Head of Berlin Pirate Party Jailed Over Erdogan Protest
This post is also available in Russian. Bruno Kramm, the head of the Berlin branch of Germany’s Pirate Party, was arrested yesterday for ‘insulting a representative of a foreign state’. During a protest he had quoted a satirical poem by…
1.500 European Local Authorities Declared TTIP Free Zones
Negotiators working on the TTIP want the job to be done quickly, before Obama’s end of presidency in USA. However, a very significant movement of local authorities are rising all around Europe against this treaty between EU-US. More than 1500 regions, municipalities, local…
Israeli Activists Protest Against Biometric Database Law using Drones
A year ago members of Pirate Party Germany landed a drone in front of Angela Merkel’s campaign rally in Dresden, in order to protest the use of surveillance drones by the EU. This month, Israeli activists used this method…
German Pirate Party Receive 2.2 % in Elections, No Seats in Parliament
The first results of the German federal election were revealed on Sunday 22 September, 2013. The German Pirate Party received about 2.2 % of the votes, 0.2 percentage points more than in the last federal elections of 2009. This was a good result but unfortunately not enough for them…
High Hopes for the German Pirates on Sunday’s Election
Sunday September 22, 2013 sees the federal elections for the German Pirate Party. Pirate Times sat down with candidate MP Felicitas Steinhoff to discuss these last few days before the election. “Two thirds of the voters are still undecided, so it depends…
Amidst #Prism and #Tempora Scandals, German Pirates Get Their Groove Back
After a year of internal discord and coordinated work to broaden their political platform, the German Pirates are now focusing on campaigning for the federal election this coming 22 September 2013. Critical media reports have voiced dismay over the lack of internal organization, as well as the very public „shitstorms“ on twitter and other media. Both of these factors have resulted last year’s hype, during which the Pirate Party Germany polled as high as 12% nation-wide, to collapse, leaving the polls stagnant between 2-4%.
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