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DESCRIPTION:WEBINAR: The Science We Need + The Science We Have: Internationalism in the 
 Pandemic \n\nThe using and sharing of science in the interests of justice 
 and human need during COVID-19\n\nWHEN: Thursday, May 21, 2020 @ 8 AM PT 
 (11 AM ET)\n\nWHERE: Livestream links below\n\nYoutube: 
 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEqlLCugROZO0Rl-b9Y7hQQ\n\nFacebook: 
 https://www.facebook.com/sftporg/\n\nHOSTS:  Science for the People & 
 Ciencia para el Pueblo - 
 México\n__________________________________________________________\n\nScience 
 for the People and Ciencia para el Pueblo are co-hosting a webinar on 
 internationalism in the pandemic. The webinar will be covering the 
 following three issues:\n\n(1) The Science We Have: an analysis of the 
 dominant structures, institutions, and paradigms that contribute to 
 austerity and the misuse of science for oppressive ends, and how the 
 resulting power dynamics limit a humane and transformative response to the 
 ongoing crisis in the context of Covid19.\n\n(2) The Science We Need: 
 rooted in the specificities of regional contexts, possible avenues towards 
 the transformation of “science as a whole” in the interests of justice 
 and human need. How might have a transformed terrain of science rooted in 
 justice have responded to a pandemic like Covid19?\n\n(3) On-the-Ground 
 Organizing: How do we transition from the science we have to the one we 
 need? What can we learn from historic and ongoing struggles in the sciences 
 and across borders? What is the role of knowledge production, application, 
 and distribution in this process? Prior to and during Covid19, what 
 on-the-ground political activities were and are taking place across local 
 and regional 
 contexts?\n___________________________________________________________\n\nSPEAKERS:\n\n*Nnimmo 
 Bassey* is director of the Nigeria-based ecological think-tank, Health of 
 Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) and member steering committee of Oilwatch 
 International. He was a co-recipient of the 2010 Right Livelihood Award 
 also known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize.” His books include "To Cook 
 a Continent – Destructive Extraction and the Climate Crisis in Africa" 
 and "Oil Politics – Echoes of Ecological War".\n \n*Dr. Luis Alberto 
 Montero Cabrera* is a professor in the Department of Chemistry, chairing 
 the branch of Natural Sciences at the Academy of Sciences of Cuba. He also 
 chairs the Scientific Council of the University of Havana.\n \n*Shanty 
 Acosta Sinencio* is an independent biologist and chemist from the Faculty 
 of Science at UNAM, Mexico, and a member of Ciencia para el Pueblo- 
 Mexico.\n \n*Zhun Xu* is an assistant professor in the Department of 
 Economics at Howard University, having previously taught at Renmin 
 University in Beijing. He is the author of "From Commune to Capitalism: How 
 China's Peasants Lost Collective Farming and Gained Urban Poverty".\n 
 \n*Sigrid Schmalzer* is a professor of History at University of 
 Massachusetts Amherst, with a Ph.D. in Modern Chinese History and Science 
 Studies from UC San Diego. She is a co-founder of the revitalized Science 
 for the People and the co-editor of "Science for the People: Documents from 
 America's Movement of Radical Scientists".\n \n*Saman Sepehri* is an 
 analytical chemist at Northwestern University and a long-time activist of 
 Iranian descent. He has written on Middle East politics, the internal 
 dynamic of Iran, and questions of world energy and the geopolitics of oil. 
 He is currently a member of Chicago DSA. \n \nMODERATOR\n\n*Laura 
 Peñaranda* is a Colombian labor organizer with Trade Unions for Energy 
 Democracy (TUED), a member of the International Committee of DSA and 
 Science for the People; she studies Urban and Labor studies at CUNY in New 
 York. \n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/19/18833139.php
SUMMARY:The Science We Need + The Science We Have: Internationalism in the Pandemic
LOCATION:Online via livestream
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/19/18833139.php
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