Planning the “Radical Science Fair”: Members reported back on the groups and potential venues they’d reached out to after last meeting regarding a “Radical Science Fair” to be hosted in Late April or Early May. Since labor organizing and environmental justice will only be part of the themes of the event, we decided it was…
Month: March 2020
COVID-19 Pandemic Response
The spread of COVID-19 is now considered a global pandemic. In the United States, the particulars of how the disease spreads (long and contagious incubation period when infected individuals do not show symptoms), combined with a delayed response to presumptive cases, has made it infeasible to “contain” the outbreak by tracing and quarantining all of…
What can we learn from the outbreak in Italy
At the moment of this writing (Sunday March 15th 2020), Italy is the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. The numbers coming out of Italy are simply staggering: 175 deaths and 3500 new confirmed infections just yesterday. These statistics are more shocking when considering that this situation came to be in just a month. In early…
Make schools safe from ICE!
In light of the recent reports that Boston Public School officials put their students at risk of deportation by sharing information with the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Science for the People Boston joins the calls from the Student Immigrant Movement and Unafraid Educators to keep ICE out of schools and to…