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Gareth Farry is a creative producer and currently the Partnerships and Special Projects Manager at Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand.
We touch on questions of law, sovereignty and the relationship with the state, as well as what we can learn from Māori culture as it relates to self-sovereign communities.
Finally we discuss alternative understandings of identity and money through a Bitcoin and freedom technology lens.
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Gareth's website - https://www.garethfarry.com/
Gareth on Nostr - https://njump.me/npub13zhjefcu247g50sj5ffl6vswq4xh9qjqptpcdp9gd7g58kr5d2ts4tvg5k
Ahau - https://ahau.io/
Financial Colonisation Of Aotearoa by Catherine Comyn - https://www.unitybooks.co.nz/products/financial-colonisation-of-aotearoa
He Whakaputanga - Declaration of Independence, 1835 - https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/interactive/the-declaration-of-independence
Founding Documents of Aotearoa by Paul Moon - https://www.unitybooks.co.nz/products/financial-colonisation-of-aotearoa
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