<div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Steering Committee</div><div dir="ltr">Watertown Citizens for Peace, Justice and the Environment<br></div><div dir="ltr"><div>P.O. Box 1194</div><div>Watertown, MA 02471-1194</div><div><a href="mailto:watertowncitizens@gmail.com" target="_blank">watertowncitizens@gmail.com</a></div><div><a href="http://www.facebook.com/WatertownCitizensPJE" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/WatertownCitizensPJE</a><br></div><div><a href="http://watertowncitizens.org" target="_blank">http://watertowncitizens.org</a><br></div><div><a href="https://twitter.com/WCPJE" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/WCPJE</a><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Paul Shannon</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:PShannon@afsc.org">PShannon@afsc.org</a>></span><br>Date: Sat, Mar 18, 2023 at 4:33 PM<br>Subject: [raytheoncampaign] The Military Industrial complex invades our campuses<br>To: <a href="mailto:mapa-mideast-wg@googlegroups.com">mapa-mideast-wg@googlegroups.com</a> <<a href="mailto:mapa-mideast-wg@googlegroups.com">mapa-mideast-wg@googlegroups.com</a>>, <a href="mailto:mapa-raytheon-saudi-yemen@googlegroups.com">mapa-raytheon-saudi-yemen@googlegroups.com</a> <<a href="mailto:mapa-raytheon-saudi-yemen@googlegroups.com">mapa-raytheon-saudi-yemen@googlegroups.com</a>>, <a href="mailto:mapa-ukraine-ctte@googlegroups.com">mapa-ukraine-ctte@googlegroups.com</a> <<a href="mailto:mapa-ukraine-ctte@googlegroups.com">mapa-ukraine-ctte@googlegroups.com</a>>, <a href="mailto:raytheoncampaign@googlegroups.com">raytheoncampaign@googlegroups.com</a> <<a href="mailto:raytheoncampaign@googlegroups.com">raytheoncampaign@googlegroups.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div class="msg-2028911339743701263">
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<b><span style="font-size:24.0pt;color:black">Invading the Campus: The Military Industrial Complex’s Quest for Academic Know-How</span></b><b><span style="font-size:24.0pt"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#c00000">with Michael Klare and Indigo Olivier</span><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
Wednesday, April 5 @ 8pm<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:black">A webinar sponsored by the War Industry Resisters Network and Massachusetts Peace Action<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="color:black"><a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYtfuyrrD8pGNKS7n00rRzl5E6KxQdiJo56" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#4c89bf;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="134" height="41" style="width:1.3958in;height:.427in" id="m_-2028911339743701263Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:186f6e3842f4ce8e91" alt="Register"></span></b></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Michael Klare</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:black"> will report
on his research on the Pentagon’s quest to exploit academic research on emerging technologies – artificial intelligence, robotics, and hypersonics, among others – for military purposes. As the U.S. gears up for possible conflict with China and Russia, it seeks
to attain mastery in these technologies, considered vital to success in the high-tech battles of the future. But expertise in AI and other emerging technologies is not available from the Pentagon’s traditional contractors, with their focus on metal; for tanks,
planes, and other standard weapons; rather, it must be extracted from academic centers of innovation, like MIT and Carnegie Mellon University. To acquire this knowledge and employ it for military purposes, the Pentagon is establishing outposts on these and
other campuses, and; their personnel in university labs and classrooms. This invasion threatens to distort academic research and convert top universities into tools of the Pentagon. A vigorous debate is therefore needed on the moral and ethical consequences
of the military use of academic know-how.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Indigo Olivier</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:black"> will report
on her research on the engineering degree to defense industry pipeline. Decades of disinvestment in public higher education have resulted in dwindling university budgets and ballooning student debt. Through scholarships, sponsored research, and a robust campus
presence, the defense industry has been able to funnel some of the nation’s top scientific talent into weapons development. Olivier will discuss how our national budget priorities have influenced academic research<br>
and what these defense industry partnerships look like on the ground.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="color:black"><a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYtfuyrrD8pGNKS7n00rRzl5E6KxQdiJo56" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#4c89bf;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="134" height="41" style="width:1.3958in;height:.427in" id="m_-2028911339743701263Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:186f6e3842f4ce8e91" alt="Register"></span></b></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">MICHAEL T. KLARE</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:black"> is professor
emeritus of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College. He serves as a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Arms Control Association in Washington, D.C. and as the defense correspondent of The Nation. Professor Klare is the author of 15 books, including
Resource Wars, The Race for What’s Left, and, most recently, All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon’s Perspective on Climate Change. His articles on U.S. military policy, global resource competition, and arms proliferation have appeared in Arms Control Today,
Foreign Affairs, The National Interest, Scientific American, Survival, Technology Review, and Le Monde Diplomatique, among others.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">INDIGO OLIVIER</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:black"> is a reporter-researcher
at The New Republic. Her writing on politics, labor, and higher education has appeared in The Guardian, The Nation, In These Times, Teen Vogue, and Jacobin.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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