Emma's action plan
quantumforblacklives · June 7, 2020
Each month:
- Send emails to city councilors and mayors about defunding and dismantling the police
- Donate to local Black organizations and bail funds/fundraisers across turtle island
- Read a book about Black history + resistance or police abolition
- Maintain quantum anti-racist accountability group
June:
- Attend/support protests
- Send emails to editors at quantum-publishing journals about refusing to publish “quantum supremacy”, “ancilla”, and military-funded work
- Connect with Science for Peace to deepen anti-military work
July:
- Thesis writing, including detailed suggestions for an anti-imperial physics
August:
- Develop & run discussion on militarism in physics & its connection to global anti-Black racism
September:
- Run code of conduct for physics research groups workshop
- Reassess plan & write a new one as I will be in a new city & university. aim to engage deeply with new research groups’ code of conduct, connect with/- Rupport Black student orgs, disability orgs, and orgs building structures to replace police.
