Call for participation in activist-research project: Write2Know
Max Liboiron
Hi, all.
Your participation or sharing of this activist project would be very appreciated. Let me know if you have questions, etc.
Best,
Max Liboiron
Write2Know is a activist-research initiative formed out of a collaboration among academics, scientists, activists, NGOs, and members of the public. It is a response to the recent cancellation of over a hundred Canadian federal research programs, the firing of thousands of federal scientists conducting environmental monitoring, and the Canadian government’s communication policies that prevent scientists from talking to the public and the media about their research.
Write2know is a letter-writing campaign that mobilizes the public to press Canadian federal scientists and ministers on questions that matter to public and environmental health. This is an international campaign. Canada’s policies on oil sands, climate change, Aboriginal health, water, toxics, and more, impact people around the world.
Crucially, this campaign engages issues where science and technology intersect with social and environmental justice.
We are writing to ask for your participation. Please consider signing on to the letters and sharing this campaign with your colleagues. We are also inviting you to participate in the campaign as researchers and educators. We are compiling a rich archive of responses from government, media, and community-based groups and developing new questions to pose to federal scientists and Ministers. We are also developing teaching kits so that these issues, as well as the skills required to interrogate state-funded science, can be brought into classrooms.
We have already amassed over 850 signatures on our letters. Write2Know Week is March 23-27. By March 27th, we aim to have thousands of letters signed and delivered. To participate, visit our site at www.writetoknow.ca.
This project is an initiative of the Politics of Evidence Working Group at York University. It is generously supported by: Scientists for the Right to Know, Evidence for Democracy, DeSmog Canada, Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, the Canadian Association of University Teachers, the Technoscience Research Unit (University of Toronto), the Institute for Science and Technology Studies (York University) and the Waste and Science, Technology and Environment group (WaSTE) (Memorial University of Newfoundland), and PIPSC, the union representing federal scientists.
This project is co-organized by Max Liboiron (Memorial University of Newfoundland) and Natasha Myers (York University). Contact us at write2kn...@gmail.com.
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