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Richmond Healthy Environment Project in collaboration with Richmond Shoreline Alliance

This project was made possible with generous funding from the Resources Legacy Fund. In support of a residential-grade cleanup of the AstraZeneca toxic waste site on Richmond’s southeast shoreline, the SF Bay Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility and Richmond Shoreline Alliance (RSA) are undertaking a community engagement and capacity-building process called the Healthy Environment Project. The goal of ...

Richmond Healthy Environment Project in collaboration with Richmond Shoreline Alliance2022-09-12T19:18:51-07:00

Welcomes and Farewells!

Welcomes and Farewells! SEPTEMBER 2022 We are thrilled to welcome our new staff members Alfredo Angulo, Giselle Bergmeier, Anlan Cheney, Brandy Khansouvong, and our new intern Lilah Blalock! And we say farewell and best wishes to our interns Alma Hernandez and Jasmine Campos. Please take a moment to read about what our former interns loved ...

Welcomes and Farewells!2022-09-13T11:31:48-07:00

Nuclear Disarmament: A Growing Global Movement

text for space AUGUST 9, 2022 NEWS, ACTIONS, READINGS & RESOURCES Dear PSR Friends and Family, As we solemnly commemorate the 77th Anniversary of the dreadful bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we are bearing witness to our world spinning out of control regarding the confluence of our climate and nuclear crises coming on top of ...

Nuclear Disarmament: A Growing Global Movement2022-08-09T11:01:00-07:00

Becoming an Antinuclear Activist: From the Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident, 1979, to the ICAN Nuclear Ban Forum, 2022

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 ...

Becoming an Antinuclear Activist: From the Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident, 1979, to the ICAN Nuclear Ban Forum, 20222022-08-09T10:59:01-07:00

My Year in Kyoto, Japan: An Antinuclear Activist’s Perpsective

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 ...

My Year in Kyoto, Japan: An Antinuclear Activist’s Perpsective2022-08-08T17:31:31-07:00

Statement on SCOTUS Decision to Limit EPA’s Ability to Fight Climate Change

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 ...

Statement on SCOTUS Decision to Limit EPA’s Ability to Fight Climate Change2022-07-01T11:56:09-07:00

Statement on SCOTUS Decision to Overturn the Right to Abortion

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 ...

Statement on SCOTUS Decision to Overturn the Right to Abortion2022-06-29T10:26:03-07:00

The Next Generation Needs Our Support More than Ever

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 ...

The Next Generation Needs Our Support More than Ever2022-05-24T12:40:43-07:00

HAPPY EARTH DAY from SF Bay PSR

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 ...

HAPPY EARTH DAY from SF Bay PSR2022-04-22T10:05:52-07:00

NEW CA Climate Report: Help Us Amplify Health Voices

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, ...

NEW CA Climate Report: Help Us Amplify Health Voices2022-04-19T16:33:15-07:00

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