Washington, the DC crowd was played down from meters and sidewalks to Lincoln Memorial, leading signs of a bright and cold day.
Went to science. On March 7, a lot of protests at the DC of Science “, DC throughout the nationIncluding Chicago, Philadelphia and the US and Foreign Cities, the crowd changed ” Defend as a public public science and a column of social, political and economic advances, according to the objectives of organizers policy. The Meeting of Lincoln Memorial represented a higher movement or a pure gesture of a nation rotating back Science hanging in the air, depending on the songs, as the songs and lectures begin.
The same brands of the people were the same as the signs of nerdy, fast and angry signals. Speakers Among the National Institutes of Main Health, Francis Collins TV icons Bill Nye (as well as astronomers Phil likeswho writes a column American scientific) Talk to people, made up a thousand friends on Friday afternoon. Massive shoots, they disapproved of extreme budget cuts and Closed safety panels have been the result of actions in federal agencies since January According to Trump Administration and his motorcycle brand Vizier Elon Musk. “We need to do a job,” said AUD Gawande, Author, Surgeon and Global Administrator Administrator Agreements in International Development (USAID). “We must witness that truth. We must witness the damage.”
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However, the most important people in the protest may not be on stage, but in the audience. People like Sara Rouhi, who works in the publication of research and is author author Declaration of defending research against US government censorshipHe continually crossed the crowd, ready for QR encoded sign and t-shirt.
“We are trying to organize people around the Board to take back,” Rouhi said, who added 3,000 assistants so far. Looks for combination with organizations like strength Union between scientistsHe also said the data rescue project also effort to collect and commission the data of the US government Eliminate from public view According to Trump Administration.
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In fact, this kind of activism, mobilizing people to play, is a real business in a protest, says the University Sociologist Dana Fisher, Author American Resistance: Women from March to the blue wave. “It’s a great point of protests to focus on something else,” Fisher said. “Give people in a movement for a long-term and more embedded and more than showing a sign?”
Whether the protest is marked by the beginning of a trump’s efficient movement of the crowd, and no speakers. It was refreshing, however, to hear Colino– Politically Adroit in his tenure as NIH leaders mostly avoided Pandemia-related nonsense trumpet criticizes pharmaceutical companies to talk against movements that are not moving to research costs. (Collins, a guitarist also played a scientific science tone version as well as the “good people” crowded.)
In the US, protests have changed significantly since the 1970s. Decades were organized massive massive protests. Without social media, people did not have centrally connected, so local teams decided to organize and march in Washington, DC rental rental for those seats.
“It is very different today. The protest becomes the beginning of a movement than the end,” says Fisher, who added the social networks. Women March 2017, for example The largest protest of one day In the history of the U.S., a year later he was a “blue blue” election, he gave control of the house of the US representatives. Many people felt above trump behavior at the office in his first term of office and turned the central voter storage Since 1914.
“It’s the right way and the wrong way to protests, especially protests as a way of resistance,” Fisher said. 2018 “March for our lives“Arranged by 17 people organized by students, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, FLA. That year, hundreds of thousand people often brought famous and frequented events. But while he carried it Register for young voters records and played a short-term ban Rifle Bump Stocks (Overcast last year as US Supreme Court Pistol-bunkum fetishizing) Any movement to end the gun violence is any higher movement At the back foot Trump during time. In the U.S. elections in 2024, The male vote shrunk Although Trump to run, our life is the era of school lockout of our lives and continue Mass ShootingsFor example, 19 school murder and two teachers in Uvalden, Tex.
Scientists and their supporters have a similar test now. In his first weeks, Trump Administration has Aimed at the US Scientific Business in a broad way, the end Decade attacks upon Climate scientists, Security panels and Health Officials by Protected business political Like Trump.
“This time it’s personal,” says Fisher, because it no longer supports the final cuts for financing a researcher and yet another funded by federal funding. “I work with various colleagues that believe they are on the list.” His team he respondent protest And about 22% of the participants found it was the first protest. It was a very crowded crowd; 37% of the people reported a doctor, MD or JD Washington, DC only
Today science is standing at a crossroads. Organized mainly According to postgraduate studentsProtests can have a broader start of scientific resistance “Authoritarian offensive“As a political scientist in Harvard, in an intelligence interview, he should be in line with groups of local community, or to recover data like a rescue project, he says. The people protests and attracts more people, Trump movements They are effectively resisted, all signal and quantities. It is a good start: 45% of the people who fishermen sampled and his colleagues were contacted with an elected officer.
He said Rouhik just started doing it. “This cannot end,” protest said. “If the end, all of us end.”
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