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Global health leaders rally behind the Ban Treaty

May 7, 2018 Comments Off on Global health leaders rally behind the Ban Treaty

The International Committee of the Red Cross and the World Medical Association have issued important and very timely calls for states to join and implement the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

Chain Reactions

May 1, 2018 Comments Off on Chain Reactions

The history of PSR and IPPNW disarmament activism from 1961 to the present, from Harvard Medicine magazine.

To abolish nuclear weapons, PSR chapters “think globally, act locally.”

April 20, 2018 Comments Off on To abolish nuclear weapons, PSR chapters “think globally, act locally.”

The only way to protect human health from nuclear weapons is to eliminate all nuclear arsenals worldwide. But how do we get there from here? A key 2018 strategy for PSR’s Nuclear Weapons Abolition Program is to mobilize local communities.

40 Civil Rights, Labor & Environmental Orgs to Trump: “It’s Time for Pruitt to Resign, or Be Removed”

April 18, 2018 Comments Off on 40 Civil Rights, Labor & Environmental Orgs to Trump: “It’s Time for Pruitt to Resign, or Be Removed”

PSR and forty other national civil rights, labor, conservation and environmental organizations have taken out a series of full page ads calling for the resignation or firing of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt.

Diplomacy is the public health solution for Korea

March 23, 2018 Comments Off on Diplomacy is the public health solution for Korea

After a harrowing downward spiral in which President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un carelessly exchanged threats and engaged in provocative military actions, we are seeing a ray of…

A New Fracking Landscape: Report on Recent Science Shows Overwhelming Evidence of Harm

March 13, 2018 Comments Off on A New Fracking Landscape: Report on Recent Science Shows Overwhelming Evidence of Harm

Health professional groups raise alarm that build-out of drilling and fracking operations is creating a public health crisis. Experts available for interviews. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Elana Simon, Communications Manager,…

Public health professionals tell the EPA to Protect the Clean Power Plan

March 2, 2018 Comments Off on Public health professionals tell the EPA to Protect the Clean Power Plan

Doctors, nurses and other public health professionals came out in force in San Francisco against the Trump administration’s dangerous plan to repeal the Clean Power Plan, the most comprehensive piece…

Extend the Olympic Truce, Prevent War with North Korea

February 16, 2018 Comments Off on Extend the Olympic Truce, Prevent War with North Korea

The Olympic Truce is a tradition that dates back to the original Olympic Games of Ancient Greece. In 2018, the truce is fraught with extra meaning. To cool tensions before…

In Memoriam: Dr. Victor W. Sidel, PSR Founding Member

January 31, 2018 Comments Off on In Memoriam: Dr. Victor W. Sidel, PSR Founding Member

Dr. Sidel has inspired so many of us in our work for peace, social justice, and health equity. Click here to read PSR members’ tributes to Dr. Sidel. Victor W.…

New Trump nuke policy veers us into more dangerous territory

January 19, 2018 Comments Off on New Trump nuke policy veers us into more dangerous territory

Last week, a HuffPost reporter leaked a draft of the Trump administration’s new Nuclear Posture Review (NPR). The NPR, which officially defines the role of U.S. nuclear weapons, dangerously increases…