Posts in The Cost of Capitalism
Homebound: Eco-Justice in the Age of Disasters with JACQUI PATTERSON /175
Homebound: Eco-Justice in the Age of Disasters with JACQUI PATTERSON /175

Jacqui reminds us that we must strategically address the needs of our communities; when we work to uplift those at the bottom - we all rise.

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Homebound, The Cost of Capitalism, Sacrifice Zones, Climate Change, Racial Equity JusticeFor The Wildwomen's rights activist, women's rights policy, racial justice, economic justice, food rights, macroeconomics, cliamte change, violence against women, HIV/AIDS, IMA World Health, medical aid, Africa, Caribbean, U.S. Peace CorpsComment
ANTONIA JUHASZ on the New Age of Big Oil /174
ANTONIA JUHASZ on the New Age of Big Oil /174

With a global market in free fall, a rising climate activism movement, and the uncertainty of elections on the horizon, this episode tackles a set of essential, timely questions: How has the fracking boom radically transformed communities, ecologies, and life in states across the country? Why are oil prices crashing and how does this reflect an industry in debt, teetering on the brink of collapse?

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The Cost of CapitalismFor The Wildincluding the rise of residential drilling, big oil, fossil fuels, oil production, fracking, fracking boom, energy economy, natural gas, environmental deregulation, financial collapse, oil price, economic crash, Bakken oil fields, North Dakota, Dakota Access Pipeline, residential drilling, environmental justice, coronavirus, energy dominance, energy policy, offshore drilling, global oil economy, plastic production, climate change, carbon emissions, ExtractivismComment
Homebound: Capitalists and Other Cannibals with ALNOOR LADHA /172
Homebound: Capitalists and Other Cannibals with ALNOOR LADHA /172

Alnoor invites us into a guided conversation on neoliberal capitalism, the global economic system and how we can work ourselves out of it. Topics include Wetiko mind virus, Anarchy, the root causes of poverty, the dangers of technocracy, and more.

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Homebound, Colonial Violence, The Cost of CapitalismFor The Wildpolitical organizing, systems thinking, storytelling, technology, decentralization of power, The Rules, climate change, poverty, organizers, designers, coders, researchers, writers, wetiko, Anarchy, Bill Gates, origins of oppressionComment
LINDA BLACK ELK on What Endures After Pandemic /171
LINDA BLACK ELK on What Endures After Pandemic /171

Ayana and Linda discuss what will be left in the wake of COVID-19, how will we tend to the wounds of disposability? What systems will endure? What must we dismantle and what will we grow? How can we deepen our actions so that they are not just a response to fear, but are rooted in the promise of collective wellbeing?

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Plant Intelligence, The Cost of Capitalism, Colonial Violence, Decolonization, Food Sovereignty, Grassroots Herbalism, Indigenous Sovereignty, Transition TransformationFor The WildCOVID19, novel coronavirus, coronavirus, pandemic, food sovereignty, food security, traditional medicine, traditional foods, plant medicine, herbs, healing, restoration ecology, prairie grasslands, Linda Black Elk, victory gardens, decolonization gardens, sacred medicine, ethnobotany, United Tribes Technical College, Right Relationship, Black Elk, LindaComment
Homebound: Decentralizing the Power of Healing with Dr. RUPA MARYA /169
Homebound: Decentralizing the Power of Healing with Dr. RUPA MARYA /169

Rupa reminds us that the blatant neglect for people’s wellbeing amidst this global pandemic is not coincidence or negligence, it is the result of a global system that has historically centered profit over people.

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Homebound, The Cost of Capitalism, Racial Equity Justice, Activism AllyshipFor The Wildracism, stave violence, Rupa Marya, The Justice Study, Rupa and the April Fishes, health impacts, capitalism, colonization, medicine, medical reparations, inflammation, chronic illness, systems, social illness, decolonizing medicine, police violence, community medicine, gentrification, houselessness, wellbeing, healing, health justiceComment
ERIEL TCHEKWIE DERANGER on Solidarity with Unist'ot'en ⌠ENCORE⌡ /159
ERIEL TCHEKWIE DERANGER on Solidarity with Unist'ot'en ⌠ENCORE⌡ /159

Eriel sheds light on what Unist’ot’en Camp represents, the ongoing history of surveillance faced by frontline protectors, how policy can be a tool of forced assimilation, and the illegality of the actions taken by Canada’s federal and provincial governments.

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Colonial Violence, The Cost of Capitalism, Decolonization, Direct Action, Indigenous Sovereignty, Sacrifice ZonesFor The WildLNG Pipeline, resource expansion, Wet’suwet’en Territory, Gidumt’en territory, surveillance, frontline protectors, tools of assimilation, Canadian governments, cultural identity, Indigenous land reclamation, Indigenous governance, Indigenous sovereignty, Denesuline, Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, coalition builderComment
Dr. RUPA MARYA on Decentralizing the Power of Healing /153
Dr. RUPA MARYA on Decentralizing the Power of Healing /153

How can we understand our own ailments as a map of society’s illness? A by-product of an inhuman, unbridled industrialized society where the pressures of productivity and the harm inflicted by violent institutions are causing a collective decline in health... we explore these topics with Dr. Rupa Marya, whose work explores health issues at the nexus of racism and state violence.

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The Cost of Capitalism, Racial Equity Justice, Activism AllyshipFor The Wildracism, stave violence, Rupa Marya, The Justice Study, Rupa and the April Fishes, health impacts, capitalism, colonization, medicine, medical reparations, inflammation, chronic illness, systems, social illness, decolonizing medicine, police violence, community medicine, gentrification, houselessness, wellbeing, healing, health justiceComment
MARIAME KABA on Moving Past Punishment /151
MARIAME KABA on Moving Past Punishment /151

Mariame addresses punishment as an issue of directionality while reminding us why it is vital to have the prison abolition movement in conversation with the movement for climate & environmental justice.

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Colonial Violence, Cultural Strategy, The Cost of Capitalism, Design+Strategy, Radical Imagination, Racial Equity Justice, Transition Transformation, Activism AllyshipFor The WildMariame Kaba, Survived & Punished, Transform Harm, youth incarceration, criminalized survivors, PIC, prison industrial complex, Project NIA, Transformative Justice, Restorative Justice, abolition, mass incarceration, jail, prison, safety, policing, race, abuse, domestic abuse, criminalization of survivors, criminal punishment system, reform, climate change and prisons, incarcerated women, climate disaster, Allyship Guide 1, An End to Patriarchy & PunishmentComment
InTheField: KASYYAHGEI on the Law of the Land /149
InTheField: KASYYAHGEI on the Law of the Land /149

Lean into Kasyyahgei’s haunting testimony of heart that bridges stories from her childhood, the incredible mycelial worlds humming beneath the forest floor, and the land of talking trees.

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In The Field, Indigenous Sovereignty, For The Forests, The Cost of Capitalism, Colonial ViolenceFor The Wildtemperate rainforest, land claims, Alaska, Hoonah, ANCSA, ANILCA, Alaska Native corporations, national interest lands, old growth logging, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, ancestral wisdom, extractive tourism, Indigenous subsistence, matrilineal leadership, Roadless Rule, Tongass, Tongass National Forest, Voices of the Tongass, In The Field, CIGAW, treeoflifeplaylistComment
InTheField: WANDA KASHUDOHA CULP on Rooted Lifeways of the Tongass /148
InTheField: WANDA KASHUDOHA CULP on Rooted Lifeways of the Tongass /148

Guided by Wanda’s indomitable warrioress spirit, we wind through the history of the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, the Tlingit balance of Raven and Eagle, Indigenous food sovereignty, extractive tourism, and more.

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For The Forests, Indigenous Sovereignty, In The Field, The Cost of Capitalism, Colonial ViolenceFor The Wildtemperate rainforest, land claims, Alaska, Hoonah, ANCSA, ANILCA, Roadless Rule, Alaska Native corporations, national interest lands, old growth logging, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, ancestral wisdom, extractive tourism, Indigenous subsistence, matrilineal leadership, Voices of the Tongass, In The Field, CIGAWComment
ELSA SEBASTIAN on Loving the Last Stands of the Tongass /141
ELSA SEBASTIAN on Loving the Last Stands of the Tongass /141

Fall in love with the Tongass, as Elsa shares stories from the field, communities where boom and bust industry have torn people apart, and her personal journey as a second-generation activist.

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Decolonization, Indigenous Sovereignty, Cultural Strategy, Direct Action, The Cost of Capitalism, Activism AllyshipFor The WildA Love Song To Cascadia, Timber industry, old growth, forests, logging, clearcut, wildlife corridors, relationship to place, groundtruthing, citizen science, conservation, land defense, resource extraction, sacrifice zone, land management, commercial fishing, salmon, fishing industry, boom and bust cycle, Roadless Rule, colonialism, advocacy, Voices of the Tongass Comments
RAJ PATEL on Cheapness in the Age of Capitalism /137
RAJ PATEL on Cheapness in the Age of Capitalism /137

Raj and Ayana discuss cheapness in relation to the prison industrial complex, the invisibility of domestic labor and care work, the fallacies of fair trade, and the enclosure of the commons.

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The Cost of CapitalismFor The WildRaj Patel, Jason W. Moore, capitalism, Capitalocene, history of capitalism, enclosure of the commons, the commons, invisible labor, forced labor, domestic labor, slave labor, worker power, labor organizing, fair trade, resource redistribution, reparations, food sovereignty, green consumerism, cheap, cheapness, prison industrial complex, land reform, Waste & ConvenienceComment
COREY LESK on Warming Winters and Southern Pine Beetle Migration /136
COREY LESK on Warming Winters and Southern Pine Beetle Migration /136

Ayana and Corey discuss the implications of southern pine beetle expansion, how forest structures will shift, the threat to native biodiversity, the importance of cold winters, and how forestry measures are not the solution.

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The Cost of Capitalism, For The Forests, Climate ChangeFor The WildSouthern pine beetle, southern pine beetle expansion, warming winters, climate change, North American pine forests, pine forests, insect pests, destructive pests, New Jersey, timber industry, infestation, infested forests, Ohio, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Canada, coastal pitch pine forests, pitch pine forests, ecological uncertainties, global warming, cold winter snaps, geographic thresholdComment
RICHIE RESEDA on Dismantling Patriarchy /134
RICHIE RESEDA on Dismantling Patriarchy /134

Richie and Ayana examine how harmful patriarchy is to us all, why we must let go of our limited understanding of crime, the geography of prisons, and meaningful and revolutionary organizing in prisons.

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Indigenous Sovereignty, The Cost of Capitalism, Cultural Strategy, Colonial Violence, Racial Equity JusticeFor The Wildprison industrial complex, school-to-prison pipeline, police brutality, Success Stories, Charles Berry, Richie "Reseda" Edmond-Vargas, Richie Reseda, dismantling patriarchy, Initiate Justice, incarceration, mass incarceration, criminal justice policy, California, felony disenfranchisement, The Feminist on Cell Block Y, bell hooks, prison politic, for-profit prisons, Valley Fever outbreaks, Allyship Guide 1, An End to Patriarchy & PunishmentComment
TARA HOUSKA & RUTH BREECH on Divesting from Toxic Capitalism /133
TARA HOUSKA & RUTH BREECH on Divesting from Toxic Capitalism /133

Join us as Tara, Ruth, and Ayana navigate the worlds of man camps and resistance movements, track money trails, meet face to face with European banking leaders, and enter the boardrooms of America’s wealthiest shareholder meetings.

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Decolonization, The Cost of Capitalism, Racial Equity Justice, Activism AllyshipFor The Wildfossil fuel divestment, extractive industry, fossil fuel industry, banking industry, fossil fuel banks, petrocapitalism, climate justice, Climate Report Card, Banking on Climate Change, Indigenous rights, human rights, rights of nature, Standing Rock, Indigenous Womens Delegations, frontline communties, ExtractivismComment
PUA CASE on the Heart of a Mountain ⌠ENCORE⌡ /130
PUA CASE on the Heart of a Mountain ⌠ENCORE⌡ /130

This week we rebroadcast Pua Case’s interview in honor of the heart of a mountain and the rising of a Nation.

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The Cost of Capitalism, Wisdom Keepers, Sacrifice Zones, Direct ActionFor The WildHawai’i, Mauna Kea, Mauna Loa, Hualalai, Kohala, Kohakohau, Waikoloa, Waimea, Kumu Hul, traditional dance, Hawaiian Language and culture, reindigenization, cultural education, Idle No More Hawai’i Warriors Rising, sacred places, life ways, Wisdom Keepers, Frontline DefenseComment
CHRIS HEDGES on Deflating the Ruling Elite through Civil Disobedience /122
CHRIS HEDGES on Deflating the Ruling Elite through Civil Disobedience /122

Ayana and Chris discuss wealth inequality, deindustrialization and the rise of the gig economy, the birth of fascism and Christian fundamentalism, and the fusion of corporate and government power under the reigning umbrella of the security state.

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The Cost of Capitalism, Direct Action, Political Ideology, GlobalizationFor The Wildneoliberalism, corporate capitalism, two-party divide, sociopolitics, fascism, economic forces, journalist, Truthdig, Presbyterian minister, wealth inequality, deindustrialization, gig economy, Christian fundamentalism, security state, civil disobedience, mass resistance, Essential Listening Comments
ANDREA CROSTA on the World of Wildlife Crime /113
ANDREA CROSTA on the World of Wildlife Crime /113

Ayana and Andrea discuss a myriad of topics ranging from the importance of an intelligence-led approach to combating wildlife crime, how wildlife crime impacts local and global economies, the geography of trafficking, the socio-political realities that necessitate poaching and trafficking, and the grave danger posed by an increased militarization of conservation.

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More Than Human Kin, The Cost of Capitalism, Multispecies Justice, Global South, GlobalizationFor The Wildwildlife poaching, illegal trafficking, endangered wildlife, endangered tigers, animal commodification, local economies, global economies, militarization of conservation, socio-political issues, anti-piracy, risk management, Elephant Action League, WildLeaksComment
ADA RECINOS on Corporate Destabilization and Local Resiliency in El Salvador /109
ADA RECINOS on Corporate Destabilization and Local Resiliency in El Salvador /109

Ayana and Ada Recinos of EcoViva discuss the connections between ecosystem restoration, political and climate resilience, and food sovereignty in times of extreme instability.

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The Cost of Capitalism, Colonial Violence, Sacrifice Zones, Globalization, Global SouthFor The Wildgenerational trauma, Dry Corridor, U.S.colonization, Central America, South America, Spanish colonization, crop failure, mangrove forest restoration, small-scale agriculture, agricultural diversity, Monsanto, GMO seed, human rights commissioner, immigrantion organizer, liberated communities, artificial borders, water rightsComment
ERIEL TCHEKWIE DERANGER on Solidarity with Unist'ot'en /107
ERIEL TCHEKWIE DERANGER on Solidarity with Unist'ot'en /107

Eriel articulates how narratives that surround the developments at Unist’ot’en Camp show how colonization has deeply warped our perspective on who get labeled the heroes and villains. While the state continues to prioritize the protection and expansion of infrastructure over people, we must encourage each other to see with clear vision where the true threat lies.

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Colonial Violence, Decolonization, The Cost of Capitalism, Direct Action, Indigenous Sovereignty, Sacrifice ZonesFor The WildLNG Pipeline, resource expansion, Wet’suwet’en Territory, Gidumt’en territory, surveillance, frontline protectors, tools of assimilation, Canadian governments, cultural identity, Indigenous land reclamation, Indigenous governance, Indigenous sovereignty, Denesuline, Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, coaltion builder, coalition builder, Frontline DefenseComment