Alnoor Ladha: Capitalists and Other Cannibals
Recorded for For the Wild Podcast (E49) in Summer 2017
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?
This podcast features music by Leon Rosselson and Sally Seltmann.
Alnoor’s work focuses on the intersection of political organizing, systems thinking, structural change and narrative work. He was the co-founder and Executive Director of The Rules, a global network of activists, organizers, designers, coders, researchers, writers and others focused on changing the rules that create inequality, poverty and climate change. TR started in 2012 as a time-bound project and an experiment in temporary organizational design, exploring new ways of how to work, play, and make trouble together. Alnoor comes from a Sufi lineage and writes about the crossroads of politics and spirituality in troubled times. His work has been published in Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Truthout, Fast Company, Kosmos Journal, New Internationalist, and the Huffington Post among others. He is a board member of Culture Hack Labs, a co-operatively run advisory for social movements and progressive organizations. He holds an MSc in Philosophy and Public Policy from the London School of Economics.
Twitter: Alnoor.ladha
