For The Wild presents Homebound as an offering of curated episodes from the archives intended to share perspective and guidance in the midst of a time of tremendous uncertainty and possibility.

In light of the personal and global impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak, our team has been drawing on wisdom from the archives to anchor us and help us to navigate this new reality. We understand that while society appears ripe for transformation, we are also being inundated with information that may feel paralyzing and that also perpetuates a culture of fear. As a response, we offer this series that explores physical, emotional and spiritual preparedness, self-reliance and community sovereignty.

We invite you to join us on Fridays to hear seeds of wisdom from the weavers of transformation and mobilizers of personal and cultural shift featured in Homebound. We hope that this may serve as a North Star as we all traverse through our grief and fear that accompany this perplexing time fraught with shattering of systemic injustices alongside opportunities to co-create the world anew.

This week, we share our episode with Alnoor Ladha, originally aired in 2017. Alnoor’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.”

We offer this episode during a time in which many of us have witnessed the tumultuous behavior of global markets, the true price of poverty in the face of a pandemic, utterly exorbitant corporate bailouts, and the impending collapse of the US stock market. 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?

We invite you to continue to join us on Fridays to hear seeds of wisdom from the weavers of transformation and mobilizers of personal and cultural shift featured in Homebound. 

♫ Music by Leon Rosselson and Sally Seltmann