Science and technology have enabled atrocities throughout history, such as the ones we see being carried out in Palestine right now. These fields of work are a core part of the military industrial complex which grows ever more deadly.
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While the current onslaught against Gaza is unprecedented in its unrestrained use of force against and targeting of the civilian population, the attack on education and learning by Israel is nothing new.
Settler-colonialism seeks to weaken Indigenous communities, in part by preventing intellectual development.
Attacks on Palestinian educational institutions are as old as the formation of Israel.
By focusing on individual ethics, institutions evade critique; the only levers of power that appear accessible are individual-scale choices, such as consumer purchases—or, for students entering the workforce, job choices.
On October 7, 2023, the Palestinian resistance in Gaza launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood—a mass breakout from the open-air concentration camp in which 2.3 million people had been confined by seventy-five years of Zionist colonialism and...
It is undeniable that science generally and GW research specifically are shaped by the politics of the society in which they are done. Rather than pretend to exist in a politically neutral space, GW scientists should embrace their part in...
As an organization led by STEM workers and educators, Science for the People has a special responsibility to recognize that current, Western, professional science does not have a monopoly on truth nor on the practices through which people...
The divestment movement must reckon with the financialization of US universities—their subjection to the imperative of growth and reliance on interest-accruing wealth to reproduce themselves. Student-workers at this intersection of the...
On May 21, 2024, a group of eight Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) community members from Akwesasne were arrested at Barnhart Island. The “Akwesasne 8” was exercising their right to build a hunting and gathering shelter on their own territory, and...
Physics is based on questioning. / Questioning the origin of the universe. / Questioning time. Questioning the nature of matter.