Category: meeting_summary

On 5 April 2021 during our biweekly chapter meeting our discussion focused on the upcoming event Social Activism for Social Justice (SA4SJ). We have been planning this event for some time and have now decided that the event will be structured into 2 parallel sessions: one focused on unionizing/organizing in the workplace, and one focused…

We started the meeting with introductions and a basic overview of the meeting structure. Followed by a note on the value of writing summaries after the meeting. Next there was an update on the Big Blue Button video hosting platform as an alternative to zoom. It has better security features and corporate practices and is…

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…

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…

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….

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…

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…

Our meeting started with a discussion of current efforts to show solidarity with Black Lives Matter and associated movements and what other initiatives we could undertake.  National SftP has been holding calls and is currently collecting input on possible initiatives. The recording of the most recent national call is here. We discussed responses to the…

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…

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…