Healthcare practitioners regularly minimize the pain of people of color. This is particularly so for women of color, whose bodies have been subjected to regular suspicion and abuse. The fields of science and medicine, renowned for progress...
It’s a jarring experience to have someone explain your job to you, especially if they get it wrong, and that’s just what happened during the opening remarks of the July 2019 World Conference of Science Journalists. A series of European...
Science for the People is proud to introduce our two inaugural Circle Holders, Rochelle Gutiérrez and Max Liboiron. Circle Holder is an honor granted to individuals and groups whose work at the intersection of power, ideology, and equity...
Through its “STEM Justice” model, the KAYSC works to change narratives around science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), and how people relate to STEM. In this pathway program of out-of-school-time learning, work, and leadership...
Chapter and Working Group Reports, Autumn 2019 Reports from Science for the People working groups and chapters SftP Retreat, Blacksburg Chapter, Labor Working Group, Science for Puerto Rico, Social Sciences Discussion Group Volume 22...
In recent years it has become increasingly clear that capitalism is not just a system of wage labor, but a system that thrives by exploiting and extracting value from labor through any means necessary: gigging subcontractors, interns...
Although often not associated with the radical science movement, the Alternative Corporate Plan produced by workers at Lucas Aerospace in the UK in the 1970s was, one of radical science’s outstanding achievements. And, like Science for the...
Biological essentialism and reductionism have plagued how we scientists do science, and how society looks at the science we do, for a very long time. Biological essentialism refers to the idea that who we are is purely innate, a hardwired...
Nine Ways Scientists Can Support a People’s Green New Deal By Zach Zill Volume 22, number 1, The Return of Radical Science In late 2018, the Green New Deal (GND) vaulted into the center of US politics thanks to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio...
Register now for the Third International Meeting for Science in Palestine, held January 10-12, 2020, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The meeting will convene people of diverse backgrounds from across the world along with some...
Growing up, there was a globe on my family’s living room table. My brother and I would play “vacation,” spinning the globe and dragging our fingers along the rotating lines of latitude. Wherever our fingers pointed when the globe stopped...
The next generation of Science for the People–a publication for radical science, engineering and technology workers and enthusiasts–is experiencing a revival! Watch the full documentary here!
A lot has changed in the worlds of science and publishing since Volume 21, Number 2 of Science for the People came off the presses in 1989. Since that last issue, the absence of such a leading voice for radical science has enabled the...
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BIO-POLITICS Science for the People seeks proposals for articles, art, and other content for the upcoming issue, “Bio-Politics” (Volume 23, Number 3, autumn 2020). When Science for the People emerged in the late 1960s, the group...
