Kimberly Owens
speaker
582 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 24 Aug
Kimberly Owens’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Thoughtful collaboration.
How can thoughtful collaboration occur when you're refusing to allow us opportunity to even collaborate?
Pushing things through won't do it.
I am not here alone.
I'm here with two individuals who have been with this community up to 50 years.
They're terrified of what's going to happen at Hood Road.
They're terrified about their lives that they built here, their health, who's a survivor of cancer.
Will it happen again?
Because evidence shows that it is a very real possibility.
I'm a resident at Crossing at Reedy Creek, which is a four-minute drive from where the American Terror Corps East Charlotte Data Center is proposed to be built, and also a proud organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
So for the last week and a half, because of the Charlotte drought, the water pressure in my house has completely halved.
So it takes two times longer to shower, to wash dishes, to do anything that requires water.
And I'm not here to look for pity, because I know there are far more severe problems that people here in Charlotte face.
There are families I've spoken to while doing outreach who haven't had electricity in months because of Duke Energy's ridiculous rate hikes.
There are mothers who work for the airport who can barely afford clothes for their children, not to mention rent.
And how are we supposed to survive when so many of our people are still earning $7.25 an hour?
And as someone who grew up with a single mother living on a minimum wage trying to make ends meet, I can't emphasize enough how hard this is.
So I'm here to ask you, why do we have to suffer the consequences of this drought?
Why do we have to suffer the consequences of these rate hikes, of these greedy corporations, while our elected officials continue to allow for the construction of these data centers that, let me emphasize, nobody wants?
This fight for a data center moratorium isn't just about data centers.
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