Word: sftp
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Dates: during 1976-1976
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While it doesn't prove that a genuine mass movement has begun, a story Teel tells about his participation in the recent Boston meeting does seem to support the idea that scientists and others are beginning to take the analyses of SftP and similar groups more seriously...
...Longtime SftP member Michael Teel, formerly an instructor in a course called "Science and Society" at U-Mass at Amherst and presently a labor organizer there, also insists that it is the AAAS that has changed. There is a new consciousness beginning to take root, he says, the result of Vietnam, Watergate, and the persistent efforts of groups like the SftP...
...SftP hopes to multiply its effectiveness by coordinating activities and protests on an international and national basis. With increased visibility, they say they hope to provide support to isolated but concerned individuals who might otherwise be intimidated from speaking out on the issues...
This year the AAAS returned to Boston for its annual meeting, and there seemed to be a change in its relationship to SftP. There were no disruptions. SftP was allowed to arrange and participate in sessions on the regular program, and members had their own meeting room and literature table...
...SftP members are sensitive about interpretations that the calmer relationship with AAAS indicates a new moderation in SftP's view of the American scientific establishment. Beckwith says that it is really the AAAS that has changed. Many social issues that could not be discussed in previous years were even raised by the AAAS this time, he says...