Physicians for Social Responsibility
1101 14th Street Northwest, Suite 700, Washington, D.C. 20005
Telephone: (202) 898-0150 Fax: (202) 898-0172 Email: psrnatl@psr.org
PSR is the U.S. affiliate of International Physicians for the
Prevention for Nuclear War (IPPNW), the recipient of the 1985
Nobel Peace Prize.
We will be moving. About the first of July, we will be moving
to a new server to be able to provide better service to our users.
After our move, our new URL will be:
http://www.nucmed.buffalo.edu/psr
MISSION STATEMENT
As the active conscience of American medicine, PSR uses its members'
expertise and professional leadership, influence within the medical
community, and strong links to policy makers to address this century's
greatest threats to human welfare and survival. PSR is the U.S.
affiliate of International Physicians for the Prevention for Nuclear
War (IPPNW), a network of 200,000 physicians in 80 countries.
With more than 15,000 U.S. members and over 80 local chapters,
PSR works to protect people from environmental health hazards
and to shift government spending priorities away from wasteful
military expenditures and toward investments in public health
and the environment. PSR's successful efforts to cut defense budgets
and halt nuclear weapons testing and production have helped shift
billions of dollars to domestic programs that meet basic human
needs.
PSR works to:
- educate the medical community, public, policymakers and the
media about the human costs of unnecessary military spending and
the environmental crisis
- advocate sound federal spending priorities to redirect military
dollars to meet human needs, clean up the environment, address
violence and its causes, and eliminate nuclear weapons and halt
proliferation
- research the health effects of environmental degradation,
and of the production and testing of weapons of mass destruction
- promote international cooperation and local community action
Doomsday Clock
moves 3 minutes closer to midnight.
The setting on the doomsday clock was advanced from 17 minutes
to midnight to 14 minutes to midnight on December 8, 1995. This
change was made in recognition of the increased threat of nuclear
arms brought about by uncontrolled nuclear proliferation, and
emphasizes the importance of PSR's efforts to secure the adoption
of a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
and Abolition 2000, the PSR IPPNW campaign
to abolish nuclear weapons.
PSR's Comprehensive
Test Ban Treaty Program
Call for local action and draft resolution
for medical society resolution to abolish nuclear weapons
Quotations by noted policymakers
on abolition of nuclear weapons
Report of the Canberra Commission for
the elimination of nuclear weapons
PSR ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB
These links will take you to PSR web pages maintained by chapters,
students, and to IPPNW.
National http://www.nucmed.buffalo.edu/psr/
Chicago
http://http.bsd.uchicago.edu/~s-nagle/PSRChicago/PSRchi.html
Los Angeles http://labridge.com/psr/
Greater Boston
http://www.igc.apc.org/psr/psr.html
Washington
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~ekanter/
Yale SPSR
http://biomed.med.yale.edu/~psr/index.html
Student PSR
http://http.bsd.uchicago.edu/~s-nagle/remodel/spsr.html This page
has links to several student chapters
IPPNW
http://www.healthnet.org/IPPNW/IPPNW.html
Watch for PSR's ELECTION '96 Voter Education Information
NEW Feature: Monthly Security Update
TARGET GUNS: PSR's Gun Violence
Prevention Program
Children's Environmental Health Final Report Card
How well did your Senator or Representitive do on these critical
votes to protect the health of our children? The grades are in!
Click here to see:
NEW PROGRAMS FOR THE NINETIES
PSR PUBLICATIONS
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public interest, and community groups.
MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS
As a PSR member, you receive:
- PSR Reports, a members-only newsletter that brings
you issue analysis and updates on PSR activities
- Access to PSR's legislative action network, including PSR
Monitor, a bulletin that alerts you to fast-breaking news
on public policy issues
- Special discount rates to the quarterly international journal:
Medicine and Global Survival.
- Invitations to PSR conferences and symposia and the opportunity
to attend the bi-annual meeting of International Physicians for
the Prevention of Nuclear War
- The chance to take a more active role by joining your local
PSR chapter
- Special membership mailings that brief you on new PSR research,
education and action projects
- An application for the PSR MasterCard, a low-interest credit
card that helps fund PSR's programs each time you use it
- Access to socially responsible investments
- The opportunity to make a difference in the quality of life
on Earth
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