From jm_collective at inventati.org Sun Jan 28 01:59:42 2024 From: jm_collective at inventati.org (Just Mathematics Collective newsletter) Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2024 00:59:42 +0000 Subject: [jm_collective] Just Mathematics Collective Newsletter, No. 6 Message-ID: Hello! Welcome to the Just Mathematics Collective newsletter. This is our (roughly) monthly round-up of news about our campaigns and activities, suggestions for how you can help, and reading we've found useful recently. --- News/Announcements --- Following the January 2023 action against NSA recruitment at the Joint Math Meetings, the AMS agreed to meet with some of the participants in the action to discuss NSA recruitment. Instead of engaging seriously with the community's concerns, the AMS doubled down by adopting a restrictive policy against demonstrations at the JMM. At this month's JMM in San Francisco, here is how the community responded: Image Description: Projection of the message "No to NSA recruitment at Joint Math Meetings #MathMinusMilitarism" on the side of the building directly across from the Moscone Center's main entrance at the JMM 2024. * Learn more about the Math Minus Militarism direct action against NSA recruitment at the JMM 2024 in the Friends don't let friends work for the NSA [1] collective recap. --- Signal boosts: stuff we've read this month and want to share --- * Inclusion/Exclusion blog * https://inclusionexclusion.org/2023/12/04/toxic-norms/ * https://inclusionexclusion.org/2023/11/28/x-in-the-time-of-genocide/ * https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/10/only-outside-pressure-can-stop-israels-war-crimes --- Digest of the JMC twitter --- https://twitter.com/jm_collective/status/1742987496437518588 https://twitter.com/jm_collective/status/1742980371892040052 https://twitter.com/jm_collective/status/1743108426878628278 https://twitter.com/jm_collective/status/1748084046939209738 --- Ongoing JMC campaigns/how you can help: --- 1. Cut ties between mathematicians and the NSA: https://www.justmathematicscollective.net/nsa_statement.html. [2] Please sign the statement and take the pledges if you haven't already, and share with your colleagues. 2. Support the USACBI academic boycott of Israeli institutions: https://www.justmathematicscollective.net/USACBI_statement.html. Please register your pledge. --- As always, please feel free to contact us at justmathematicscollective at inventati.org with any questions, comments, or suggestions, including materials and campaigns for us to consider including in next month's newsletter. We are currently receiving a high volume of requests to join JMC. We take great care with each such request, so if you have contacted us about this and have not received a reply, please bear with us, and in the meantime, check out our advice to prospective members [3]. - JMC newsletter team -- Just Mathematics Collective https://www.justmathematicscollective.net/ https://twitter.com/jm_collective?lang=en Links: ------ [1] https://justmathematicscollective.net/recap.pdf [2] https://www.justmathematicscollective.net/nsa_statement.html [3] https://www.justmathematicscollective.net/starterkit-public.html -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed From jm_collective at inventati.org Sun Jan 28 02:08:57 2024 From: jm_collective at inventati.org (Just Mathematics Collective newsletter) Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2024 01:08:57 +0000 Subject: [jm_collective] Just Mathematics Collective Newsletter, No. 6 Message-ID: Hello! Welcome to the Just Mathematics Collective newsletter. This is our (roughly) monthly round-up of news about our campaigns and activities, suggestions for how you can help, and reading we've found useful recently. --- News/Announcements --- Following the January 2023 action against NSA recruitment at the Joint Math Meetings, the AMS agreed to meet with some of the participants in the action to discuss NSA recruitment. Instead of engaging seriously with the community's concerns, the AMS doubled down by adopting a restrictive policy against demonstrations at the JMM. At this month's JMM in San Francisco, here is how the community responded: Image Description: Projection of the message "No to NSA recruitment at Joint Math Meetings #MathMinusMilitarism" on the side of the building directly across from the Moscone Center's main entrance at the JMM 2024. * Learn more about the Math Minus Militarism direct action against NSA recruitment at the JMM 2024 in the Friends don't let friends work for the NSA [1] collective recap. --- Signal boosts: stuff we've read this month and want to share --- * Inclusion/Exclusion blog * https://inclusionexclusion.org/2023/12/04/toxic-norms/ * https://inclusionexclusion.org/2023/11/28/x-in-the-time-of-genocide/ * https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/10/only-outside-pressure-can-stop-israels-war-crimes --- Digest of the JMC twitter --- https://twitter.com/jm_collective/status/1742987496437518588 https://twitter.com/jm_collective/status/1742980371892040052 https://twitter.com/jm_collective/status/1743108426878628278 https://twitter.com/jm_collective/status/1748084046939209738 --- Ongoing JMC campaigns/how you can help: --- 1. Cut ties between mathematicians and the NSA: https://www.justmathematicscollective.net/nsa_statement.html. [2] Please sign the statement and take the pledges if you haven't already, and share with your colleagues. 2. Support the USACBI academic boycott of Israeli institutions: https://www.justmathematicscollective.net/USACBI_statement.html. Please register your pledge. --- As always, please feel free to contact us at justmathematicscollective at inventati.org with any questions, comments, or suggestions, including materials and campaigns for us to consider including in next month's newsletter. We are currently receiving a high volume of requests to join JMC. 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