In recent months there has been a marked increase in the number of workers' groups formed in the Boston area. Women workers, employees in universities, computer workers, city employees, workers in industrial research firms have gotten together in their workplaces, not as a consequence of outside agitators telling them...
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It would be very instructive to analyze the way the problem of how science and technology are misused by the government and the military-industrial complex was presented by the press and even more interesting to find out how it was taken by the general public. The material available for such research, articles and...
The Boston Museum of Science typifies institutional misrepresentation of science and a disservice to the community it purports to serve. Where it should be a constructive and democratic instrument of science for the people, the Museum is a discriminatory mind-fucker—particularly dangerous because children are...
Numerous attempts to arrange meetings with people inside the lab have been refused by the lab director, even when these requests came from conservative University faculty members. On one day a group of six drove out to the lab spontaneously in the hope of having lunch at the cafeteria in the unclassified area and...
It is important to note that sexual oppression is both pervasive and institutionalized; within the scientific community it takes many forms. Educational tracking by sex from elementary school on channels women into subordinate roles and stereotypes. While men are trained to develop 'logical' patterns of thought, women...
If you drive down Route 3 just off Route 128 in Bedford, Mass., passing some of America's most sophisticated arms factories, such as MITRE, Raytheon, and Sylvania, you can see an ugly cylindrical tank. The tank is behind The GCA corporation technology division building, on the edge of a brook with benches, trees and...
SIGNAL/NOISE is one of a growing number of publications coming out in shops and laboratories to meet the need for working people to cut through the bullshit that management is forever spreading around. At BBN, secretaries, scientists, engineers, maintenancemen, technicians, computer programmers, etc. had been meeting...
People who go to Washington to speak up against the war? Of course they are all unwashed long-haired hippie freaks and student types who are so affluent that they cross state lines to make panty raids. Well, on June 4, over 200 of them from N. Y. and N. J. donned short-haired wigs, the dignified looks of the over...
From my discussions with the cadets I soon learned that a surprising number of them were hostile to the military. Only 10% or so were planning to make it their career and others dreaded their two years obligatory service. Three cadets had been pepper-gassed in Washington. Most students I talked to could not explain...
TAP's charter is to assist community political groups in situations where technical experience and knowledge can make their struggle more effective. TAP recognizes the truth of Huey Newton's famous statement, "The spirit of the people is greater than the man's technology." TAP proposes that one way that the spirit of...