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Upcoming Elections for Pirate Parties 2015 | PirateTimes

Upcoming Elections for Pirate Parties 2015 August 27, 2015 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Election With four months remaining of 2015 we still have about 15 elections in which it is likely that pirates will participate. The next one will be local elections in Norway. Pirate Times will bring you the results of each election as they take place. 2015 September 14 Pirate Party of Norway local September 19 Pirate Party of Australia local (Canning by-election) September 20 Pirate Party of Greece national September 27 Pirate Party of Austria local (Upper Austria) September 27 Pirate Party of Catalonia local (Catalonia) October ? Pirate Party of Finland local (Åland) October …

ACTA | PirateTimes

Surveillance Hangs Heavy Over Vienna August 18, 2015 · by Guest Author · in Pirate Topic This article is a guest post from Rodney Yancey, who translated an article originally from Telepolis. Privacy groups in Austria are gearing up. Austria is a small country in the EU, but privacy concerns are as pressing here as everywhere else. It… Why Pirates should be concerned about TTIP November 28, 2014 · by Airon90 · in Pirate Topic The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) bothers us on the methodological plane and on the content plane. On 11 October 2014, a large number of organizations cooperated with European Pirates in actions across many countries against the …

Surveillance Hangs Heavy Over Vienna | PirateTimes

Surveillance Hangs Heavy Over Vienna August 18, 2015 · by Guest Author · in Pirate Topic This article is a guest post from Rodney Yancey, who translated an article originally from Telepolis. Privacy groups in Austria are gearing up. Austria is a small country in the EU, but privacy concerns are as pressing here as everywhere else. It has been a while since citizens failed to prevent the Austrian government from enacting data retention, albeit not for lack of trying. The ensuing media circus yielded the country’s most popular online petition ever, which was ignored by Austrian law-makers. Since those days in March 2012, social and economic topics have dominated media and public discussion, with domestic privacy or civil liberties largely absent. Rare …

Anniversary | PirateTimes

Pirate Times turns 3! August 14, 2015 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Inside Pirate Times Three years ago, on 13 August 2012, we published our first article. Looking back over this time we have achieved a lot, but we still have a long way to go. Our initial goals when we started Pirate Times are… Two Years of Pirate Times – Help Us Continue August 13, 2014 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Inside Pirate Times Two years ago, on 13 August 2012, we published our first article. Since then we have covered elections, general assemblies, events and much more related to the pirate movement. This article …

Pirate Times turns 3! | PirateTimes

Pirate Times turns 3! August 14, 2015 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Inside Pirate Times Three years ago, on 13 August 2012, we published our first article. Looking back over this time we have achieved a lot, but we still have a long way to go. Our initial goals when we started Pirate Times are still our core focus: More international awareness between different pirate parties. Spreading news internationally and sharing best practices regardless of borders. Statistics To date we have had 41 authors (+many guest authors) that have published 695 articles (26 translated to French, 24 to Spanish and 9 to Greek). In total we have written 601.936 …

Flattr and Bitcoin Appreciation During May, June and July 2015 (50.89E) | PirateTimes

Flattr and Bitcoin Appreciation During May, June and July 2015 (50.89E) August 12, 2015 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Inside Pirate Times Our transparency and activity has been low over the summer. Thus this article will show our donations for the past three months. Our support comes from only a few people, thanks a lot for your continued support! In total we received 26.78 Euro over the past months on Flattr. The largest flattr donation comes from someone supporting our transparency report a year ago, donating 5 Euros for that post. On bitcoin we received one donation in May for 0.1 bitcoins (24.11 Euro), THANKS.  About 12 Euros have …

TPP Almost Ready but Stalled in Hawaii, Leaks Tell us More | PirateTimes

TPP Almost Ready but Stalled in Hawaii, Leaks Tell us More August 10, 2015 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Pirate Party News The White House expected a finalization of the trade negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) during the meeting in Hawaii (ending 31 July 2015). However there were disagreements over “automobiles, dairy, and biologic drug patent provisions” that stalled the talks. The informal talks and deals will continue but it seems the next official meeting will take place first in November. Knowledge Ecology International made a press release with the latest known version of the “Intellectual Property [Rights] Chapter from the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations”. This …

The New PPI Board is Starting to Get Active | PirateTimes

The New PPI Board is Starting to Get Active August 3, 2015 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Pirate Party News The PPI board just held their third meeting and have started their work (first two meeting were mostly about handing over responsibilities and getting organized).  1) Since the members of the new board are spread around the world it is sometimes hard to find suitable times for all of them to attend. The board needed to facilitate their decision making and therefore decided to change the rules of procedure to allow votes cast by the board in their Loomio group to be counted towards the regular board meetings. The discussions by the board are transparent …

PPI | PirateTimes – Part 2

The New PPI Board is Starting to Get Active August 3, 2015 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Pirate Party News The PPI board just held their third meeting and have started their work (first two meeting were mostly about handing over responsibilities and getting organized).  1) Since the members of the new board are spread around the world it is sometimes… The First PPEU Council Meeting: Moving Right Along July 20, 2015 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Conference This past weekend the PPEU meeting took place in Brussels. This was the first ordinary Council Meeting (General Assembly) of the organization and the main topic was the election …

German Journalists Charged With Treason For Post-Snowden Documents | PirateTimes

German Journalists Charged With Treason For Post-Snowden Documents July 31, 2015 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Pirate Topic The last time journalists were charged for treason in Germany was the Spiegel affair in 1962. Yesterday the German news site netzpolitik.org (well known and respected for their work reporting on “net-politics”) received a letter from the Federal Attorney General of Germany about investigations of treason. The investigation concerns two of their reporters, Markus Beckedahl and Andre Meister, whom are both accused together with an “unknown” source. “We leaked some internal documents of the secret service of Germany in the spring, documenting that they are building up a mass surveillance …

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