American science has aspired, for a long time, to present itself as exceptional. In 1966, the historian Hunter Dupre invited his colleagues to celebrate, in his view, this long-neglected exceptionalism. More than half-a-century on...
Tag - Climate Change
Science for the People’s “Science Under Occupation” issue (Spring 2020) included three articles translated from English into Spanish and one article translated from English into Arabic. The magazine is now accepting submissions in...
The Western Massachusetts SftP chapter continues to bring together community organizers, students, faculty, and university staff for weekly meetings that rotate between UMass Amherst and the offices of Arise for Social Justice in...
The 2019 explosion at Philadelphia's main petroleum refinery and the resulting release of 5000 pounds of hydroflouric acid was a watershed moment that warrants a closer look at the conditions of the Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES)...
Alongside the climate working group’s national-level organizing, we prioritize a locally engaged grassroots strategy through a coalition of SftP chapters and in solidarity with many other partners across the country. The rich variety of...
For the Green New Deal to be truly emancipatory in a post-pandemic world where there is no returning to “normal,” we must ensure that any Green New Deal is a People’s Green New Deal. It is our ardent belief and hope that this issue of...
Choque de resiliencia: agendas de recuperación en conflicto después de los huracanes puertorriqueños
La economía mundial le ha dado la espalda al Sur global. Fuerzas neoliberales (es decir, las corporaciones multinacionales y los gobiernos que las apoyan) no tan solo han expropiado sus recursos naturales y capital humano, sino que también...
“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...
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 first discussion in Science for the People of a program to manipulate the weather—a useful corollary as we consider the probability of attempts to engineer the climate—was in the July 1972 issue.