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MediaJustice builds power to challenge how corporations and governments use media and technology to shape our collective future. https://mediajustice.org/
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Los daños de los centros de datos afectan a todas nuestras comunidades.

Únete a MediaJustice y @cjaourpower.bsky.social mañana a las 6PM ET | 3PM PT para aprender cómo consumen nuestros derechos fundamentales y cómo puedes unirte a esta lucha.
bit.ly/centrosdedatos101
November 17, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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¿Quieres aprender más sobre los centros de datos y sus daños contra nuestras comunidades?

Acompáñanos a nuestra presentación este martes, el 18 de Noviembre, a las 6:00 PM ET, en colaboración con @cjaourpower.bsky.social, para aprender cómo puedes unirte a la lucha.
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November 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Centros de Datos son los más peligrosos nuevos desarrollos de tech en nuestras vidas.

Únete a MediaJustice y @cjaourpower.bsky.social el 11 de Nov, a las 6PM ET | 3PM PT para aprender cómo consumen nuestra salud, nuestros fondos públicos, y nuestros derechos fundamentales.
bit.ly/centrosdedatos101
El diseno graphico es titulado: "Introducción a los centros de datos." Debajo del titulo, hay una imagen que dice "Peligro, Peligro, No a los centros de datos." Debajo de la imagen hay tres puntos, el primero dice "Qué son los centros de datos" el segundo dice "Qué está tras la masiva expansión de estos proyectos" y el tercer punto dice "Cómo luchamos para proteger a nuestras comunidades." Debajo de los tres puntos, contiene la fecha de 18 de Noviembre y la hora del event cual es 6 PM ET. Abajo de la fecha y horario, en un circulo contiene el enlace para registrarse al evento.
November 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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#Memphis, not Musk!

Let’s break down how #DataCenters are polluting communities in #Tennessee.

Read our NEW report to learn how the state sold out its people to build 16 facilities and how organizations like Memphis Community Against Pollution are resisting.
bit.ly/nodatacenters
November 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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As federal helicopters circled overhead, MediaJustice joined 100+ organizers to march through Memphis earlier this month. Organized by Tigers Against Pollution, we resisted the federal occupation of Memphis and Musk’s xAI data center.

Actions like this prove that when we organize, we can win.
October 31, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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MediaJustice joined 100+ organizers to march and resist the federal occupation and Musk’s xAI data center in Memphis.

Organized by Tigers Against Pollution, actions like this give power back to our people and build the power we’ll need to block billions of $ worth of data center projects.
October 29, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Data vampires are lurking through the night, looking to steal our water & energy with no one in sight.

With estimates saying the #FermiTrumpAI data center would use as much water as 4 Amarillos... it'd suck our water dry.

Join us & Panhandle Action Coalition TOMORROW to demand our city oppose it.
Vampire teeth clench the top and bottom of the graphic, with a swarm of bats flying in the background. The title reads, "Ward Off Data Center Vampires From Amarillo!" Below are three icons (flashlight, garlic, and mirrors) with the text "Get your gear and become their fear." Below this is text that reads, "Let's scare away these data and water suckers and oppose the FermiAmerica Data Center." Below that reads, "Join us Tuesday; October 28th at 3PM; Amarillo City Hall; 623 S. Johnson, Amarillo, TX 79101." Finally there is a Bitly link that reads: bit.ly/stopprojectmatador
October 28, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Estimates say the proposed #FermiTrumpAI data center would use as much water as 4 Amarillos... wasting our water while we’re already in a drought. Join us to demand Amarillo City council oppose the sale of OUR water for data centers.
bit.ly/stopprojectmatador
Graphic shows two organizers speaking at an action with stylistic green and pink shadows behind them. Front and center is "Stop the Fermi America Data Center." On top is the coalition branding: "806 Data Center Resistance: Protecting the Panhandle." Below shows the organizations partnering together, Panhandle Action Coalition and MediaJustice. Finally the petition bitly link is bit.ly/stopprojectmatador. An organizer is seen speaking with stylized green and pink shadows. There is a center canvas that displays the demands to Stop the Fermi America Data Center. They demands are: "No rezoning approval for data centers; No sale of our water; No corporate giveaways/tax abatements." Below is the bitly link: "Take Action: bit.ly/stopprojectmatador"
October 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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The South is fighting back 🗣️

Peek into our October Memphis regional training, where we convened 90+ local organizers to strategize around data centers, w/ Memphis Community Against Pollution.

And bring the fight to your community with our NEW report and organizer toolkit:
bit.ly/datacentertoolkit
October 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Say NO to data centers! 🙅🏾

Even if there is not an active data center project in your community, NOW is the time to organize to prevent them. So bring the fight to your community with our NEW report, The People Say No: Resisting Data Centers in the South ✊🏾:
bit.ly/nodatacenters
October 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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With the highest #DataCenter growth in the U.S., #BigTech is rotting the #Georgia peach.

With 100s of millions of annual tax breaks, learn how politicians have sold out to corporate greed at the expense of our communities’ drinking water and utility bills with our NEW report.
bit.ly/nodatacenters
October 8, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Water isn’t the only thing #DataCenters take from our communities.

Read our full report, The People Say No: Resisting Data Centers in the South, to learn how Big Tech’s #RacetoAI is draining our energy, land, and tax dollars from Black, Brown and working class communities.
bit.ly/nodatacenters
October 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Profit vs. the planet? It may sound like a dystopian movie, but it’s also the reality that #BigTech execs like Sam Altman are barreling us toward. 🥴

Read our new report, The People Say No: Resisting Data Centers in the South, to learn how they harm our communities:
bit.ly/nodatacenters
October 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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#DataCenters may feel like a mistake, but Jerome Scott of Project South speaks to how #RacializedCapitalism was intended to be.

Join the conversation by watching the full webinar recording of The People Say No: Resisting Data Centers in the South.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_5R...
September 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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#BigTech executives pandering to Trump’s ego and policies goes beyond the theatrics.

Read our Sr. Research Specialist Jai Dulani's op-ed on how this administration has enabled tech companies to invest $20 billion+ in the South and how this harms our communities:
truthout.org/articles/big...
Truthout Article lead image of Tennessee State Rep. Justin Pearson speaking in opposition to a plan by Elon Musks's xAI to use gas turbines for a new data center during a rally outside of Fairley High School ahead of a public comment meeting on the project in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 25, 2025. Image Credit: Brandon Dill / The Washington Post via Getty Images The article headline is: "Big Tech Data Centers Compound Decades of Environmental Racism in the South" There is a quote block for: "The South has long been a site of both corporate extraction and fierce political resistance. Continuing this legacy of resistance, data center opposition is increasingly strong across the South."
September 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Our Head of Programs, Jacinta González, was featured in @theguardian.com’s latest article exposing how Palantir is not just complicit in ICE operations — it is the tech backbone of it.

From biometric databases to a nightmarish app, the surveillance state is here:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The Guardian article imagery has a phone with Palantir on its screen. The article headline is "Documents offer rare insight on Ice’s close relationship with Palantir" The selected quote is "'Now [with access to more federal databases] Ice can use this type of surveillance apparatus on anyone – not only anyone who is undocumented but anyone who this administration wants to criminalize and anyone who the administration wants to put under surveillance,' said González of MediaJustice."
September 23, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Thank you to the 250+ comrades who helped make our LIVE launch the MOST ATTENDED virtual event in our history!! 🎉

Bring our key learnings to your community with our companion toolkit, which has case studies and resources to uplift the fight to your community:
bit.ly/datacentertoolkit
Title: "Black and Working Class Communities Have Long Been Primary Residents of 'Sacrifice Zones'" Text: "For Big Tech corporations (Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft), harming working-class communities of color isn't a bug in their system — it's a feature of their business model. The South is quickly becoming the epicenter of data center development with over $200 billion dollars and counting being invested in data centers across the region. The same history of industrial exploitation and pollution is repeating itself now with data centers." Title: "Cut Through the AI Hype" Text: "The AI hype and the rush to build data centers is a con job with lethal consequences: - Large amounts of energy, water, and land consumed to maintain them - The sprint for fossil fuels and nuclear energy - Air, noise, and water pollution - Millions in tax breaks that could be used to provide life-saving services gets diverted to Big Tech - No transparency and shady backdoor deals sidesteps local communities" Speaker spotlight for Wanda Mosley, Deputy Policy Director at Black Voters Matter. Quote: "This is about artificial intelligence and the need for these billionaire bros to control it to infiltrate our lives with what they want us to do, the places they want us to go, the things they want us to buy, and the things they want us to consume. That's what this fight is really about." Title: "NOW is the Time to Act" Text: - Download our Full Report (bit.ly/nodatacenters) and Companion Toolkit (bit.ly/datacentertoolkit) to learn more about data centers. - Sign the Petition for our Memphis comrades fighting xAI and its pollution with the link in bio. - Organize with your neighbors and community members against data center proposals."
September 22, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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📣 NYC Comrades 📣

Join us, organizers, & workers this Saturday as we rally against #BigTech's data centers that are powering AI, raising energy bills, and polluting communities across the country. #NYCClimateWeek

@athenaforall.bsky.social @notechforapartheid.bsky.social
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Rally graphic for "Rally to Fight AI Data Centers." Under the title, text reads, "Stop Big Tech from using our water, power, and tax money to fuel their AI power grab." The date is "Sept. 20th, Rally at 11, March at 12." The location is "375 Park Ave, New York, NY 10022." Under this is the registration link, "Register now! bit.ly/datacenterrally"
September 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Don’t miss the LIVE launch of our NEW report TOMORROW at 5:30 PM ET | 2:30 PM PT!

We’re featuring frontline community members who have resisted data centers in their communities and fought back.

Join the conversation to learn how we can stop data centers together:
bit.ly/nodatacenters
Speaker Graphic for "The People Say No: Resisting Data Centers in the South," MediaJustice's LIVE launch of our latest report exposing the harms of data centers in the South. The three speakers are Wanda Mosley, Deputy Policy Director at Black Voters Matter, Jerome Scott, Founding Director of Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide, and LaToysha Brown, Executive Director at Freedom Project Network. Speaker highlight for Wanda Mosley, Deputy Policy Director at Black Voters Matter. Wanda's bio is: "Wanda Mosley currently serves as the Deputy Policy Director at Black Voters Matter, a power building organization working with grassroots organizations and community leaders, many of whom reside in rural communities in the Deep South. As the Georgia Senior State Manager from 2018-2020, she implemented creative organizing programs to motivate communities by letting voters create the organization’s GOTV (get out the vote) collateral. The people-centered organizing contributed those historic wins in Georgia. Prior to working at Black Voters Matter, Wanda worked as the Community and Volunteer Outreach Manager at the New Georgia Project, and in 2018, Wanda was selected as part of the inaugural Electoral Justice League fellows with The Movement For Black Lives." Speaker highlight for Jerome Scott. Jerome's bio is: "A former autoworker, labor organizer in the auto plants of Detroit, and member of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, Jerome Scott is the founding director of Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide. He is active in the League of Revolutionaries for a New America and is a contributing author and editor of popular education toolkits and books, including The United States Social Forum: Perspectives of a Movement and The Roots of Terror. He is co-author of Motown and the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries: The Story of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers." Speaker highlight for LaToysha Brown. LaToysha's bio is: "Before becoming the Executive Director of the Freedom Project Network, LaToysha served as a teacher at Abramson Sci Academy in New Orleans, where she taught Global Justice and designed a social studies curriculum partnered with the 1619 Project. LaToysha is a spoken-word artist (Nina Shakur), loves Beyonce, and spends her weekends listening to live bands. The Freedom Fighters who inspires her are Nina Simone and Assata Shakur. Her favorite songs by Nina Simone are Baltimore, Lilac Wine, and Everything Must Change. Assata Shakur said, “It is our duty to fight for freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.” She is passionate about young people and adults working together to transform their communities, fighting for their freedoms."
September 16, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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👀 All eyes on #BigTech 👀

As Tech Broligarchs continue to extract clean water, energy, and natural resources from the South, our people are fighting back.

Learn more and join us for our LIVE launch of our latest report THIS WEDS, 9/17, at 5:30 PM ET | 2:30 PM PT:
bit.ly/nodatacenters
September 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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#BigTech's latest scheme expands data centers at all costs, even as it actively hurts Black, brown, and working class communities.

Join us next WEDS, 9/17 at 6PM ET | 3PM PT as we break down the first-ever comprehensive regional report of data centers in the South:
bit.ly/DataCentersSouth
LIVE launch graphic for "The People Say No: Resisting Data Centers in the South." A light lavender backdrop has the title front upward with "LIVE Report + Toolkit Launch" below it. A purple hand holds cut wiring to the center right. To the center left is the launch date, "WEDNESDAY September 17: 5:30 PM ET | 2:30 PM PT." Toward the bottom is a giant pile of wiring. The Bitly link is: "bit.ly/DataCentersSouth" Host Graphic for our report LIVE launch: "The People Say No: Resisting Data Centers in the South." The webinar will be hosted by: "Teresa Basilio Gaztambide, Sr Political Education Director with MediaJustice" and "KeShaun Pearson, Director with Memphis Community Against Pollution." Both hedashots are front and center. Report launch graphic for MediaJustice's newest report, "The People Say No: Resisting Data Centers in the South." The graphic is divided in two sides: on the left we have a sort of environmental utopia with wide canyons and folks in a canoe going by a stream. On the right we have the alternative, rows of data center equipment with endless wiring.
September 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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TODAY, we're launching The People Say No: Resisting Data Centers in the South, our report dedicated to exposing data center harms in the South and how our people are fighting back.

Read the full report, including case studies from 5 southern states:
bit.ly/nodatacenters
Report launch graphic for MediaJustice's newest report, "The People Say No: Resisting Data Centers in the South." The graphic is divided in two sides: on the left we have a sort of environmental utopia with wide canyons and folks in a canoe going by a stream. On the right we have the alternative, rows of data center equipment with endless wiring.
September 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Are you at #NetRootsNation?

Featuring MJ's @dannyfied.bsky.social, we're joining @mpowerchange.bsky.social, @kairosfellows.bsky.social, & #NoAzureforApartheid to talk how Big Tech is a crucial partner in Israel's genocide in Gaza.

We'd love to see you TOMORROW @ 1PM!
www.netrootsnation.org/agenda/
Graphic with blue tech blocks in the background, some showing faces of folks identified by an AI tech system. The main text reads, "Join us at NetRoots: 1:00 PM in Room 295." Below this reads, "Tech workers & advocates fight back against AI warfare in Palestine." On the left is the date the panel will take place, August 7th 2025. Below this are the guest speakers, Anna Hattle, Granate Kim, Hossam Nasr, Irna Landrum, and our MJ Campaign Specialist, danny c. To the right are the logos of the organizations we're partnering with, MPower Change, No Azure for Apartheid, and Kairos.
August 6, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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And catch the full recording of a previous webinar we did diving into data centers and their harms on our communities.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_aB...
Speaker quote highlight for Sarah Myers West, Co-Executive Director at AI Now Institute. The quote is, "What is really worrisome is that we can’t extricate ourselves from all of the ways that this technology breaks down, makes mistakes, or purposefully causes harm to us and our communities." Speaker quote highlight for Sharon Lewis, Executive Director at CT Coalition for Economic and Environmental Justice. The quote is, "[AI centers] expand surveillance and marginalize vulnerable communities under the guise of progress. What we’re seeing is something that we don’t quite have a handle on: this new type of technology is a new form of environmental injustice." The final webinar call to action slide title reads, "We Have Some Work To Do." Under it is, "Organize in your local communities to prevent data centers. Download our Data Centers Organizing Guide, in partnership with Kairos, to get started. Keep in touch with us on our platforms. Tune in to our next webinar. We regularly host programming to meet emerging tech and media needs. Learn more about data centers by checking out our previous webinar recording of WTF are Data centers? on YouTube." Under this are protesters from two different protests against Elon Musk and data centers. The Image Credit is for NBC News.
August 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Ready to take down data centers in your community? Download our organizing guide with @kairosfellows.bsky.social‬.
www.kairosfellows.org/fightdatacen...
The title says, "The AI Action Plan Puts Our Power At Risk." Under it is white text that reads, "The plan discourages any kind of regulation on AI at the federal, state and local level. Our local organizing builds the power we need to stop Tech Broligarchs from harming our people and denying us the ability to determine our tech futures" Below it on the lefthand side shows a protester with a sign that reads, "Big Tech bought our rep." On the right is the image credit for Prince William Times. The title says, "The AI Action Plan Instates Racial Bias and Harms." Under this is a screenshot of the executive order title, "Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government." Under this is the text, "Federal agencies are directed to buy AI models that align with "truth-seeking" and "ideological neutrality." These are dog whistles to prevent AI models from addressing the racial bias baked into them, like most technology."
August 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM