My advisor checked in to see if ok yesterday morning. I said not really & asked to postpone our afternoon meeting, so I could protest. He sent me back the ACLU's rights of protesters guide, wished me luck & support, & said he was available whenever. I smiled & hit the streets.

This is a really good thread about how to make protests COVID-safe. First and foremost the responsibility lies with police: no tear gas, no kettling, no arresting people if they’re not an immediate safety threat.

Sign our Open Letter: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) College of Computing Must Address Systemic Racism. As we enter the fourth week of mass protests against police brutality in the United States, the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing has yet to release any public statement condemning anti-blackness. medium.com/@macprac/open-…

“La intención de Alonso Espinosa de confrontar a Videgaray fue exhibir el legado que dejó en México, un legado de corrupción. En su decepción con MIT de venderse al mejor postor, creó grupo estudiantil MIT Students Against War (MIT Students Against War)“, Dolia Estévez en #ProyectoPuente 88.1 FM

Activists at MIT inc. MIT Students Against War & Movement for Anti-Oppressive Computing Practices have protested its new $350 million “Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing”, arguing that its aims are aligned with the interests of the defence industry and large corporations, rather than the public good thetech.com/2019/02/14/cel…

While the Oxford Hums Centre will launder his reputation, the “Institute for Ethics in AI” will, like MIT’s “College of Computing”, further his and his right-wing allies’ political and economic aims on questions of automation, workers’ rights, personal data & national security

We are proud to publicly announce the MIT Graduate Student Union! MIT grad student-workers are unionizing to create a healthy and fair working and learning environment for all, by giving us a voice in the decisions that affect us. (1/4) #MITGSU

Great to see Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) take a firm stance against direct collaboration with the PRC's military-industrial complex. Would love to see similar commitments against collaborating with analogous US institutions, like DARPA, ICE, and the NSA. The alternative is hypocrisy. MIT Students Against War