(LOCATION: GARM space, 3 doors to the right of the downstairs meditation room) Learn from Lolita Piyahuaje about how decentralized governance works with the former vice president of CONFENIAE, the confederation of indigenous nations in the Amazon of Ecuador.

She will call in by video.

Ecuador has one of the strongest indigenous movements and organizations like CONFENIAE have taken over the entire country including occupying all international airports with wooden spears in order to enforce demands for their legal rights.

What could startup societies and network states who are pursuing sovereignty learn from groups who have the strongest legal and moral reason to have their own jurisdictions?