By Joseph E. Hamilton
On Tuesday, voters in two Massachusetts districts will find Pirates on their ballots for the State House of Representatives. The candidates in question—Noelani Kamelamela, running in Somerville’s 27th Middlesex District, and Joseph Guertin, on the ballot in the 8th Worcester District—are the first Bay Staters to run for office under the banner of the international Pirate movement.… Read more ...
On June 5th 2013, Guardian published the first of the Edward Snowden-leaked documents, a National Security letter that compelled Verizon to produce copies of all of their customer’s call records, and deliver them to the NSA on an “ongoing, daily basis”. By itself, that was a huge deal — very few people had ever seen a national security letter, save for those unfortunate enough to receive one.… Read more ...
Joe Guertin and Noelani Kamelamela are running for State Representatives as Pirates.
Joe is running for the 8th Worcester district which includes the towns of Bellingham, Blackstone, Millville, and Uxbridge. Noelani is running for the 27th Middlesex district which contains most of Somerville.
Each has to get 150 voters in their districts to sign their nomination papers.… Read more ...
According to this article by Jack Craver, The Pirate Party is running at least two candidates for office in Wisconsin, including a gubernatorial candidate. An excerpt:
“It would be an ideal if I won the election, however, I will readily concede that that is not likely,” says Francis Klein, candidate for governor of Wisconsin.… Read more ...
Last week Senators Max Baucus, Orrin Hatch, and Dave Camp introduced the “Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities Act of 2014″ into the Senate. This is legislation which would fast track secretive trade agreements such as the Trans Pacific Partnership (TTP) and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), both of which are being written behind closed doors by bureaucrats and corporate lobbyists.… Read more ...
The Constitution Party’s official Facebook page surpassed 5,000 “likes” earlier today. The following picture was posted:
The Constitution Party’s top ten state affiliates, by number of Facebook likes (as of today):
1. Constitution Party of Illinois – 1,685 likes
2. Constitution Party of Tennessee – 1,598 likes
3. Constitution Party of Arizona – 836 likes
4.… Read more ...
The Reform Party website currently displays the following message:
… Read more ...Thank you for your support.
We are joining with others in this blackout to
protest SOPA and PIPA as a potential infringement
on the rights of all Americans.The Reform Party is dedicated to upholding
the Constitution and is participating in a one day
Internet Blackout today Jan 18th, 2012.
by Christopher Sheats
On behalf of the Washington Pirate Party, we welcome you to us.pirate.is. WAPP wishes to utilize this Icelandic-hosted, top-level domain to help bring together people that are sensitive to the many issues surrounding the freedom of information, individual privacy, and the open sharing of knowledge and culture.… Read more ...
Source: US Pirate Party (from e-mail sent to Ryan Brennan, editor & webmaster of www.ThirdPartyPolitics.us, August 3, 2011)
Good morning.
If you have been following the recent events concerning the United States Pirate Party you will know that we recently had an election and that for the past 8 months we have been wanting to dissolve the current form of the United State Pirate Party.… Read more ...
Source: US Pirate Party (from e-mail sent to Ryan Brennan, editor & webmaster of www.ThirdPartyPolitics.us, July 23, 2011)
The United States Pirate Party (USPP) has finalized the election of Party officers in an open election held July 14, 2011.
The election was delayed due to several reasons including a recent malware attack on the webservers hosting the official Party’s website (Pirate-Party.u… Read more ...
From an editorial by the The Observer-Reporter newspaper (Washington & Greene Counties of PA):
… Read more ...Minor political parties in the country are viewed with suspicion. Many of us dare not question the sanctity of the two-party system and consider third parties as gaggles of eccentrics on the lunatic fringe. For sure, some of them are.
Bradley Hall at US Pirate Party:
Over the past few months, I have been interviewed by students and major news outlets regarding the USPP’s views on different things. While I cannot comment on the major news outlet’s questions as yet, I can, however, speak about things on the student level.… Read more ...