NOVEMBER 19, 2024 Dear Friends: As many of you are probably feeling, we at SF Bay PSR are still recovering from the shock of the election. While our chapter celebrates many past successes, the incoming administration gravely threatens our planetary health and survival. Their heralded reversals of our climate change wins and expected acceleration of ...
FEBRUARY 1, 2024 We are thrilled to welcome our 2024 interns Miguel Mercado, Navreet Purewal, and Kelly Lin! And we say thank you, farewell, and best wishes to our 2023 intern Sienna Marley. Emerging health professionals often feel not only pressure to achieve their career goals, but also a great responsibility to protect community ...
JANUARY 17, 2024 Our hearts are heavy as this momentous election year threatens our democracy, and the Israel-Gaza war has killed more than 23,000 people (mostly women and children) and continues to become an even larger humanitarian and health atrocity. On Monday, we reflected on the words of Martin Luther King Jr. whose wisdom guides ...
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 ...
March 2023 We invite you to help with these efforts and much more. Protect Communities from Oil Wells: Fight the ballot measure to reverse SB 1137 Environmental justice communities have fought for over a decade to protect themselves and their families from oil and gas pollution and to mandate a health protective zone around their ...
DECEMBER 6, 2022 Dear Friends: We wish you healthy and happy holidays! We also want to THANK YOU for your support and share with you a MATCHING GIFT opportunity. If we can raise $20,000 through our end-of-year campaign, an anonymous donor will match it. We need $8,000 more to reach our goal. PLEASE GIVE HERE. ...
“The climate crisis is leading to greater international conflict, and stockpiling nuclear weapons redirects precious resources away from equitable climate actions, while increasing risk of a nuclear conflict.” PSR Leaders, Dr. Ira Helfand and Dr. Marjaneh Moini, “A Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Will Save Lives,” in Common Dreams. NOVEMBER 15, 2022 Dear Friends: Like you, ...
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’ ...
