EVENTS

You’re invited! The events below are open to everyone (not just physicians).

MOVIE NIGHT! Oscars Alternatives! Sunday, March 10!
Host your own Movie Night and discussion about nuclear weapons abolition! Check out the discussion resources and three movies below that so eloquently tell the horror stories that were left out of Oppenheimer.

Join SF Bay PSR’s 2024 CA Policy Advocacy Discussion on March 13!

Donate an item to our Annual Online Auction by March 15! MORE info HERE!

EVENTS listed below:

March various dates: Warheads to Windmills: Preventing Climate Catastrophe and Nuclear War
March 8 & 9: Environment and Health: New Roles for Health Professionals
March 13: Join SF Bay PSR’s 2024 CA Policy Advocacy Discussion!
March 15: Deadline to donate an item to the auction in April!
March 20 – May 15: Nuclear and Environmental Threats to Health Series
March 28 – 30: 35th Bioneers Conference
Movie Night, Oscar Alternatives: THREE films that share the horrors left out of Oppenheimer—First We Bombed New Mexico; Dark Circle; and Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island
April 1 – 22, EARTH DAY:  SF Bay PSR’s online AUCTION!

Committee meeting dates!
Wednesday, March 13: Environmental Health committee
Thursday, April 11: Nuclear Weapons Abolition committee

Warheads to Windmills: Preventing Climate Catastrophe and Nuclear War

A book tour!

Throughout March: Look here for additional events in Sebastopol, Bolinas, Mill Valley, Palo Alto, Santa Cruz, and Santa Barbara. 

There are already excellent pathways to global nuclear disarmament. There are already excellent alternatives to burning fossil fuels. The obstacles are misinformation, propaganda, and politicians corrupted by profiteering corporations. This book is a tool kit for campaigners on both issues to work together on treaties, divestment, boycotts, lobbying, legislation, education, conversion and more. It debunks myths, frauds, and distractions. It’s full of well-documented facts and figures, tools and strategies, personal and political inspiration for swift, decisive action. LEARN MORE

BUY the book at Adobe or HERE at Bookshop.org.

Please do NOT buy on Amazon.

Environment and Health: New Roles for Health Professionals

Hosted by California Nurses for the Environmental Health & Justice
Speakers include SF Bay PSR Members!

March 8 and 9, 8:00am – 5:00pm
In-person at the University of San Francisco
Free admission / $30 a day for CE Hours

LEARN MORE and REGISTER HERE

Join CA Nurses for Environmental Health & Justice at the University of San Francisco for a transformative two-day conference. This pivotal event brings together some of the most influential voices in healthcare and environmental advocacy, offering insights into the critical role health professionals play in addressing environmental health and justice.

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2024 California Policy Advocacy

You are invited to join SF Bay PSR’s Environmental Health Committee discussion!

We will discuss our list of California advocacy priorities for 2024 including protecting communities from toxic oil wells and air pollution, advancing building electrification, divestment from fossil fuels, reducing PFAS and pesticides, getting out the vote, and more!

We invite you to just listen and learn or to join the discussion and share ideas.

Wednesday, March 13, 7:00 – 9:00pm, online
To join, email EHCintern@sfbaypsr.org

EH committee members are dedicated and passionate health professionals, scientists, and students of all disciplines and allies, working on behalf of planetary health and survival. We strive to achieve our goals by illuminating the systemic racial, economic, and social injustices that are key determinants of environmental health and by working in collaboration with allies on these intersecting goals.

Global Nuclear and Environmental Threats Critical to Climate Change and Human Health

Hosted by Climate Change and Human Health ECHO Program, University of New Mexico (UNM)

March 20 – May 15, 2024
First and third Wednesdays of the month
11:00am – NOON PT / NOON – 1:00pm MT / 2:00pm – 3:00pm ET
Free online, CME credits available

REGISTER HERE

With SF Bay PSR Board President Dr. Robert M. Gould!

Given the decades-long global threats of nuclear weapons and power, environmental health exposures from chemical solvents and superfund sites, and resulting environmental injustice, our bi-weekly sessions will be a primer for health professionals, public health officers, first responders, and community-based educators interested in learning from nationally and internationally known experts.

FIND the FULL SCHEDULE HERE

35th Bioneers Conference: Revolution from the Heart of Nature

MARCH 28 – 30, 2024, in-person
Berkeley, California

MORE INFO and REGISTER HERE

As Bioneers rolls into their 35th-anniversary conference, decisive majorities of Americans support progressive policies, from serious climate action and environmental protections to strengthening democracy, taxing corporations and the rich, living wage jobs, abortion rights, racial justice, affordable healthcare, gun safety and more.

But we’re already in overtime. The driving question is whether we have sufficient time to make the transformational change necessary to begin to heal and regenerate people and planet.

We need to connect and scale the constellation of brilliant social movements to reach critical mass and enact the kinds of breakthrough systemic solutions we’ve cultivated here at Bioneers for decades as they’ve matured, spread, and gotten ready for prime time.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Original Sea Star Image by Laurent Formery, courtesy of Evident’s Image of the Year Competition

MOVIE NIGHT!!!

Oscars Alternatives!

The Oscars will air on Sunday, March 10, and Oppenheimer is in the lead. Host your own Movie Night and discussion about nuclear weapons abolition! Check out the three movies below that so eloquently tell the horror stories that were left out of Oppenheimer.

For your discussion:

  1. Find resources here about Oppenheimer and what was left out.

  2. Find here a recent New York Times interactive piece that sounds the alarm about the rising risks of nuclear war.

Oppenheimer the film!

Watch at your local movie theater or eventually, 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
READ MORE
MORE STREAMING OPTIONS HERE

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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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!

Starting March 12, 2024
Available to stream on Apple+ and Amazon
READ MORE and WATCH TRAILER

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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

In 2023, we will be hosting four discussions in February, April, September, and November with authors and leaders in racial equity.

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 Tyre Nichols’ family and friends, and 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, March 13, 2024.
7:00 pm, via Zoom
Meetings are held on Wednesdays, 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.

Divestment/Investment Task Force

Next meeting: email intern@sfbaypsr.org to receive meeting info
7:00pm, via Zoom
Meeting are usually held on the fourth Monday, every other month
Meeting ID: 864 2653 3538
Passcode: 410416

SF Bay PSR has joined forces with other NGOs and institutions to support a broad movement pushing for individual and institutional divestment from the fossil-fuel industry and investment in the alternative energy sector. READ MORE.

Nuclear Weapons Abolition Committee

Next meeting will be on Thursday, April 11, 2024.
7:00 pm PT, via Zoom
Meetings are 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.

To join a committee please email info@sfbaypsr.org

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