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2013 May | PirateTimes – Part 2

PP Croatia Reaches 21% in City District, Winning Two Out of Nine Board Seats May 22, 2013 · by Koen De Voegt · in Election Last weekend local elections took place in Croatia and the Pirate Party had its first success. P-REVIEW 13-19 MAY 2013 with Videos and Podcasts May 21, 2013 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Pirate Party News A regular review of some things that happened in the previous week and a preview of some events coming in the week ahead. We are also trying out a new feature – a list of videos and podcasts that were published in the last week that are relevant to the World …

2013 May | PirateTimes

History In The Making: First Ever Pirate Unionist Elected In Athens May 31, 2013 · by Stathis Leivaditis · in Election Athens teachers ballot “Pirates in Education” managed to get one out of nine seats, changing the “status quo” of the Greek Teachers Federation (DOE) and sending the first ever Pirate unionist to their body of representatives. By the time when this article was written it is not clear yet who of the three candidates (Thanasis Gounaris, Markos Papaioannou , or Electra Pagoni) would take the seat but this is the first election worldwide that sees a Pirate unionist elected to a top position running as a Pirate. Introduction of …

Introduction of the Pirate Party of South Korea | PirateTimes

Introduction of the Pirate Party of South Korea May 30, 2013 · by Daniel Ebbert · in Interview The Pirate Parties International(PPI) had their general assembly in Kazan on 20-21 April 2013 where they accepted some new ordinary members. One of these new members was the Pirate Party of South Korea. Pirate Times interviewed the founder Gyung Chan Lee about the current situation. Pirate Times: What was your motivation to apply for a PPI membership and what do you expect from the PPI?Gyung Chan Lee: Korea is the number 10 or 11 nation in economic size. We’ll be under the 10 biggest of OECD and our annual Budget is ca. 340 billion US$ …

PIRATES OF DENMARK KEEPERS OF TRANSPARENCY | PirateTimes

PIRATES OF DENMARK KEEPERS OF TRANSPARENCY May 28, 2013 · by Stathis Leivaditis · in Interview While Denmark is well known for the openness of its society, Danish government has revolutionized protests by intending to change the law on Freedom of Information and restrictions on access to government documents. Under the proposal the Minister of Justice has brought to the parliament a lot of documents characterized as ‘political advisory’ and would not be available to the media. Emil OW Kirkegaard | Public Domain The whole situation motivated people, organizations, journalists and Pirates of Denmark to participated in a demonstration that was held on 15 May 2013 at Christiansborg Slotsplads, right outside of the …

P-REVIEW 20-26 MAY 2013 with Videos and Podcasts | PirateTimes

P-REVIEW 20-26 MAY 2013 with Videos and Podcasts May 28, 2013 · by · in Pirate Party News Pirate Times Review A regular review of some things that happened in the previous week and a preview of some events coming in the week ahead and a list of videos and podcasts that were published in the last week that are relevant to the World Pirate movement and are in English. See below.   The week in review 13 – 19 May 2013 Wed 22 – Fri 24 May Economics and the Commons Conference see videos below Thursday 23 May International Conference of Whistleblowers in Serbia Saturday  25 May March Against Monsanto Sunday 26 May French overseas …

The Current State of the Pirate Movement in Japan – an Interview | PirateTimes

The Current State of the Pirate Movement in Japan – an Interview May 27, 2013 · by Andrew Reitemeyer · in Profile During the recent General Assembly of the national German Pirate Party in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz in April 2013 the Pirate Times met  Maru Tom and Chiaki Atsumi (Minci) from the Pirate Movement in Japan. With the technical help of our German sister publication the Flaschenpost and especially Holger Burbach, we are able to bring you an audio interview with them. You can either download the  audio file or play it directly by clicking this button   Tom tells us why he is a Pirate Minci tells us why she is a Pirate (in …

France parliamentary elections: Low turnout may be good for French Pirate candidates | PirateTimes

France parliamentary elections: Low turnout may be good for French Pirate candidates May 26, 2013 · by Stathis Leivaditis · in Election Are you a French citizen voting for 1st and 8th District outside France? Well if you are voting for the pirates there is a chance to give your support in the elections to candidates interested in more than getting a warm seat in the Assemblée Nationale. Due to the cancellation of 2 MP seats in the French Parliament by the Constitutional Council of France, in the 1st District (Canada and the USA) and in the 8th District (Italy, Malta, Vatican, San Marino, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Israel), French outside …

International Projects in e-Government and Digital Cooperation | PirateTimes

International Projects in e-Government and Digital Cooperation May 24, 2013 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Pirate Topic One of the areas that the Pirate Parties are trying to act on is the adjustment of politics to a new digital age. This can be achieved through adding more transparency to the governments, opening them up for more collaboration and use of data and turning the government into more of an eGovernment in order to both use more of the benefits brought by our digital age and protect us from its risks. The Swedish E-delegation is assigned to, amongst other things,  to “aid the government in EU-collaboration and in international …

The first General Assembly of the Polish Pirate Party | PirateTimes

The first General Assembly of the Polish Pirate Party May 23, 2013 · by Zbigniew Łukasiak · in General Assembly On 18 May 2013 the new Polish Pirate Party had its first General Assembly. The party was founded last year after the previous one was dissolved by a court order in 2009, the new party was created by many of the people involved in the first one and it is considered a second incarnation of the same party. Up to this Saturday the party had been lead by the temporary board – this General Assembly is marked in the history as the first event that allowed members of the new …

Flattr Appreciation During April Euro 14.93 | PirateTimes

Flattr Appreciation During April Euro 14.93 May 20, 2013 · by Josef Ohlsson Collentine · in Inside Pirate Times In April we had 35 things flattred by 15 unique users. In total we were flattred 76 times last month and received Euro 14.93 in support for our work.  Next month I will put some statistics together and see how the support from Flattr users has varied over the months. Currently we’re working on getting translations for our articles which might take some of our funds depending on our setup. So far the only costs we have had is 21 Euros for hosting our website and 21 Euros for paying for …

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