DECEMBER 17, 2024 Dear Friends: Like you, we are worried about the continued horrors of human suffering and widespread attacks on healthcare providers and hospitals in the Middle East and Ukraine, and the lack of expertise and professionalism in the new administration nominees that could threaten military oversight and security, particularly around our lethal nuclear ...
DECEMBER 10, 2024 Dear Friends: As health advocates, we strive to prevent what we cannot cure, and we can still protect health at local and state levels, despite the new federal administration's threats to cut environmental protection funding. One of SF Bay PSR's most impactful efforts is to protect the health of our communities and ...
Join us! Left: Protesting for the abolition of nuclear weapons at the Lawrence Livermore Lab. Right: Tabling at a community fair to advocate for health protective policies and to educate the public about the health benefits of electric home appliances. DECEMBER 3, 2024 Dear Friends: Are you wondering how you can help to advance health- ...
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 ...
OCTOBER 2024 We are thrilled to share below four impressive Emerging Health-Activist Awardees. The Awards were presented at our Annual Gala in September 2024! If you missed our Gala, you can watch it on our YouTube channel here! Congratulations to our Emerging Health-Activist Awardees! Allan Ndovu, MD, is an emergency medicine resident at Highland Hospital. ...
Yes, that is PSR-LA's Executive Director Martha Dina Argüello to the right of Governor Newsom! OCTOBER 23, 2024 First, a HUGE THANK YOU to all of you who signed letters, sent emails, and made calls! Every action matters! SF Bay PSR advocated for the following bills this year as they moved through all the legislative ...
AUGUST 6, 2024 Dear PSR Friends and Colleagues, This week, we ask you to join us in commemorating the 79th anniversary of the horrific bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Beyond the lethal toll from heat, blast and radiation that caused the deaths of over 200,000 human beings in Japan by the end of 1945, the ...
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 ...
DECEMBER 28, 2023 It's not too late. You can still make an end-of-year GIFT HERE! You can still help us to reach our goal of $15,000 that will be matched. We need just $1,440 more. Please give today! Does reading news about our world's multiple, urgent crises make you wonder how can you help to ...
