0303.json

{
    "id": 285,
    "date": "2020/06/15",
    "sources": [
        "https://medium.com/@macprac/open-letter-the-mit-college-of-computing-must-address-systemic-racism-b8c63ccc3d36"
    ],
    "actions": [
        "open letter"
    ],
    "struggles": [
        "ethics"
    ],
    "employment_types": [
        "white collar workers"
    ],
    "description": "Over 90 individuals and organizations affiliated with MIT have signed a letter to the MIT College of Computing Leadership calling for the college to make a public statement condemning the death of George Floyd, developing a plan to address \"the legacy of anti-blackness and the relationship between technology and policing\", and breaking ties with companies that sell to police departments and ICE. Long-term asks include hiring more Black faculty and recruiting and accepting more Black undergraduate and graduate students.",
    "online": true,
    "locations": [
        "cambridge-massachusetts-usa"
    ],
    "companies": [
        "mit"
    ],
    "workers": 91,
    "tags": [
        "blm",
        "antiracism",
        "academics"
    ],
    "author": [
        "nataliyaned"
    ],
    "latlngs": [
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        ]
    ],
    "addresses": [
        "Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Green Street, Central Square, Cambridgeport, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 02139, United States"
    ]
}