Environmental catastrophe befell a Tennessee river community. In solving a water justice issue, it became a racial justice issue, as well.
Category - Vol22-1 The Return of Radical Science
We revisit a foundational question structuring our movement’s work: What is, in fact, a radical analysis of science? How does it go beyond critique of the misuses, abuses, and distortions of and within science to further our political...
Contrary to popular narratives, organizing among technical workers has a vibrant history, including engineers and technicians in the 1960s and 1970s who fought professionalism, individualism, and reformism to contribute to radical labor...
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...
It was early morning and the summer sun was just beginning to burn through the blanket of dewdrops which bathed unruly clumps of grass and earth in luxurious cascades of crystal. In the distance, the sound of a tractor engine firing up...
Read reports from Science for the People chapters across the US organizing around health, immigration, the environment, and other issues impacted by science and politics today.
Contemporary politics is a maelstrom of issue-based campaigns that threaten to overwhelm even dedicated observers; a successful political movement must synthesize these concerns into a larger, unified whole. In Red-Green Revolution: The...
The return of Science for the People as a publication and organization is a milestone in the struggle for science. In the decades of our absence, the embrace of science as a power standing above society has become all too common. As an...
In the summer of 2018, the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) published a report about a critical issue in the sciences: sexual harassment. All too predictably, they found that gender-based harassment is...
Elizabeth was an integral part of the group that produced the first issues of Science for the People. She not only contributed artwork but also participated in layout, paste-up, and the numerous other tasks necessary in those pre-computer...