[act-ma] 4/28 People's Science Fair at UMass Amherst (Fri)

[Charlie Welch]

"Sigrid Schmalzer" <sigrid at history.umass.edu> writes 


Dear SftP folks around the world, 

If you're in the area, please join us! If you have friends in the area, please share with them! If neither, please just join us in hoping for good weather for our big event. Thank you! :) 
The People’s Science Fair 
Friday, April 28, Noon to 4 p.m. 


UMass Amherst, between the Campus Pond and Du Bois Library -- coincides with Founders' Day Cookout and Student Farmers' Market! 


The People's Science Fair, organized by Western Mass Science for the People, will showcase diverse efforts by Western Massachusetts residents to harness STEM for social, economic, racial, environmental, climate, and cultural justice. Participants will include campus-based researchers with justice-oriented projects, grassroots organizers whose work involves STEM knowledge, and student activists committed to building a just future. For updated information, please see [ https://westernmass.scienceforthepeople.org/events/peoples-science-fair-2023/ | 
 https://westernmass.scienceforthepeople.org/events/peoples-science-fair-2023/ ] 


Tables will represent a wide range of projects and offer many opportunities for cross-pollination between: 

    * sustainable agriculture and farmworker justice 
    * demilitarization and climate action 
    * community-based medicine and health equity 
    * science education, the arts, and social justice 
    * labor unions and anti-racist organizing in STEM 
    * prison and police abolition, and building systems for community care 
    * history, anthropology, and science activism 
    * and much more! 



Co-Sponsors (as of April 3, 2023): 
People’s Science Network (of [ http://scienceforthepeople.org/ | 
Science for the People ] ) 

Five Colleges, Inc. (Five College Lecture Fund) 

At UMass Amherst: Department of Afro-American Studies; Anthropology Department; Civic Engagement & Service Learning; Energy Transition Institute; Ethnography Collective @ UMASS Amherst; Graduate Employee Organization; History Department; Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning Department; Massachusetts Society of Professors; Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences; Mathematics and Statistics Department Anti-Racism Committee; Political Economy Research Institute; Social Thought & Political Economy Program; Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies Department; University Relations; Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies Department; World Studies Interdisciplinary Project and Mellon Foundation 

At Amherst College: Center for Community Engagement 

At Hampshire College: Dean of Faculty 

At Smith College: Center for Environment, Ecological Design, and Sustainability; Department of Environmental Science & Policy; Jandon Center for Community Engagement 


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