Student Activism When It Feels Impossible
A personal student reflection on fighting climate inaction at Cornell in the time of AI. Addressing the despair that activists can feel, Lani asserts that silence is not an option when our silence condemns the future. Her activism with Cornell on Fire has included successes and there are more coming: “If you care about our climate, our future, and justice, then I welcome you too to embody your voice.”
CoF Post 1/20: An MLK Reflection
We observe Martin Luther King Day with a reflection on his "Letter from Birmingham Jail," penned in 1963 and precisely relevant today. King’s recognition that "we are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality” made him "radical" in his day. That same recognition should make us all "radicals" today.
To be alive on earth today is to be an activist…or a moderate. Please be an activist.