Science for the People seeks proposals for articles, art, and other content for the upcoming issue, “A People’s Green New Deal” (Volume 23, Number 2, Summer 2020). 

With this issue, SftP hopes to contribute to the outpouring of ideas, organizing, support, and criticism that have greeted the Green New Deal (GND) proposal over the past year, and to help shape the contours of global climate struggles and solutions. 

“A People’s Green New Deal” seeks to bolster the movement’s own technical knowledge base, challenge capitalist scientific and technical knowledge, and methods of making knowledge, and provide a forum for organizing reports and discussions about strategy, tactics, and general political outlook. 

This issue advances an emancipatory climate vision: we take as a given that our planetary future depends on the military industrial complex being downsized and dismantled; on wealth being redistributed; and on solidarity beating back racism, colonialism, extractivism, gender violence, and commodification. We seek submissions that shed light on these climate imperatives in new and creative ways, and sharpen our readers’ understanding of who and what can advance the truly radical climate solutions we need. Read more and share your proposal here.

Submission deadline: Friday, January 10, 2020

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The second issue of Science for the People, “Envisioning and Enacting the Science We Need," is coming soon! 

Scientists and societies can envision research programs that bolster authoritarianism, militarism, industrial expansion, colonialism, pollution, and environmental devastation. Or, scientists and societies can envision—and bring about—science that liberates. Science that preserves what is precious, in service to living communities. The vision of “the science we need” aims at a science that’s less individualistic and elitist, and at putting science into the hands of the people. 

If you subscribe to the magazine, watch for the print edition to land in your mailbox next month. And if you're not yet a subscriber, sign up by December 1 to start your subscription with "The Science We Need."