NEWS & UPDATES
New Film about Santa Susana Field Lab Features PSR-LA
PSR-LA is excited to be featured in In the Dark of the Valley, a new documentary film that chronicles the lives of a group of mothers turned advocates who come face to face with corporate interests and governmental apathy in their fight to clean up the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL.)
PSR-LA Stands in Solidarity With The AAPI Community
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...
Ending Nuclear Weapons Before They End Us: Opportunities Under The Biden Administration To Take Action
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...
Community Health Promotores: The COVID-19 Just Recovery Workforce
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...
PSR-LA Statement on Violence Against Asian American Pacific Islander Communities
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 increase in...
