Nobody’s Talking About the Silver Bullet That Could Heal the Economy and Cure Most Social Ills

By Jeff Ritterman, M.D.
Imagine a guidebook on formulating social policy, with instructions on how to extend life expectancy, decrease infant mortality, improve child well-being, reduce obesity, lower homicide rates, decrease school dropout rates, lower teen pregnancy, increase levels of civic trust, improve voter turnout, decrease drug abuse, lower incarceration rates, decrease rates of mental illness, [...]

Author Aaron Glantz Coming To SF and Oakland To Discuss His New Book–The War Comes Home: Washington’s Battle Against America’s Veterans

The War Comes Home: Washington’s Battle Against
America’s Veterans
Aaron Glantz, unembeded journalist, broadcaster from Winter
Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan has just come out with his new
book.
The War Comes Home: Washington’s Battle against
America’s Veterans is the first book to systematically
document the U.S. government’s neglect of soldiers
returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Aaron Glantz, who
reported extensively from Iraq during the [...]

SF Bay PSR Program Associate Lena Brook Reviews A New Addition To Literature on Food Equity and Sustainability

BOOK REVIEW: CLOSING THE FOOD GAP: RESETTING THE TABLE IN THE LAND OF PLENTY–Mark Winne
By LENA BROOK
Mark Winne’s Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty is an elegant, inspiring addition to the growing body of literature on the food revolution unfolding in the United States today. The author spent over [...]

Event: Conference on Health Providers and Torture with Bioethicist Steven Miles, MD

Torture and Ill Treatment: Ethical Responsibilities of Health Providers

With

Steven Miles, MD
Professor of Bioethics, University of Minnesota
Author of Oath Betrayed

Date : [...]

Documentary Film Screening At UC Berkeley Adds a Human Dimension to The Iran Crisis

BAM 6.6
February 21, 2008
UC Berkeley
Dwinelle Hall Room #145
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
“Bam 6.6 is the story of the human condition. The film weaves together stories of survival, loss, and healing, as we explore the humanity of the Iranian people through the prism of the devastating 2003 earthquake that struck at the heart of [...]

SF Bay Area Steering Committee Member Jeff Ritterman Hosts Website Featuring Images Of And Art By Iranian Children

Children of Iran is a website born of travels undertaken by Physician Jeff Ritterman and his partner, Vivien Feyer, a psychologist and educator. In 2005, they accompanied a delegation of US military families–who had lost loved ones in Iraq–to the Iraq border, and in 2006 they traveled with a citizen diplomacy delegation to Iran, where [...]

SF Bay PSR To Co-Sponsor Iran Diplomacy Event With Author Stephen Kinzer

The Folly Of Attacking Iran

Coming to San Francisco on February 11th!
Join Stephen Kinzer, longtime New York Times correspondent and author of the book All the Shah’s Men, as he travels across the nation to make the case against a U.S. attack on Iran and for real diplomacy. The tour coincides with a new publication of [...]

SF Bay PSR Co-Sponsors United Nations Association Human Rights Event

United Nations Association-USA East Bay
Annual Meeting
Saturday, 26 January 2008
Pacific School of Religion
1798 Scenic Avenue, Berkeley
Human Rights Besieged!
Symposium: 60th Anniversary of the
UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

PROGRAM
11:00 Registration (with coffee/tea)
Annual General Meeting of UNA-USA East Bay (plans and elections for 2008, awards)
12:45 Adjourn for [...]