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Pirate Party of Austria – The First Ten Years
This is a guest post by Sylvester Heller Editors note: The author has been excluded from the Pirate Party Austria. This article reflects solely his opinion and not that of PPAT Austrian pirates were not the first to establish their political…
Sunstone, Pirate Shops and Fundraising (PPI)
Pirate Parties International have their board meetings every two weeks. We summarize and bring you the highlights of the meetings. Sunstone The Sunstone project, which is to set up as a Pirate Think Tank, has appointed Jelena Jovanovic to lead the…
New Brazilian Law Strips Citizen’s Rights
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…
Analogue Stress and Social Media Strategies (The Internet Days 2/2)
The second day of The Internet Days conference brought interesting keynotes by Harper Reed and Annie Machon. The conference gathered many of the people in Sweden working with IT in Sweden. The Pirate Times was there to listen in on some…
New Zealand’s Election Results
For many in New Zealand and overseas the Internet Party was the “stand-in” for the ailing Pirate Party of New Zealand. It shared many policies with the international Pirate Movement in the areas of human rights, whistle-blower protection, net politics,…
Internet Governance Forum Through Livestream 2-5 September
The ninth Internet Governance Forum (IGF) started Tuesday in Istanbul, Turkey and will last until the 5th of September. The aim of this year is to “Connect Continents for Enhanced Multistakeholder Internet Governance”. The opening session in the main hall showed…
Why Julia Reda Supported Juncker for EU Commission President
In her latest blog post, Pirate MEP Julia Reda declared that she voted for the conservative Jean-Claude Juncker in the recent election held on 15 July 2014. Her reasons were partly tactical and partly political. Tactical: The European Parliament had…
What Pirates are Saying about the EU Election Results
It is nearly two weeks since the elections in Europe saw a surge of voting for the far right and our own representation reduced from two to one. Some notable Pirates gave their reactions to the European Election 2014 results….
Jimmy Wales Advises Pirates to Change their Name to “Internet Party”
Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales urged Pirate Parties around the world to change their names in a tweet
What the Pirate MEPs Have Accomplished in the European Parliament
“we are very proud of what we have managed to accomplish in Brussels with the help of [our] strategy, this despite us only having 2 mandates of approximately 750, which is approximately 0.27% of the votes in the EU-parliament” -…
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