A Pirate Sailing the Seas!
The Kon-Tiki II expedition have started to sail their rafts from Peru to Rapa Nui (Easter Island) – and back! This adventure was first made in two rafts by the Norwegian biologist and explorer Thor Heyerdahl in 1947. The adventure started from Lima…
Pirate Party Norway Increases Slightly in Elections
Norway just had their regional and local elections. This was the second election that Pirate Party of Norway (PPNO) participated in. Two years ago they achieved 0.3% of the votes in their national elections. This time, in regional and local…
PPNO Achieves 4.1% in School Elections
The school elections, before the real upcoming local and regional elections in Norway, have taken place. Pirate Party of Norway received a total of 5.492 votes which would result in 4.1% across the country and 29 Seats in county parliaments….
Pirate Party Norway Goes Around Censorship
The Norwegian Pirates are against censorship. Recently the Norwegian court ordered that Norwegian ISPs have to block seven file-sharing sites within two weeks. The sites that will be censored are The Pirate Bay, Extratorrent, Viooz, Primewire, Swefilmer, DreamfilmHD and Movie4k. This…
Norway Blocks The Pirate Bay and Other Sites
Despite a ruling last year, by a Dutch court, that declared blocking The Pirate Bay to be ineffective, Norway decided to block The Pirate Bay yesterday. This ruling comes with less than two weeks before local elections in Norway. In…
Pirate Activist Receives a Flogging in Trafalgar Square
For the first time since 1830, a man has been flogged in Trafalgar Square. Ray Johansen from Pirate Party Norway received 50 lashes in the center of London. The beating was carried out as a solidarity action for the sentence Raif…
The First PPEU Council Meeting: Moving Right Along
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 of the new board. The founding conference for the European Pirates…
General Assembly of PPNO: A Professionalization of the Party
The 1-2 February 2014 was the General Assembly of Pirate Party Norway (PPNO). They made use of a few different digital tools to run their general assembly. The entire meeting was live-streamed on youtube (day 1 and day 2 enabling…
GEMA is Blocking the Live Stream of the General Assembly for Pirate Party Norway
This weekend, on the 1-2 of February, the Pirate Party of Norway held their general assembly in Kristiansand, Norway. Being a transparent and modern political party they were providing online voting and a live-stream for people that wished to partake…
PP Norway got 0.3% in National Election and 750.000+ Euros
For a political party that is only a year old getting 0.3% in their first election is a good result. The Pirate Party of Norway managed to get 9.868 votes of the total 2.848.986 votes resulting in 0.3%. PPNO are pleased…
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