about:
Abolish Planets, UCSB Researchers Against War, Caltech SJP, Palestine Space Institute, (Un)Common Cosmos, Justice in Geoscience, and Palestinian Youth Movement LA-OC-IE invite you to a day of collective learning, planning, and action that will provide interested students, researchers, and professionals across disciplines with the tools necessary to organize and take action in their communities. The day school is designed to provide attendees with an array of knowledge and skills, including context for historical and ongoing activism in STEM, how to find and document institutional/military-industrial partnerships, how to plug into existing organizing efforts, and how to talk to your co-workers and colleagues about taking action. It is our hope that at the end of the day school, attendees will have built and strengthened cross-disciplinary networks of community that we can use to collectively advocate for a STEM future that rejects exploitation, colonialism, and genocide.
All are welcome, regardless of discipline/sector, as these problems reach beyond STEM to affect us all.
schedule:
All sessions take place on November 17. “Learn” materials will be uploaded to our website on November 10.
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- Learn (10–11:00 ET): a panel discussion on science, complicity, and action. Each panelist will have a short pre-recorded video shared on our website before the day school.
- Tools (11:14–12:15 ET): researching and power-mapping complicity
- Act (1) (13:00–14:00 ET): Mask Off Maersk campaign activity
- Act (2) (14:15–15:15 ET): roleplaying conversations about mobilizing your colleagues and envisioning a just future for science
- Reflect (16:30–17:45 ET): a zine workshop with Ellie Armstrong for attendees to process the day’s lessons; a short reflection; and wrap-up
registration:
register here by 12:00pm ET, November 15. In registering, you consent to the following policies:
accessibility statement
The pre-recorded materials will have closed captions and transcription. This event will be held over Zoom using audio, video, and chat. Some participants may only communicate through one medium for safety and/or accessibility reasons. We will enable te auto-captioning feature on Zoom but unfortunately, we are unable to provide live CART. We understand that these are not ideal solutions and we apologize that this creates a barrier for participation.
code of conduct
We aim for a productive, safe environment for challenging conversations and skills exchange. We have a zero tolerance policy on harassment, bullying, and intimidation, especially targeting protected characteristics of participants and/or speakers, including but not limited to Islamophobia, racism, and antisemitism. We do not consider anti-Zionism or criticism of settler colonialism or apartheid as antisemitism. The focus of this event is to facilitate community-building; we encourage attendees to center discussion around these topics and refrain from personal issues.
privacy and data
privacy
Due to the sensitive nature of this event, privacy is important. You are not required to register or join the call with your full name. We have a zero tolerance policy for sharing the join links with anyone who is not registered. You are expected to respect the privacy of fellow participants and speakers. This includes a zero tolerance policy on: liveposting/tweeting about specifics of the discussion or the identities of participants and/or speakers; inquiring after personal details of participants and/or speakers; screenshotting and/or recording participants and/or speakers and/or any shared content and/or any chat content except for resources (e.g., a hyperlink to an article, the name of a book) without consent.
data
We will only use your email to contact you with joining information for the event. In registering you consent to having your email address stored for this purpose through Jotform. This information will be kept until December 31, 2024 and then will be deleted from the Jotform account.
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