For journalists who work online, the most dangerous assumption is that press freedom is territorial. It is not. In the digital age, journalists publish globally by default, and states increasingly assert criminal jurisdiction globally as well.
The recent assertion of U.S. authority to seize (kidnapping is such an “ugly” word) Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro illustrates a broader and deeply unsettling truth: Once a state claims jurisdiction, the limiting factor is not law, but power. For journalists, that reality has been quietly unfolding for decades.
Extraterritorial jurisdiction and the press
Domestic law (and law enforcement) does not stop at the border. Most countries reserve the “right” to prosecute those outside the country whose actions are directed inside the country, or which impact that country’s laws, citizens, or property.
The concept of “extraterritorial” jurisdiction of domestic law was recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1922 in United States v. Bowman, where the court noted that certain criminal statutes apply extraterritorially by their nature when they protect national interests. This is commonly called the “protective” principle of extraterritorial application of law. In the cyber era, courts have applied this doctrine aggressively to online conduct, including speech, publication, and data access.
Journalists are not exempt. While the First Amendment provides robust protection against U.S. prosecution for publishing truthful information of public concern, those protections are not portable. They do not bind foreign courts, nor do they prevent foreign states from asserting jurisdiction over content accessible within their borders.
Journalists prosecuted for online speech abroad
One of the earliest and most influential cases illustrating this problem is LICRA v. Yahoo! Inc., a 2000 French case where the court asserted jurisdiction over Yahoo, a U.S. company, for hosting Nazi memorabilia auctions accessible from France, where French law prohibited the display of Nazi materials.
Although Yahoo ultimately resisted enforcement in U.S. courts, the case established the principle that online publication can subject speakers and publishers to the criminal law of any country where the content is accessible. Countries routinely attempt to enforce their own laws — terrorism, defamation, etc., over the activities of journalists outside their borders.
For example, in Akçam v. Turkey, the European Court of Human Rights recognized the chilling effect of Turkey’s criminal laws on speech, including academic and journalistic commentary. But Turkish prosecutors continue to attempt to use Interpol red notices — which alert law enforcement agencies worldwide to locate and detain an individual — to have foreign journalists prosecuted.
In 2023, Russian authorities issued criminal charges against foreign reporters for coverage of the war in Ukraine, alleging dissemination of “false information” about the Russian military — conduct that would be core protected speech in the United States — in violation of the Russian criminal code.
If other countries adopt the Maduro precedent, a foreign country can enforce its laws against U.S. journalists simply by force or power.
China has attempted to use Article 12 of the Cybersecurity Law of the PRC to prosecute those who disseminate online content that “endangers national security” or “damages the public interest” of China. Foreign journalists have been detained, expelled, or prosecuted for online reporting hosted on servers outside China but accessible within it. The Maduro regime itself cracked down on journalists within its own borders, prosecuting them for crimes like terrorism, incitement, and conspiracy.
The United States recently proposed to require those entering the country to provide border agents with access to five years of their social media history, threatening to use this information to ban, arrest, detain, or punish those whose history indicates some vaguely defined “un-American” political persuasion. Moreover, the U.S. government spent years attempting to obtain jurisdiction over Australian WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for his publication from abroad of materials the U.S. government claimed could not be published under U.S. law.
There is no ‘there there’
Typically, if speech is permitted (or protected) in the jurisdiction in which it is uttered or published, but prohibited or regulated in another country, the “injured” country has few remedies to go after the speaker/publisher. While it can charge the person with a crime and request that they be extradited, extradition treaties typically require that the conduct be considered “criminal” in both countries. And many countries (including the U.S.) do not typically extradite their own citizens.
Add to that the fact that most extradition treaties also permit the host country to resist extradition for “political speech” or “political activity,” and that an extradition request is subject to both a legal and political process. In addition, the likelihood that a U.S. journalist would be extradited to China, Turkey, or another country for First Amendment-protected activity is small — not nonexistent, but small.
Countries may, however, consider the activities of journalists to constitute violations of surveillance, theft, intellectual property, threat, defamation, or espionage laws, increasing the chance that they will be treated as nonpolitical offenses. Put simply, we extradite whom we want to countries we want for purposes we want. And that’s what other countries do as well.
Kidnapping, rendition, and the Ker–Frisbie Doctrine
What the Maduro case shows is that governments (including the U.S. government) reserve either the right or the pure ability to invade the territorial sovereignty of other nations to obtain jurisdiction over those (including heads of state) we believe have violated U.S. law. The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed the authority of the U.S. to “kidnap” persons overseas and bring them to U.S. courts — and presumably the opposite applies as well.
Under what is called the Ker-Frisbie Doctrine, the domestic courts do not look at the way the court obtained jurisdiction over the defendant (unless this “shocks the conscience”), but simply look at whether the defendant is physically present.
In the 1886 case Ker v. Illinois, the Supreme Court held that a defendant abducted from Peru could still be tried in U.S. court. It affirmed the principle in 1952 in Frisbie v. Collins. In the 1992 case United States v. Alvarez-Machain, after U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents abducted a doctor in Mexico and brought him to trial in the U.S., the court noted that the U.S./Mexico extradition treaty was just “one way” to obtain jurisdiction over a person. Apparently, kidnapping is another. As a federal appellate court made clear five years later in United States v. Noriega, this principle applies to foreign heads of state as well.
What this means for journalists
For journalists, the implication is sobering. Publishing an article, hosting leaked documents, or reporting on state misconduct online can expose a reporter to criminal liability in jurisdictions with radically different views of press freedom.
The fact that the work is lawful — and even celebrated — in the United States offers no protection abroad. We saw that when Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was abducted and dismembered by the Saudi government at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.
What typically “saves” journalists is that foreign countries may fear invading the territorial sovereignty of the host nation. This is why most prosecutions of journalists occur in the country in which they are operating. Russia’s prosecutions of Alsu Kurmasheva, a Russian-American journalist working for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and Wall Street Journal correspondent Evan Gershkovich follow this pattern, as does the Turkish government’s detention of freelance journalist Lindsey Snell in Turkey in 2016.
In a networked world, journalism is inherently transnational, but press freedom is not.
However, if a journalist can be lured into a compliant country, or if other countries adopt the Maduro precedent, a foreign country can enforce its laws on people in the U.S. simply by force or power. Instructive is the case of Henry Liu, a Chinese American critic of the Taiwanese government, which hired Taiwanese gang members to kill him in California, or the attempted murder in Brooklyn, New York, of Iranian-American journalist Masih Alinejad.
While journalists and others may be protected by the First Amendment, that protection typically applies only if they are physically in the United States, and assumes that the U.S. has no interest in extraditing the journalist to another country. With the Maduro precedent extending the authority to kidnap those who we perceive to have violated the law of one nation, other nations can be expected to follow suit. It’s no longer about what White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller called “international niceties” but is about “a world, … the real world, … that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power.”
Law as narrative, power as reality
The lesson for journalists is not that the law is meaningless, but that it is secondary. Power determines who is charged, who is seized, and who is left alone. Law supplies justification after the fact.
In a networked world, journalism is inherently transnational, but press freedom is not. For journalists who work online, the question is no longer merely, “Is this lawful where I am?” It is, “Who might claim jurisdiction, and what can they do to enforce it?”
The answer, increasingly, depends less on courts than on geopolitics.
In cyberspace, publication is global. So is exposure.
Welcome to 2026. Rümeysa Öztürk has now been facing deportation for 290 days for co-writing an op-ed the government didn’t like, and journalist Ya’akub Vijandre remains locked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement over social media posts about issues he reported on. Read on for more on the year’s turbulent start for press freedom.
House committee votes to subpoena journalist for Venezuela reporting
A motion introduced Jan. 7 by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., to subpoena journalist Seth Harp passed the House Oversight Committee in a bipartisan voice vote. Luna accused Harp of “leaking classified intel about Operation Absolute Resolve, including doxxing a Delta Force commander.”
The next day, Luna wrote a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi calling for a criminal investigation of Harp. The journalist, however, merely reported the name and publicly available online biography of the commander involved in the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
In a statement we issued with Defending Rights & Dissent and the First Amendment Foundation following the subpoena, Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) Chief of Advocacy Seth Stern explained that, “Identifying government officials by name is not doxxing or harassment, no matter how many times Trump allies say otherwise.” Everyone who supported Luna’s motion — including Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia, the ranking member of the oversight committee — should be ashamed.
Actor and activist John Cusack, a founding board member of FPF, spoke to Columbia Journalism Review about why more news outlets need to remove paywalls for reporting based on Freedom of Information Act requests.
“There’s an irony in the fact that FOIA-based reporting often ends up behind a paywall, because the public owns government records. We fund their creation through taxes, and we fund the agencies that produce them. We fund the FOIA office that processes the disclosure request—the entire apparatus is built on the premise that this information belongs to us,” Cusack said.
He’s not just making a moral case, though. As Cusack notes, outlets like Wired and 404 Media have seen subscriptions surge after unpaywalling their public records reporting.
The document giving ICE 80 million Medicaid patients’ data
Last year, FPF and 404 Media sued the Department of Homeland Security for a copy of a data-sharing agreement enabling Immigration and Customs Enforcement to receive personal data of Medicaid patients after the agency failed to turn it over in response to FOIA requests. A U.S. attorney working on that case then flagged that the document had quietly been released in a separate lawsuit.
At the end of December, a judge ruled that the Trump administration could resume sharing much of the data after it had been blocked from doing so, Politico reported. That means ICE can use Medicaid data in deportation cases starting Jan. 6, Politico added.
It’s easy to understand why the outrage over CBS News’ recent self-censorship and propaganda — from spiking stories to airing segments “saluting” the politicians it’s supposed to scrutinize — has largely been directed at CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss and her boss, Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison.
But, as Stern wrote for The Contrarian, let’s not forget who first sold out CBS News: former Paramount Chair Shari Redstone.
Transparency did not delay justice for Kelly or Epstein. Prosecutors did
One of the prosecutors who helped put sexual predator and R&B star R. Kelly behind bars wrote that releasing the Jeffrey Epstein documents without extensive redactions would hinder future prosecutions. Transparency, argued Elizabeth Geddes, would interfere with investigators gaming out 3D chess moves to build airtight cases against Epstein’s associates.
Most Americans, however, don’t share her confidence in the system that packs private prisons with small-time offenders while the Epsteins and Kellys of the world walk free for decades. In fact, there’s an excellent chance both of them would still be preying on young girls from Chicago to the U.S. Virgin Islands if not for the transparency forced by dogged journalism.
Stern and Jim DeRogatis, the reporter who broke the R. Kelly story, wrote about how misguided Geddes’ take and others like it are.
The Associated Press The year 2025 was a dangerous one for journalists in the U.S., reports the AP, citing our U.S. Press Freedom Tracker. There were at least 170 assaults on journalists last year, 94% of them at the hands of law enforcement.
Free Speech Center “By any measure, 2025 was a stressful year for those who worry about the First Amendment and its status as the bedrock of American liberty.”
Columbia Journalism Review Journalists who experience press freedom abuses should speak out and document the incidents on social media, in their publications, and via the Tracker, FPF Deputy Director of Advocacy Adam Rose told CJR.
Straight Arrow News “There’s a reason DHS and its counterparts keep getting humiliated in court when they pretend to be victims,” Rose told Straight Arrow News. “They’re losing in front of juries, judges are calling them not credible.”
404 Media and Freedom of the Press Foundation Sue DHS
Last week Freedom of the Press Foundation and 404 Media filed a lawsuit against the multiple parts of the U.S. government demanding they hand over a copy of an agreement that shares the personal data of nearly 80 million Medicaid patients with ICE. The data sharing marked a watershed moment for ICE and its access to highly sensitive data that is ordinarily siloed off from the agency. We believe it’s important for the public to see this unprecedented data sharing agreement for themselves.
As the Associated Press wrote when it first reported on the data sharing agreement between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the agreement will give ICE the ability to find “the location of aliens.” The data shared includes home addresses and ethnicities, according to the Associated Press.
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Both Freedom of the Press Foundation and 404 Media filed similar Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with DHS and CMS seeking a copy of the agreement. Neither agency provided the requested records in time, so we have now filed the lawsuit. In 404 Media’s case, CMS acknowledged the request but has not provided the records, and DHS did not even acknowledge the request at all.
404 Media’s request asked for a copy of the specific agreement, and if the agencies were unable to locate it, to alternatively provide copies of all agreements between DHS and CMS from this year.
“Despite having received the FOIA requests, and despite their obligations under the law, Defendants have failed to notify Plaintiffs of the scope of documents that they will produce or the scope of documents that they plan to withhold in response to the FOIA requests,” the lawsuit reads. playlist.megaphone.fm?p=TBIEA2… Freedom of the Press Foundation is a non-profit organization that monitors press freedom issues in the U.S. and trains journalists on how to keep themselves and their sources safe. It regularly sues the U.S. government for access to records.
The data sharing agreement is just one of a growing list of ways that ICE is sourcing highly sensitive, and sometimes legally protected, information as part of the Trump administration’s mass deportation effort. ProPublica reported on the vast system the IRS is building to share millions of taxpayers’ data with ICE. 404 Media previously reported ICE has gained access to ISO Claimsearch, a massive insurance and medical bill database to find deportation targets. The database is nearly all encompassing and contains details on more than 1.8 billion insurance claims and 58 million medical bills.
Separately, 404 Media filed a lawsuit against ICE in September for access to the agency’s $2 million spyware contract.
A motion introduced today by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., to subpoena journalist Seth Harp passed unanimously in the House Oversight Committee. Luna accused Harp of “leaking classified intel about Operation Absolute Resolve, including doxxing a Delta Force commander.”
The motion was apparently in response to Harp’s reporting the name and publicly available online biography of the commander involved in the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Politico reports that the subpoena appears to have arisen from an agreement between Luna and California Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia to issue a flurry of subpoenas, including some relating to Jeffrey Epstein. Garcia reportedly supported the Harp subpoena.
Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) Chief of Advocacy Seth Stern said:
“Journalists don’t work for the government and can’t ‘leak’ government information — to the contrary, it’s their job to find and publish the news, whether the government wants it made public or not. Identifying government officials by name is not doxxing or harassment, no matter how many times Trump allies say otherwise. Reporters have a constitutional right to publish even classified leaks, as long as they don’t commit any crimes to obtain them, but Harp merely published information that was publicly available about someone at the center of the world’s biggest news story. In 2024, the House unanimously passed the PRESS Act to protect journalists from subpoenas about their newsgathering. The bill died after Trump ordered the Senate to kill it on Truth Social. Apparently, so did the principles of Reps. Luna, Garcia, and their colleagues.”
Chip Gibbons, policy director at Defending Rights & Dissent, said:
“Rep. Luna’s subpoena of investigative reporter Seth Harp is clearly designed to chill and intimidate a journalist doing some of the most significant investigative reporting on U.S. Special Forces. Her own statement makes clear that far from having a valid legislative purpose, she seeks to hold a journalist ‘accountable’ for what is essentially reporting she dislikes. Her rationale is based on easily debunkable disinformation. Harp did not share classified information about the U.S. regime change operation in Venezuela. And even if he had, his actions would firmly be protected by the First Amendment. This is a dangerous assault on the press freedom, as well as the U.S. people’s right to know. It is shameful it passed the committee.”
Bobby Block, executive director of Florida’s First Amendment Foundation, added:
“This is a naked attempt to intimidate a journalist for doing his job. Rep. Luna’s own words make clear this subpoena has no legitimate legislative purpose — it’s about punishing reporting she doesn’t like. That kind of abuse of power strikes at the heart of the First Amendment and threatens the public’s right to know.”
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Il regime di Teheran spegne Internet nel mezzo delle proteste e il presidente Usa Trump sta valutando una serie di possibili opzioni. Al centro del confronto anche l'uso del servizio di connettività satellitare di Elon Musk. Il blackout
By Schoresch Davoodi, Board Member of Pirate Party International, Delegate for European Policy and Member of the Foreign Policy Working Group in Pirate Party of Germany
Published in Pirate Times, January 9, 2026
The protests raging across Iran since late December 2025 lay bare the Mullah-Regime’s vulnerability—and its ruthless reliance on digital repression to survive. Born from economic desperation—galloping inflation, blackouts plunging cities into darkness, and water shortages threatening survival—these demonstrations have swiftly transcended grievances, erupting into a nationwide demand for the Islamic Republic’s downfall.
In Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz, and dozens more cities, voices rise in unison: “Death to the Dictator,” aimed squarely at Supreme Leader Khamenei. This is not transient anger but a profound revolution against a regime that lavishes billions on proxies like Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis while its people endure crumbling infrastructure and environmental collapse.
Tehran itself, once a beacon of modernity, now embodies this decay—its ground sinking, its air toxic, as I recently highlighted on X linking to a stark video: “How Tehran Became an Awful Place to Live”. From my family’s enduring resistance to tyranny and my work in the Pirate Party International (PPI), I see Iran’s crisis as inseparable from a worldwide erosion of digital freedoms: the “taming” of online activism in the West and the selective hypocrisies that fracture universal human rights.
The Digital Siege
The regime’s survival hinges on a meticulously engineered digital siege. Cloudflare and NetBlocks data confirm a 30-40% plunge in traffic, with pinpoint blackouts in hotspots and relentless VPN assaults—tools outlawed without state approval since 2024. This is no accident; it is designed to fracture coordination, bury atrocity evidence, and isolate protesters from the world, turning their fight invisible.
In my 2023 Flaschenpost interview, I exposed the regime’s relentless fabrications, mirrored by its “Axis of Autocracies” allies—Russia, China, Iran—in corrupting open discourse. They insist only “leftist” revolts are authentic, a Soviet relic I’ve repeatedly challenged, dismissing Iran’s organic uprising as foreign-orchestrated while throttling its digital pulse. Such deceit exposes a deeper rot: fierce outrage against certain censors, yet tacit tolerance when ideology aligns.
The “Taming” of Net Politics
This Iranian ordeal finds a chilling parallel in Babak Tubis’s piercing January 2, 2026, PPI piece, “The Taming of Net Politics: HateAid as a Cautionary Tale for Digital Freedom”. As my PPI colleague and Iranian-rooted advocate, Tubis reveals how grassroots digital activism surrenders to state symbiosis, losing its defiant edge.
HateAid, launched to shield hate victims, became a Digital Services Act (DSA) “Trusted Flagger,” only to incur U.S. sanctions amid transatlantic digital strife in December 2025. Tubis captures the peril:
“HateAid fits this pattern perfectly. As a state-funded organisation with accelerated flagging privileges under the DSA’s trusted-flagger framework, it has moved from grassroots support for victims of online violence into a semi-institutional role inside the regulatory apparatus.”
This exposure invites autocrats to exploit legal levers for suppression. As I questioned on X: “Is fighting online hate worth trading digital freedom for state ties & censorship tools? Pirate Parties warn: HateAid’s path shows the risks.” Western excuses for censorship—”protecting democracy” from misinformation—eerily echo the Mullahs’ blackout justifications, eroding Kantian Mündigkeit, our capacity for independent thought, in favor of technocratic overseers.
The Silence of the Left
Our Pirate heritage, forged in Enlightenment principles, demands we confront hatred without sacrificing pluralism or trading autonomy for institutional favor. In Iran, regime disinformation permeates Western channels via lobbyists and influencers, breeding unchallenged myths. I’ve long unmasked German left-wing parties—the SPD and Greens—tethered by historic bonds to the Islamic Republic, recycling Soviet narratives that undermine legitimate opposition.
The Pirate Party Hesse’s 2023 indictment, “Proteste im Iran – und die politische Linke schaut weg”, stands as a beacon: the left bypasses a truly progressive revolution it should champion, favoring doctrine over universal rights. Hesse embodies consistency, upholding digital and liberal freedoms as indivisible. By contrast, Baden-Württemberg, despite past boldness (such as their September 2024 probe of political Islam), has offered no voice on this latest surge.
These inconsistencies lay bare ethical fractures, illuminated in Hesse’s 2025 reflection by Nasrin Amirsedghi, “Freiheit, die den Hass schützt – Frankfurt und der moralische Bankrott”. It probes how assembly rights can harbor venom, bolstering democracy’s enemies much like Mullah agents exploit Western indulgence for propaganda.
A Call for Solidarity
PPI’s January 3, 2026, affirmation, “Solidarity with Iran: PPI Supports the Path to a Democratic Future”, anchors our resolve. We envision a secular democracy amplifying liberties, urging an Iranian Pirate Party for non-violent digital resistance—via tools like Starlink, long my advocacy against throttling.
The regime totters. Victory requires urgency:
Compel Elon Musk for Starlink access.
Expel regime diplomats and sanction oppressors.
Demand the Revolutionary Guards’ listing as a terrorist organization.
As I declared on X honoring Hannover’s Jina Mahsa Amini square: Freedom defies borders; we champion it everywhere. The Islamic Republic will soon be a dark footnote in the history of Iran. Democracy rises.
The Black Response will host three community dinners to share presentations on ShotSpotter surveillance devices in Cambridge. The first event will be Thursday, January 22nd at 6pm at The Community Art Center. We encourage all Pirate Party supporters to attend this presentation. The community dinner is a potluck, so please bring some food to share.
The Community Art Center is at 119 Windsor Street, Cambridge. It is a nine minute walk from Central Square and the MBTA Red Line stop there.
The second event will be on Wednesday, February 11th at CIC Cambridge. It is at 1 Broadway in Kendall Square a short walk from the MBTA Red Line stop. The third event will be in March. All events are on our calendar.
Yesterday, January 10th 2026, we held our General Assembly. For the first time since 2018, we held an on site GA meeting. We had traditionally rotated between hybrid and on site meetings, until COVID forced all of our meetings online.
The following individuals were elected as board members: Sebastian Krone (PPDE), Carlos Polo (PPCH), and Grigorii Dizer (PPRU),
The following individuals were elected as alternate board members: Lilia Kayra Kuuymcu (PPDE), Numero6 (PPDE), Bart Overkamp (PPNL), and Thomas Gaul (PPDE).
These individuals will serve 2 year terms, nad they will join the existing board members who have one year left on their term.
The opening keynote was delivered by Lilia Kayra Kuuymcu, Chair of the Pirate Party of Germany. She emphasized the importance of international Pirate cooperation at a time when digital freedoms are increasingly under threat.
We heard reports from the board, treasurer, court of arbitration, and lay auditors. Over the course of the prior year PPI was quite active with 58 published blogs and 2 published UN statements. We also for the first time in several years (again due to COVID) sent representatives to all three United Nations offices in Geneva, Vienna, New York. We also organized a workshop at the Internet Governance Forum in Oslo.
We approved a number of policies, including the reestablishment of a Working Group on AI and setting up a dedicated social media channel for discussions with our members about future policies and a policy and a motion on “Solidarity with the Iranian Freedom Movement and Against Selective Censorship in Digital Rights Advocacy”.
We also approved the following motion: “The General Assembly accepts the voting rights of all members who are present”. This motion recognizes that everyone who is a member of PPI can participate, regardless of their ability to pay membership dues. We hope this will encourage membership of Pirate parties that are not currently PPI members and to reinvigorate participation of smaller parties.
Dear All Members of Pirate Parties International and all interested parties,
The 2025-2026 PPI Winter GA will take place on Saturday, January 10th, 2026, starting at 09:00 UTC. The event will be hybrid, with some participants physically attending in Potsdam, Germany.
If representatives from your organization intend to participate in person, please let us know by requesting a completely free ticket here: eventbrite.com/e/1975346809482
The venue is located in Potsdam-Babelsberg (old town hall).
If you have any statute amendments or new member applications, please make sure that you send them to the board by December 10th. If you have any other motions or any other business, feel free to bring them up before the meeting, and you are free to propose them at the meeting itself.
It is very important that we make a quorum, so please delegate your vote to another member if you cannot come to the event. Please also forward this message to other PPI members.
Delegates should be announced to the board prior to the start of the GA. Each member may have up to 6 delegates. Others are welcome to attend without voting. Rules of the GA can be reviewed on the Wiki: wiki.pp-international.net/wiki…
We also remind full members to pay membership fees. We don’t want anyone not to participate if they don’t have funds to pay membership fees, so please let us know if you require a discount or accommodation. Please note that nascent members have no membership fees.
We hope that many of you can attend, either in person or online.
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Presentazione di "Scritture digitali. Dai social media all'IA e all'editing genetico"
Libreria Modo Infoshop - Via Mascarella 24/b (giovedì, 15 gennaio 18:30) Alberto Sebastiani (IULM) ne parla con l'autore Roberto Laghi.
Scritture digitali. Dai social media all’IA e all’editing genetico (Meltemi, 2025)
Tutto ciò che avviene in ambiente digitale è fatto di scrittura, almeno nelle sue fondamenta di codice informatico: ogni pagina, ogni post sui social, ogni video, ogni like, ogni acquisto. Per queste scritture stanno passando le trasformazioni radicali in atto nelle società contemporanee. Ma chi scrive cosa? Chi è scritto da cosa? Con quali obiettivi e secondo quali logiche l’umanità e la realtà tutta stanno venendo riscritte? Con un percorso critico interdisciplinare e un focus sull’Italia odierna, questo libro analizza il ruolo delle tecnologie digitali attraverso la lente delle scritture prodotte grazie ai dispositivi, alle reti e a una potenza di calcolo in costante aumento. Dai contenuti sui social alle forme sperimentali di letteratura elettronica, dal codice informatico agli output dell’intelligenza artificiale, fino ad arrivare all’editing genetico: l’analisi presentata in queste pagine aiuta a capire come le tecnologie digitali vengono prodotte e come influenzano, attraverso la scrittura, il nostro comportamento, il nostro pensiero, la nostra relazione con la realtà. Svelare e capire questi meccanismi è fondamentale per essere cittadini consapevoli e per costruire nuovi paradigmi di pensiero adatti alla complessità del nostro tempo digitale.
Vag61 - Via Paolo Fabbri 110 (sabato, 17 gennaio 19:00) 𝗦𝗮𝗯𝗮𝘁𝗼 𝟭𝟳 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗮𝗶𝗼 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - 𝗱𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲 𝟭𝟵:𝟬𝟬
IMMAGINANDO I BALCANI
Presentazione della nuova 𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮 𝗥/𝗘𝗦𝗧, dedicata al mondo dei Balcani, edita da Tamu Edizioni, con racconti, reportage e immagini. Ne discuteremo partendo da una riflessione su come viene oggi raccontata una parte di mondo, tra stereotipi e luoghi comuni, per testimoniare un immaginario complesso e ricco, in un dialogo tra chi se ne occupa da sempre e le voci, ora in prima persona, che non sono mai raccontate (o tradotte).
Programma:
• 𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝟭𝟴:𝟯𝟬 apertura • 𝗱𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲 𝟭𝟵.𝟬𝟬 presentazione del progetto e talk con: 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗘𝗹𝗶𝗮, giornalista e scrittore, direttore della rivista R/EST; 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗮 𝗥𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶, storica e ricercatrice; 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗿𝗮 𝗜𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗰, traduttrice e docente universitaria; 𝗡𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗮 𝗭𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶, regista del collettivo SMK Factory • 𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲 𝟮𝟬.𝟯𝟬 cena sociale • 𝗮 𝘀𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗿𝗲 djSet con Balkan Express, original bratebeat – jugo new wave from BO
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𝗖𝗢𝗦’𝗲̀ 𝗥/𝗘𝗦𝗧
R/EST è una nuova rivista semestrale che a partire da settembre 2026 offrirà un’inchiesta sociale permanente, contaminata e partecipata, per sguardi e linguaggi nell’area sud-est europea. Un viaggio, in otto numeri, ciascuno dedicato a un macro tema, con rubriche fisse trasversali, per esplorare l’area oltre Adriatico, dalla Slovenia alla Turchia, passando per ex Jugoslavia, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria e Grecia. Un’indagine narrativa sull’area partendo proprio da questa domanda: esistono i Balcani? Come li raccontiamo? Come si raccontano? Quanto, e quando, un prossimo geografico diventa un altrove narrativo?
Per rispondere a queste domande abbiamo attinto a un universo complesso, che frequentiamo da anni, fatto di relazioni personali e professionali con persone che hanno studiato e abitato quei territori. Con loro condividiamo la volontà di raccontare quei luoghi superando stereotipi e orientalismi coloniali.
Per queste ragioni vogliamo offrire uno sguardo differente sulla regione del sud-est Europa e farlo con tutte quelle persone che abbiamo incontrato in questi decenni. Perché crediamo in un racconto competente e partecipato.
Circolo Arci Guernelli - Via Antonio Gandusio 6 (mercoledì, 28 gennaio 20:00) Una rassegna cinematografica è in arrivo in San Donato. Da gennaio a maggio, verranno proiettati due film al mese al Circolo Guernelli! Ogni mese tratteremo un argomento diverso Ad ogni proiezione avremo ospiti che ci racconteranno in profondità le tematiche di ciascun film! Vi aspettiamo numerose!
sede Legambiente Catania - Piazza Cavour, 19, 95128 Catania CT (sabato, 24 gennaio 15:30) In occasione dei 25 anni di Wikipedia l’enciclopedia collaborativa, vi invitiamo ad un incontro di discussione, laboratorio e celebrazione.
L'enciclopedia online Wikipedia e i suoi progetti fratelli sono una risorsa essenziale per diffondere la conoscenza e documentare il patrimonio ambientale e culturale. Arricchita ogni giorno da volontari che dedicano il loro tempo a ricercare e aggiungere informazioni, Wikipedia offre una base di conoscenza accessibile a tutti su Internet, gratuita e riutilizzabile. E potete partecipare anche voi!
- Quando: Sabato 24 gennaio 2026 dalle 15:00 alle 19:00 - Dove: Sede Legambiente Catania, Piazza Cavour 19, 95128 Catania
L’evento si svolge in 3 parti durante il pomeriggio:
15:00-16:30: Presentazione di Wikipedia e dei progetti collegati (Wikimedia Commons e Wikidata), con un focus su come possiamo migliorare insieme le informazioni sull'ambiente in Sicilia nell'ambito del concorso Wiki Loves Earth.
16:30-17:30: Momento di celebrazione del compleanno di Wikipedia condiviso con una torta e delle bevande analcoliche.
17:30-19:00: Laboratorio pratico per imparare come funziona Wikipedia e come aggiungere informazioni verificate, utilizzando il proprio laptop o smartphone.
Ingresso libero e gratuito. Ragazzi benvenuti dai 12 anni in su.
Inizia:Sabato Gennaio 24, 2026 @ 3:30 PM GMT+01:00 (Europe/Rome)
Finisce:Sabato Gennaio 24, 2026 @ 7:00 PM GMT+01:00 (Europe/Rome)
In occasione dei 25 anni di Wikipedia l’enciclopedia collaborativa, vi invitiamo ad un incontro di discussione, laboratorio e celebrazione.
L'enciclopedia online Wikipedia e i suoi progetti fratelli sono una risorsa essenziale per diffondere la conoscenza e documentare il patrimonio ambientale e culturale. Arricchita ogni giorno da volontari che dedicano il loro tempo a ricercare e aggiungere informazioni, Wikipedia offre una base di conoscenza accessibile a tutti su Internet, gratuita e riutilizzabile. E potete partecipare anche voi!
- Quando: Sabato 24 gennaio 2026 dalle 15:00 alle 19:00 - Dove: Sede Legambiente Catania, Piazza Cavour 19, 95128 Catania
L’evento si svolge in 3 parti durante il pomeriggio:
15:00-16:30: Presentazione di Wikipedia e dei progetti collegati (Wikimedia Commons e Wikidata), con un focus su come possiamo migliorare insieme le informazioni sull'ambiente in Sicilia nell'ambito del concorso Wiki Loves Earth.
16:30-17:30: Momento di celebrazione del compleanno di Wikipedia condiviso con una torta e delle bevande analcoliche.
17:30-19:00: Laboratorio pratico per imparare come funziona Wikipedia e come aggiungere informazioni verificate, utilizzando il proprio laptop o smartphone.
Ingresso libero e gratuito. Ragazzi benvenuti dai 12 anni in su.
Bucoliche Utopie - Via della Scafa, 144a, 00054 Isola Sacra RM (domenica, 11 gennaio 17:00) Ci vediamo domenica 11 gennaio a Fiumicino presso Bucoliche Utopie (via della Scafa, 144a, ore 17:00) con l'evento conclusivo di restituzione del progetto “Shifting Sands”. Il progetto è stato portato avanti da Scienza Radicata, Seasters Coop, Rizomi lab e Ponentino che, accompagnati anche da noi del Collettivo No Porto e dai Tavoli del Porto, forniscono una fotografia dello stato dei fondali nell'area dei Bilancioni e una narrazione di chi vive quel territorio. Questo processo serve a ridare dignità e spessore a tutte quelle storie di vita umana e non che animano un territorio che hanno provato a svuotare ma che continua ad esistere in tutta la sua poesia. A domenica!
MASTODON by CheGuevaraRoma APPUNTAMENTI GANCIO DE ROMA: agenda condivisa della Roma ribelle e autogestita APPROFONDIMENTI SINISTRAINRETE: Archivio di documenti e articoli per la discussione politica nella sinistra
La risposta siamo noi - voci di ritorno dalla COP30
CSOA La Strada - Via Passino, 24 (venerdì, 16 gennaio 19:00) LA RISPOSTA SIAMO NOI
Voci di ritorno dalla COP30 - VEN. 16/01 dalle 19:00
Doveva essere la COP "della verità", così aveva dichiarato il presidente Lula alla vigilia del vertice sul clima più importanti al mondo, che tornava dopo più di 30 anni, in Brasile, a Belém, nel cuore pulsante dell'Amazzonia.
Le grandi speranze per queste giornate si sono però infrante subito, con negoziati partiti già zoppi a causa di illustri assenti, Stati Uniti su tutti. E così anche le conclusioni sono state deludenti, nessun risultato e la prospettiva di limitare il riscaldamento globale, seppure solo un grado e mezzo, che è ormai un ricordo lontano.
È stata però anche la COP dei movimenti popolari, delle comunità indigene, della società civile, che congiuntamenet sono riuscite a richiamare in Amazzonia persone dai quattro angoli del globo per la Cupula dos Povos, il summit parallelo che ha gridato a gran voce che la risposta non si può che trovare nelle parole di chi dal basso si organizza e lotta contro un sistema e un modello di produzione ecocida.
Di quelle giornate proponiamo un incontro di testimonianze, riflessioni e prospettive, insieme a chi ha le vissute.
Ci vediamo venerdì 16 gennaio al CSOA La Strada (Via Francesco Passino, 24) dalle 19:00!
Pollone - Oratorio Parrocchiale di Pollone - Biblioteca Benedetto Croce, Pollone (venerdì, 9 gennaio 19:45) In occasione del 65° anniversario della morte di Padre Alberto Maria De Agostini (25 dicembre 1960), la Biblioteca di Pollone, in collaborazione con l’Associazione Ecomuseo Valle Elvo e Serra, il 9 Gennaio organizza una serata speciale dedicata a una delle figure biellesi più straordinarie del Novecento.
L’incontro si terrà presso l’Oratorio di Pollone e sarà un momento di riflessione e racconto che intreccia memoria storica, immagini, testimonianze e attualità.
Nato a Pollone nel 1883, Padre Alberto Maria De Agostini è stato missionario salesiano, esploratore, alpinista, geografo, fotografo, scrittore e documentarista. Una personalità impossibile da racchiudere in una sola definizione, capace di unire fede, scienza e spirito d’avventura con uno sguardo rispettoso e profondamente umano.
Cuore della serata sarà la proiezione del film “Fin del Mundo”, nel quale Giovanni De Agostini, pronipote del sacerdote salesiano, ripercorre i luoghi della Patagonia e della Terra del Fuoco vissuti ed esplorati dal prozio, oggi parte della memoria geografica e culturale dell’America Latina.
Argentina e Cile hanno infatti riconosciuto l’importanza del lavoro di Padre De Agostini dedicandogli parchi, vie e luoghi simbolici, tra cui il Parco Nazionale Alberto de Agostini in Cile.
Dopo la proiezione seguirà un dialogo con Giovanni De Agostini, presidente di ITALGEO, associazione che custodisce e valorizza la tradizione cartografica della famiglia De Agostini, protagonista da tre generazioni della storia della cartografia italiana e mondiale.
L’ultima parte della serata sarà dedicata alle missioni di oggi, in un ideale passaggio di testimone. Sarà presente Padre Roberto Melis, responsabile del Centro Missionario Diocesano di Biella, missionario filippino impegnato a Capo Verde nella costruzione di una scuola dedicata a Pier Giorgio Frassati, pollonese anche lui e recentemente proclamato Santo.
Un momento per riflettere su come lo spirito della missione, dell’ascolto e della vicinanza alle persone continui a vivere nel presente.
Cossato - Teatro Comunale - P.za Elvo Tempia, 54, 13836 Cossato BI (venerdì, 9 gennaio 20:45) Il desiderio di una donna fa sempre paura. Non se ne parla mai, porta scompiglio, è eversivo, rivoluzionario, scandaloso. In Scandalo, il nuovo lavoro teatrale scritto e diretto da Ivan Cotroneo dopo il successo di Amanti, si racconta di sentimenti, seduzione, manipolazione.
Laura ha cinquant’anni, è una scrittrice, ma soprattutto, per il mondo, letterario e non, è stata la “sposa bambina” di uno scrittore molto famoso e molto più grande di lei, che è recentemente scomparso. Nella sua villa sull’Appia Antica, appena fuori Roma, in compagnia della sua editor Giulia e di un vicino, Roberto, e con l’aiuto di Maria, una ragazza che vive in casa, Laura sembra poco interessata sia a riprendere a scrivere che a riprendere a vivere. Sostanzialmente è sola. Fino a quando in casa non arriva Andrea, un giovane uomo che suo marito Goffredo prima di morire aveva assunto per riorganizzare la loro grande libreria. Andrea è diretto, sfrontato, audace. Fra Laura e Andrea ci sono gli stessi 24 anni di differenza che separavano Laura da Goffredo. E come all’epoca Laura aveva fatto scandalo per la sua relazione con un uomo famoso e più grande, ora sa esattamente lo scandalo che provocherà nel momento stesso in cui le sue labbra si avvicinano a quelle di Andrea. E niente sarà più come prima.
“Scandalo è una commedia brillante sul pregiudizio, sui rapporti fra il maschile e il femminile, sui tabù che crediamo di esserci lasciati alle spalle e che continuano invece a tormentarci, sull’audacia e la spregiudicatezza che spesso la società legittima per gli uomini, ma mai per le donne. Un testo divertente e lucidamente spietato sul sesso, sull’amore, su tutto ciò che si può dire e non dire, fare e non fare o, nel mondo letterario, scrivere e non scrivere. Un racconto su una donna di oggi, libera, spregiudicata, per tutti vittima inconsapevole del suo desiderio, e un giovane uomo che forse la sta usando, o forse le sta solo dando l’attenzione e l’amore di cui lei ha bisogno. L’amore è sempre uno scambio. Sono i termini e gli oggetti di questo scambio a renderlo più o meno scandaloso, inaccettabile o immorale.”
Tollegno - palestra comunale - Via mancini 4, tollegno (venerdì, 9 gennaio 21:00) Incontro pallavolo femminile serie D campionato regionale. Gruppo sportivo Tollegno - Ticino volley team
Gaglianico - New Wood - Via giacomo matteotti 129 Gaglianico (venerdì, 9 gennaio 23:00) 🔥 MALVADA IS BACK 🔥 📅 9 Gennaio 2026 apriamo l’anno dopo tanta attesa… ⏳ 3 settimane di stop e finalmente ritorno a Malvada con una nuova faccia, un nuovo volto 😈
💃🏽 Vieni a vivere la nueva noche de la locura 🎶 Reggaeton • Dembow • Funk • Commerciale
🎧 DJ ALE 🎧 DJ FREDI 🌶 Dembow Piccante – Special Guest
⏰ Dalle 23:00 🔞 Entrata +16 🎟 Ingresso gratuito in lista 📋 Fuori lista 5 euro in cassa 🔗 Link in bio
🔥 No te lo puedes perder 💃🏽 La noche es fuego 🇪🇸 Malvada no perdona 😈🔥
Benna - Kostanten - Benna, Strada Statale Trossi, 17 (sabato, 10 gennaio 21:30) Per iscrizioni e per concordare le tue canzoni scrivi su whatsapp o chiama il 348.3163621. Presentano Daniel Mas e Niko Dag
Valdengo - la Peschiera - Via quintino sella 63 Valdengo (sabato, 10 gennaio 21:30) I grandi successi della musica da ballo! Special Guest: Orchestra Alex Biondi. Notte in diretta su Radioliscio e Primantenna
