

For The Wild
For The Wild
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. Our work highlights impactful stories and deeply-felt meaning making as balms for these times.
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Aug 21, 2019 • 1h 6min
TARA HOUSKA & RUTH BREECH on Divesting from Toxic Capitalism /133
This episode discusses man camps, resistance movements, the banking system and corporatocracy. Through strategy and story, we learn how to target the heart of petro-capitalism with our dollars, and reflect on how the end-goals of divestment must lead to a just transition.Support the show

Aug 14, 2019 • 1h 14min
RACHEL HEATON & ROXANNE WHITE on Funding, Fossil Fuels and Femicide /132
Rachel and Roxanne share their experiences from the frontlines of resistance and call out the patriarchy and settler colonialism that underpins how we navigate issues of land, money, and resource extraction. Together, they discuss the complexity of jurisdictional issues on reservations, the need for free, prior, and informed consent, and potential paths towards justice, healing, and reconciliation.Support the show

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Aug 7, 2019 • 1h 20min
DONNA HARAWAY on Staying with the Trouble /131
Ayana and Donna’s conversation explores topics like the reclamation of truth and “situated knowledge,” the importance of mourning with others, the etymology of “Anthropocene,” the place of forgiveness in movement building, and the urgency of making non-natal kin. Support the show

Jul 31, 2019 • 1h 11min
PUA CASE on the Heart of a Mountain ⌠ENCORE⌡ /130
This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Pua Case, initially aired in December of 2017. In the past two and a half weeks we have seen the powerful swelling of protectors across the globe in reverence for Mauna a Wākea. Support the show

Jul 24, 2019 • 59min
CINTA KAIPAT on the Militarization of Pågan and Defending Island Sovereignty /129
We join Cinta Kaipat to learn how the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. commonwealth, are impacted by militarization.Support the show

Jul 17, 2019 • 54min
Collective Liberation & Communal Gathering at LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE /128
This conversation explores the nature of festival culture and our inherent desire for community. You will also hear some of our favorite presentations covering topics like creativity, collective liberation, sovereignty, and ancestral wisdom. Included in this interview are Dr. Vandana Shiva, Desirae Harp & Niria Alicia, Eve Bradford & Isis Indriya, Climbing Poetree and Paul Stamets.Support the show

Jul 10, 2019 • 1h 1min
KURT RUSSO on the People Under the Sea ⌠ENCORE⌡ /127
Last summer, the world watched as mother Orca, Tahlequah, carried her dead calf on a “tour of grief” for more than 1,000 miles over a 17-day period. The Lummi Nation of the Salish Sea believes that Tahlequah’s display of her dead offspring was an intentional act —not only an act of grieving, but intended to stir an empathetic reaction from those who live above the water....Support the show

Jul 3, 2019 • 53min
LYLA JUNE on Resistance and Forgiveness in the Final Years of Patriarchy ⌠ENCORE⌡ /126
Lyla June retraces the origins of oppression of European women, men and earth-based cultures through to recent histories of genocide, inter-generational trauma, and the enduring forces that seek to destroy Indigenous women and the earth. Industrial activities that impact the lands and humans at local levels reverberate at an energetic level that has bred today’s crises...Support the show

Jun 26, 2019 • 59min
EXTINCTION REBELLION on Mobilizing Mass Dissent /125
Ayana speaks to these three key members of ER about creating high-priority changes through nonviolent civil disobedience and economic disruption, while working with citizen’s assembly. They explore the importance of non-violent movements for climate momentum, discussing how regenerative culture and people’s assemblies create inclusive and democratic groups which work against ecofascism and moreSupport the show

Jun 19, 2019 • 59min
MICHAEL MEADE on Cultivating Mythic Imagination /124
Michael and Ayana discuss topics such as the power of creative imagination and youth, the danger of hyper-individualism, pretentious heroism, and the obsession with newness. Michael explores the relationships between wounds and dreams, chaos and beauty, and meditates on his own journey of initiation and the archetypal ground of ancestors, as well as the potent nature of retelling stories.Support the show


