Jul 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
In 2018, PSR-LA’s leadership in the Back from the Brink campaign helped the City of Los Angeles and the State of California adopt resolutions supporting nuclear weapons abolition and a fundamental change in U.S. nuclear weapons policy. To date, 50...
May 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
This fiscal year, the United States spent $74.746 billion dollars on our nuclear weapons program, with $9.7 billion of that coming from Californians, and $2.3 billion coming from Los Angeles County alone! These funds would be better spent addressing the public health,...
Mar 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
All of us at PSR-LA are devastated and angered by the increase in hate crimes against the Asian American Pacific Islander community, and in particular, the most recent killing of eight individuals, six of whom were Asian American women, at three different spas...
Feb 24, 2021 | Uncategorized
If the last year has shown us anything, it’s that we must listen to health professionals and address public health threats before they become crises, from pandemics to climate change to racial injustice. Nuclear weapons are no different. These deadly weapons do not...
Feb 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
by Paula Torrado and USC Environmental Health Centers The COVID-19 pandemic continues to disproportionately impact communities of color, and due to the multiple environmental burdens, divestment and low-wages, the impacts of the pandemic are felt more acutely. In...
Feb 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
All of us at Physicians for Social Responsibility – Los Angeles are appalled by the recent upsurge in violence against Asian American Pacific Islander communities. Systemic racism and individual acts of racist violence pose a grave threat to health and the...
