This is a presentation with Honor the Earth about the AI Infrastructure, including generative AI, hyper scale data centers, critical minerals mining, nuclear expansion & surveillance and their impacts. Additionally, learn about the necessary tools to fight back!
Resources Shared:
- No Data Center on Native Land Organizer Toolkit (Honor the Earth)
- Slide Presentation (Honor the Earth)
Speaker Bios:
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 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.