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This week's Pirate Party of the Week is the Pirate Party of the Netherlands, which on June 9th will participate in national elections.

We encourage everyone to promote the link to the Questions and Answers, link to the website and Youtube/Facebook account of the Party of the Week and publish the questions/answers on your website/blog, on your Facebook page or print it out and show it to your friends.

Get to know Pirate Parties from all over the world!

This week's Pirate Party of the Week is the Pirate Party of the Czech Republic, which on May 29th will participate in national elections.

We encourage everyone to promote the link to the Questions and Answers, link to the website and Youtube/Facebook account of the Party of the Week and publish the questions/answers on your website/blog, on your Facebook page or print it out and show it to your friends.

Get to know Pirate Parties from all over the world!

Today the Pirate Parties International starts a new series on its website called "Party of the Week". Each week we will present one Pirate Party from one country, ask questions, publish the answers, promote their website, twitter accounts etc.

We encourage everyone to promote the link to the Questions and Answers, link to the website and Twitter account of the Party of the Week and publish the questions/answers on your website/blog, on your Facebook page or print it out and show it to your friends. Each week a new Party will answer to the questions and give you the opportunity to get to know more about their aims, their message, inner structure, or simply if and where you can join or donate.

Get to know Pirate Parties from all over the world!

The series starts with the Pirate Party UK (Twitter), which on May 6th will participate for the first time in national elections.

This weekend from April 16th to 18th, delegates of Pirate Parties from 22 countries created the Pirate Parties International (PPI). The aim of this international organization of Pirate Parties is to help establish, to support and promote, and to maintain communication and cooperation between Pirate Parties around the world.

The Swiss Pirate Party has recently published their STOPP-ACTA website. This is a portal designed to inform us about and coordinate our efforts against this "international trade agreement" that proposes significant infringements of our civil freedoms.

As a first step in registering your opposition to this treaty, please sign the e-petition and be one more to say NO to the governments that are promoting this monster in their attempt to control the Internet and our modern methods of communication, sharing knowledge and relating to each.

You can also join their forum or use their "Tell a Friend" system to let people know what ACTA is and why we must resist it. Let us gather facts about this agreement and inform the public so everyone can make their own opinion.

• German version: http://www.stopp-acta.info/
• English version: http://www.stop-acta.info

On January 19th through 21st, 2010, the first elections of the Russian Pirate Party's leadership have taken place. The eight members of the party's founding committee voted through the party's public forum, according to the election rules set up previously.

The newly elected chairman is Stanislav Shakirov, recently turned 23, a MSU mathematics graduate from Moscow who runs a small IT consultancy. He received 7 of 8 votes. Edgar Voskresensky from Moscow became vice-chairman. The founding commitee decided unanimously that all its members should join the Party Council.

Currently the Russian Pirate Party is an unofficial organization and part of the international Pirate movement.

The Pirate Party Austria regrets to announce, that its founder and
former board member, Florian Hufsky, deceased on December 16th .

Thanks to Florian Hufsky's pioneering spirit, Austria was one of the
first countries with an own pirate party, founded in summer 2006. Back
then he was one of the few brave people, who stood up against those,
who want to enforce economic or governmental interests by sacrificing
civil rights.

Florian's enthusiasm was a huge inspiration for pirates on a national,
as well as on an international level. The pirate movement would not be
the same today, if it wasn't for Florian's untiring support at the

Hi PP-leaders,

We in PPI have been made aware of the PP's initiatives to fight ACTA
such as the Swedish, Australian, Austrian and German press releases.
There are also initiatives for national taskforce in Germany etc. so
we in PPI see this as a international issue due to the scope of ACTA
where me and Laurent Le Besnerais
(laurent.lebesnerais@pp-international.net) are leaders of a taskforce
against ACTA. We started working on a DRAFT for a action plan against
ACTA and we want your feedback before proceeding (publish etc.) so
please have a look at the DRAFT or send to your national ACTA

The German Pirates were able to score 2% at the
parliamentary elections.
Despite a historically low turnout of only 70.8% this still
means over 845.000 votes for the Pirate Party.
Also via the reimbursement of expenses coming from the state
they could now get about 720.000€,
depending on the funding they can raise independently.

The Swedes are first to acknowledge, already having pirate Members
of the European Parliament. Germany joined as the irreversible
information revolution is growing stronger. More than 35 pirate
parties already sprung up all over the world. Next time, the torrent
of information revolution will inundate even more land.