[pp.int.general] Pirates de Catalunya is running for the elections again! #DretADecidirhoTOT Please help us. :)

Thu Nov 8 10:05:13 CET 2012

Congrats, it's a great video. Thanks for keeping us posted it's really
exciting to see how energetic and committed you are about the election.
I am absolute certain that Barcelona is just waiting for a strong pirate
voice in parliament :)

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 9:13 AM, David Arcos <david.arcos at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> We are proud to announce that Pirates de Catalunya is running again for
> elections!
> The 25th of November there will be elections for the Catalan Parliament.
> And there will be pirate ballots in all provinces.  :)
>
> We have 2 years and 1 month of life, and it's already our 4th election!
> Let's show you some context, and then we'll ask for your help ;)
>
>
> 1) *Enjoy our campaign video!*
>
> We just published it. It's subtitled in 10 languages :)
>
> *"Dret a decidir. A decidir-ho tot! #DretADecidirhoTOT"*
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58KNlYRUtPc
>
>
> Please share it using this hashtag: *#DretADecidirhoTOT<https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%23dretadecidirhotot>
> *
> - https://www.facebook.com/pirata.cat/posts/407156269352833
> - https://twitter.com/partit_pirata/status/266450234358501378
> - https://plus.google.com/u/0/112149620641776669374/posts/7npf3WpdQLQ
>
> Thanks to all the pirates who translated the subtitles in a record time!
> If your language isn't there, please please contact us!
>
>
> 2) New requirement: collecting signatures ("Avales")
>
> In summary:
> - A new law was passed last summer that forced all parties without
> representation to gather the backing signatures of 0,1% of the census at
> General elections. So we had 19 days to collect 5.500 valid signatures.
> - This year (Autonomic Elections), by "mistake" of the Catalan Government,
> all parties got wrong information about the signatures requisite. In
> Galicia and Basque Country it hasn't been necessary to collect signatures
> at all, and the official Catalan election's website wrongly informed (from
> 3rd to 10th of October) that it wasn't necessary to collect them either.
> - "Suddenly", on 10th of October, they changed the content of the website
> without any notification to the parties that had already registered to
> participate. On day 10th we asked the Central Authority for Elections
> (Junta Electoral Central) about this requisite.
> - On day 12th (a bank holiday), the JEC published on the government's
> official bulletin that it was mandatory to collect those signatures and
> that the deadline wouldn't be moved, it would be the 22nd of October anyway.
>
> So we had to collect the 5.500 signatures in half the time. Yay!
>
> Thanks to the dedication and hard work of our members, *we succeeded and
> gathered >9.000 signatures*, doubling our signature collection rate from
> last year.  :D
>
> Once again, we'll be running for campaign!
>
>
> 3) Political background
>
> In our last campaign (20th of November of 2011) we got 21.771 votes for
> the Spanish Congress (0.6%) and 32.361 for the Spanish Senate (1.29%):
>
> http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_de_Catalunya#Elecciones_generales_espanyoles_de_2011
>
> We're experiencing the most harsh environment about *secessionist/unionist
> * topics ever seen in Catalonia, an issue completely outside of our key
> points of interest. As we don't play neither card, we expect to loose some
> of our former voters, up to a 20-30%, in favor of some identity-driven
> party.
>
> However we hope to be able to compensate this with our most aggressive
> campaign ever,
> the extra-media attention that we've got this year with some of our
> campaigns (#MegaComplaint, the PP-EU meeting, stopping mortgage
> evictions, and #Parents2Parents), the biggest budget we've ever had, an
> improved organization, and some upcoming breaking news and legal tricks
> that you'll enjoy. ;)
>
>
> 4) Please help us!
>
> *- Social networks (Trending Topics)*
> Every campaign we try (and usually achieve) some Twitter #TrendingTopic at
> Spanish  level. We'd love to try it harder this time. Would you please help
> us achieve a WorldWide Trending Topic?
> If you can help, please contact us at partit at pirata.cat and we'll add you
> to an international pirate activists newsletter, to be re-used when other
> PP's run for campaign. :)
>
> *- International movement*
> As this campaign is so polarized, we need to break-through with topics
> outside of this axis. *Our international movement* can play a strategic
> role, as we're one of the very few international parties here.
> We need you to let the Catalan citizens know that the pirates are a
> fast-rising worldwide movement!
>
> *- Crowdfunding ;)*
> We've raised almost 5.000 € in 15 days, and we expect to be able to raise
> at least 4.000€ more in the next weeks. This is twice our budget in our
> last election campaign, 372 days ago.
> We are looking for contributions: http://pirata.cat/donatius/
>
> *If you would like to help us, please contribute at **http://pirata.cat*<http://pirata.cat/>
> * ;)*
> *IBAN: ES86 1491 0001 2120 1223 8628*
>
> As we believe in total transparency, all our numbers are publicly
> available here: http://pirata.cat/comptes/
>
> *- Recycle successful viral media and Campaigns*
> If your pirate party has made some Internet/street actions with good
> feedback, posters, images, viral-media, campaign videos, leaflets, bumpers,
> T-shirts or whatever, and you know where can we find the sources to adapt
> them or how to contact the organizers, please let us know at:
> partit at pirata.cat
>
> *- ????*
> If you have tips, advices, suggestions, we'll love to read them, you can
> write as well to: partit at pirata.cat
>
> Please, help us make it possible. Every pirate party victory is a victory
> for all!!
>
> Salut i rom!
>
> Kenneth, Muriel & David
>
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>
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