“Following the Pirate Parties of Australia and the United Kingdom, the Pirate Party of Iceland overwhelmingly voted to leave Pirate Parties International. Arnaldur Sigurðarson, member of the Pirate executive council, told the Pirate Times that the vote was 96.56% in favour of leaving.”
“Throughout the 15 countries that had Pirate Parties participating in the EU elections there was a total of 840.446 votes for Pirate Parties. There was one MEP elected in Germany, Julia Reda, where they reached 1.45%”
“TPP is a nontransparent agreement that greatly empowers corporations, especially the Intellectual Property industries, at the cost of democracy, sovereignty, and freedom.”
“the European Pirates have finalized the preparation process for the foundation of the European Pirate Party.(中略)European Pirate Parties should ratify both the manifesto and the declaration by 1 September 2013. The founding Congress will then be held in March 2014 in Brussels.”
“The recent protests in Turkey started on 28 May 2013. (中略) The Pirate Party of Turkey (Korsan Partisi Hareketi) was involved from the first days and we asked Şevket Uyanık a few questions about the situation there”
“Following quickly on the heels of the Icelanders the Pirate Parties of Austria and Luxembourg quickly demanded that their governments offer asylum to Edward Snowden and other Pirate Parties are getting prepared to follow suit.”
“the Pirate Party of Sweden reported that it received a letter from the Rights Alliance(略)the Rights Alliance makes it clear that they intend to take legal actions against the Pirate Party and its representatives if the party does not shut down The Pirate Bay’s Internet access”