EVENTS
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Below find these events and related resources!
May 20: The Deluge: A Book Talk with Author Stephen Markley
May 22: Why California Needs the Polluters Pay Climate Superfund
May 27: RALLY in Sacramento: Make Polluters Pay
May 29: Climate Conversations for Clinicians
May 29: 100 Days In: UCS President Goldman & Federal Response Team
June 7: East Bay Electric and Sustainable Home Tours
Reading: current news to help you keep up
WATCH Online!
- Life Is Better Electric: This is one of the BEST webinars on the climate and health benefits of electric homes! with SF Bay PSR Dr. Bret Andrews
- Autonomous Armageddon: Nuclear Weapons and AI and The Future at Stake: AI and Nuclear Weapons with PSR Fellow Jack Kelly
- Indoor Air Quality in Homes: An Educational Series, with SF Bay PSR Nurse Fellow Crystal Loucel
- CA Nurses for Environmental Health & Justice: online courses!
- ECHO Series: Global Nuclear and Environmental Threats Critical to Climate Change and Human Health, with SF Bay PSR Dr. Bob Gould
- Book Discussion: Toxic City: Redevelopment and Environmental Justice in SF
- Building Electrification: New Studies, Advocacy, and How to Electrify Your Home, recording coming soon.
Movie Nights: Films that share the horrors left out of Oppenheimer—First We Bombed New Mexico; Dark Circle; and Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island, and more!
Committee Meeting Dates
Wednesday, May 14, 7pm, online: Environmental Health committee
Thursday, June 12, 7pm, online: Nuclear Weapons Abolition committee
Email our director@sfbaypsr.org to discuss joining one of our committees.
The Deluge: A Book Talk with Author Stephen Markley
Hosted by Fossil Free CA
Tuesday, May 20, 7:00pm PT, online
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Published in 2022, Stephen Markley’s novel The Deluge captured critics’ and readers’ imaginations with its depiction of climate chaos and resistance. “Markley’s dark depiction of the near future is filled with vivid descriptions of climate catastrophes, but his intricate network of complex characters balances precision with pathos, offering a kaleidoscopic view of humanity’s fraught relationship with its changing planet,” wrote Scientific American. Join for a conversation with Stephen Markley about climate futures, resistance in dark times, and the role of radical imagination.
Why California Needs the Polluters Pay Climate Superfund
Hosted by the Climate Center
Thursday, May 22, 10-11:30am PT, online
REGISTER HERE
The devastating, climate-fueled Los Angeles fires are estimated to cost around $250 billion. Who pays for that? It’s high time that climate polluters — the oil and gas industry — pay their fair share. The fossil fuel industry has been misleading the public for decades about the consequences of burning fossil fuels, long after they knew the truth from their own scientists. Modeled on the longstanding federal toxic superfund law, Polluters Pay Climate Superfund bills SB 684 (Menjivar) and AB 1243 (Addis) will require polluters to pay into a fund for climate disasters, relief for frontline communities burdened by oil and gas pollution, and climate solutions.
Participants include the bill authors, sponsor organizations, economists, and others who can share how a climate superfund will benefit Californians.
SPEAKERS
Assemblymember Dawn Addis: California State Assemblymember, District 30
Dawn Addis was elected to the California State Assembly in 2022 to represent the 30th Assembly District. Assemblymember Addis chairs the Assembly Select Committee on Offshore Wind Energy in California and the Assembly Select Committee on Serving Students with Disabilities.
Jason Pfeifle: Senior Climate Campaigner, Center for Biological Diversity Action Fund
Jason (he/him) works with the Climate Law Institute to fight pollution from oil and gas extraction. Prior to joining the Center, he led CALPIRG’s advocacy and policy work on public health issues like getting lead out of school drinking water and stopping antibiotic overuse on factory farms. He holds a doctorate in political science from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Clair Brown, PhD: Professor of Economics emerita and Director of the Center for Work, Technology and Society at the University of California, Berkeley.
Make Polluters Pay Action Events
Hosted by Oil & Gas Action Network
Sponsored by Last Chance Alliance, Fossil Free Media, SF Bay PSR, and more
Sacramento Polluters Pay Rally
Tuesday, May 27, 4:00pm, in-person
CA Capitol, west steps, 1315 10th Street, Sacramento
Wear your white coat, if you have one for your work.
RSVP: Email us at info@sfbaypsr.org Subject: May 27 Rally. We will connect you with other SF Bay PSR and local health professionals and advocates to meet or carpool.
Your tax dollars are subsidizing Fossil Fuel Companies to produce: Wildfires. Floods. Pollution. Cancer. Asthma. Climate Chaos. Disinformation. Corruption. Economic Inequality. Environmental Racism. California is poised to finally hold polluters accountable for the billions of dollars of damages and harms they have caused for decades. Join us for this historic and inspiring rally.
Climate Conversations for Clinicians: Addressing Doubts, Taking Action, and Managing Burnout
Hosted by Neurologists Interested in Climate and Health (NICHe)
Thursday, May 29, 2025, 9 – 10am PT, online
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Lisa Patel MD, Executive Director of the Medical Society Consortium of Climate and Health will discuss incorporating climate and health advocacy into your career. Dr. Patel focuses on the critical and inextricable links between children’s health and environmental issues. She obtained her medical degree from Johns Hopkins University and completed her residency in pediatrics at UCSF. She is currently a clinical associate professor at Stanford and for the last several years, she has used her extensive experience working for government, community organizations, and non-profits to advocate for children’s health priorities in the US.
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Bret Andrews, DO (SF Bay PSR Board Member)
Larry Junck, MD
Beth Malow, MD, FAAN
Ali Saad, MD, FAAN
100 Days In: UCS President Goldman & Federal Response Team
Hosted by the Union for Concerned Scientists
Thursday, May 29, 1:30–2:30 pm PT, online
REGISTER HERE
Dr. Goldman will also be joined by colleagues from UCS’s Clean Transportation program, Development team, and Policy, Programs, and Advocacy team to share reflections on the first 100 days of the second Trump administration and UCS’s Save Science, Save Lives campaign.
Discover the Future of Sustainable Living at the Green@Home Tour!
Hosted by Acterra
Saturday, June 7, noon-4:00pm PT, in-person
East Bay locations will be shared with those who register.
REGISTER HERE
This engaging event will showcase real homes that have embraced electrification and sustainability, offering firsthand insight into the benefits of transitioning away from gas appliances. Tour fully and partially electrified homes, learn how homeowners have improved energy efficiency, air quality, and water conservation, and explore practical steps you can take toward a more climate-friendly home. Attendees will also gain access to valuable rebates, incentives, and expert advice to make the transition easier.
READING
It’s hard to keep up with the news these days. We are working to make that a bit easier for you by sharing a selection of the articles we are reading. Also, please share these articles far and wide—together we can help combat misinformation.
American Public Health Association (APHA) Report: Decimated public health systems, a depleted federal workforce and the deletion of safety nets that maintain the health security of America are all outcomes of President Trump’s first 100 days
PEN America Report on Free Speech and First 100 Days
PEN American on Attacks to Higher Education
Guardian: A ruthless agenda: charting 100 days of Trump’s onslaught on the environment
Forum Radio: Benicia to Close Valero Oil Refinery: Environment, Labor, Health
IPPNW: Do not let the nuclear armed states lead us down the path to death: by Dr. Ira Helfand, IPPNW Board Member, at the Third Preparatory Committee for the 2026 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, 30 April 2025.
Guardian: The Rise of End Times Fascism
KQED Forum Radio: Tech Oligarchy aka The Nerd Reich
KQED Forum Radio: How Countries Fall into Autocracy with Anne Applebaum and Steven Levitsky
The authoritarian playbook’: Trump targets judges, lawyers … and law itself
More than 1,900 scientists write letter in ‘SOS’ over Trump’s attacks on science
Americans are beginning to fear dissent. That’s exactly what Trump wants
Why Trump’s brutal crackdown on free speech is unprecedented in the US
Economic Policy Institute: Cutting Medicaid to pay for low taxes on the rich is a terrible trade for American families
Here are all the ways people are disappearing from government websites
Books:
Autocracy Rules for Survival by Masha Gessen
How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa, PBS News Hour Interview
How Fascism Works by Jason Stanely
Life is Better Electric!
With Dr. Bret Andrews, SF Bay PSR Board Member, among others
Hosted by CleanPowerSF
Aired on Thursday, April 17, 2025.
WATCH the RECORDING HERE
Watch this high-value, super informative, one-hour webinar to discover the benefits of home electrification from industry experts. Learn about available rebates and incentives to help you transition from fossil fuels to clean electricity and make your home healthier, more efficient, and environmentally friendly. With SF Bay PSR Board Member Dr. Bret Andrews on Air Pollution and Environmental Justice: Electric Homes Make Us Healthier, find resources here. He was joined by experts from SF Environment Department, and Climate Equity Hub which offers programs for low-income SF residents to switch to healthier, electric appliances. Learn more about CleanPowerSF and their electric water heater program here.
Autonomous Armageddon: Nuclear Weapons and AI
Hosted by ICAN
WATCH the RECORDING HERE
This recorded webinar explores the alarming dangers posed by the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into nuclear weapons systems. Hosted by three Nobel Peace Prize-winning organizations dedicated to eliminating nuclear weapons, featuring expert speakers, including:
– Representative of Nihon Hidankyo, 2024 Nobel Peace Prize
– Professor Geoffrey Hinton, 2024 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics
– Connor Leahy, CEO of Conjecture (AI safety research)
– Dr. Ruth Mitchell, neurosurgeon and Chair of IPPNW, 1985 Nobel Peace Prize
– Melissa Parke, Executive Director of ICAN, 2017 Nobel Peace Prize
– Moderated by Professor Karen Hallberg, Secretary General of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, 1995 Nobel Peace Prize.
Together, they discuss the general and specific risks AI presents to nuclear command and control systems, the catastrophic humanitarian and environmental consequences of nuclear war, and ongoing initiatives to mitigate these threats.
The Future at Stake: AI and Nuclear Weapons
Hosted by PSR
Aired in April 2025
WATCH the RECORDING HERE
Join Physicians for Social Responsibility for a panel webinar exploring how artificial intelligence impacts nuclear weapons systems, security, and dialogues.
This follow-up to January’s successful Autonomous Armageddon webinar brings together experts in artificial intelligence and nuclear policy to examine emerging risks and potential solutions at this critical intersection of technologies.
The session will include expert presentations and moderated Q&A addressing key questions about risks from AI, nuclear weapons, and AI’s integration with nuclear command systems and paths toward reducing these existential risks.
Register now to participate in this vital conversation about safeguarding humanity’s future.
Featured Speakers:
Jack Kelly (PSR) – Facilitator
Joe Hodgkin (PSR) – Nuclear activist and Physician
Hamza Chaudhry (FLI) – AI and Nuclear Security Expert
Oliver Stephenson (FAS) – AI Policy Expert
Sneha Revanur (Encode) – AI Policy Expert
Charles Oppenheimer – Nuclear Policy Expert
Co-sponsored by: Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), Encode, Federation of American Scientists (FAS), Future of Life Institute (FLI)
CA Nurses for Environmental Health & Justice Webinars
This outstanding series of webinars on environmental health issues is open to all and offers CE certificates for nurses. Learn about how to protect against the health harms of air pollution, plastics, pesticides and more.
MORE INFO HERE.
Indoor Air Quality in Homes:
An Educational Series for Nurses and the Public
Hosted by California Nurses for Environmental Health & Justice
We recommend the entire series but particularly want to highlight this session:
Improving Indoor Air Quality
With SF Bay PSR/ANHE Fellow Crystal Loucel, RN, and Barbara Sattler, DN, DrPH
WATCH HERE and MORE INFO
This webinar expands on the Introduction to Indoor Air Pollutants in Homes webinar. This session will equip nurses with practical actions they can implement at home to improve indoor air quality. Additionally, an indoor air quality home assessment tool designed for use in patient’s homes will be shared. This tool is especially relevant for nursing specialties such as public health, home health, case management and other roles where nurses commonly enter the patients living space.
Global Nuclear and Environmental Threats Critical to Climate Change and Human Health: 2024
Hosted by Climate Change and Human Health ECHO Program, University of New Mexico (UNM)
Given the decades-long global threats of nuclear weapons and power, environmental health exposures from chemical solvents and superfund sites, and resulting environmental injustice, these sessions are a primer for health professionals, public health officers, first responders, and community-based educators interested in learning from nationally and internationally known experts.
This series may be from last year, but it is still very much worth watching!
WATCH RECORDINGS, click on the titles below:
1. The Global Nuclear Threat and Nuclear Landscapes in the United States: the first session with Dr. Robert Gould.
It is outstanding!
2. Health Impacts of Radiation with Dan Hirsch (The talk starts 6 minutes into the video.)
3. Environmental Justice and Nuclear Harms Panel, with Tina Cordova, MSC, BSC; Doug Brugge, PhD, MS; Marylia Kelley; Ryan Edgington, PhD; Jacqueline Cabasso
4. Environmental Exposures: Environmental Risk in Your Neighborhood, with Michelle Hunter—and Nuclear Superfund Sites in New Mexico, with Myrriah Gomez
5. Identifying the Source of Chemical Solvents and Their Health-Related Impacts, with Michelle Hunter—and Microplastics are Here with Matthew Campen—recording coming soon.
6. Environmental Justice and Toxicities Panel—recording coming soon.
Toxic City: Redevelopment and Environmental Justice in San Francisco
Hosted by City Lights Bookstore in conjunction with SF Bay PSR
Did you miss this event?
WATCH the RECORDING HERE
Lindsey Dillon discussed her new book!
With comments by Karen Pierce of the Bayview Hunters Point Community Advocates, SF’s oldest environmental justice nonprofit.
Toxic City: Redevelopment and Environmental Justice in San Francisco
Published by University of California Press
Toxic City presents a novel critique of postindustrial green gentrification through a study of Bayview Hunters Point, a historically Black neighborhood in San Francisco. As cities across the United States clean up and transform contaminated waterfronts and abandoned factories into inviting spaces of urban nature and green living, working-class residents—who previously lived with the effects of state abandonment, corporate divestment, and industrial pollution—are threatened with displacement at the very moment these neighborhoods are cleaned, greened, and revitalized. Lindsey Dillon details how residents of Bayview Hunters Point have fought for years for toxic cleanup and urban redevelopment to be a reparative process and how their efforts are linked to long-standing struggles for Black community control and self-determination. She argues that environmental racism is part of a long history of harm linked to slavery and its afterlives and concludes that environmental justice can be conceived within a larger project of reparations.
Building Electrification: New Studies, Advocacy, and How to Electrify Your Home
Ask experts questions about electrifying your home to make it healthier and more climate-friendly!
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Recording coming soon!
Learn about new research, upcoming regulations on new water and space heaters, how to protect your family, electrify your home, and advocate for a just transition to all-electric homes in CA and beyond.
After industry and transportation, buildings are a top emitter of greenhouse gases. In California, 25% of greenhouse gas emissions are from buildings and 15% are from homes. Electrification of buildings is a critical step toward decarbonization, improved health, and health equity.
Fossil Fuel (“natural” gas) appliances and heaters are proven to increase indoor air pollution and exacerbate conditions such as asthma. The health harms from indoor pollution are compounded by the high outdoor air pollution levels in California, per the American Lung Association’s State of the Air 2023 report. Also, while 98% of Californians live in counties with a failing grade for at least one air pollution measurement, a person of color is three times more likely to live in a county with failing grades in all measurements.
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- Dr. Bret Andrews, SF Bay PSR board member, will share the latest health and scientific studies on indoor air pollution that is caused by burning fossil fuels in our homes and info about local and state air quality regulatory agencies plans to electrify home appliances.
- Nurse Crystal Loucel, SF Bay PSR/Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments fellow will review how environmental justice communities are overburdened by air pollution and how building electrification can improve health equity, and she will provide a healthy home checklist.
- QuitCarbon will answer all your questions about how to transition your home to a healthier, climate-friendly, electric home. QuitCarbon offers free home electrification plans and support to save you time and money.
- We will also cover our recent advocacy efforts and how you can help to promote an equitable and just transition to electric buildings in California.
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Dr. Bret Andrews is a former Associate Chief of Neurology at Kaiser Permanente, Oakland and now works part time there. He focuses primarily on advocacy for climate health policy and presents to physicians and policy leaders on climate health. He is a co-founder of NICHe, Neurologists Interested in Climate and Health, and a board member of San Francisco Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility.
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For over a decade Crystal Loucel has served as a bilingual and bicultural Public Health Nurse for the Latinx community within the San Francisco Bay Area. Born and raised in Southern California to Mexican immigrants, she obtained her Master in Public Health from Loma Linda University in 2009 and a Master of Science from UCSF’s School of Nursing in 2014. She has been a Certified Diabetes Care & Education Specialist and a Health & Wellness Nurse Coach since 2019. Crystal currently serves on the National Board of Directors of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses and Co-Chair of the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Committee. In 2023, she was awarded year-long fellowships with SF Bay PSR through the Alliance of Nurses for a Healthy Environment as well as an Emerging Diversity Leaders through AcademyHealth. In her current role, she works as a UCSF Clinical Research Nurse for a study of co-transplantation of parathyroid and islet cells for insulin independence of patients with Type 1 diabetes.
QuitCarbon’s free, expert guidance makes it simple and affordable to get fossil fuels out of our homes. We’ve helped thousands of homeowners with planning, installation, and rebates on upgrades like heat pumps, mini-splits, induction cooking, and EV chargers. QuitCarbon is the only ENERGY STAR® partner providing free assistance with clean energy upgrades.
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Cooper Marcus is the Chief Quitter and CEO at QuitCarbon. QuitCarbon helps homeowners gain the confidence and clarity they need to electrify their homes – and helps contractors grow their businesses by being part of the clean energy transition. He believes that society’s move away from fossil fuel presents an incredible opportunity to respond to the climate crisis while improving the quality of life for homeowners, renters, and the small businesses that help maintain their homes. Cooper has led high-impact projects and products at high-growth startups and large enterprises. He recently spent 2.5 years at PG&E, guiding the development of an industry-leading wildfire risk machine learning model that is used to prioritize over $1B in annual spending on risk reduction.
MOVIE NIGHT!!!
At the 2024 Oscars, the star of Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy, dedicated his award to “peacemakers everywhere.” That is US! You and SF Bay PSR, and all our affiliated partners in the peace movement!
Here are resources for you to host your own Movie Night and discussion about nuclear weapons abolition! Check out the movies below that so eloquently tell the horror stories that were left out of Oppenheimer.
For your discussion:
Oppenheimer the film!
Watch online at streaming services.
Oppenheimer is focused on the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, an American physicist who was instrumental in the development of the atomic bomb. It debuts just one week after the 78th anniversary of the Trinity explosion, the first-ever detonation of a nuclear bomb over Alamogordo, New Mexico.
The film provides a valuable opportunity to educate the public about the dangers nuclear weapons pose to health and humanity, from the environmental health impacts of nuclear weapons production and testing to the growing threat of nuclear war.
What horrors did Oppenheimer leave out? Watch these award-winning movies!
First We Bombed New Mexico
An award-winning, anti-nuclear film by Lois Lipman, featuring PSR Awardee Tina Cordova, Leader Tularosa Basin Downwinders
WATCH the TRAILER HERE
LEARN MORE and FIND a SCREENING HERE
First We Bombed New Mexico is the untold story of Trinity, the world’s first nuclear bomb detonated in New Mexico one month before the bombing of Hiroshima.
It is a story of government betrayal with tragic consequences.
Thousands of New Mexicans – mostly Hispanic and Native American – were exposed to catastrophic levels of radioactive fallout, never warned, never acknowledged and never helped afterwards. Generations of cancers followed.
Inspiring New Mexico Hispanic cancer survivor, Tina Cordova has catalyzed a movement seeking compensation for families – mostly Hispanic and Native – who suffer multigenerational cancers tied to that bomb – and who continue to be ignored.
This documentary is witness to the people’s narrative for voices not heard.
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Dark Circle
An award-winning, anti-nuclear film by SF Bay PSR member Judy Irving, and Christopher Beaver and Ruth Landy
WATCH HERE
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It’s been 75 years since the start of the Atomic Age, with the U.S. nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki killing hundreds of thousands of civilians, but its trail of destruction has never ended.
Dark Circle covers both the period’s beginnings and its aftermath, providing a scientific primer on the catastrophic power of nuclear energy while also relating tragic human stories detailing the devastating toll radioactive toxicity has taken on people and livestock—focusing in large part on Rocky Flats, Colorado, whose plutonium processing facility infamously contaminated the surrounding area.
Documentary Grand Prize winner at Sundance, Academy shortlisted for Best Documentary, and Emmy winner, Dark Circle is no less potent today than it was 40 years ago. The new 2K HD Restoration done at FotoKem was assisted by AMPAS and supervised by co-director Judy Irving.
“Dark Circle is one of the most horrifying films I’ve seen, and also sometimes one of the funniest (if you can laugh at the same things in real life that you found amusing in Dr. Strangelove). Using powers granted by the Freedom of Information Act, and sleuthing that turned up government film the government didn’t even know it had, the producers of this film have created a mosaic of the Atomic Age. It is a tribute to the power of the material, and to the relentless digging of the filmmakers, that the movie is completely riveting. Four Stars!” – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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Silent Fallout
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SCREENING SCHEDULE
This award-winning film by accredited Japanese director Hideaki Ito tells the untold stories of the victims of nuclear testing in America—and the account of one mother who risked her career to expose the dangers of radiation poisoning.
Silent Fallout is more than a film. Our team is working hard to spread the word about radiation poisoning and nuclear contamination in the US and beyond—and we need your help to do so.
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In the Dark of the Valley
A film featuring PSR-LA’s Dr. Bob Dodge and Denise Duffield!
SCREENED on MSNBC
LEARN MORE at In the Dark of the Valley WEBSITE
READ MORE at MSNBC
In the Dark of the Valley is the first feature film to focus on the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, a former nuclear and rocket-engine testing site near Los Angeles. The film is an exploration into the site’s long history of cover-ups and negligence by site owners Boeing, NASA, and the Department of Energy. It also tells the harrowing story of how a community of mothers have dealt with the struggles of childhood cancer and their new found life of environmental advocacy.
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Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island
Another award-winning, anti-nuclear film!
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Starting March 12, 2024
Available to stream on Apple+ and Amazon
READ MORE and WATCH TRAILER
March 28, 2024, marks the 45th Anniversary of the Three Mile Island meltdown—the worst commercial nuclear power accident in U.S. history.
A resonant story about a battle of wills, hubris, and energy – atomic, maternal, moral, and feminist. At the prompting of an ecofeminism professor turned visual journalist, the four original “concerned” mothers, a two-woman legal team and a reporter, now all much older, wiser, and bolder, break open years of corporate silencing and nuclear industry doublespeak, and tell their stories about the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident, the worst commercial nuclear reactor meltdown in U.S. history. And though this disaster took place in 1979, the life and death implications continue in the spiritual, physical, and political DNA of the community, its residents, and their descendants.
Save-Our-Climate Movies!
YOUTH v. GOV: An independent, award-winning documentary about Juliana v. United States
WATCH on Netflix
Climate Psychiatry Alliance co-founder, Lise Van Susteren has been the forensic psychiatric consultant on this historically significant, groundbreaking constitutional CLIMATE case brought by 21 youth plaintiffs.
For over 10 years, Our Children’s Trust’s legal actions seek systemic, science-based climate mitigation actions by governments, demanding that our leaders tackle the roots of the climate crisis rather than just the branches of its impacts.
OCT has represented and supported youth plaintiffs in climate litigation around the globe–including Juliana v. United States, Held v. Montana, & La Rose v. Her Majesty the Queen–as they advocate for their right to a stable climate.
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Big Oil’s Last Lifeline: A 3-part docuseries sounding the alarm on the petrochemical industry’s impact on Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities.
WATCH HERE
Everyday, the oil, gas and petrochemical industry writes off Black, Brown and Indigenous communities as “sacrifice zones.” The industry violates laws with impunity and rationalizes the unconscionable – they dump cancer-causing pollution into communities of color and try to cover it up.
Big Oil’s Last Lifeline takes us to the frontlines of the U.S.’s epicenters for petrochemical production: West Virginia, Houston, and along the Mississippi River in Louisiana.
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The Power of Big Oil, a PBS Frontline Special
WATCH on KQED HERE
We highly recommend PBS’s Frontline show, “The Power of Big Oil.” This in-depth, three-part series examines the fossil fuel industry’s history of casting doubt and delaying action on climate change. It traces decades of missed opportunities and the ongoing attempts to hold Big Oil to account.
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Racial Equity Reading Group Discussions
You’re invited to learn more about issues of racial equity, particularly as they relate to the fields of public health and medicine. The discussions are open to anyone (not just health professionals) seeking to deepen their personal understanding of issues related to systemic racism and strengthen their commitment toward creating a more just, equitable, and healthy world.
Our hearts go out to all those who have lost loved ones by gun and police violence. This discussion series is also part of our ongoing commitment to address the public health emergencies of gun and police violence, particularly toward African-Americans who are three times more likely to be killed by police than white people.
NEXT DISCUSSION & READINGS, TBA
SF Bay PSR Committee Meetings
Environmental Health Committee
NEXT meeting will be on Wednesday, May 14, July 9, Sept 10, Nov 12, 2025.
7:00 pm, via Zoom
Meetings are usually held on the second Wednesday, every other month.
EHC members continue to work energetically during the pandemic on wide-ranging collaborative efforts to engage health professional students and institutions to address the unceasing threats of our climate to our health. READ MORE.
Nuclear Weapons Abolition Committee
Next meeting will be on Thursday, June 12, August 14, Oct 9, Dec 11, 2025.
7:00 pm PT, via Zoom
Meetings are usually held on the second Thursday, every other month.
NWAC is composed of health professionals and others working locally to influence public awareness, civic engagement, and national policy to build a nuclear weapons free world. Toward the latter, we frame our work through our Back from the Brink campaign and its policy platforms. READ MORE.
