May 2011
5 posts
The internet natives are revolting →
My article on Sarkozy, the eG8 and the language of colonisation for ORGzine.
Eyewitness account of police violence in Catalunya...
From Kenneth Peiruza in his own words, via Pirate Party International:
After some people rang me to tell me that police was pushing away protesters from Catalunya square, I moved there and I could see thousands of people protesting in the outer area of the square, a few hundreds still inside the square.
There was a massive police action, they took every tent, food, tables, computers…...
German Pirate Party servers raided by police
I would like to add my condemnation to that of Sebastian Nerz and Rick Falkvinge, amongst others on yesterday’s police raid of German Pirate Party IT Assets. A French investigation into an attack on the IT infrastructure of the energy group EDF resulted in German authorities disconnecting and then confiscating the German Pirate Party’s servers. This had the effect of partially...
Future of Electoral Reform in the UK
On behalf of the Pirate Party, I would like to thank the voters that turned out to cast their ballots in the national referendum on whether to change the electoral system to the Alternative Vote. The outcome is not what The UK Pirate Party or I had hoped for, even if it is what we had come to expect over recent weeks.
Our failure, both as a party and as individual campaigners, was to not...
