ALNOOR LADHA on Capitalists and Other Cannibals /49
1895 Logging, California
Alnoor Ladha’s work focuses on the intersection of political organizing, systems thinking, storytelling, technology and the decentralization of power. He was a co-founder and the Executive Director of The Rules (TR), a global network of activists, organizers, designers, coders, researchers, writers and others focused on changing the rules that create inequality, climate change and poverty around the world. TR operated from 2012 to 2019. He’s currently on sabbatical heeding the old African adage, “The times are urgent, let us slow down.”
This conversation with Alnoor invites us into a guided conversation on neoliberal capitalism, the global economic system and how we can work ourselves out of it. Listening to Alnoor, we ask ourselves:
How does the myth of poverty alleviation further the colonial mindset?
Why does fear inherently limit our ability to build beyond?
And most importantly, how does our relationship to Spirit and place strengthen our resistance to self-perpetuating systems?
♫ Music is "Who Reaps the Profits? Who Pays the Price?" by Leon Rosselson and "Right Back Where I Started From" by Sally Seltmann.
For The Wild is a slow media organization dedicated to land-based protection, co-liberation, and intersectional storytelling. We are rooted in a paradigm shift away from human supremacy, endless growth, and consumerism. As we dream towards a world of grounded justice and reciprocity, our work highlights impactful stories and deeply-felt meaning making as balms for these times.