Join us for an evening of discussion and practice at the nexus of attention activism and environmental justice.
We're not living through an environmental crisis. We're living through two environmental crises: one of our external environment (the climate and planetary system) and one of our internal environment (human attention). These inner and outer worlds are the basis for human flourishing. And they are profoundly imperiled.
The reckless deployment of AI technologies that pollute our atmosphere and frack our minds has made this relationship painfully clear. But the convergence of these two crises presents an opportunity for new (and old) forms of social practice designed to reconstitute the worlds of matter and meaning that make human life worth living.
Join us for an evening of discussion and practice at the nexus of attention activism and environmental justice, featuring a panel of thinkers, writers, and leaders.
Hosted by the Strother School of Radical Attention
In collaboration with Counterstream
Celebrating the Earth Day release of the Peace & Riot AI issue: Read HERE!
ON PEACE & RIOT ISSUE 05: As the AI race accelerates across the country, this issue of Peace & Riot shares stories from the frontlines: people fighting for their communities over corporate control, for clean air over polluted skies, for public good over private profit. This is a fight for our shared humanity.
Featuring:
Capri LaRocca, Lab Coordinator (SoRA):
Educator, designer, and eco-futurist working to co-create a more regenerative world.
Henry Kramer, Academic Dean (SoRA):
Hudson Valley-based writer and educator whose work weaves imagination, deep attention, and experimental pedagogy.
Julia Luz Betancourt, Assistant Editor (Counterstream):
Investigative reporter, editor and multimedia creator documenting abuses of power by government, corporations and higher education institutions. For this issue of Peace & Riot, Betancourt reports on the intersections of state surveillance and ICE.
Amirio Freeman, Contributor (Counterstream):
Essayist, interviewer, and editor who writes about Blackness, queerness, and plants. For this issue of Peace & Riot, they talk with Jai Dulani of MediaJustice on the myths, marketing, and manufactured inevitability of AI.