You Can’t Drink Data: Native Communities Are Resisting the AI Death Cycle
“These are tools to extract from who we are to erase us,” says organizer Krystal Two Bulls.
“These are tools to extract from who we are to erase us,” says organizer Krystal Two Bulls.
“This is a time to build on organizing on the ground and sustain it over time,” says Silky Shah
“A lot of people are really sitting up and pushing back,” says Brian Merchant.
“Preparedness isn’t just about having stuff,” says Kelly Hayes.
“We are being robbed by the worst people in the world.”
“You can do something. It is within reach. You can have an effect,” says journalist John Washington.
“Public opinion is not a self-enforcing political mechanism; it’s a mood. If we want public disapproval to become public action, we need to extend worthwhile invitations.”
“We really have to see the rise of Trump itself as an indictment of the whole system,” says Khury Petersen-Smith.
“There is a difference between abandoning the world and finding a way to remain part of it.”
“What if changing the world looked more like care than like war,” asks writer Rebecca Solnit.
"We have to be curious and imaginative about how we might get out of this," says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein.
Too much urgency to resolve conflict can close us off from what repair really requires, says Kelly Hayes.
Feelings of powerlessness can be insidious.
“Disagreement can be a beautiful, beautiful thing,” says Tanuja Jagernauth.
“The forced choreography of everyday life continues, even as the stage is dismantled beneath our feet.”
“If we lose this as a public good and as a free public service, we will have lost everything,” says Mariame Kaba.
"A conspiracy charge is deeply isolating, which I think is probably part of the point from the government’s perspective," says Joselyn Walsh.
“Nobody had a story about unlearning that didn’t include a connection with other people,” says Lewis Raven Wallace.
"There’s nothing like getting to give someone their rent money," says mutual aid organizer Ashley Fairbanks.
“This extreme closeness, togetherness and intimacy — you cannot infiltrate your way into a space where you'll understand that," says May, a rapid responder in Minneapolis.
“Getting involved locally is critical,” says journalist Andrea Pitzer.
"Gender has always been an important throughline of fascist politics," says Shane Burley.
“This is not a cruel novelty project. It’s infrastructure, designed for permanence and expansion.”
“We are becoming the people that we always knew that we needed to be,” says Minneapolis organizer Andrew Fahlstrom.