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...SftP began to make itself known as a group opposed to what they call the American scientific establishment with protests at the annual AAAS meetings beginning in Boston in 1969. SftP members say they were denied space for a literature table and participation in the regular programs of the conference, which at that time did not include an agenda for the discussion of social issues in science. So the group resorted to leaf letting, guerilla theater, and sharp questioning during conference sessions to make its points. In subsequent AAAS meetings, attempts by SftP members to "restructure" conferences to allow...
...international structure of SftP presently consists of a more or less informal communication among about 40 locations, mostly in the U.S., with active chapters in Los Angeles, Berkeley, Chicago, Ann Arbor, and Stony Brook, N.Y. The largest and most active chapter remains in Boston where the organization's bi-monthly magazine Science for the People is published. Local headquarters are at 897 Main Street in Cambridge, just off Mass Ave, halfway between Harvard...
...current number also features a debate on the development of alternative technology, dealing with questions such as whether making available innovative, inexpensive technology to the urban unemployed may actually ease the burden on the present capitalist system, which SftP views as inherently corrupt. In the issue, Fred Gordon '66, SftP staff man in charge of magazine production, asserts that high unemployment results partly because orthodox capitalist technology requires something like $100,000 in capital investments to create each new factory...
...many members of SftP, science in China represents a possible alternative to the American system. In 1973, several SftP members visited China and wrote a book about their experiences called China. Science Walks on Two Legs. There is a China study group in the Boston chapter that is currently planning another trip...
...internal structure of the Boston chapter reflects SftP's anti-elitism. There are no officers; instead, a steering committee made up of the office staff person and representatives of the several activity groups arrive at all decisions collectively. Gordon says there are about 100 active members in the chapt defined as such by their attendance at weekly meetings in the various activity groups. About four times that number are active sporadically, he says...