Michael Oliver (real estate)
Michael Oliver (born 1930) is a Lithuanian immigrant of Jewish descent, Las Vegas real estate millionaire, and political activist. He was the founder of the micronation project the Republic of Minerva, a failed attempt to create a sovereign state in the South Pacific in 1972.
In the following decades, Oliver and his Phoenix Foundation were also involved in similar projects on the Bahamian island of Abaco and in Vanuatu with the New Hebrides Autonomy Movement (MANH) which was done by financing an insurrection. He also published a manifesto of his libertarian beliefs.
Oliver is prohibited to enter in Vanuatu and his nation-building projects seem to be on hiatus.
External links
- Interview with Oliver at Stay Free Magazine (no date, file published 10-Mar-1995)
- "Phoenix: ashes to ashes" is a lengthy article about Oliver's activities and the Phoenix Foundation ("New Internationalist" magazine; July 1981; )
- Recent obituary for Tongan King also comments on Michael Oliver and the Republic of Minerva (mental_floss magazine; 12 September 2006 )
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