Russell Brand Advocates for Independent Communities Declaring Sovereignty from Nation States

What was said

"If a community, whether it's 100 people or 3,000 people, are willing to together operate democratically with budgets for food, systems for energy, systems for communication, cryptocurrencies that transcend the need for centralized banking, there is no reason why those communities couldn't declare themselves independent from the dominator culture, whether that's the UK, France, United States of America, Senegal, wherever. So we're not in this anymore. We will give you, government, a tribute as a community just to leave us alone."

Russell Brand explicitly advocated for communities to declare independence from existing nation-states, proposing they operate autonomously with their own food, energy, currency, and judicial systems while only paying tribute to governments for limited services like national defense. Brand argued that such communities could legally decouple from what he called the "dominator culture" and govern themselves democratically. This was presented as a practical solution to escape centralized control.