Wed. June 10th, 3:30pm, Albany St + Main St, (near MIT/Broad/ Kendal Square T stop) Followed by march to Boston City Hall to join rally from Nubian Square. Details here Please join the STEM community in a rally to show solidarity with Black Lives Matter and related movements across the country. We will have a short…
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Statement of solidarity with Black Lives Matter and related movements across the country
Science, as organized and practiced today, is an endeavor that exhibits extreme bias. The makeup of the scientific workforce does not reflect the racial makeup of our society; black people are wildly underrepresented, with a particularly egregious underrepresentation of black women. This is unjust, both as a violation of equality of opportunity, and because science…
Meeting Summary, May 6th 2020
Welcome: We have two new members! We introduced ourselves and everyone conveyed that their reason for getting involved in SftP was their deep interest in both science and radical politics. Report-back on climate strike: Our climate strike involvement was essentially scuttled by the coronavirus epidemic. Report-back about national and local COVID-19 activities: We heard about…
Statement on COVID-19 Pandemic
The following is a statement about the COVID-19 pandemic from the National organization of SFTP. It was initially posted here. SftP Statement on COVID-19 Pandemic The COVID-19 Pandemic has generated multiple crises across healthcare, economic, and social systems in the…
Meeting Summary, April 8th 2020
Welcome: We have a new member! We introduced ourself and checked that everybody is physically and emotionally healthy during this challenging time. Meeting virtually using zoom: We discussed the recent reports regarding the lack of security and encryption of the video conferencing platform “zoom”. We decided that, moving forward, we will implement password protection for all…
Meeting Summary, Feb 26 2020
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…
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…
Yale Study Says Medicare for All Would Save U.S. $450 Billion, Prevent Nearly 70,000 Deaths a Year
The recent study “Improving the prognosis of health care in the USA” was published on Feb 15 2020. Its abstract reads: Although health care expenditure per capita is higher in the USA than in any other country, more than 37 million Americans do not have health insurance, and 41 million more have inadequate access to care….