! The Vice President of the Polish Pirate Party, Zbigniew Łukasiak, recently held an interview with members of the Pirate Party of Ukraine (PPUA)…. The Pirate Party of Ukraine Asks for Help January 26, 2014 · by Zbigniew Łukasiak · in Europe, Pirate Party News Well, we can’t speak in-depth about information coverage in Poland, but here we see a pro-authority point of view in almost all of our popular mass-media. Our main national TV channel …

News Digest. Week 4 | PirateTimes

News Digest. Week 4 January 27, 2014 · by Pedro Gutierrez · in Pirate Topic This article is a summary of some of the main Pirate news that happened during the week that we did not write about. Towards a True Democracy Brazil lets its citizens make decisions about city budgets. Brazil is a leading innovator in participatory institutions. Brazilian municipal governments can voluntarily adopt a program known as Participatory Budgeting where citizens decide how to allocate public funds. Between 1990 and 2008, over 120 of Brazil’s largest 250 cities adopted Participatory Budgeting. Support the release of Chelsea Manning. Amnesty International believes that Chelsea Manning, the US soldier sentenced to …

ThinkTwice Conference 2014 – Away from Keyboard | PirateTimes

ThinkTwice Conference 2014 – Away from Keyboard January 24, 2014 · by Koen De Voegt · in Conference On  22 and 23  February 2014, Pirate Parties international (PPI) will be organising its first international ThinkTwice conference. For this first conference the tag line is “Away from Keyboard”. The event will take place in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The aim of the conference is to bridge the gap between the worlds of the Pirate Parties, Academia and NGO’s. So this is not to be confused with PPI’s annual general assembly. The main idea of the conference is to exchange ideas and experiences between the different Pirate Parties and people or organisations that …

Pirate News Digest. Week 3 | PirateTimes

Pirate News Digest. Week 3 January 23, 2014 · by Pedro Gutierrez · in Pirate Party News This article is a summary of some of the main pirate news that happened during the week that we did not write about. Towards a True Democracy Pentagon Paper’s whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg held an expansive, seven-hour long Reddit “Ask Me Anything” session to explain why NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden will join the Press Freedom Foundation (an organization that Ellsberg co-founded). He also discussed many other subjects—including NSA surveillance, President Obama’s flip-flop on whistleblowers, Nixon’s dirty tricks, and the dangers of excessive government secrecy. Chelsea Manning awarded 2014 Sam Adams Prize for Integrity in Intelligence. The Sam …

Pirate Party of Italy Congress in Florence | PirateTimes

Pirate Party of Italy Congress in Florence January 21, 2014 · by Airon90 · in General Assembly The Pirate Party of Italy is preparing for its second congress (Assemblea Occasionale, lit. occasional assembly). This time it will take place in Florence on Saturday, 25  January 2014, from 10:00 am until 7:00 pm. Every member of the Pirate Party of Italy is invited to participate and vote. The main purpose of the meeting is the election of a new legal representative and a new treasurer. The Occasional Assembly will give a chance for its members to discuss,  face-to-face, the roadmap for the European election in 2014, and whether it will be possible for the …

Mauro Pirata | | PirateTimes

Pirate Party of Italy Congress in Florence January 21, 2014 · by Mauro Pirata · in General Assembly The Pirate Party of Italy is preparing for its second congress (Assemblea Occasionale, lit. occasional assembly). This time it will take place in Florence on Saturday, 25  January 2014, from 10:00 am until 7:00 pm. Every member of the Pirate Party… About Michael Moroni I was born in 1990, I live in Canegrate (MI), Italy and I study Mathematics in University of Milan. I’m a member of Pirate Party of Italy and Pirate Party of Milan. I’m a LGBT* right activist, I’m vegan and esperantist.     News about the pirate movement International …

Flattr Appreciation During December 2013, Euro 13.17 | PirateTimes

Flattr Appreciation During December 2013, Euro 13.17 January 18, 2014 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Inside Pirate Times In December 2013 we had 39 things flattred by 12 unique users. In total we were flattred 64 times last month and received Euro 13.17 in support for our work. Your money has, since before, payed for a translation plugin that we will be using here on Pirate Times. Infrastructure is in place and we’re almost ready to launch our French and Spanish translations of articles. Thanks.   Flattr is a microdonation service that allows you to give a small amount of money each month to content you would like to …

German Pirates prepare for European Elections 2014 | PirateTimes

German Pirates prepare for European Elections 2014 January 3, 2014 · by Paul Wardenga · in Pirate Party News On Saturday and Sunday the Pirate Party of Germany will convene in Bochum, North-Rhine Westfalia for their last general assembly before the European elections in May.While the meeting will also allow a small amount of time for the completion of the election platform, the main focus will be on the election of candidates for the European Parliament. The threshold for German candidates to gain seats is at a mere 3%. In addition a case against this threshold, which was only recently created by Germany’s long-established parties, is still pending at the …

Paul Wardenga | | PirateTimes

German Pirates prepare for European Elections 2014 January 3, 2014 · by Paul Wardenga · in Election On Saturday and Sunday the Pirate Party of Germany will convene in Bochum, North-Rhine Westfalia for their last general assembly before the European elections in May. While the meeting will also allow a small amount of time for the completion… About Paul Wardenga I am a political science grad student at the University of Cologne with my interest focused on issues of European integration and EU politics. I’m trying to channel my activities within the Pirates accordingly, hence topics related to these issues will make up a large part of my work for …

HARD TIMES FOR ISTANBUL’S BIG MAN | PirateTimes

Hard Times for Istanbul’s big man December 25, 2013 · by Guest Author · in Guest Opinion ‘You arrive on Friday afternoon? Good luck.’ Damn right: Friday afternoon, Istanbul traffic-jams make Rome look like Switzerland. It takes me two bloody hours on a stinky bus to get from the airport to the city center. As the bus approaches Taksim Square, I get a good look at the modern, flashy, new center of Turkey’s largest city: Dubai-style skyscrapers, more than a hundred floors high, looking down at the old town as stubborn ladies. I guess this is how all of the country should look like in the next few years, if …

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