[pp.int.general] Iceland and International Politics

[Chr1s Shea7s]

As an aside, for which I'm not sure if this relates, but Icelandic
people don't have a word for "pirate." The closest translation that
I've been told is "sea mugger". There are people who support the PP
movement, but having an PP organization might be difficult because of
this linguistic issue.

On Icesave, there is a good blog post written up by Birgitta Jónsdóttir:
http://joyb.blogspot.com/2011/04/why-i-said-no-to-icesave.html

Birgitta is a member of the political movement "The Movement" and is
the lady in parliament who helped draft the IMMI framework. She's also
an ex-wikileaks volunteer, for those of you who haven't heard of her.
Following her on Twitter is very informative.
https://twitter.com/#!/birgittaj


On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Aza <rata_0071 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Isn't there any pirate party or individual in iceland that we know of?
> otherwise the PPI could issue a press release inviting the icelandic pirates
> to organize into a political party that could or not be a pirate party.
>
> -r
>
> 2011/4/10 NingúnOtro <ningunotro at hotmail.com>:
>> Iceland votes NO 57,7% against 42,3% in the second ICESAVE referendum
>> held yesterday.
>>
>> They may need our help if they are to be able to resist a third time.
>>
>>
>> El sáb, 09-04-2011 a las 13:42 +0200, NingúnOtro escribió:
>>> Do we have any Pirates at all in  Tortuga Iceland ?
>>>
>>> Just in case nobody had noticed, the Icelandic people are voting the
>>> second ICESAVE referendum today.
>>>
>>> Would it not be usefull to launch Pirate Party Iceland and help it to
>>> collect the benefits of global dissatisfaction with the existing
>>> political parties?
>>>
>>> Maybe even Jon Gnarr (the Major of Reykjavik, elected through an
>>> improvised parody of a party (The best Party) for this sole occasion,
>>> might want to join a wider movement, and the grassroots "The Movement"
>>> could be approached.
>>>
>>> We should not leave them alone as they struggle to defend their basic
>>> rights from an agression we are going to suffer too soon. We might
>>> regret not to have set a precedent to build upon.
>>>
>>> Many countries with shaky political situations have statutory or
>>> advanced elections showing on the radar...
>>>
>>> ... we should raise international awareness to the Pirate Movement and
>>> use it to help local populations to find an exit strategy to the
>>> predatory tactics of old-style politics.
>>>
>>>
>>> NingúnOtro.
>>>
>>
>>
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