We began our meeting by discussing upcoming virtual teach-ins. There are several planned on topics such as Labor & Energy Democracy, A Worker’s Green New Deal, Art Design & Architecture. The chapter will be able to get involved and run certain sessions if we are interested. We will plan to continue keeping people up to…
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Chants for “Free The Moderna Vaccine” Aug 28 2020
1. Hey Hey Ho Ho \\ profiteering has got to go 2. Hey Moderna you can’t hide, \\ we can see your greedy side 3. Sign the pledge \\ Free the Vaccine 4. Whose vaccine? People’s vaccine \\ Whose vaccine? Our vaccine 5. Public funding, public good 6. People Before profits 7. The virus doesn’t…
Meeting Summary, Aug 11th 2020
In this meeting of the Boston Chapter of Science for the People (SFTP), we first discussed scheduling guest speaker Rochelle Gutiérrez to join a future chapter meeting to discuss her article “Towards a vision for the future” published in the Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal. The work is generally concerned with social and cultural forces that inform…
Meeting Summary, July 28th 2020
In this meeting of the Boston Chapter of Science for the People (SFTP), we first covered the OccupyPharma and #FreeTheVaccine collaboration. As a reminder, we are working with the #FreeTheVaccine campaign to write articles and opinion pieces to be submitted to local and national outlets as well as planning direct actions in the Boston area….
Meeting Summary, July 14th 2020
In this meeting we began by discussing social media and outreach strategies. We decided it might make sense to have different people post on Twitter/Facebook at different times to keep the accounts “active”. We also decided to organize a training for social media engagement. We then discussed showing solidarity with international students against the Trump…
Response to DHS / ICE July 6th, 2020 statement on deporting international students
We stand in solidarity with all immigrants and international students in the US, regardless of visa status, including those who are threatened by this week’s decision. As universities and vocational schools move classes online to reduce in-person interactions in the midst of a pandemic while continuing to educate our students, ICE and the Trump administration…
Meeting Summary, June 30th 2020
We started the meeting by discussing a fall event to train scientists to become activists within their institutions. The skills we’d focus on would be to develop recruitment strategies, how to facilitate meetings, formation of graduate student unions. The format would potentially be a (virtual) workshop or a (virtual) conference. Some in the meeting elevated…