March 9th, 2025 Meeting

Meeting to be held via video conference: https://communitybridge.com/bbb-room/mass-pirates-member-meeting/

Recording: https://youtu.be/QtPdgITkJts

Decisions/Endorsements

Bills to Review

Jamie needs to update the numbers, add links and email members asking for suggestions.

• Location Shield Act (SD 501/HD2965)
• An Act relative to unregulated face recognition and emerging biometric surveillance technologies (HD2726)
• An Act establishing a moratorium on face recognition and other remote biometric surveillance systems (SD671)
• An Act relative to unmanned aerial systems (HD2542)
• An Act relative to protecting Massachusetts residents against federal government surveillance (HD4038)
• Dignity Not Deportations Act (HD3596/SD1107)
• Civil Asset Forfeiture reform (HD2971)
• Right to Repair (SD 732, HD 397, HD 1300, HD 3779, HD 3617)

Here is an etherpad for people to offer suggestions.

A reconsideration of Member Meeting Articles

No update. Suggest moving to next meeting.

We haven't adhered to our Articles of Agreement's Member Meetings section strictly since we have existed, specifically the [ https://masspirates.org/wiki/Articles_of_Agreement#4.2_Form Form] and Time sections. Meetings have met weekly and bi-weekly (our current form) and not twice a year each over six weeks.

Rework them to:

• Have a section on conferences (possible spring/fall, at least one a year)
• Rework the member meetings to be on-line at least once a month
• Set when elections for the pirate council is and that we can elect people at a conference or on-line by secret ballot

Projects/Events

Pirate News

Leader: Joseph

• Pirate news recording scheduled for Sundays, 7pm with go-live at 7:30pm. Unless changed

2025 Voter Outreach

• Letters to city election committee/town clerk asking for pirate voters/election dates
• Follow ups as necessary
• Snail Mail supporters in December to tell them about:
  • Conference
  • Call for officer nominees
  • Municipal elections
  • Other events/efforts
  • Donate/join our mailing list

2025 Local Campaigns

Need a leader for this effort.

Actions:

• Outreach to volunteers:
  • Ask them to organize locally
  • Ask them to campaign/run
  • Ask them to give us their full contact info
  • Call potential candidates/supporters
• Videos:
  • Selecting campaign
  • Planning campaign
  • Get on the ballot
  • Fundraising
  • Voter Id
  • GOTV

Participants

• Eli
• Jamie
• Joe
• Steve

Summary

Cambridge drone police.

• Went to public safety committee
• CPD will have to present a written policy to the city council for adoption.

Email newsletter

• Jamie will try to get these out on Tuesdays or Wednesday.

Tesla protests

• May try to turn out some people for the next Tesla protest in boston. It appears to be a weekly event, noon on Saturday.

MA Bills

• Will oppose bill that increases requirement for forming or maintaining political affiliations.
• Folks will try to review bill text this week.

USPP

• Will be discusing collaboration with the USPP and the trans humanist party.
• Next meeting - we're going to meet a new representative to the USPP

Pirates news

• Jamie running into difficulties in getting OBS to work
• Joe would like to table pirate news for march, so he and Jamie and can work on their setups.

Next Conference

• Should be sometime in June
• Will do a poll in the near future

Topics for future discussions

• Changes to Department of Education, and how that will affect MA.