[pp.int.general] Pirate Party Australia resigns from PPI

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Dear members of PPI, It is with a heavy heart I announce the resignation (termination of membership) of Pirate Party Australia from Pirate Parties International, effective immediately, as per a motion resolved unanimously by the National Council.[1] The Party no longer believes that there is any potential for reform left in PPI, and we have spent all of the energy we are willing to in pursuit of that end. This was compounded by the callous abuse of power and outright hostile culture of the PPI board which has been very clearly demonstrated over the last week. However, building a new model for collaboration starts today. Pirate Party Australia will continue to collaborate on international projects, and we invite those interested parties to consider their options. Pirate Party Australia will be working with the Icelandic Pirate Party to conceive a Pirate journal project in association with the Pirate Times which should allow a more in-depth view of the Pirate way of thinking. We are also preparing a shared resource portal for all Pirate Parties, but it is of course very early days as we did not expect to be forced into this position so suddenly. http://pirateint.org It is intended that the wiki provided should be used as a common resource portal for Pirate Parties. Please do list your international contacts, available translators and any other resources your Party would be willing to share in order to support collaboration between Pirate Parties. We have migrated our proposal for a collaborative organisation to the new, general international wiki. As we now no longer have the time constraints of the broken PPI statutes to deal with, we can slowly explore our future organisational options without pressure. A temporary mailing list has been set up for the purpose of exploring future collaboration options. Shoot me an email if you're interested and I will add you. Within a few weeks, we hope to have a Discourse[2] instance up as well to provide a safe, relatively self-regulated meeting place to discuss Pirate issues, provide a meeting point for international collaboration and give us an opportunity to break with the past on a completely modern platform. Never forget that PPI is not the movement. It was meant to be an organisation to help Pirate Parties work together. In the end, we only ever did this in spite of PPI, not due to it. You are also welcome to discuss this with us on our IRC network, PirateIRC, which has been a cooperative effort between several Pirate Parties for several years with no formal affiliation to PPI. We look forward to you joining us in this exciting new opportunity for the Pirate movement. [1] http://pirateparty.org.au/wiki/Minutes/National_Council/2015-02-11 [2] http://www.discourse.org/ (This email also serves as our notice to the board.) - -- Regards, Brendan Molloy President Pirate Party Australia M: +46 73 075 56 04 (SE) W: http://www.pirateparty.org.au E: brendan.molloy at pirateparty.org.au T: @piecritic PGP: 5721 8A69 1828 21E6 - -- Pirate Party Australia is a political party based around the core tenets of freedom of information and culture; civil and digital liberties; privacy and anonymity; and government transparency. Donate today! http://pirateparty.org.au/donate -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJU2zyaAAoJEFchimkYKCHmuUoP/AyEHZXgkCS42eI+/r7iPcKC VPdY0yk/hnoLzQgoRnBHMgQZmbxB7puhpQtVd5YxUBFlD/cbuDjp8vWBlNmtxOFT 6eNvCajjeKpdfkiClnkzPkWM85efRAf0Mh1uiHLNywNAU8lKmUNBL/OrX0ZAuQpD bXF9631+iH61SXIsuz7DxoP9RcgtywQ5ynqfka7S8hW9sI/59wSVm5b5r/rIZrD4 wi2qHAmRczg22gOkjD4/U5vnKJqPTEXuqdEGLNPN9Jpb4UNunLLOs8vuQs8c5eQD eVR6RlC+09xi7fVRuCy8YLNF3iOR5D+w5Y2IGFdllSL1EwrsUU790SFIv35DIUCC T5iRAclGhyQFRySD2TEC9ERUJHFR3KMcGSiQThLNQB0fP3q+/EwIs/2f6JT/dgJh MrOF5TJY1jpOlxJQePCvrzVFo7WbXdivLFy6RC9MWpJ7+4o5MUo0fSgytyV/0oi0 5n85cuSkICx9qKJc5RTyH9PZ+ik7BrhMzu5d3ox55wKPMLY0gIlXINQ9pnBXVH6C Rb1yWLuGsclF8Otqyg5ChNURz+KQ5CslwTwVg98YCdCnP35PO+Re0znfY4BiHQHS VXY+h1wO3kL9xg3GMx4xo+g3+ipurrdDysAivdHaLUn+xTwe6otwyBwezyHI/+ek 1mYPWhdjyl0XQIREid9p =f3xy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----