January 12th, 2023 Meeting

Meeting to be held via video conference: https://ca.meet.coop/mas-ub4-8ox-vtj.

Recording:

Projects

Planning for 2023 Local Elections

• https://etherpad.pp-international.net/p/MAPP2023LocalElections

Video Newsletter/Podcast

Leader: Joseph

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

Other To Do

• Application to PPI

Upcoming Events

• Party Conference, noon, January 21st, 2023.

Participants

• jokeefe
• srevilak
• Joe
• Mysty

Summary

Meetings every two weeks. Next one is Jan 26th.

US Pirate Party Issues:

• Regarding plan committee, there are a lot of different takes on gun policy and regulations. Joe asks folks to weigh in via discord. He believes it's a hard conversation we need to have. See https://uspirates.org/chat/ for discord link.
• Among different states, there are different takes on a Women's right to choose. MAPP has a "reproductive freedom as a human right" policy.

"They will look for causes of trauma and harm, everywhere except were they actually exist".

Projects

• Party conference scheduled for Jan 21st. Unfortunately we haven't had bandwidth to promote it. Were planning a virtual conference for Jan 21; the next one will be in-person in Lowell. Jamie suggests pushing it back one month. We agree to reschedule for Feb 18th. Will put out call for topics this weekend.

Local outreach

• Jamie will reach out to our activism and PR director, to see what meeting times work for them.

2023 local elections

• Town elections are in process now. Folks in Arlington who'd like to run for town meeting should contact Steve via info AT masspirates.org. Steve says it's always a challenge to find good people to run.

Reports

Last Pirate News included a discussion about public domain day. It's also the 10th Anniversary of Aaron Schwartz's death.

Working on reports for OCPF. Hope to have them done next week.