The Blockchain Socialist The Question of Funding in Palestine
I spoke to Yazan Khalili and Sami Khaldi, Palestinian activists who started a project called The Question of Funding which is an art collective that presented at Documenta 15 this past year. They had a discussion on Outland with Monalisa Gharavi in November about their project as well.
During the discussion we spoke about how Israel has forced a reliance on financialization in Palestine, how this has affected the society's older systems of grassroots support, and what types of solutions the group is working on using blockchain called Dayra. We also spoke about the attacks they received during Documenta from Israeli groups.
More on The Question of Funding
Dayra and Communal Debt
The Question of Ragequitting
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