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  • Live Stream HERE. Password is spacewar. Subrata Ghoshroy, Research Affiliate, MIT, STS Professor Elaine Scarry, Harvard; author of Thermonuclear Monarchy Bruce Gagnon, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space Topics will include: * Continued expansion of the hugely profitable military budget * Cutting-edge Pentagon weapons technology, drones, AI/robotics * The trillion-dollar nuclear…

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    Labor Law for the Rank and File

    Thursday, March 28, 2019 – 7:00pm
    Stata Center; 32 Vassar Street; Building 32, Room 141

    Tech workers are getting organized: here’s a chance to learn how to use the law when it’s on your side, and avoid it when its against you. There are always risks involved when workers take action to improve conditions in their workplace. Lawyers are expensive and often inaccessible,…

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    Time for a Technical Fix? The Science and Ethics of Solar Geoengineering

    Thursday, April 25, 2019 – 5:00pm
    Wong Auditorium; Building E51

    As the current effects and future threats of climate change grow, we must consider every possible approach to bring our planet back from the brink. Theoretically, we could reduce the impact of climate change through solar geoengineering: introducing substances into the atmosphere that would reflect some of the…

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    Crisis in the Middle East: What Lies Ahead?

    Tuesday, April 9, 2019 – 12:00pm

    The discussion will cover the fallout from the US/UK invasion and occupation of Iraq, the handling of the Arab Spring protests, the new US-Saudi-Israel axis aimed at countering Iran, and military expenditures. This will be counterposed with recent survey findings on changing societal attitudes and how these might…

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    Yemen: What’s Happening and What Can We Do?

    Friday, March 22, 2019 – 12:00pm

    Join us for the second program in our series on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Kathleen Kelly is the Co-Coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence. Kathy is just coming off her fast to call attention to the need for the U.S. to end its joint war with the…

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