[pp.int.general] Media release: Brazilian Pirate Party publishes Statute and Program in the Federal Official Diary

[SecretariaGeral Piratas]

                  Brazilian Pirate Party publishes Statute and Program in
the Federal Official Diary

Brasilia, September 2nd, 2013 - The Pirate Party of Brazil (PIRATAS) began
today the second phase of  its formalization process, with the publication
of the Party's Statute and Program in the Federal Official Diary (DOU). In
the coming days, the party will start the civil registry in notary's
office, fulfilling the requirement of the electoral law to start collecting
roughly 500,000 valid signatures (about 0.5% of the voters in the last
election).

The publication in the DOU totalled R$ 11,844.30 (U$ 5.000), amount raised
by an online crowdfunding campaign which collected  R$ 21,163.70 (U$ 8.900)
donated by 420 people. At the Pirate Party's website the complete list of
donors and their respective values is available for viewing (
http://partidopirata.org/doacoes). It is the first time a Brazilian party
is built on the Internet and has obtained resources through collective
financing.

*About the Pirate Party and its operations in Brazil *

The Pirate Party is a voluntary association of people seeking to uphold the
defense for human rights, freedom of expression, the civil right to privacy
of information in all media, transmission and storage mediums, the free
acquisition and sharing of knowledge and technologies. Towards this goal it
promotes actions that contribute to social, political, institutional,
economic, legal and cultural changes to ensure the free and unhindered
propagation of information, strengthening the construction and development
of a more transparent and fair democratic state .

The Brazilian Pirate Party was founded in July 2012, in the city of Recife,
where about 120 pirates gathered for two days at their first convention,
which ratified the 5 year collaborative construction and formalized
official documents, such as the Party Statute, Program and  guidelines.

Internationally, the Pirate Party is a political organization with official
registered operations in 32 countries and has elected representatives in
Germany, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic, Finland,
Croatia and Iceland.

For more information:
Site: http://partidopirata.org
E-mail: contato at partidopirata.org
Twitter: https://twitter.com/PartidoPirataBR
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PartidoPirata.BR
           *CC 2013 Partido Pirata, Creative Commons*
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