Science for the People has work to do in standing to end racism, and that starts with our internal organizing. I want to highlight some of our...
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Letter from the Editors Volume 23, number 1, Science Under Occupation History is full of stories of subjugation, oppression, and occupation—stories that have been rewritten, sanitized, or removed from mainstream narratives altogether. But...
SftP Magazine Reader Survey May 15, 2020 With our first year back in publication, Science for the People has been proud to bring you news, commentary, interviews, and reviews to help build a radical science movement. In our first three...
One cloudy, humid day in July 2018, I participated in a climate demonstration in front of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in the heart of Metro Manila, Philippines. As part of an internship with Advocates of...
Modern medicine has displaced religion as the prime author of miracles. Yet we rarely ever stop to think about the process that led to the development of new medicines, let alone the social situations that surround them. Learning about the...
The Global South has the odds stacked against it in the world economy. Not only have its natural resources and human capital been expropriated by neoliberal forces (i.e., multinational corporations and the governments supporting them), but...
The moonlit outlines of a metal gate were only partly visible when our community guide announced that we had reached our destination. After more than five hours of travel in the dead of the night, signage welcomed us with the resolute...
How can we approach and analyze the myriad interwoven relations between humans, animals, plants, and fungi? In her book The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibilities of Living in Capitalist Ruins, the anthropologist Anna Tsing...
The legacy of Sandra Harding’s contributions to theorizing “Science Under Occupation” is profound. For more than four decades now, Harding has famously insisted that a world of sciences (lower case and plural) exist, and that the mythic...
On June 11, 1957, at 11 p.m., Maurice Audin, a twenty-five-year-old mathematician, was arrested at his home in Algiers. Just over sixty-one years later, on September 13, 2018, at 2 p.m., Emmanuel Macron, the president of the French...
Prior to the 1948 war and even the Zionist Congress of 1897, Palestine had some thirteen hundred villages and towns, each with a small and manageable population living sustainably with nature. The land was owned or worked by the...
“We are not anti-science. It’s not culture versus science. We are against the building of anything eighteen stories over our watershed, water aquifers, on our sacred mountain. It could have been anything; it just happens to be a telescope...
Progressive and radical organizations must rise to meet the immediate challenges of these crises, while also working to replace the failing systems that gave rise to them. We must practice solidarity by aiding impacted communities and by...
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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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Call for Artwork Science for the People seeks art for “Bio-Politics” (Volume 23, Number 3, autumn 2020). In the midst of uprisings for Black Lives and revolts against the state, as well as the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the close...