HCPP20 - MARTIN LESKOVJAN - Origin and history of parallel polis
Channel: Paralelní Polis
Date: 2021-03-20

In 1978 Václav Benda critically reflected Charter 77 - one of the most significant acts of the Czechoslovak dissident movement. His essay gave a name to once and future strategy to elude institutional oppression but also create a new environment free from state authority. Where does the need to create parallel structures come from and how has this strategy evolved into Parallel Polis?

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Martin Leskovjan

Paralelní Polis co-founder, InfoSec professional, lawyer, literature geek, and wild water lover.

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Paralelní Polis is a one-­of-­a-­kind nonprofit organization that brings together art, social sciences, and modern technologies. The ideas of liberty, independence, and innovative thinking, and development of society are the main underlying foundations the whole project is built upon. The project intends to remain state-free as it operates entirely without support from the government, and most of the funds come from voluntary contributions of our donors and partly from commercial activities such as running a unique co-­working space and the world’s first bitcoin-­only cafe.

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