What’s next? Keeping the Pressure on the New Presidential Administration and the State of California
NOVEMBER 19, 2020 The Biden-Harris Administration brings opportunities to advocate for “Green New Deal” policies and regulations that will fight the climate crisis and its negative health impacts, address systemic racism and environmental injustice, and redirect government spending away from nuclear weapons and toward health care for all and a green ...
SIGNED: Letter to call on health insurers to divest billions from fossil fuels
SIGNED: Letter with 60 health and environmental groups to call on health insurers to divest billions from fossil fuels, posted at Insure Our Future. Working with Climate Health Now and other partners to advance the findings of National PSR/Insure Our Future’s report that revealed top health insurers hold $24 billion in coal, oil, and gas, ...
Dr. Robert M. Gould, SF Bay PSR president, participated in the webinar: From East Bay to New Mexico, Community Power Against Nuclear Energy
Dr. Robert M. Gould, SF Bay PSR president, participated in the webinar, “From East Bay to New Mexico, Community Power Against Nuclear Energy,” hosted by Local Clean Energy Alliance (LCEA). WATCH the recording.
United Nations’ Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Ratified by 50th Country and American Public Health Association Adopts Policy Statement Calling for a Nuclear-Free World
Media Alert OCTOBER 24, 2020 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE RE: United Nations’ Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Ratified by 50th Country and American Public Health Association Adopts Policy Statement Calling for a Nuclear-Free World FROM: Physicians for Social Responsibility, San Francisco Bay Chapter (SF Bay PSR) CONTACT: Julie Lindow, jujulindow@yahoo.com, 415-710-4991 INTERVIEWS ...
United Nations’ Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Ratified by 50th Country and American Public Health Association Adopts Policy Statement Calling for a Nuclear-Free World GalleryUnited Nations’ Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Ratified by 50th Country and American Public Health Association Adopts Policy Statement Calling for a Nuclear-Free World
United Nations’ Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Ratified by 50th Country and American Public Health Association Adopts Policy Statement Calling for a Nuclear-Free World
OCTOBER 24, 2020 History was made on October 24, 2020, when Honduras ratified the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Now with 50 ratifications, the Treaty will enter-into-force in 90 days, becoming legally binding for countries that have joined the treaty, most likely on January 22, 2021, two ...
Board Member Sarah Schear published in AAP Voices: It’s Time to Wake Up to Threat of Climate Change and to Act
As pediatricians and trainees, we have all experienced moral awakenings that have compelled us to take action to protect children. As I step outside each day in San Francisco during the pandemic, putting on my mask reminds me of a time of moral awakening: the fall of 2018, when the Camp Fire raged through Paradise, ...
Supported: letter from California Certified Organic Farmers
Supported: letter from California Certified Organic Farmers calling for an Organic Transition Option to be added to California’s Healthy Soils Program. Organic farming is better for human health and the environment because organic farmers are prohibited from using virtually all 900 synthetic pesticides. The Organic Transition Option would give farmers and ranchers a stipend to ...
Signed: letter to VP Pence urging a reversal of the recent CDC COVID guidelines
Signed an organizational sign-on letter coordinated by the Infectious Diseases Society of America, Public Health Institute and Trust for America's Health, to Vice President Pence, head of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, urging a reversal of the recent revisions in CDC guidelines around COVID testing.