From Understanding to Action: Organizing in the Age of AI & Data Centers

Whether or not you joined us for Part 1, you’re welcome here.

In our first session, we explored how generative AI, data centers, extraction, energy systems, and impacts on land and communities are all deeply connected. If you missed it, you can catch up with the recording here: #Connecting the Dots: Data Centers, Generative AI, and the Tools to Fight Back presented by Honor the Earth

Now, we’re turning toward action.

This second session builds on that foundation by asking: How can we incorporate these concepts into the work we are already doing?

Join Honor the Earth for a deeper, more grounded conversation focused on what it looks like to apply this understanding in real-world organizing. Together, we’ll explore how these interconnected systems show up locally and how communities can respond in ways that are rooted in sovereignty, relationship, and collective power.

NOTE: To create a space where people can speak openly, we ask that participants do not use AI notetakers and use recording bots during this webinar. Thanks for helping us keep this a more comfortable and respectful environment for everyone.

Speaker Bio:

Krystal Two Bulls  is an Oglala Lakota and Northern Cheyenne grassroots organizer with experience on the frontlines doing campaign development and management around social, racial and environmental justice. Krystal’s identity as a Native American veteran is central to her organizing and storytelling. At the heart of Krystal’s work is Sovereignty, LANDBACK, cross movement relationship building and a deep commitment to her People. In healing from her experience as a veteran, Krystal has dedicated herself to embodying what she views as the essential quality of a warrior: a commitment to the well-being of not only her People and their relationship to the land, but that of all Peoples.

Ashley LaMont is an enrolled member of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma (Horse/Deer Clan & Big Jim Band) and comes from the Oglala and Sicangu (shee-CHANG-goo) Lakota nations, with Delaware, Dakota, and Northern Cheyenne ancestry. She is the National Campaigns Director of the Department of Sovereignty & Self-Determination at Honor the Earth, overseeing campaigns on Turtle Island that are focused on land back and sovereignty for tribal nations and communities. Ashley’s background includes grassroots organizing against extraction in a Red State, an academic background in the history and philosophy of science, technology, and medicine, and as a statewide nominee for the office of Oklahoma Corporation Commission, Oklahoma’s regulatory agency overseeing oil, gas, and transportation.

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