Stella Assange: Human Rights & Alternative Modes of Organising | Logos Podcast with Jarrad Hope

Stella talks about her experience working on Julian Assange's legal team, her introduction to new technologies including Bitcoin, and the current surveillance state that has emerged since the rise of the open internet. 

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0:00 Introductions - Stella’s background, Apartheid, politics, the arts, Julian Assange legal team 

6:35 Motivations of joining and studying law and politics – Idealism, justice, society 

10:35 Growing up in the coming of age of the internet – Wikileaks, Iraq War Logs, new journalism 

12:30 Jarrad’s inspirations – International Subversives Magazine, Cypherpunk Mailing lists, more 

14:00 The US prosecution against Julian Assange – a political test, and failure of the justice system

 18:20 Information asymmetry, Edward Snowden, and the movement towards open information 

20:15 Wikileaks grew out of a culture in which the government should be open 

25:50 Jarrad’s journey into civil libertarianism and building Logos 

29:00 Carrying on the torch of Ethereum – building censorship resistant cyber states

31:20 Stella’s introduction to crypto by Julian – 2011 meeting with Google about Bitcoin 

34:35 Bitcoin is the real Occupy Wall Street – How cryptography can make a real world impact 

37:00 Preserving reality as the tools to manipulate it become more powerful 

39:55 Social media censorship and Wikileaks adoption of BTC 

42:00 Arab Spring, Wikileaks utility in Tunisia, Egypt and around the world

 45:15 Crypto and the need for alternative system, communities, and modes of organising 

50:30 A dangerous, post-state system and surveillance capitalism

 54:50 Underlying causes for a shift in behavior and the “War on Terror” 

59:00 What does Julian Assange case mean for journalism, activism, liberties, and human rights 

1:12:40 An update on Julian Assange’s precarious legal situation 

1:20:10 Free Speech, activism, and the course the world has taken since Julian's imprisonment.