#MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

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[agentfascinateur]

From Gaza to the Student Protest Movement, with love:

Thank you 💜

[probablyasocialecologist]

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) contributes to the Gaza Genocide and Zionist settler colonialism in Palestine in at least two distinct ways. First, MIT laboratories on campus conduct weapons and surveillance research directly sponsored by the Israeli military. Since at least 2015, MIT laboratories have received millions of dollars from the Israeli Ministry of Defense for projects to develop algorithms that help drone swarms to better pursue escaping targets; to improve underwater surveillance technology; and support military aircraft evade missiles. Two of these sponsorships were renewed since October 7th, 2023, while one came up for renewal in December 2024. Second, MIT maintains institutional collaborations through the ILP, LGO, CSAIL, and MIT Energy Initiative programs with companies that sell vast amounts of weapons to Israel. These include Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest military contractor, as well as Maersk, Lockheed Martin, and Caterpillar. These collaborations grant genocide profiteers privileged access to MIT talent and expertise.

10th December 2024

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The Stata Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Architect: Frank Gehry

Cambridge, Massachusetts -- 5/17/08

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Drawing of the Whirlwind computer.

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-My left brain 🧠

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A tribute to Aaron Bushnell at an MIT protest, May 2024

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[nando161mando]

MIT 'expels' PhD student Prahlad Iyengar for pro-Palestine essay

[dihalect]

for months, MIT has been punishing students who speak up or protest for palestine. last week, the undergrad association held a referendum to establish solidarity with pro-palestinian activists on campus, to call for a ceasefire, and to tell the administration to sever ties with israel.

over 40% of undergraduates voted, and the referendum passed!

(you can read the text of the referendum here)

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Liane Makatura / Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) / Rendering / 2023

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Lauren Mascarenhas at CNN:

The 2025 class president of MIT was barred from attending her graduation ceremony on Friday after delivering a speech denouncing the war in Gaza at a commencement event the day before. Megha Vemuri told CNN that after her speech, the university’s senior leadership informed her she was not allowed to attend Friday’s commencement ceremony and was barred from campus until the event concluded. Vemuri will still receive her degree, an MIT spokesperson told CNN. “What I am dealing with right now is absolutely nothing compared to the people of Palestine, and I’d take on much more if it meant helping their cause,” Vemuri told CNN Sunday. The class president was a scheduled speaker at Thursday’s OneMIT Commencement ceremony in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she took to the podium, a keffiyeh – a symbol of pro-Palestinian solidarity – draped over her graduation robe. She praised her peers for protesting the war in Gaza and criticized the university’s ties to Israel. Tensions over university protests against the war in Gaza have come to a head at this year’s graduation ceremonies. New York University recently said it was withholding the diploma of a student who condemned “genocide” in Gaza while delivering a graduation speech. Alongside students at NYU, Harvard, Columbia and other universities nationwide, MIT students set up protest encampments last spring to denounce the war in Gaza, facing disciplinary threats from the university.

2025 MIT class President Megha Vemuri was barred for attending the school’s graduation ceremony for using her commencement speech to righteously criticize her school’s complicity in Israel’s genocide of Gaza and praised her peers who protested the Gaza Genocide.

See Also:

Hindustan Times: Indian-American student Megha Vemuri calls out Gaza genocide in graduation speech: ‘MIT wants a free Palestine’

MassLive: MIT bans class president who gave pro-Palestine speech from commencement

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A window view of the Charles.💦⛵️⛵️(mixed media on board)🏙️

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Corridor

Cambridge, Massachusetts -- 3/18/15

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Above, Jay Forrester with a piece of Whirlwind's core memory; below, a technician running diagnostics on a piece of the Whirlwind computer.

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cybernetics or control and communication in the animal and the machine, norbert wiener 1948