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    Developing a Moral Budget for Massachusetts

    Friday, September 27, 2019 – 2:00pm

    Click here for an archived video of this program. Congress is currently debating a discretionary budget which spends more than 50% of our income tax dollars on endless wars, nuclear weapons upgrades, foreign military bases, and other military accounts. Financing this requires cutting major programs funding human and…

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  • For the last year, University of Paris-Est Professor Elsa Vivant has conducted an ethnographic study of the human impact of the opioid crisis in Boston area. As many know, six people die in the state of Massachusetts daily due to complications with opioid addiction. This is only a…

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    This conference aims to present the police state in China, where over one million innocent Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims have been forced into concentration camps since 2016; explore China’s use of technology to escalate the crisis by conducting digital, biological, and cyber surveillance on the Uyghur; introduce…

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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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