[pp.int.general] I had this dream once...

[Mozart Palmer]

I'm going to focus on a very very narrow part of what you said because I
love the general gist of it all.

*Yes, I know this is not politics, but activism.*
*
*
Pirate Party Australia has always been, and I hope always will be, an
activist organisation that competes elections. We are a political party who
does activism. When we aren't competing elections, we're organising
protests, attending briefings, making requests for documents, writing
submissions to Government.

I think a lot of respect is lost by existing parties precisely because they
are not activists. They are complacent, believing competing for votes every
n years is all that matters. I fully support the duality of activist and
political organisation, and I think taking initiatives like this — or at
the very least investigating their viability — is exactly what Pirate
Parties should be doing. It's one thing to talk the talk, another to walk
the walk :-)


On 30 June 2013 06:37, <pirate at valio.ch> wrote:

> ...of pirate woodstock
>
> a festival...
> ...whose infrastructure is crowdfounded
> ...where all financial requirements are openly visibly for everyone
> ...where there is no clear line inbetween musicians and visitors, but
> where everyone shall bring their cc0-ed [0] music, share it over public
> wifi, remix with other and publish it
> ...where everyone gets the chance by a random number generator to promote
> their music (or art) in a way that ze finds suitable (pirate radio, stage
> w/ streaming, remixed video, ...) and gets rewarded by a
> Flattr-like-mechanism
> ...which does not take place in a single country, but several; none (or at
> least: not all) centrally organized if possible; by applying to the rules
> stated above, you get on the stream channels of others and are allowed to
> call yourself part of the event
> ...that is as pirate as possible without getting way to illegal
>
> because
> ...we don't need huge corporations to organize huge festivals
> ...we don't need intermediaries that take profits in an amount that is
> hardly eligible
> ...we don't need anyone to tell who is worthy and who isn't depending on
> current mainstream traits, which are nothing but remixes as all art [1]
> without someone else playing a similar piece of music [2]
> ...we want a world where you get a chance as an artist and are not
> constantly told that your income problem is primary piracy (instead of
> obscurity [3]), are often exploited (even if you're on the chart list [4])
> and are told you are producing "content" [5]
> ...we want a world that is united in the cyberspace [6] and one is not
> intended to be excluded by economical means
> ...we need a counterculture instead of just reacting to news and speaking
> about how we want the world
>
> Yes, I know this is not politics, but activism.
> Yes, I know there are initiatives at a small level, which are hardly
> noticed.
> Yes, I know this is probably beyond our possibilities and you'll call me
> an utopian fool.
>
> But if we are to follow the way down, I'm afraid we loose the fun.
> The fun that is necessary to bear with politics, not to forget why we are
> here [7] and not getting just another movement that becomes crusted very
> soon.
>
> -pat
>
> [0] Creative Commons - CC0 license http://creativecommons.org/**
> publicdomain/zero/1.0/ <http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/>
> [1] Ferguson - Everything is a remix http://everythingisaremix.**info/<http://everythingisaremix.info/>
> [2] The Axis of Awesome - 4 Chords http://www.youtube.com/watch?**
> v=oOlDewpCfZQ <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOlDewpCfZQ>
> [3] Doctorow - the problem isn't piracy. the problem is obscurity.
> http://www.write4kids.com/**blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/**05/doctorow.pdf<http://www.write4kids.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/doctorow.pdf>
> [4] Love - Courtney Love does the math http://www.salon.com/2000/06/**
> 14/love_7/ <http://www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/>
> [5] Stallman - Words to avoid - Content http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/**
> words-to-avoid.html#Content<http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Content>
> [6] Barlow - A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
> https://projects.eff.org/~**barlow/Declaration-Final.html<https://projects.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html>
> [7] Falkvinge - why are you here? http://www.youtube.com/watch?**
> v=nCbRX1YEqrs <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCbRX1YEqrs>
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