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Welcome to the library of the Pirate Party. Where applicable, either PDF versions will be provided or the link to those works given. For works where it is not legal for us to give out PDFs, we will provide ISBN numbers for those items. Titles are always being added so check back.

Creative Commons, Public Domain, Public License Images, Literature, Music, Software, and Video

Internet Archive - Digital library of free books, movies, and music
Jamendo - Creative Commons music
Musopen - Public domain music, sheet music, and textbooks
Project Gutenburg - Public domain books in electronic format
Wikimedia Commons - Public domain and Creative Commons images

Education

Digital Social Learning Communities

Free Learning

List of 700 Free Online Courses

Academic Earth - University level
Coursera - Free classes from 16+ Universities
Duolingo - Learn languages
Free Online Courses - University level
Khan Academy - Always adding more subjects
Udacity - Concentrated on Computer Science
Open Courseware - List of OCW sites

MIT Open Courseware - Youtube
JHSPH Open Courseware - Johns Hopkins

edX - Free Online courses from MIT, Harvard, and Berkley. Certification for completion offered for some courses.
Youtube EDU - Educational Youtube videos.
open.michigan

Government

Change By Us - A place to share ideas, create projects, discover resources, and make our cities better
City 2.0 - Bringing citizen participation to the surface
Civic Commons - Collection of civic collaboration technologies
Local Wiki - The open-content, open-source effort to share the world's local knowledge
Manabalss - Latvian initiative platform
Open Assembly - Open source crowd-sourcing
Your Priorities - Platform for suggesting and debating polices

Open Source

Hardware

Enviu - Open Source Houses
P2P Foundation - Repository
Thingyverse - Repository

Software

Open Source Alternative

Avidemux - Video Editing
Cinelerra - Video Editing
Dia - Diagramming
FreeCAD - 3D Design
Gimp - Image Editing
Libre Office - Office Tools (Word Editing, Presentation, Drawing, Databases)
Linux - Operating Systems
Open Office - Office Tools (Word Editing, Presentation, Drawing, Databases)

Privacy Tools

List

Tails - DVD or USB key that forces the computer you're on to send internet traffic through TOR
TOR - Prevents traffic analysis of your internet usage
OpenNIC - Alternative DNS that is uncensored
Bitcoin - P2P digital currency with no central authority
RiseUp - Invite-only secure and private email accounts
GNUnet - Secure Anonymous Peer-to-Peer Networking

Web Search

DuckDuckGo - Anonymous, unlogged web searches
Seeks Project - Open decentralized platform for collaborative search
StartPage - Private, unlogged web searches
YaCy - Decentralized web search

Browsers

Tools and settings for different browsers

Browser Add-ons

HTTPS Everywhere - If a site supports https, this forces your communications to use SSL encryption

Email Clients

Claws Mail - Lightweight email application with GPG support
Evolution - Free email and calendar application with GPG support
IceDove - Free version of Mozilla Thunderbird *requires GPG plug-in
KMail - KDE email client with GPG support
Thunderbird - Open source email application *requires GPG plug-in

Our Publications

Articles

Organizing a Regular Meeting - Pirate Times (Andrew Reitemeyer)
Running an Information Stand - Pirate Times (Andrew Reitemeyer)
Yes, The Pirate Party Is A Silly Name, And That's Why It Works - Falvinge.net (Zacqary Green)

Books

No Safe Harbor: Essays about Pirate Politics - by Various Authors
Swarmwise – The Tactical Manual To Changing The World - by Rick Falkvinge

Intellectual Property (Copyright, Patent, and Trademark)

List of books, articles, and research about myths of innovation

Privacy

Articles

A Guide to What We Now Know About the NSA's Dragnet Searches of Your Communications - ACLU (Brett Max Kaufman)
Appeals court: Police can track cell phones without warrant - The Raw Story (Eric W. Dolan)
Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government? - theguardian (Glenn Greenwald)
Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform - Wired (David Kravets)
Carrier IQ Rootkit - by PCWorld (James Mulroy)
CISPA: The Corporate Insecurity Piracy Act - The Detroit News (Mako Yamakura)
Death Twitches: Nokia Caught Wiretapping Encrypted Traffic from Its Handsets - Falkvinge
Does Surveillance Affect Us Even When We Can’t Confirm We’re Being Watched? Lessons From Behind the Iron Curtain - ACLU (Jay Stanley)
FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool - c|net (Declan McCullagh and Anne Broache)
Feds tell Web firms to turn over user account passwords - c|net (Declan McCullagh)
How To Protect Against Laptop Webcam Hacking - EFF (Kurt Opsahl)
Is E-verify Effective? Depends on How You Look at It - ACLU (Chris Calabrese)
Is the FBI Using Carrier IQ for Domestic Surveillance - Forbes (E.D. Kain)
Mobile-Phone Surveillance by Police Targets Millions Annually - Wired (David Kravets)
New York woman visited by police after researching pressure cookers online - The Guardian (Adam Gabbatt)
NSA taps in to internet giants' systems to mine user data, secret files reveal - The Guardian (Glenn Greenwald and Ewen MacAskill)
Password case reframes Fifth Amendment rights in context of digital world - Denver Post (John Ingold)
President Obama’s Dragnet - The New York Times (Editorial Board)
PRIVACY ISSUES OF WEARABLE CAMERAS VERSUS SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS - Steve Mann
Privacy Questions Accompany Automated License Plate Scanners - Information Week (Mathew J. Schwartz)
Protecting Your Privacy Could Make You the Bad Guy - Wired (ASHKAN SOLTANI)
Seattle Police To Roll Out Surveillance Drones with Infrared Cameras - Infowars (Steve Watson)
Secret NSA documents show campaign against Tor encrypted network - Washington Post (Barton Gellman, Craig Timberg and Steven Rich)
Security experts Bruce Schneier and Mikko Hypponen on the NSA, PRISM and why we should be worried - TEDtalks (Thu-Huong Ha)
Spy, or pay up: FBI-backed bill would fine US firms for refusing wiretaps - RT
Stingrays: The Biggest Technological Threat to Cell Phone Privacy You Don't Know About - EFF (Hanni Fakhoury and Trevor Timm)
Stopping SOPA's Anticircumvention - Freedom to Tinker (Wendy Seltzer)
Supreme Court declines to hear telecom privacy-invasion lawsuit - Los Angeles Times (David G. Savage)
Supreme Court rejects plea to ban taping of police in Illinois - Chicago Tribune (Jason Meisner)
Surveillance Cameras Around The Country Are Being Used In A Huge Spy Network - Business Insider (David Seaman)
The kind of woman who needs a late-term abortion - Washington Post (Christy Zink)
The Known Unknowns of Skype Interception - OWNI.EU (Christopher Soghoian)
They Can Do That?! 10 Outrageous Tactics Cops Get Away With - Alternet (John Knefel)
TrapWire tied to anti-Occupy Internet-spy program - RT
U.N. calls for 'anti-terror' Internet surveillance - CNET (Declan McCullagh)
U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans - Reuters (John Shiffman and Kristina Cooke)
U.S. gives big, secret push to Internet surveillance - c|net (Declan McCullagh)
US government spies on federal staffers - RT
U.S. mining data from 9 leading Internet firms; companies deny knowledge - The Washington Post (Barton Gellman and Laura Poitras)
Warrantless Eavesdropping Before Supreme Court - Wired (David Kravets)
White House draft cyber order promotes voluntary critical infrastructure protections - FederalNewsRadio.com (Jason Miller)
Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide' - The Chronicle (Daniel J. Solove)
Your Location is No More Private Than the Color of Your Car - by PC World (Dan Tynan)

Books

Defending Privacy at the U.S. Border: A Guide for Travelers Carrying Digital Devices - EFF
Certified Lies: Detecting and Defeating Government Interception Attacks Against SSL - by Christopher Soghoian and Sid Stamm
Locational Privacy - by The EFF
Nameless in Cyberspace: Anonymity on the Internet - by Jonathan D. Wallace
Privacy and Free Speech: It's Good for Business - by the ACLU of North Carolina

Videos

Don't Talk to Police - A law professor and a police officer
FBI, here I am! - by Hasan Elahi
Meet The Domestic Spying Program That Could Be Tracking You Right Now - by Laura Poitras
OPSEC: Because Jail is for wuftpd - The GRUGQ
Three Types of Online Attack - by Mikko Hypponen
Your Phone Company is Watching - by Malte Spitz

Transparency and Accountability

Articles

10 American Foods That Are Banned in Other Countries - The Top Information Post
$10 M to Fight Honest Food Labels - Right to Know
America's Real Criminal Element: Lead - MotherJones (Kevin Drum)
Are Millennials the Screwed Generation? - The Daily Beast (Joel Kotkin)
Boehner's Office Cuts off C-SPAN Cameras as GOP takes Beating - The Raw Story (Stephen C. Webster)
Congress' Dangerous Attempts to Define “Journalist” in Shield Law Threaten to Exclude Bloggers - Freedom of the Press Foundation (Morgan Weiland)
Congressional Insider Trading Revealed on 60 Minutes - Business Insider (Zeke Miller)
Congress Is Quietly Abandoning the 5th Amendment - The Atlantic (Conor Friedersdorf)
Court Dismisses Case Based on State Secrets Privilege - by End the Lie
Decade of US 'War on Terror' Yields More 'Terrorism' - Common Dreams
DoD Level 1 Antiterrorism Awareness Training - ACLU
EPA Implicates Fracking In Wyoming Gas Field Groundwater Pollution Finding - Huffington Post (MEAD GRUVER)
Everything Is Rigged: The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever - RollingStone (Matt Taibbi)
Externalities - The Sustainable Man (David Suzuki)
FBI Says Activists Who Investigate Factory Farms Can Be Prosecuted as Terrorists - Green is the New Red (Will Potter)
Federal court rules in favor of NDAA - Examiner.com (Ryan Keller)
For Pennsylvania’s doctors, a gag order on fracking chemicals - The Grist (Kate Sheppard)
Former CIA Chief: Obama’s War on Terror Same as Bush’s, But With More Killing - Wired (David Kravets)
Government/Corporate Revolving Door Venn Diagrams
Government Spends More on Corporate Welfare Subsidies than Social Welfare Programs - Think by Numbers (Mike P. Sinn)
Here’s what real reform of the NSA looks like - The Washington Post (Timothy B. Lee)
Hitting Two Birds with One Stone: Strategies for Addressing the Indigent Defense Crisis and Overincarceration - ACLU
Homeland Security Internet Watch List leaked; Boing Boing omitted from list of must-read sites for domestic spying - BoingBoing (Xeni Jardin)
Homeland Security Prepares for Civil War - OpEdNews (Jack Swint)
Horror Hospital: The Most Shocking Photos And Testimony From The Dawood Military Hospital Scandal - Buzzfeed
How Boston exposes America’s dark post-9/11 bargain - The Salon (Andrew O'Hehir)
How The American University was Killed, in Five Easy Steps - OpEdNews (Debra Leigh Scott)
How to talk to a conservative about climate change - Salon (GEOFF DEMBICKI)
Indefinite Military Detention: Revised Defense Bill Still Gives President Authority To Lock Up Citizens - Huffington Post (Michael McAuliff)
Know your rights (Infographic) - Criminology.com
Medicare Pulls Back Curtain On Hospital Bills - NPR (Scott Hensley)
MegaUpload Shut Down by the Feds, Founder Arrested - TorrentFreak (Ernesto)
Myth busted: Yes, the NDAA does apply to Americans, and here's the text that says so - NaturalNews.com (Mike Adams)
Noam Chomsky: Smoke and Mirrors, or Civil Liberties Under President Obama - Truth-out (Mike Stivers)
No charge, no hearing, little recourse - TimesUnion (Stewart Powell)
NY judge strikes part of terror law scholars fear - Wall Street Journal
NYPD 'consistently violated basic rights' during Occupy protests – study - Guardian (Chitrangada Choudhury)
Obama administration struggles to live up to its transparency promise, Post analysis shows - Washington Post (James Ball)
Obama Plans for 10 More Years of Extrajudicial Killing by Drone - the Atlantic (Conor Friedersdorf)
Obama secretly signs the most aggressive cybersecurity directive ever - RT
Obama threatens Senate with cybersecurity executive order - RT
Pentagon bracing for public dissent over climate and energy shocks - The Guardian (Dr. Nafeez Ahmed)
PIPA Support Collapses with 13 New Opponents in Senate - Ars Technica (Timothy B. Lee)
Roundup, An Herbicide, Could Be Linked To Parkinson's, Cancer And Other Health Issues, Study Shows - Huffington Post (Reuters)
Scientists Find GMO Damages Red Blood Cells - Political Blindspot (Arjun Walia)
Senate Panels Finds Anti-Terror, Data-Sharing Centers Were Useless - NPR (Eyder Peralta)
Senate Proposal for Curbing ‘Leaks’ Escalates Restrictions on Intelligence Employees Who Talk to Media - FireDogLake (Kevin Gosztola)
Supreme Court Rules "Material Support" Law Can Stand - ACLU
The American Anti-Corruption Act is Historic Legislation that will Finally Get Money Out of Politics - Films For Action
The Boston Fishing Party and Australians Rights Online - Crickey (Bernard Keane)
The Case for Abolishing the DHS - Bloomberg Businessweek (Charles Kenny)
The Economic Benefits of EPA Regulations Massively Outweigh The Costs - Think Progress (Jeff Spross)
The Housing Market Recovery Is ‘A Complete Hoax’ - Truthdig (Alexander Reed Kelly)
The Real Reason for Obama’s Threat to Veto the Indefinite Detention Bill (Hint: It’s Not to Protect Liberty) - by Washington's Blog
There Are Good Alternatives to US Capitalism, But No Way to Get There - Alternet (Jerry Mander)
The SAME Unaccountable Government Agency Which Spies on ALL Americans Also Decides Who Gets ASSASSINATED by Drones - ZeroHedge (George Washington)
The US schools with their own police - The Guardian (Chris McGreal)
Third Northwest activist jailed for staying silent - Salon (Natasha Lennard)
US acquits CIA of killing and torturing of prisoners - RT
US customs can and will seize laptops and cellphones, demand passwords - Naked Security Sophos (Lisa Vaas)
Why Have Police In America Turned Into Such Ruthless Thugs? - The American Dream (Michael Snyder)
Young Persons Called to Private Grand Jury for Owning Books - Sound+Noise (Tom)

Books

d4i (Declaration for Independence) - by Lawrence Lessig
Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy (ISBN 0805079122) - by Noam Chomsky
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (American Empire Project) (ISBN 9780805079111) - by Chalmers Johnson
Net Neutrality: Towards a Co-regulatory Solution - by Christopher T. Marsden
Rebooting America: Ideas for Redesigning American Democracy for the Internet Age - by the Personal Democracy Press

Videos

Beware Online Filter Bubbles - by Eli Pariser
Capitalism Hits the Fan - Richard Wolff
Demand a more Open Source Government - by Beth Noveck
Fluoride Dangers - They Knew All Along - James J. Delaney?
Fluoride The Bizarre History - Full Documentary
Hitler reacts to SOPA
How pervasive has government distrust gotten? - by Ivan Krastev
How to escape education's death valley - TED (Ken Robinson)
In Defense of Dialogue - by Jonas Gahr Støre (Norwegian Diplomat)
Gerrymandering Explained - by C.G.P. Grey
GMOs: The Moment of Truth
Hollywood and the War Machine - Al Jazeera
How economic inequality harms societies - Richard Wilkinson
SNL Banned Episode ~ Media Controlled Conspiracy Theory Rock - SNL
Stopped-and-Frisked: 'For Being a F**king Mutt' - by Ross Tuttle and Erin Schneider
The Antidote to Apathy - TED (Dave Meslin)
The power of the informal economy - by Robert Neuwirth
The Problems with First Past the Post Voting Explained - by C.G.P. Grey
The Trouble with the Electoral College - by C.G.P. Grey
Why Fukushima Can Happen HERE!! What the NRC and Nuclear Industry Dont Want You to Know - by Arnie Gundersen and David Lochbaum
Why Genetically Engineered Foods Should be Labeled - TED (Gary Hirshberg)

Reference

Court Cases

In Depth: The District Court's Remarkable Order Striking Down the NSL (National Security Letter) Statute - EFF
List of Copyright Cases - by UCLA and Columbia Law Schools
PA Court Deals Blow to Fracking Industry and Corporate 'Privacy Rights' - AlterNet (Steven Rosenfeld)
Verizon forced to hand over telephone data – full court ruling - Foreign Intelligence Service Court

Legislation

ACTA - by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other International Entities
COICA - by Congress
DMCA - by Congress
HR 1424: Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 - by Congress
OPEN Act (edits suggestable) - Congress
USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 - by Congress
PROTECT IP Act - by Congress

Philosophy

Americans Would Prefer Denmark Social Safety Net Taxes If Informed - Egberto Willies
Communist Manifesto - by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
From Dictatorship to Democracy - by Gene Sharp
How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses - Joshua Davis
How Billionaire 'Philanthropy' Is Fueling Inequality and Helping To Destroy the Country - Prashanth Kamalakanthan
Iceland's New Constitution - Iceland Constitutional Council
Kopimism - Kopimist Church of Idaho
Institutions vs. Collaboration - by Clay Shirky
More Thoughts on the Coming Swarm Economy - Rick Falkvinge
Person having ordinary skill in the art - Wikipedia (Various)
Rupees in your pocket (A basic minimum income) - Le Monde Dimplomatique (Benjamin Fernandez)
The Coming Age of Internetocracy - Lawrence A. Compagna
The Game of Politics: Pursuit of Power over People; Game Manual - Jón þór ólafsson
The Kind of Anarchism I Believe in, and What's Wrong with Libertarians - Alternet (Michael S. Wilson, Noam Chomsky)
The Pirate Wheel - Pirates
There are Good Alternatives to US Capitalism, But No Way to Get There - Jerry Mander
Why Valve? Or, what do we need corporations for and how does Valve’s management structure fit into today’s corporate world? - by yanis

Reports, Statistics, and Studies

2010 Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement - by the White House
Audit of the U.S. Department of Justice Terrorist Watchlist Nomination Processes - by the U.S. Department of Justice - Office of the Inspector General - Audit Division
2013 Draft Report to Congress on the Benefits and Costs of Federal Regulations and Agency Compliance with the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act - Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Climate Change - An Information Statement of the American Meteorological Society - by American Meteorological Society Council
Department of Defense NetOps Strategic Vision - U.S. Department of Defense
EFF's Guide to CDA 230: The Most Important Law Protecting Online Speech - by the EFF
Filesharing Study Compilation - Zeropaid (Drew Wilson)
Guide to WIPO Services - by the WIPO
International Trade Statistics 2008 - by the WTO
It's not the morphine, it's the size of the cage: Rat Park experiment upturns conventional wisdom about addiction - Garry Tan
Leaked PRISM Documents - DoD and NSA
List of Keywords Used to Monitor Social Networking Sites - U.S. Department of Homeland Security
List of Social Media Sites Monitored by the NOC - U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Non-Disruptive Tactics of Suppression Are Superior in Countering Terrorism, Insurgency, and Financial Panics - David A. Siegel
Report on Orphan Works - by the United States Copyright Office
Policy Brief - Three Myths about Copyright Law and Where to Start to Fix it ~~(Original - Retracted after the MPAA and RIAA squeezed their balls)~~KEI Mirror Maryland Pirates Mirror Massachusetts Pirates Mirror Scribd Mirror - Republican Study Committee
Strategic Plan to Promote Creativity 2008-2013 - by the United States Copyright Office
The Biggest "Takers" and Societal Parasites Are the Rich, Not the Working Class and Poor - TruthOut (Paul Buchheit)
The Case Against Patents - Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine
The Case for Copyright Reform - Christian Engström and Rick Falkvinge
The Health Hazards of Disease Prevention: The vaccination policy and the Code of Practice of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI): are they at odds? - Lucija Tomljenovic, PhD
The relationship between personal unsecured debt and mental and physical health: A systematic review and meta-analysis - Thomas Richardsona, Peter Elliotta, Ronald Roberts
Timeline of NSA Domestic Spying - EFF
Understanding Copyright and Related Rights - by the WIPO
Understanding Industrial Property - by the WIPO
Success Story: The Case of TDF in Brazil - Patent Opposition Database
Revoking An Invalid Patent: The Case of Didanosine in Thailand - Patent Opposition Database
Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill - Mad In America (Bruce Levine, Ph.D.)

Other

Alkasir for Mapping and Circumventing Cyber Censorship
American Fact Finder - US Census Bureau
Apathy - A flash game created by Pirates to show how difficult it is to get our representatives to represent us.
Bitcoin Overview - Khan Academy
CV Dazzle - Computer Vision Camoflage
DIY Mesh Guide - Start a mesh network in your neighborhood to get around ISP censorship and high prices
Defective by Design - Lists sources of DRM things and free alternatives
Encrypt Everything - compiled by Pirate Party of Canada
FreedomBox - A project to make it impossible to censor the internet
Hand and Arm Signals (Military and SWAT)
How to Enable Two-Factor Authentication on Twitter (And Everywhere Else) - EFF (Parker Higgins)
Loomio - Public collaboration tool
The Crypto Project (Tools for privacy) - Crypto.is
The Law of Cyberspace: An Invitation to the Table of Negotiations - by Ahmad Kamal
List of Companies Spying on Us for the Government by Country - compiled by Wikileaks
Who Bought Your Politician? - Embeddable widget by Wired that shows the top ten contributors to a politician's campaign

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 * [http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/07/the-catch-22-of-internet-commerce-and-privacy-could-mean-youre-the-bad-guy/ Protecting Your Privacy Could Make You the Bad Guy] - Wired (ASHKAN SOLTANI)
 * [http://www.infowars.com/seattle-police-to-roll-out-surveillance-drones-with-infrared-cameras/ Seattle Police To Roll Out Surveillance Drones with Infrared Cameras] - Infowars (Steve Watson)
+* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/secret-nsa-documents-show-campaign-against-tor-encrypted-network/2013/10/04/610f08b6-2d05-11e3-8ade-a1f23cda135e_story.html Secret NSA documents show campaign against Tor encrypted network] - Washington Post (Barton Gellman, Craig Timberg and Steven Rich)
 * [http://blog.ted.com/2013/07/17/security-experts-on-the-nsas-real-problems/ Security experts Bruce Schneier and Mikko Hypponen on the NSA, PRISM and why we should be worried] - TEDtalks (Thu-Huong Ha)
 * [http://rt.com/usa/tech-companies-wiretap-fines-552/ Spy, or pay up: FBI-backed bill would fine US firms for refusing wiretaps] - RT

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