Stella Assange: Human Rights and Alternative Modes of Organising
Logos PodcastJarrad Hope, co-founder of Logos, sits down with Stella Assange — lawyer, human rights defender, and wife of Julian Assange — for an in-depth conversation about WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, and the role technology has played in shaping the global socio-political landscape. 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.
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 List, and 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
Episode hosts - Jarrad Hope
Produced by - Christian Noguera
And edited by - Christian Noguera