San Francisco Bay PSR’s 2024 Virtual Gala
September 25 @ 6:30 pm PDT
Protect Our Downwind Communities!
This year’s gala, Protect Our Downwind Communities, will present Keynote Speaker Tina Cordova, co-founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium and a cancer survivor.
- Ms. Cordova is featured in the new award-winning documentary First We Bombed New Mexico. She has catalyzed a national movement to draw attention to the impact of the world’s first nuclear bomb detonation on thousands of New Mexicans, mostly Hispanic and Native American.
- The program will include a local update by J. Michelle Pierce, a lifelong resident of Bayview Hunters Point and executive director of the Advocates, SF’s oldest environmental justice nonprofit, who will discuss the state of legacy environmental issues in her community.
- And we will celebrate our Emerging Health-Activist awards.
The US first bombed New Mexico. Then we bombed Japan. Then we bombed a number of islands in the Pacific, and the ships that were made radioactive in these nuclear blasts were brought back home to contaminate our San Francisco Bayview Hunters Point community. Now, more than 75 years later, this radioactive contamination continues to harm our communities and environment. What can we do about it? How can we prevent this from happening again while protecting our people here and throughout the world who were victimized by the crimes of the atomic era?