[pp.int.general] Nederland Elections?

[Nicolas Sahlqvist]

Wesley,

It is good to learn from your mistakes, but it is not your fault that you
had an extremely short preparation time of a little over 3 months (111 days)
due to the unforeseen collapse of the Dutch cabinet on the 20th of February:

http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2010/02/cabinet_collapses_as_labour_pu_1.php

I think we should also learn by our successes so let's look at there
positive track record. In the week that followed the collapse of the
cabinet, the Dutch Pirates (Piratenpartij) came up from there dormant rest
and first questioned there chances of even being able to participate. They
decided at the end of February that it was better to take the chance then
letting it pass:

http://lists.piratenpartij.nl/pipermail/algemeen/2010-February/000087.html

There activity practically exploded within the party and on the 4th of March
they asked for donations on a international front for a total of 12200 Euro
in order to officially register the party and participate in the elections:

http://lists.pirateweb.net/pipermail/pp.international.general/2010-March/006086.html

It proven much more effective to get local donations and they worked hard on
getting there administration properly setup (setting up the board, electing
a chairman, starting weekly national meetings AFK etc.) + meetings online
and on the 11th they officially registered the party:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxW5WR39BNA

They worked hard on enforcing there local, youth organisation and activist
movement. The election campaign always had highest priority and several
excellent campaign clips were made, with the last one from a established
artist promoting there message in his video / song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXPLJJO9w5M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEdvHpLXIyM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_yPvdSZYlk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvFqUchqToU

There activity sent such shock waves through the movement and Rickard
Falkvinge, the founder of the first pirate party (Piratpartiet in Sweden),
visited the Netherlands on the 7th of June to give them a boost and follow
there potentially historical success on site:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqeGCr5RD2Y

So why did they not get a seat?

It takes a lot of time to get our issues into the non pirate members head as
the lady in the clip mentioned. She was unsure what Piratenpartij stood for
since there message had not reached her. I am not too surprised since I even
meet people in Sweden who signed up for Piratpartiet believing it was just
some online community and others that was not aware that they could vote for
Piratpartiet in the upcoming election on the 19th of September.

The established parties driving issues like job, childcare, healthcare,
security and environment etc. have a commercial propaganda machine driving
TV channels and newspapers that we are struggling with activists to beat.
The Dutch pirates only had 111 days to get it rolling so it would have been
a miracle to get a seat to be honest, but everyone in the movement were
still hoping for it although it is normal for pirate parties to get a
fraction of a percentage in there first election. It is however necessary to
keep on the track and it motivates activists to start up parties around the
globe.

I hope that Piratenpartij will not allow itself to get dormant again and
forget all the potential activists among the 10413 voters (0.1%). They now
have to find those activists in order to boost the movement to get there
message out long before the next election that will probably be in just a
couple of years rather then 4 years considering the stability of the last
two coalitions in Netherlands:

http://www.verkiezingensite.nl/tk2010/

We pirates need to be seen more, not just be on the streets a few months
before the elections, rather promote our ideas through all channels
available to us in the logical and physical world as much as we can or we
will end up becoming forgotten long before the next election comes up. We
need to discuss how to get our message out, the importance of all our
communication channels such as being seen on the streets, letters to news
editors, opinion articles and blogs etc. We are rather good with the later
ones while many of us tends to be a bit anti-social nerds so kinda shy of
meeting people and there arguments in the physical world so I tend to think
this is where we need to improve our communication skills in order to expose
our message.


- Nicolas


On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Wesley Schwengle <wesley at schwengle.net>wrote:

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> >> how did it go?
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> > 0.1% (10.413)
> > http://www.verkiezingensite.nl/tk2010/
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> http://depiratenpartij.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/to-fail-or-not-to-fail-piratenpartij-2-0/
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> I hope to be able to post a more detailed overview of the Dutch campaign
> so all of you can learn from our mistakes.
>
> Cheers,
> Wesley
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> Wesley Schwengle, http://piratenpartij.nl
> Piratenpartij Nederland / Pirate Party The Netherlands
> E: wesley.schwengle at piratenpartij.nl / wesley at schwengle.net
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