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Public Health Expert Dr. Dick Jackson To Speak At DEC. 15th SFPSR Event–Please Join Us

December 11, 2008

SF Bay Area Physicians For Social Responsibility

December Event
Join Us Monday December 15th at 6:30 PM
-Hear a talk by UCLA Professor and public health expert Dr. Dick Jackson
-Meet SF PSR Staff and Steering Committee
-Mingle with other PSR Members
-Hear about our chapter activities and how to get involved
Where: At the home (1515 16th Ave., SF) of [...]

SF PSR President Dr. Robert Gould and Vice President Dr. Jeff Ritterman To Lecture At UCSF Mini Medical School For The Public

October 22, 2008

Mini Medical School for the Public
FALL 2008
Thursday evenings, October 16 – December 4
7:00 to 8:45 p.m., 513 Parnassus Avenue

For full catalog and details:
www.minimedicalschool.ucsf.edu
Mini Medical School for the Public
UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine presents:
October 30
Public Health Impacts of US
Foreign and Military Policy

Robert M. Gould, MD
President, SF-Bay Area
Chapter, Physicians for Social Responsibility;
Associate Pathologist, San Jose Kaiser
November [...]

SF Bay PSR Steering Committee Member Dr. Sarah Janssen To Speak At Food As Medicine Event Wed. 11-22

October 20, 2008

Food as Medicine: Health and Food Safety
MLF: Bay Gourmet
Location: Ferry Building Port Commission Hearing Room on the 2nd Floor of the Ferry Building
Time: 6:30 p.m. check-in, 7 p.m. program
Cost: $8 Club/CAFF/Slow Food members, $15 non-members
Program Organizer: Cathy Curtis
Also know: In association with the Community Alliance for Family Farmers (CAFF)
Rebecca Spector, West Coast Director, Center for [...]

SF PSR President Dr. Robert Gould To Appear In Iran Documentary; To Speak at Sept. 26th Screening in SF

September 22, 2008

Date: Friday, September 26, 2008
Time: 8pm (doors open at 7:30pm)
Venue: Artists Television Access
992 Valencia St. (at 21st St)
San Francisco, CA
Ticket price: $6
Dr Robert Gould Will Be Speaking at SF Screening :
Expert on nuclear weapons and related health issues, anti-war activism. Former national president and current Bay Area chapter president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, Co-author [...]

Climate Change And Peace September 21 At UC Berkeley International House

September 15, 2008

United Nations International Day of Peace
Climate Change and Peace: Why the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the Nobel Peace Prize
Sunday, September 21, 2008
3 to 6pm
International House
2299 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley
ADMISSION FREE / DonationsAccepted
Daniel M. Kammen Keynote Speaker
UC Berkeley Professor: Energy and Resources Group; Goldman School of Public Policy; Co-Director Berkeley Institute on [...]

Memorial Planned for SF PSR Friend and Supporter Dr. Alvin R. Leonard

September 4, 2008

Dr. Alvin R. Leonard Memorial

A memorial for Dr. Alvin R. Leonard will be held in Berkeley on Sunday, October 19, 2008, in the afternoon. If you are interested in attending, please contact the Leonard family at:

leonleg@ix.netcom.com with Subject line “Dr. Leonard memorial”, or at 510-215-1119.

Please identify yourself and your relationship to Dr. Leonard, in [...]

SF Bay PSR Co-Sponsors Livermore Anti-Nuclear Event

August 6, 2008

LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD: REMEMBERING THE VICTIMS OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Toward a Nuclear Free Future * No War on Iran; Stop Threatening, Start Talking!
Saturday, August 9th 2008 63 years after the U.S. bombings of Nagasaki, August 9, 1945, and Hiroshima, August 6, 1945.

At Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab, Corner of Vasco Rd. and Patterson Pass Rd, Livermore, [...]

SF Bay PSR Co-Sponsors Anti-Nuclear Protest In Berkeley. Executive Director Evan Krasner, MD to Speak

August 4, 2008

NO MORE Nuclear War EVER AGAIN, August 6th Noon-4:00pm
Stand for peace – in remembrance of the lives destroyed in Hiroshima, lives now threatened in Iran, and our Constitutional rights – with CodePINK, SF Bay PSR, MECA, Courage to Resist, Women in Black, Gray Panthers, South Bay Mobilization, American Muslim Voices, and others August 6th, Wednesday, [...]

Tragedy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Commemorated in Exhibit at Oakland City Hall

July 24, 2008

Witnesses to History
Conveying the Tragedy
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

On the eve of the 63rd anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Oakland City Council President Pro Tem Jean Quan
and Western States Legal Foundation
cordially invite you to view a very special exhibit
provided by the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation on display in Oakland City [...]

Join SF Bay PSR June 10: National Call-In for Diplomacy With Iran

June 6, 2008

Bombing Iran would bring disastrous consequences.
·The entire Middle East likely would descend into further violence putting the well-being of innumerable civilians at risk.
·U.S. standing in the world would plummet and oil prices would soar.
·A U.S. attack would only strengthen hardliners in Iran.
Current U.S. policies are [...]