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Your Pirate Movement Needs You June 23, 2015 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in General Assembly The General Assembly of Pirate Parties International (PPI) will be held two weeks from now and they will choose a new board. According to the application form for the new board, “we do have temporarily problems with wiki, so we are glad to help”. A glitch in the wiki means candidates cannot be listed directly and a mail needs to be sent to the PPI board, but we have been informed that there still haven’t been any nominations for the next PPI Board. This means you have the chance to do something for the international movement. Namely, become …

Reda’s Report was Approved – A Turning Point for Copyright | PirateTimes

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Reda’s Report was Approved – A Turning Point for Copyright June 23, 2015 · by Andrew McCallum · in Pirate Party News The Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament passed an amended version of Julia Reda’s copyright evaluation report on 17th June in Brussels. The committee’s non-legislative report, assessing the effects of the key piece of EU copyright law, was approved by 23 votes to 2. Julia – a member of the Frankfurt chapter of the German Pirate Party, president of the Young Pirates of Europe, and member of the European Parliament – is rapporteur of the Parliament’s review of 2001’s Copyright Directive. Her draft report recommended the EU-wide …

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Sunday’s Elections A Big Challenge For PPGR Pirate Party Norway Increases Slightly in Elections Birgitta Sponsors a Motion in Inter-Parliamentary Union PPNO Achieves 4.1% in School Elections Pirate Activist Risks 4 Years in Prison for Protest Your Pirate Movement Needs You June 23, 2015 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Editorial Opinion The General Assembly of Pirate Parties International (PPI) will be held two weeks from now and they will choose a new board. According to the application form for the new board, “we do have temporarily problems with wiki, so we are glad… New Brazilian Law Strips Citizen’s Rights June 19, 2015 · by Guest Author · in Pirate Party News, …

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New Brazilian Law Strips Citizen’s Rights June 19, 2015 · by Guest Author · in Pirate Party News Marco Civil da Internet: Don’t Believe the Hype In 2012 a general director of Google was arrested in Brazil. Since then, this big corporation has invested millions of dollars in lobbying the Brazilian congress, political, academic institutions (like FGV, the Getúlio Vargas Foundation) and activist collectives influence the political process and laws for their benefit. Approved in 2014, the “Marco Civil da Internet” (Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet) decrees that web based business can not be held liable for user-generated content when responding promptly to requests from the government involving …

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PPI Statute Reforms Proposal June 15, 2015 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Pirate Party News The Pirate Party of Germany has tabled some amendments to make some important changes to the statutes of Pirate Parties International (PPI). The full wording of the amendments can be seen in the conference section of the PPI wiki. There are five changes being proposed: Admittance of MembersThis amendment will mean that a member of PPI no longer need to have “Pirate” in the name. This has caused legal problems for parties like PPRU and PPTW and it allows existing parties that wish to join with full membership privileges to do so without having …

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Show Notes and Podcast: The Order of the Pirate Unicorn Podcast 008 June 10, 2015 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Podcast The Podcast for the Order of the Pirate Unicorn Mumble chat held on 7 June 2015 and recorded on 9 June. Out of four invited Icelanders two where able to to make it – this was done with the knowledge that due to locality, connections might be difficult. The situation is that the Pirate Party of Iceland has been doing very well in the polls recently and the Pirate Unicorn chatters held them to account for it. The Past They have been consistently polling between 8 to …

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Key TTIP vote postponed | PirateTimes

Andrew McCallum June 9, 2015 October 19, 2020

Key TTIP vote postponed June 9, 2015 · by Andrew McCallum · in Pirate Party News An important vote on TTIP at the plenary session of the European Parliament, which was due to take place tomorrow morning (10 June 2015), has been delayed at the last minute. The reason offered is that there has been such a large number of amendments to the proposal that MEPs need more time to consider it. However, critics say that the postponement of the TTIP vote reflects just how controversial and contested this trade deal has become. Despite being under enormous pressure from corporate lobbyists, MEPs know that the people of Europe do not want the introduction …

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Pirate Teachers Stay Above SYRIZA’s Union Ballot In Athens’ “Aristotle” | PirateTimes

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Pirate Teachers Stay Above SYRIZA’s Union Ballot In Athens’ “Aristotle” June 8, 2015 · by Stathis Leivaditis · in Pirate Party News This post is also available in: Greek The most impressive thing about Pirates in Education is that in “Aristotle”, one of the largest associations of Athens’ teachers, for the 4th time in a row, they got more votes than than their colleagues in the union ballot supported by the governmental party of SYRIZA. The elections for the “Parliament of teachers”, the Representatives to the General Assembly of Greek Teachers’ Federation (DOE) consisted of more than 500 teachers, were held nationwide on 4 June 2015. Pirates in Education participated …

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Show Notes and Podcast: The Order of the Pirate Unicorn Podcast 007 June 4, 2015 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Podcast The Podcast for the Order of the Pirate Unicorn Mumble chat held on 31 May 2015 and recorded on 3 June. An evening with Spanish Pirates Dario Castañé, local pirate politician in Barcelona and Lorena Müller-Nischt, chair of the Spanish… A report from the Argentinian Pirate Party GA January 16, 2015 · by Guest Author · in Pirate Party News Dear Pirates and Piratesses, I would like to share with you the outcome of the General Assembly of the Pirate Party of Argentina that took place on Friday …

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Andrew Reitemeyer June 4, 2015 March 6, 2021

Show Notes and Podcast: The Order of the Pirate Unicorn Podcast 007 June 4, 2015 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Podcasts The Podcast for the Order of the Pirate Unicorn Mumble chat held on 31 May 2015 and recorded on 3 June. An evening with Spanish Pirates Dario Castañé, local pirate politician in Barcelona and Lorena Müller-Nischt, chair of the Spanish Pirate Confederation, were our GuestsWe started on the Holographic Protests that were held outside the congress building earlier this year in anticipation of the gag laws that will come into effect on 1 July 2015 The Hologram Protests Some related twitter accountsHologramas Libres for the No …