{"id":5231,"date":"2020-06-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.hmc.edu\/physics\/2020\/06\/10\/brian-shuve-co-organizes-a-strike-for-black-lives\/"},"modified":"2020-06-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T07:00:00","slug":"brian-shuve-co-organizes-a-strike-for-black-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/2020\/06\/10\/brian-shuve-co-organizes-a-strike-for-black-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Shuve co-organizes a strike for Black lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"page-featured-image\" class=\"wp-block-image is-style-alignleft\" data-pic=\"picture-114.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/02\/picture-114.jpg\" alt=\"Promotional image for news: Brian Shuve co-organizes a strike for Black lives\" data-pic=\"picture-114.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><span>For some researchers, last week&rsquo;s statements from institutions in support of <\/span><a>#BlackLivesMatter<\/a><span> didn&rsquo;t go far enough. &ldquo;Calls for justice and centring Black lives were met with watered-down statements promoting diversity and inclusion initiatives that have proven ineffective,&rdquo; says Brian Shuve, a physicist at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California, and a member of Particles for Justice. &ldquo;We wanted our fields and institutions to take collective action and do better.&rdquo; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The strike is happening on Wednesday, 10 June 2020 and is described on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.particlesforjustice.org\">Particles for Justice website<\/a>&nbsp;and on the&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shutdownstem.com\/\">Shut Down STEM website<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Read more from the story published on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-020-01721-x\">Nature website<\/a>. (Photo Credit: David Cliff\/SOPA Images\/LightRocket via Getty)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some researchers, last week&rsquo;s statements from institutions in support of #BlackLivesMatter didn&rsquo;t go far enough. &ldquo;Calls for justice and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}