January 11th, 2024 Meeting
Meeting to be held via video conference: https://communitybridge.com/bbb-room/mass-pirates-bbb-room/.
Recording:
Reports
Location Shield Act (H.537/S.148)
Decisions/Endorsements
United States Pirate Party Issues?
Projects/Events
Winter Conference
Review survey and choose date.
Possible Topics:
- 2024 Campaign
- Planning for post-2024 election future
Planning for 2024
Restart democracy committee: Sat Jan 6th- Contact cities/town to get list of voters
- Put together plan for local organizing and 2024 town/legislature campaign
- Mail members/voters
- Ask them to organize locally
- Ask them to campaign/run
- Ask them to give us their full contact info
- Call potential candidates/supporters
- ?
Video Newsletter/Podcast
Leader: Joseph
- Next pirate news on Jan 7th
- Pirate news recording scheduled for Sundays, 7pm with go-live at 7:30pm. Unless changed
Other To Do
Upcoming Events
Participants
- jokeefe
- srevilak
- Joe
Observers
Summary
Location shield act. Plan is to set up a series of events to draw attention to it. The bill would ban sale of location data (e.g., to data brokers). First event on Wed 1/17/2024, which will be a webinar. A consortium of groups is organizaing these events, like the ACLU and warrantless.org.
Chair report. Email updates and blog posts have gone out about candidates for office elections, winter conference. A fellow pirate visiting from Australia, and we have an opportunity to have dinner with him on Monday night.
USPP meeting. Recording of meeting will be posted.
Year-end OCPF report is due. Jamie and Joe will work on this over the weekend.
Winter conference.
- How long should it last? Majority: usual one day is fine
- Next week, 1/15 - 1/21 is the week that works best. Next is 1/29 - 2/4.
- What should conference focus on? Group discussions had most support. Also campaigning how-tos
- Topics: Decentralizing auditing came out on top
- Several people volunteered to help with organizing.
Settle on Sat Feb 3rd, noon--4pm.