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 ...
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 ...
SF Bay PSR is alarmed by the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in West Virginia v. EPA that greatly undermines the EPA’s ability to regulate industrial chemicals and greenhouse gas emissions to protect the health of the environment and people. SF Bay PSR agrees with the dissenting justices that Congress granted EPA clear authority to regulate ...
San Francisco Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility (SF Bay PSR) strongly opposes the Supreme Court ruling to overturn the 50-year legal decision recognizing the right to abortion in Roe v. Wade. We stand with our colleagues in national and state medical organizations (ACOG, AMA, and CMA) as well as public health (APHA), who, along with ...
May 2022 Dear Friends, Graduation season is here! We want to take a moment to acknowledge the impressive efforts of our younger SF Bay PSR climate-health advocates, and ask you to give to our Student and Early Career Program Fund that was seeded by former Board Member Dr. Tom Hall, a UCSF epidemiologist and ...
April 22, 2022 Dear Friend, Over the last two weeks we wrote to you about the recent UN’s climate report and the California legislature’s recently released report on climate change impacts across our state. Both warn that we have no time left, but we do have the solutions to address the climate crisis. However, these ...
April 19, 2022 Dear Friends, Last week we wrote to you about the recent UN’s climate report. This week we want to make sure you saw the California legislature’s recently released report on climate change impacts across our state. It warns of worsening fires, floods, economic disruption, and health harms. Like the UN report, ...
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 ...
Below please find recent efforts and reading list re: advocating for peace in the Urkaine. Last updated 3/14/22. No Nuclear War in Urkaine Supported by International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, SF Bay PSR, PSR National, and others. As healthcare professionals, we call for NATO and the Russian Federation to renounce the ...
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’ ...
