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Party Updates Edit this section May 22nd PNC Meeting March 6th PNC Meeting February 6th PNC Meeting January 23th No Meeting January 9th No Meeting December 26th No Meeting November 21th No Meeting November 17th Reddit AMA November 14th PNC Elections November 7th PNC officer debate October 24th PNC Meeting October 17th PNC Meeting October 10th PNC Meeting PNC Bylaws adopted October 3th PNC Meeting cancelled this week September 26th PNC Meeting September 19th PNC Meeting September 12th PNC Meeting September 5th PNC Meeting August 29th PNC Meeting August 22nd PNC Meeting August 15th PNC Meeting August 8st PNC Meeting August 1st PNC Meeting July 25th PNC Meeting PNC Constitution was adopted July 18th PNC Meeting July 11th PNC Meeting June 28th 2012 PNC Constitution Due - Help out here. Due date extended to July 26th June 27th PNC Meeting June 20th PNC Meeting June 13th PNC Meeting June 6th PNC Meeting May 23rd PNC Meeting May 16th PNC Meeting May 9th PNC Meeting May 2st PNC Meeting May 1st IRC Meeting April 25th PNC meeting Minutes before this point were lost during a move to a new host. Sorry for the inconvenience. January 22nd USPP Book will be released to the public January 17th IRC Meeting January 1st USPP Book will be finalized and published December 20th IRC Meeting December 13th IRC Meeting December 6th IRC Meeting December 1st Foreword edits for the USPP book due November 29th IRC Meeting November 22nd IRC Meeting November 15th IRC Meeting November 8th IRC Meeting November 5th All essay entries due for the Pirate Party Book

Political News Edit this section December 20th Congress is abandoning the 5th amendment (Article) November 26th Supreme Court rejects plea to ban taping of Illinois police (Article) November 15th Obama secretly signed a cybersecurity directive (Article) November 6th President Obama is reelected to office October 26th The FISA amendments allowing for warrantless wiretapping have gone before the Supreme Court (Article) October 11th Activist is jailed without charge for remaining silent during a grand jury (Article) October 9th The Supreme Court declined to hear a telecom privacy invasion lawsuit due to a retroactive protection law passed by Congress in 2008 (Article) October 3rd The Federal Appeals Court stayed the injunction on the NDAA's indefinite detention clause. (Article) A Senate panel found anti-terror data-sharing centers are useless (Article) August 16th US Court upholds patent law allowing "isolated" genes to be patented. (Article) August 15th The US Circuit Court of Appeals in United States vs. Skinner declared that tracking via cell phone GPS falls under "stored communications" and doesn't require a warrant. (Article) July 19th S.3414 Introduced (govtrack Text) This is a new less destructive form of CISPA, but it still requires work to become an acceptable bill. More about it by the EFF. August 2nd Failed Cloture June 8th A US Judge shot down a case between Apple and Google calling the US patent system "dysfunctional" (Article)

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