Young Pirates 2026-02-24

Attending

Chairperson Jack Leisey of Pennsylvania

Wanda Ward of Florida

Mars Bale of Ohio

Agenda

IDs

Reports

Old Business

• Outreach Discussion and Mission

New Business

• Opportunities for Young Pirates for physical outreach coming up.
• Content Creation Ideas for Outreach
• Discussing IT Needs before we can really move forward.
• Free Discussion

Adjourn

Minutes

• Meeting called to order at 8:09 PM CST
• Began discussion on Outreach and Mission
• Discussed No Kings v3, showing Young Pirate support. Date is March 28th
• Discussed website/IT actions. Mars needs perms to fix problems with main discord and websites
• Discussed ideas for outreach including advertising. Jack discussed taking advantage of Epstein files. Mars raised concerns about discussing a sensitive topic like the Epstein files because of the 13+ nature of the organization. The consensus is that the topic is more for national than YPUSA.
• Jack discussed gaining centrist support, Wanda mildly objected to wording, aiming for independents in general.
• Mars brought up safe protesting, Jack mentioned supporting student walkouts. Jack mentioned that the best protests are done by trained protesters, and used the civil rights movement as an example.
• Mars mentioned drafting infographics.
• Jack made an example infographic posted in the General Assembly channel of the YPUSA Discord. Mars gave input and advice on graphic design.
• Wanda motions to adjourn, seconded by Jack. No objections
• Meeting adjourned at 8:30 PM CST