Reading
1. The Glorians, Terry Tempest Williams
2. The Wild Edge of Sorrow; Francis Weller
3. CPTSD, From Surviving to Thriving , Pete Walker
4. The Book of Soul, Mark Nepo
5. Ancestral Medicine, Daniel Foor
6. Your Deepest Ground, John Prendergast
7. Listening When Parts Speak, Tamala Floyd
8. In the Absence of the Ordinary, Francis Weller
9. Reverse Meditation, Andrew Holecek
10. Healing the Core Wounds of Unworthiness, Adyashanti
11. The Body is a Door way: Sophie Strand
12. Of Water and the Spirit, Malidoma Patrice Some
13. Greater than the Sum of Your Parts, Richard Schwartz PhD.
14. Coming to PEACE; resolving conflict within ourselves and others, Isa Gucciardi
15. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, Gabor Mate
16. Seed for a Boundless Life, Zenkei Blanche Hartman
17. Feminine Consciousness, Archtypes, Marion Woodman
18. Near Enemies of the Truth, Christopher Wallace PhD
19. The Shamans Body, Arnold Mindell
20. Living with Borrowed Dust, James Hollis
A Helpful Resource For Seniors Experiencing Loneliness and Isolation
https://www.caring.com/caregivers/help-for-seniors-experiencing-loneliness-and-isolation/.
“We write history with our feet and with our presence and our collective voice and vision… We can change the world because we have many times before.” -Rebecca Solnit, writer and activist, Hope in the Dark
SOCIAL JUSTICE RESOURCES: “The AI RESIST LIST”
AI takes many forms. Like the word “transportation”, it refers to a collection of technologies as diverse and distinctive as bicycles to rockets. But today, one version of AI takes all the oxygen: large-scale, generative systems that power products like Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT.
These systems consume an unfathomable amount of data, land, energy, labor, and water. They are rooted in profoundly disturbing ideologies that seek to flatten the world into a “one size fits all” abstraction and to replace humans with machines.
We call the companies leading this form of AI development “empires”. Under the guise of a civilizing mission to "benefit all of humanity”, they use large-scale AI development as cover to consolidate resources, destroy ecosystems, centralize information, hollow out institutions, and gain paramount economic and political power.
What can I do to resist AI?
Nothing about the current trajectory of AI development is inevitable. It was shaped by the thousands of subjective decisions of a tiny elite, and continues its march based on the active participation and tacit consent of people globally.
Inspired by Choose Democracy’s Resist List against authoritarianism, the AI resistance movements documented are based on how they pressure different “Pillars of Support” that uphold and perpetuate the empires.
This list is not meant to be comprehensive. Rather a sample of movements to show different approaches to resistance and to illustrate how anyone can help shape the future of AI development.
Hire a COOP
Hire a COOP is a campaign that promotes taking on the services of worker-owned businesses and platforms, shifting money away from an oligopoly-based market dominated by Big Tech into the solidarity economy. The campaign was launched in 2025 by the Argentine Federation of Technology, Innovation, and Knowledge Work Cooperatives (FACTTIC); the Worker-Owned Intersectional Platforms (WOIP); and seven tech, design, and creative co-ops owned and shaped by people in Brazil and Argentina which are self-managed and follow their own organizational principles based on democracy and intersectionality.
LATAMReimagining, Reclaiming
Huniki Federation
Huniki is a thriving network of community-based technology companies that focus on the African languages often underserved by the AI industry. From machine translation to automatic speech recognition and custom modeling, their services provide tailored language AI systems developed by and for the people who actually speak it.
AfricaReclaiming
Sovereign AI and Sustainable Computation for Indigenous Communities
The Sovereign AI and Sustainable Computation for Indigenous Communities project is a creative solution to both repurpose functional yet discarded computational hardware, and strengthen Indigenous digital sovereignty. While companies like NVIDIA continually refresh hardware, they generate millions of GPUs that typically become E-waste. Professor Keolu Fox, the Native BioData Consortium, and Indigenous Futures Institute are taking these Zombie GPUs (ZGPUs) to create low-cost micro-data centers, which will be used to develop small, cheekily named Little Language Models (LLMs) within Indigenous communities. The models will be trained on culturally relevant and community-curated datasets, bridging a digital divide and creating an environmental solution.
Indigenous PepopleReclaiming
Te Hiku Media's Te Reo Māori speech-recognition tool
Te Hiku Media is a broadcasting and technology hub that has worked for over 30 years to nurture and revitalize te reo, the Māori language. While Silicon Valley's approach to AI mirrors colonial practices of assimilation and gatekeeping access, leaving out entire languages and peoples, Te Hiku Media had another vision. Working with the Māori community, they built a sovereign speech recognition model for te reo, while ensuring the flow of data wouldn’t be used without the community's consent. They've also developed a digital language platform, Papa Reo, to expand their work to other Pacific languages. As Te Hiku Media’s leaders Peter-Lucas Jones and Keoni Mahelona say, “Data is the last frontier of colonization."
ASIA/OCEANIAIndigenous PepopleReclaiming
Lesan AI
Lesan AI starts from a simple premise: that everyone should be able to consume the internet in their own native language and have equal access to information, ultimately making society less vulnerable to fake news and misinformation. To that end, they have built state-of-the-art machine translation systems for Amharic and Tigrinya, languages in Ethiopia, training their models from scratch and fairly compensating their data workers. Their purpose-built systems show how machine translation can be done while centering both workers and the communities they serve.
AfricaReclaiming
Slow AI
Nonprofit AIxDESIGN's Slow AI project questions the narratives of big tech companies and their focus on scale and domination. Their exploration highlights the value of small-scale and human-centered approaches which honors each local context, culture, and environment. Their work culminates in a series of intricately beautiful and often whimsical zines: Small AI, Esoteric AI, and Ancestral AI - each offering alternative visions that push back on Silicon Valley ideologies.
GlobalReimagining
Africa Technology Assesment Platform (AfriTAP)
The Africa Technology Assessment Platform (AfriTAP) is a decentralised pan-African network dedicated to empowering Africans to assert control over new and emerging technologies by conducting participatory technology assessments that prioritise community voices. To date, they have conducted assessments in several countries on the continent engaging indigenous people, farmers and local governments on the impacts of digitalisation and the costs borne by communities affected by mineral extraction.
AfricaReclaiming
Permacomputing
Permacomputing is a concept that reimagines the extractive, destructive relationship of the computing industry to people and the planet. Inspired by the ethos of permaculture in gardening and agriculture, permacomputing encourages a more sustainable, low-impact approach that seeks to maximize hardware lifespans, minimize energy use, and reuse computing infrastructures that are already available. A global, decentralized community of practitioners hosts meetups around the world and maintains a wiki for anyone interested in learning more or in starting their own initiative.
GlobalReimagining, Resisting, Reclaiming
Document user privacy infringements
Poison your data
Nightshade Nightshade is a tool that transforms images into "poison" samples, so that models training on them without consent will see their models learn unpredictable behaviors. It works by changing the composition of images in a way that is barely visible to the human eye, but completely changes how the image is interpreted by a generative AI model. Designed for artists to apply on their artworks before publishing them on the internet, Nightshade's goal is to increase the cost of training on unlicensed data such that licensing images from their creators becomes a viable alternative.
Protest extractive data center projects
Digital Citizen Campaign against Google Data Center
Movimiento por un Uruguay Sustentable mobilized Uruguayans through a digital citizen campaign that seeked greater transparency and accountability for a proposed Google data center in Canelones, Uruguay. While the project was open for public comment, the campaign encouraged citizens to submit demands for more information and additional research about the facility, including its local socioeconomic benefits beyond the creation of 50 jobs, its impact on air quality, and investigations into how the upstream rare earth mining and downstream waste disposal caused by the facility would impact other communities.
LATAMOrganize and participate in protests, campaigns, and interventions
Border Community challenges Open-AI Data Center
Through legal actions and letters, New Mexico residents and environmental groups are challenging "Project Jupiter," a hyperscale data center planned near the southern New Mexico border as part of OpenAI's Stargate Initiative. Represented by the New Mexico Environmental Law Center, community members have sued the Doña Ana County Board of County Commissioners for its failure to comply with state public transparency laws, as well as for its decision to issue significant public financing for the project despite the environmental and public health risks.
Combat Resource Extraction
Data centers are made from rare earth minerals and other resources. Evidence shows that bottlenecks in these resources have already forced the AI industry to slow its pace.
Mobilize against resource extraction
Friends of the Congo is an organization that partners with and elevates the stories of the Congolese people and their experiences with centuries of environmental racism and mass extraction. Today, AI and other technology industries rely on minerals found in the Congo: cobalt, gold, copper, and coltan - leading to inhumane and exploitative mining conditions. Friends of the Congo works with families seeking accountability from Big Tech over the death of children in cobalt mines, and has organized an annual Congo Week since 2008 to build global solidarity and awareness. Their work shines a light on the very human costs within digital technology supply chains.
Form or join a labor coalition
The Coalition of Digital Employees – Artificial Intelligence (CODE AI)
In the Philippines, several organizations representing digital workers have formed the Coalition of Digital Employees – Artificial Intelligence, or CODE AI, to address growing concerns over the impact of AI on labor rights. Led by BIEN, a network representing those employed in the business process outsourcing industry, the coalition pushes for more say in making AI policies, documents harms caused by AI adoption, and keeps employers accountable to those impacts.
ASIA/OCEANIAOrganize and participate in protests, campaigns, and interventions
Tech Workers Coalition is a collective of workers in and around the tech industry, building worker power through self-organization and education. Working in solidarity with existing movements, they leverage their unique position within the tech machine to mobilize against issues spanning surveillance tech, ICE, and wage theft. They have also developed educational and operational resources for tech workers to organize their workplace against the negative impact of AI on tech workers, such as layoffs and deskilling (the process of devaluing the skill of a worker at the industry level), or on the rest of society, such as environmental impact, automated warfare, and increased surveillance.
US/CanadaEuropeOrganize and participate in protests, campaigns, and interventions
Who built this LIST:
Karen Hao Reporter & author of Empire of AI, Petra Molnar Refugee Law Lab; Berkman Klein Center, Verónica Martínez Reporter & photojournalist · Ciudad Juárez / El Paso Dylan K. Baker Lead research engineer, DAIR Marion Meyers Independent researcher Tania Duarte Founder, We and AI Bruna MartinsTechnology, communications & AI governance Heidi Lim Climate communicator Ramla Anshur Designer, researcher & futurist Pauline Wee Designer & engineer, DAIR Yemariam Mamo Designer & researcher Wael Qarssifi Journalist
Confrontation with the Shadow
“This confrontation is the first test of courage on the inner way, a test sufficient to frighten off most people, for the meeting with ourselves belongs to the more unpleasant things that can be avoided so long as we can project everything negative into the environment. But if we are able to see our own shadow and can bear knowing about it, then a small part of the problem has already been solved: we have at least brought up the personal unconscious. The shadow is a living part of the personality and therefore wants to live with it in some form. It cannot be argued out of existence or rationalized into harmlessness. This problem is exceedingly difficult, because it not only challenges the whole [person], but reminds [them] at the same time of [their] helplessness and ineffectuality.” –C. G. Jung
Journey through
Here some resources from Rabbi Tirzah Firestone:
1. Self-Education: This is an amazing Op-Ed from the LA Times by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: "Don’t understand the protests? What you’re seeing is people pushed to the edge." And an indispensable essay, "On American Racism" by my friend Rabbi Mordechai Liebling. I am also engrossed in these books: White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo, Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People by Mahzarin R. Banaji and Anthony Greenwald, and My Grandmother's Hands by my friend and colleague Resmaa Menakem. Also check out this great resource list of articles, films, and more from At The Well.
2. Donate directly to the Movement for Black Lives. National Bailout is an important Black-led and Black-centered collective of organizers, lawyers and activists who help people facing pre-trial detention and mass incarceration. Use ActBlue's secure donation link here to simultaneously send money to up to 39 (and counting) nationwide bail funds.
3. Take a few minutes to truly FEEL what is going on within and around you.
To HEAL the world we must FEEL the world!Then please write, call, and contact the people who can help us make a difference. Click here for the most needed calls! And take five minutes to send petitions to key decision makers.
A Helpful Resource For Seniors Experiencing Loneliness and Isolation
https://www.caring.com/caregivers/help-for-seniors-experiencing-loneliness-and-isolation/.
“The only journey is the one within.”