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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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’ ...
NOVEMBER 17, 2021 PSR Member News, Action Updates, Anti-Nuclear and California Policy Watch, and More During the first two weeks of November, as we watched Congress haggle over Biden’s infrastructure and Build Back Better plans, oil executives testify at congressional hearings attempting to hold them accountable, and world leaders posture at the United ...
SF Bay PSR Board Member Dr. Tom Newman dedicated his book, Evidence-Based Diagnosis: An Introduction to Clinical Epidemiology, (co-authored by Michael A. Kohn), to his parents, Ed and Carol Newman, in whose honor he is donating his royalties to Physicians for Social Responsibility, in support of its efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons.
