How is Martin Luther King’s Beloved Community a prescription for a healthy society? Fundamental to the concept of the Beloved Community is inclusiveness, both economic and social. The notion that all can share in earth’s bounty describes a society in which the social product is shared far more equally than it is in today’s world. ...
Bravo to SF Bay PSR Board member Dr. Tom Newman for his work on the Good Food Purchasing Standards in San Francisco. The San Francisco Sheriff’s Office and the Department of Public Health will start aligning their food purchasing practices with standards aimed at improving the environment and the health and well-being of those who ...
Over 600 physicians, nurses and health professionals in California, many of whom are currently frontline health care workers throughout our state sent a letter supporting AB345. We have seen first hand the ways in which oil and gas drilling harms the health of our patients. While we understand that the California Geologic Energy Management Division ...
JULY 30, 2020 View original newsletter email. SF Bay PSR invites you to join us, and local and national partners, in commemorating the 75th anniversary (August 6 & 9) of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that by the end of 1945 led to the deaths of more than 200,000 ...
1. Support the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Cosponsor H.R. 302 — Embracing the goals and provisions of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. 2. Continue the U.S. moratorium on nuclear testing Cosponsor H.R.7140 / S.3886 — PLANET Act, to prohibit the use of funds for an explosive nuclear weapons test. ...
Berkeley City Council, CA, voted on a resolution that will be sent to Congressmember Barbara Lee and to Senators Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris. On the 75th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the City of Berkeley calls on the President and Congress to step back from the brink and to ...
This very dangerous and under-the-radar move by the NRC would allow massive volumes of radioactive waste to be discarded in regular landfills. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the Committee to Bridge the Gap (CBG), Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles (PSR-LA), and San Francisco Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility (SF Bay PSR) wrote collectively to ...
