On Hiroshima Week, World Medical Journals Call for Urgent Action to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons

AUGUST 2, 2023 This week, as we solemnly commemorate the 78th anniversary of the twin bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that by the end of 1945 killed over 200,000 human beings from heat, blast, and radiation, we have had unprecedented reminders of our horrific nuclear legacy, and the continued key role of health professionals in ...

On Hiroshima Week, World Medical Journals Call for Urgent Action to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons2023-08-03T14:41:34-07:00

Peace Report from 23rd IPPNW World Congress in Mombasa, Kenya

JUNE 1, 2023 Physicians for Social Responsibility has for decades been centrally focused on moving our world away from our gravest threats exemplified by nuclear weapons and our climate emergency. Against the backdrop of Vladimir Putin’s threats to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine and rising tensions between the United States and China, we (SF Bay ...

Peace Report from 23rd IPPNW World Congress in Mombasa, Kenya2023-05-31T11:03:29-07:00

2023 Map: Join SF Bay PSR this year! Help us to save the world!

MARCH 14, 2023 Advocating for health-based solutions to our world's crises for more than 40 years! I am pleased to reach out to you with SF Bay PSR’s 2023 Map, now that the CA legislative session is under way, and we've set our 2023 goals. We invite you to join us! Never before have we ...

2023 Map: Join SF Bay PSR this year! Help us to save the world!2023-05-02T15:50:42-07:00

Nuclear Disarmament: A Growing Global Movement

text for space AUGUST 9, 2022 NEWS, ACTIONS, READINGS & RESOURCES Dear PSR Friends and Family, As we solemnly commemorate the 77th Anniversary of the dreadful bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we are bearing witness to our world spinning out of control regarding the confluence of our climate and nuclear crises coming on top of ...

Nuclear Disarmament: A Growing Global Movement2022-08-09T11:01:00-07:00

Becoming an Antinuclear Activist: From the Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident, 1979, to the ICAN Nuclear Ban Forum, 2022

AUGUST 9, 2022 By Howard Kornfeld, MD, SF Bay PSR member and assistant clinical professor at University of California, San Francisco This account tracks my experience of awakening as an anti-nuclear activist in 1979 to a reawakening this year and my attendance at the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) Nuclear Ban Forum, in ...

Becoming an Antinuclear Activist: From the Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident, 1979, to the ICAN Nuclear Ban Forum, 20222022-08-09T10:59:01-07:00

My Year in Kyoto, Japan: An Antinuclear Activist’s Perpsective

AUGUST 9, 2022 By Stephen Roddy, PhD, SF Bay PSR member and professor at the University of San Francisco In Japan, where two cities, Nagasaki and Hiroshima, were incinerated by atomic bombs dropped by U.S. forces during World War II, the nuclear weapons abolition movement is far more robust and mainstream than here in the ...

My Year in Kyoto, Japan: An Antinuclear Activist’s Perpsective2022-08-08T17:31:31-07:00

UN Report on Climate: Health Voices Must Hold Governments Accountable

April 12, 2022 Dear Friends, You probably saw the United Nation’s climate report released last week on April 4, 2022. While the report warns us that we have vanishing time to avert a climate disaster—it confirms that we have the solutions within our grasp. However, these solutions are not being implemented because the fossil fuel ...

UN Report on Climate: Health Voices Must Hold Governments Accountable2022-04-19T16:23:00-07:00

SF Bay PSR’s 2022 Roadmap: Advocating for health-based solutions to our world’s crises for more than 40 years!!

MARCH 8, 2022 NEWS, STAFF & INTERN UPDATES, EVENTS & MORE Once again, the new year is off to a tumultuous start. As our hearts go out to the people of Ukraine, we painfully watch our world in crisis on multiple fronts: Russia invaded Ukraine and threatened to use nuclear weapons; the United Nations’ ...

SF Bay PSR’s 2022 Roadmap: Advocating for health-based solutions to our world’s crises for more than 40 years!!2022-03-09T14:13:21-08:00

COP26: Where Do We Go from Here?

NOVEMBER 17, 2021 PSR Member News, Action Updates, Anti-Nuclear and California Policy Watch, and More During the first two weeks of November, as we watched Congress haggle over Biden’s infrastructure and Build Back Better plans, oil executives testify at congressional hearings attempting to hold them accountable, and world leaders posture at the United ...

COP26: Where Do We Go from Here?2021-11-18T15:50:41-08:00

Linking Our Movements Against Global Warming and Militarism

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021 PSR Member News, Action Updates, Anti-Nuclear and California Policy Watch, and More At a time when we are daily reminded through spreading drought and wildfires, and extreme weather events, that our climate crisis is here and now, we simply cannot afford to continue to squander our resources for another era of ...

Linking Our Movements Against Global Warming and Militarism2021-09-08T13:42:15-07:00
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