Author Archive for Denise
Designing Healthy Communities with Dr. Richard Jackson
PSR-LA is proud to announce a new 4-hour series, “Designing Healthy Communities” hosted and narrated by Board member Richard Jackson, MD, MPH.
January 19 – The Politics of Science: How a Cadre of Scientists Have Clouded Understanding of Scientific Facts to Advance a Political and Economic Agenda
The U.S.scientific community has long led the world in research on such areas as public health, environmental science and issues affecting our quality of life. But at the same time, a small yet potent subset of this community leads the world in vehement denial of these dangers.
November 15–Iran: How Close To Nuclear Weapons?
For the past five years there have been concerns that Iran’s will use its nuclear program to produce nuclear weapons. These concerns have grown more acute in the last several years as Iran has steadily expanded its nuclear program.
October 20—The Nuclear Industrial Complex: How Its Price, Pollution, and Proliferation Threaten Public Health
The nuclear industrial complex provides a combination of nuclear weapons and nuclear power that are tied together in a hand and glove relationship. Through the incalculable costs of production and cleanup, the devastation of catastrophic accidents, leakage along the fuel cycle, and the long lived contamination of spent fuel, our very civilization is threatened.
*October 15—POSTPONED—Preventing a West Coast Fukushima: Strategies for Safety
Join our Peace and Security Ambassadors for a training with Rochelle Becker of the Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility to learn how to get involved in efforts to reduce and eliminate the threats posed by California’s aging nuclear reactors.
August 6 – Hiroshima Remembrance Day and Great Peace March 25th Reunion
The Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament will hold it’s 25th Silver Jubilee Celebration on August 6, 2011 Hiroshima Remembrance Day.
July 26 – California Energy Commission workshop on nuclear power
The California Energy Commission is holding a workshop on nuclear power July 26, 2011 in Sacramento to review California utilities’ progress in completing studies and actions recommended by the CEC and directives by the CPUC during ongoing and future plant license renewal evaluations for Diablo Canyon and the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.
Clean Air Advocates To Challenge EPA On Smog Enforcement
Clean air advocates in California’s polluted San Joaquin Valley and L.A. Basin announced today their intent to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for its failure to enforce 30-year old pollution standards required by the Clean Air Act.
The 2011 Toxies – June 16
Are you ready to walk the red carpet? How about the excitement of the awards ceremony? Or maybe just the afterparty… Please join PSR-LA and the CHANGE Coalition at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood on June 16th to make some noise for bad actor chemicals at the 2nd Annual Toxies!
Lessons from Fukushima and Chernobyl for Public Health
In time to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Physicians for Social Responsibility has released a new briefing book, Lessons from Fukushima and Chernobyl for Public Health. This publication serves as a public resource, providing information about the health dangers created by nuclear power accidents.
Japan Nuclear Disaster
PSR-LA extends its deepest sympathy to the people of Japan. Much is yet to be known about the amount of radiation being released from the damaged nuclear reactors or how long the releases will occur. PSR-LA is deeply concerned about the threat this nuclear disaster poses to public health.
April 13 – Israel and Nuclear Weapons
Dr. Avner Cohen, Senior Fellow at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies (Washington D.C.), is widely known for his path-breaking history of the Israeli nuclear program, is an internationally recognized author and expert on nonproliferation issues, focusing on the Middle East.
April 6 – Cumulative Impacts in LA: Public Health’s Role in Emerging Policy Solutions
Please join us in an educational forum and dialogue with public health leaders about the problem of cumulative environmental impacts and the disproportionate impact on low-income communities of color. This session will examine the latest research on toxic hot spots, underlying social determinants and emerging policy solutions.
March 30 – Clean Air, Healthy Communities Citizens Hearing
Clean air champions from across California are holding a citizens’ hearing on clean air rules that are under attack from industry and their congressional allies. The hearing comes as congressional leaders attempt to undo several of these health protections.
March 24 – Semper Fi: Always Faithful
Sundance Institute presents a Work-In-Progress Screening of the documentary Semper Fi: Always Faithful. Marine Corps Master Sgt. Jerry Ensminger was a devoted Marine for nearly twenty-five years, indoctrinating thousands of new recruits in his role as drill instructor. When Jerry’s nine-year-old daughter dies of a rare type of leukemia, the grief-stricken father struggles to make sense of what happened. In his search for answers he discovers a Marine Corps cover-up of one of the largest water contamination incidents in U.S. history.