PNC 6/3/20

Agenda

Please send me suggested agenda items as well as any URLs to articles on COVID-19 authoritarian power grabs. --bosun@wipp.coop

Reports

Other

• Candidate Draft Process - added to the wiki

Attending

• Sayyida: Megan Klein vice chair
• Bosun: Joseph T. Klein USPP Chair (Wisconsin)
• jokeefe: James O’Keefe, Secretary (Massachusetts)

Non-Voting

• NineVolt identifies as pseudonymous bystander (New Jersey)

• plank: Evan DeMers (California)
• NewComer: Zach (Tennessee)

Minutes

Record of the meeting

 


[10:00pm] Bosun: Hello People.
[10:00pm] jokeefe: I created a meeting wiki page at https://wiki.pirate-party.us/PNC_6/3/20
[10:00pm] papegaai: Title: PNC 6/3/20 - United States Pirate Party (at wiki.pirate-party.us)
[10:00pm] Bosun: Please identify yourselves.
[10:00pm] Sayyida: Megan Klein vice chair
[10:00pm] jokeefe: I notified opers about webchat’s flakiness
[10:00pm] Bosun: Joseph T. Klein USPP Chair (Wisconsin)
[10:01pm] jokeefe: James O’Keefe, Secretary (Massachusetts)
[10:01pm] Bosun: It looks like a web client that points at France.
[10:02pm] jokeefe: I am on the french server, seems ok
[10:02pm] Bosun: OK - might be between the web client and the server.
[10:02pm] NineVolt: it's more likely to be kiwiirc failing to respond to server pings.
[10:02pm] NineVolt: ^^
[10:02pm] Sayyida: NineVolt, yep
[10:02pm] • NineVolt identifies as pseudonymous bystander (New Jersey)
[10:03pm] plank: Evan DeMers (California)
[10:04pm] Bosun: OK shall we start or is anyone else speaking up?
[10:04pm] NewComer: Zach (Tennessee)
[10:04pm] Bosun: Ah ... cool another CA
[10:04pm] Bosun: Hey Zach
[10:04pm] jokeefe: ahoy
[10:05pm] Sayyida: so many new people!
[10:05pm] NewComer: Hello everyone!
[10:05pm] Sayyida: @jokeefe, do you have any news from your area?
[10:06pm] Bosun: OK - Plank should contact me directly, I have a few CA people that I am trying to connect to each other,
[10:06pm] jokeefe: Boston has a city council hearing on banning facial recognition next week. we are supporting it as well as the effort to get RCV on the ballot
[10:07pm] Bosun: I was on the phone with one before the meeting
[10:07pm] Bosun: Fantastic.
[10:07pm] jokeefe: Our pirate news videos are coming out once a week
[10:08pm] NineVolt left the chat room. (Ping timeout: 276 seconds)
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[10:08pm] jokeefe: Some other stuff on opposing the PATRIOT Act renewal and EARN IT Act
[10:08pm] Bosun: good
[10:09pm] jokeefe: Lots of BLM protests here, mostly peaceful, except for the cops
[10:09pm] Bosun: Was my statement OK?
[10:09pm] Sayyida: stupid pigs
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[10:10pm] Bosun: Tell us how you really feel.
[10:10pm] jokeefe: Thanks to you all and Joe getting it out. Reposted it
[10:11pm] Bosun: I got good feedback from you and Liz.
[10:12pm] jokeefe: I really appreciated the effort
[10:12pm] jokeefe: thanks
[10:12pm] Sayyida: well we got the kudos from PPI
[10:13pm] Bosun: I think we need to be more agressive, the photo op clearing of Lafayette Square turned off many on both the right and left.
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[10:13pm] Bosun: https://www.insider.com/boogaloo-bois-protest-far-right-minneapolis-extremist-guns-hawaiian-shirts-2020-5
[10:13pm] Sayyida: what can we do to be more agresssive shy of showing up in lafayette square with a flag
[10:13pm] papegaai: Title: Boogaloo Bois at protests around country with guns, Hawaiian shirts - Insider (at www.insider.com)
[10:14pm] jokeefe: many people upset about that
[10:14pm] Bosun: Seems even the joint chief of staff is pissed.
[10:14pm] jokeefe: haven’t pulled the troops out of DC though
[10:14pm] Bosun: Ach wrong URL
[10:15pm] Bosun: https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1268324463550107651/photo/1
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[10:16pm] Bosun: I don't think they are quite at mutiny yet. They tried, but got vetoed by the WH.
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[10:17pm] Bosun: The National Guard falls under the Mayor of DC.
[10:17pm] Bosun: But DC has loads of Federals not under District control.
[10:18pm] Bosun: Did you see the DEA memo allowing them to interrogate protestors?
[10:20pm] Sayyida: no not yet
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[10:20pm] jokeefe: Not all with badges apparently
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[10:22pm] Sayyida: I am honestly worried about the army being used against protesters
[10:22pm] Bosun: NYCPD is hiding badges.
[10:22pm] Sayyida: I am worried about people getting shot
[10:22pm] Bosun: The part with the number.
[10:22pm] jokeefe: yes to both
[10:22pm] plank: RIP David McAtee 
[10:23pm] jokeefe: aye
[10:24pm] Bosun: https://twitter.com/JasonLeopold/status/1268211868578930690/photo/1
[10:24pm] NineVolt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate
[10:24pm] papegaai: Title: List of countries by incarceration rate - Wikipedia (at en.wikipedia.org)
[10:24pm] NineVolt: USA #1 :'(
[10:25pm] Bosun: Old news. We know we have a problem.
[10:25pm] Sayyida: 5  min mates
[10:25pm] jokeefe: reminder we have a loomio instance at https://www.loomio.org/g/5PCvY9Ep/united-state-pirate-party
[10:25pm] papegaai: Title: United State Pirate Party (at www.loomio.org)
[10:25pm] jokeefe: I paid for it
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[10:26pm] Sayyida: thank you jokeefe i will give it a try
[10:26pm] Bosun: And the people in jail are poor, and brown for the most part.
[10:26pm] Bosun: Yes _ Loomio more.
[10:27pm] Bosun: Please send me agenda items for next week. Bosun@wipp.coop
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[10:27pm] Bosun: We have three minutes.
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[10:27pm] Sayyida: i motion to adjourn
[10:28pm] jokeefe: 2nd
[10:28pm] Bosun: Hearing no objection ...
[10:28pm] jokeefe: I will post the notes
[10:28pm] Bosun: We are adjourned