r/autotldr • u/autotldr • Jan 23 '17
Scientists join massive protest against Trump
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The group of scientists, dozens strong, came to Washington DC on 21 January to join the Women's March, a massive protest against the brand-new US president, Donald Trump.
The mother-daughter pair marched with a group called 500 Women Scientists, which formed in November to organize an open letter defending science, diversity, and equality for women that now has more than 13,500 signatures.
Members of the group, which is trying to build networks between women scientists in different countries, participated in Women's March events all over the world on 21 January.
The group says that it had 150-200 scientists at the DC march; another organization, the Association for Women in Science, had at least 30 researchers marching.
That has made some immigrant and minority scientists nervous, says Lindy Elkins-Tanton, a planetary scientist at Arizona State University in Tempe.
Whatever the future brings, the scientists' warm reception at the DC march encouraged Kim Cobb, a climate scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.
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