PSR-LA_2008_Gala_Tri.. - Physicians for Social Responsibility

Physicians for
Social Responsibility–
Los Angeles
Annual Gala
Honorary Committee
Congressmember Xavier Becerra
Dr. Michael Beckwith
Congressmember Howard Berman
Bob Blumenfield
Dr. Lester and Devra Breslow
Assemblymember Julia Brownley
Honorable Judy Chu
Assemblymember Kevin de León
Susan Clark and Alex Karras
Honorable Philip E. Coyle III
Mike Farrell
Senator Diane Feinstein
Congressmember Bob Filner
Dr. Wayne Glass
Arianna Huffington
Dr. Michael Intriligator
Senator Sheila Kuehl
Dr. Joseph Lyou
Assemblymember Fabian Núñez
and Maria Robles
Jonathan Parfrey
Dr. Bennett Ramberg
Reverend George Regas
Senator Mark Ridley-Thomas
Senator Gloria Romero
Councilmember Bill Rosendahl
Alan Sieroty
Stanley Sheinbaum
Dr. Robert and Janet Tranquada
Congressmember Henry Waxman
Congressmember Diane Watson
Dr. Robert Wesley
Peacemaker Sponsors
Nancy Gibbs M.D.
Southern California Air Quality
Management District
Dr. Paul and Hisako Terasaki
Healthy Communities Sponsors
Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLA
St. John’s Well Child
and Family Center
Margaret Wacker
Event Production
Dinner Coordinator
Denise Duffield
Table Sponsors
Maurine Doerken M.F.T. and
Peter Doerken D.D.S.
Cliff Gladstein
Japanese American Medical
Association
Metropolitan Water District
of Southern California
St. Mary’s Episcopal Church
Video clips for Dr. Yamazaki's presentation
are courtesy of Steven Schecter,
President of Schecter Films, Inc.
Friends
Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Attar
Bernard and Elaine Brandchaft M.D.
Kris Calvin
Bruce Cohen
Thomas Cook and Marie de Vareness
Lily Ann Inouye
Moneium Fadali M.D.
The Yamashiro Family
Assemblymember Julia Brownley
Board of Directors
Neal A. Baer M.D.
Robert Dodge M.D.
Tova Fuller
Nancy Gibbs M.D.
Jimmy Hara M.D.
Ken Levy M.F.T.
Jeanne Londe
Jim Mangia
Williams E. Perkins M.D.
Jose Quiroga M.D.
Ruth Tavlin M.F.T.
Margaret Wacker M.D.
Curren Warf M.D.
Video Production and Stage Management
Julie Thompson and Brogan de Paor
Invitation and Journal Design
Corky Retson
Floral Arrangements
June Berk
Printing
House of Printing
PSR-LA Staff
Martha Dina Argüello
Executive Director
Denise Duffield
Associate Director
Kathy Attar
Health and Environment Program
Coordinator
Ana Mascareñas
Membership Coordinator
Linda Kite
Healthy Homes Collaborative
Special Thanks
Liliana Argüello
Neal Baer M.D.
Michael Collins
Ana Mascareñas
Vikki Paulus
The Lippin Group
Physicians for
Social ResponsibilityLos Angeles
617 S. Olive Street, Suite 810
Los Angeles, CA 90014-1629
213-689-9170 phone
213-689-9199 fax
www.psrla.org
Emeriti
Shirley Magidson
Richard Saxon M.D.
Environmental Health Sponsors
Jodie Evans and Max Palevsky
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Program
Welcome
Erica Frank M.D., M.P.H.
President, Physicians for Social Responsibility
Dedication to
Saul Niedorf M.D.
by Curren Warf M.D.,
Chair of the Board, PSR-LA
Presentation of the
Peacemaker Award to
Dr. Hans Blix
Special Guest
Gloria Romero
California Senate Majority Leader
Executive Director Remarks
Martha Dina Argüello
Executive Director, PSR-LA
Musical Tribute
June Kuramoto and Kimo Cornwell
Dinner
Presentation of the
Socially Responsible Media Award to
Lawrence Bender
by Dean Ornish M.D.
Presentation of Special Musical Guest
Gustavo Santaolalla
by Michael Collins
Presentation of the
Socially Responsible Medicine Award to
Dr. James Yamazaki
by Carmine Clemente M.D.
Presentation of the
Founders Award to
Joseph Cirincione
by Kal Raustiala Ph.D., J.D.
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Special Musical Tribute
“Thousand Cranes”
June Kuramoto & Kimo Cornwell
June Kuramoto (born in Japan but raised in Los Angeles) has been playing
okoto since the age of 7. She was fortunate to study almost her entire life
with the remarkable Kazue Kudo Sensei, receiving her classical degrees
of koto authorized by the Miyagi School of Koto in Tokyo, Japan. Her many
credits include performing and/or recording with Ravi Shankar, George Duke,
Manhattan Transfer, Taste of Honey, David Benoit, Stanley Clarke, Keiko
Matsui, Michael Paulo, Yutaka Yokokura, Angela Bofill, and most recently
with Ozomatli; and on films such as Pirates of the Caribbean — At World’s
End, The Last Samurai, Blade II, Thin Red Line and Black Rain. She is one
of the principals of the group Hiroshima, a songwriter and producer and has
collaborated with Kimo on many songs and makes special appearances as
a solo artist or duet when schedule permits.
Kimo (Hawaiian for James) Cornwell was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Blessed
with the love of music, he began his classical studies at the age of 8, and
that continued for 6 1/2 years. He is renown as one of the best keyboard
players from the islands. His many credits include performing and/or recording
with such artists as Cheryl Lynn, Ronnie Laws, Al Jarreau, Frankie Beverly
and Maze, John Klemmer, Rick Springfield, Julio Iglesias, Howard Hewitt,
Shari Belafonte, Hubert Laws, Peter White, Charo, Michael Paulo, Pauline
Wilson (Seawind), Don Ho, and Kalapana. Kimo has also been involved with
writing and performing music for several TV movies, cooking shows, and
documentaries. He has been one of the principals and heart and soul of the
Los Angeles-based group Hiroshima as keyboardist, composer, arranger
and producer.
Both artists are extremely honored to be part of this important program and
congratulate all the honorees.
You can visit June and Kimo at www.hiroshimamusic.com.
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In Memory of
Saul Niedorf
February 20,1931 – March 17, 2008
PSR-LA’s 2008 Annual Gala Dinner is dedicated to the memory of Saul Niedorf
M.D., a beloved child and adolescent psychiatrist and long time member of
Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles. Saul passed away on the morning of March 17, in his fiftieth year of practicing medicine.
Well-known for the care and advocacy he provided to vulnerable populations,
in particular children, immigrants, refugees and incarcerated youth, Saul was on
the clinical faculty at UCLA, an emeritus physician at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center,
and a consultant for the Department of Mental Health and the California Youth
Authority. His colleagues still say that whenever they encountered a particularly
difficult adolescent, Dr. Saul Niedorf was the one to call. Patients always
commented on his personal dedication to them, dignity, and kindness.
Saul went to Roosevelt High School in Boyle Heights and graduated from the
UCLA School of Social Work 1952. Blacklisted during the McCarthy era, he
moved to Switzerland to complete his medical education where he studied
under Jean Piaget. The State Department suspended his passport for five years,
raising a serious concern that he may have never been able
to travel or return to the United States. Upon his eventual return
by Curren Warf M.D.
to the U.S., he became involved in the emerging civil rights movement, marching with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from Selma to
Montgomery. In 1973 Saul and his wife, Ann Marie, returned to Los Angeles where
their home became a meeting place for many progressive organizers including
Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta of the United Farm Workers.
Saul understood the relationship between political conditions and the human
psyche. During the 1980s, the civil war in El Salvador drove thousands of political
refugees to the United States. The refugees presented compelling testimony in
court, describing the use of bombing, torture, death and disappearances against
the civilian population. After interviewing more than thirty refugees and reading
countless depositions of others, Saul provided pivotal testimony to the court
concluding that Post Traumatic Stress Disorder was prevalent among those he
had evaluated. In 1988, in what was a major victory for the human rights of
immigrants and refugees of all backgrounds, the court issued an injunction against
the forcible return of Salvadorian refugees.
Saul had been a lifelong advocate for peace, nuclear disarmament and social
justice. Despite having suffered severe personal consequences during the
McCarthy era, Saul was fearless in raising his voice regarding controversial issues
even during the most difficult times. Saul was known as an extraordinarily kind
man, and beneath the kindness was profound courage. To be kind is to be open
to others; he had the courage to be open. He was a man who cared deeply for
others and refused to descend into cynicism. He was a powerful and effective
advocate for civil rights, for the rights of refugees, for workers, for children and
youth, for women, against the war in Vietnam and more recently in Iraq, and for
nuclear disarmament. Saul was irrepressible, an inspiration to others, and will
always be a model of an American who lived life with integrity and courage.
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Emcee Erica Frank M.D., M.P.H is a Professor in
the Departments of Health Care and Epidemiology and Family Practice at the
University of British Columbia in Vancouver, a Tier I Canada Research Chair,
and a Senior Scholar of the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research.
She is also Founding Director of Health Sciences Online (creating a virtual health
sciences university), and the Research Director for the Annenberg Physician
Training Program in Addiction Medicine. Dr. Frank is also an active volunteer
and environmentalist, and was recently selected as President of Physicians for
Social Responsibility.
Until 2006, she was a tenured Professor, Vice Chair (Academic Affairs), and
Division Director (Preventive Medicine) in the Department of Family and Preventive
Medicine, at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. She also
directed Emory’s Preventive Medicine Residency Program, and had a clinical
practice in cholesterol management. Following a transitional internship at the
Cleveland Clinic, she was residency (Yale, 1990) and fellowship (Stanford, 1993)
trained, and also board certified, in preventive medicine.
Her major research theme is physicians’ personal and clinical prevention habits.
She is Principal Investigator of the Women Physicians’ Health Study, a national
questionnaire-based study of 4,501 women M.D.s, and the first large study of
their personal and professional characteristics, yielding more than fifty publications.
Dr. Frank is also Principal Investigator of the “Healthy Doc – Healthy Patient”
project, a national (17 medical school) study of the effect of encouraging medical
students’ healthy behaviors on their personal and clinical prevention habits.
She is also leading an initiative, Health Sciences Online, for WHO, World Bank,
and others, to provide a free, high quality, comprehensive online library of health
reference materials, courseware, and other e-learning opportunities to health
professionals in training and practice around the world. She is extensively
published, including over 100 articles (four of which are first-authored JAMA
publications, with additional first-authored articles in the Lancet, BMJ and other
major scientific medical journals).
Dr. Frank has considerable media and health education experience. She has been
the Co-Editor in Chief of the journal Preventive Medicine (1994-1999) and the
Editor of the student component of JAMA, and has served on the editorial boards
of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine and the Cleveland Clinic Journal
of Medicine. She has written for Vogue magazine, was the health reporter for
the central Georgia ABC affiliate for two years, was a medical editor for Lifetime
Medical Television, and a health reporter for Medical News Network.
She has received a number of awards for her work. These include the AMA/Pettis
Award (outstanding U.S. medical student communicator), the American College
of Preventive Medicine’s (ACPM’s) “Rising Star Award” (received the first year the
award was offered), and the outstanding alumnus award from the Rollins School
of Public Health.
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Peacemaker Award
Dr. Hans Blix
(via video)
Dr. Hans Blix is the recipient of PSR-LA’s 2008 Peacemaker Award for his
enduring efforts to rid the world of weapons of mass destruction.
The award was presented to him on April 3 by Tova Fuller, a PSR-LA Board
Member and dual M.D./Ph.D. UCLA student, and Dr. Bennett Ramberg, a former
State Department policy analyst and coordinator of the Global Security Seminars,
which are co-hosted by PSR-LA and the Center for Defense Information.
As International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General and later as head of
the United Nations Monitoring, Verification, and Inspection Commission, Dr. Blix
participated in a process that eradicated the Iraqi
nuclear weapons program.
In 2003, he headed the UN weapons inspectors
who were sent to Iraq to find out if Saddam
Hussein's regime had destroyed its weapons of
mass destruction. Dr. Blix courageously opposed
proponents of war, stating that Iraq had probably
destroyed all its weapons of mass destruction in the
early 1990s. He later declared the war illegal.
In 2004 Blix was named as chairman of the newly
formed International Commission on Weapons of
Mass Destruction. The purpose of the commission is
to find new ways to achieve the disarming and nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Dr. Blix
has also written several books about international
and constitutional law and international affairs, most
recently, Why Nuclear Disarmament Matters.
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Presenter Dean Ornish M.D. is the founder and president
of the non-profit Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, California,
where he holds the Safeway Chair. He is Clinical Professor of Medicine at the
University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Ornish received his medical training
in internal medicine from the Baylor College of Medicine, Harvard Medical School,
and the Massachusetts General Hospital. He received a B.A. in Humanities
summa cum laude from the University of Texas in Austin, where he gave the
baccalaureate address.
For the past 30 years, Dr. Ornish has directed clinical research demonstrating,
for the first time, that comprehensive lifestyle changes may begin to reverse even
severe coronary heart disease, without drugs or surgery. Recently, Medicare
agreed to provide coverage for this program, the first time that Medicare has
covered a program of comprehensive lifestyle changes. He and his colleagues
are now training and licensing health professionals from around the world in his
program for reversing heart disease for free in an open source model.
He is the author of five best-selling books, including New York Times’ bestsellers
Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease, Eat More, Weigh Less,
and Love & Survival. His sixth book, The Spectrum, was published in January by
Random House/Ballantine Books and is also a New York Times bestseller.
The research that he and his colleagues conducted has been published in the
Journal of the American Medical Association, The Lancet, Circulation, The New
England Journal of Medicine, the American Journal of Cardiology, and elsewhere.
A one-hour documentary of their work was broadcast on NOVA, the PBS science
series, and was featured on Bill Moyers' PBS series, Healing & The Mind. Their
work has been featured in all major media.
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Socially Responsible
Media Award
Lawrence Bender
PSR-LA is proud to honor Lawrence Bender with our 2008 Socially
Responsible Media Award for using his innovative filmmaking talents
to create social change. Bender’s award-winning documentary
An Inconvenient Truth has inspired the public to take unprecedented
political and personal action to stop climate change.
His accomplishments in film are extensive; his movies have been
honored with twenty-one Academy Award nominations, including two
for Best Picture (Good Will Hunting, Pulp Fiction) and they have won
five. Bender also produced: Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) and Kill Bill: Vol. 2
(2004), Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004), The Mexican (2001),
Anna and the King (1999), Jackie Brown (1997), From Dusk Till Dawn
(1996), Four Rooms (1995), Fresh (1994), and Reservoir Dogs (1992).
Bender's films have also raised awareness on important issues
including racial justice, hate crimes, homophobia and social justice.
He produced Chumscrubber, which helped alert the public to the
rise in teenage prescription drug use and was screened for members
of the US Congress. In 2004, Bender produced Voces Inocentes,
a Spanish language film directed by Luis Mandoki, which was inspired
by a true story during the war in El Salvador. In 2001 Bender produced
Anatomy of a Hate Crime, depicting the brutal 1998 murder of
Matthew Shepard, an openly gay college student in Wyoming, which
helped prompt tougher hate-crime laws.
Lawrence Bender is a passionate social and political activist. His
interest was first piqued at a young age attending anti-war marches
with his parents while growing up in New York and New Jersey. In 2003, Bender
partnered with Arianna Huffington to found the Detroit Project, which targeted the
gas guzzling SUV. He also traveled to the Middle East with the Israeli Policy Forum
where he met with international leaders. In Israel he met with members of the
Knesset. In Egypt, he met with President Hosni Mubarak, and in the West Bank
in Ramallah and he met with the Palestinian Prime Minister, Mahmoud Abbas.
Bender recently created the “18 seconds” campaign, designed to demonstrate
the simplicity of becoming part of the solution for global warming — that it only
takes 18 seconds to change to a compact fluorescent light bulb — which could
collectively save billions in energy costs.
Mr. Bender currently serves on the board of the Creative Coalition, the Israel Policy
Forum, Rock the Vote and the Executive Board of the Natural Resources Defense
Council. He currently sits on the Deans’ Council at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy
School of Government.
Bender is currently working on a documentary about nuclear weapons that will
be debuted as part of the World Security Institute campaign to eliminate nuclear
weapons.
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Presenter Carmine Clemente M.D. joined the UCLA
medical school faculty when it was first founded in 1952. Though he officially
"retired" in 1994 and is emeritus professor of anatomy and neurobiology, he is
recalled annually to teach anatomy to first-year medical students. Dr. Clementine
therefore has the astonishing distinction of having taught nearly every UCLA medical
student since the medical school opened!
In 1975, Dr. Clemente authored Clemente's Anatomy: A Regional Atlas of the
Human Body (aka "The Clemente Atlas"), which has become a seminal textbook
used throughout the United States. He is also the author of Clemente's Dissector:
A Brief Text and Guide to Individual Dissections in Human Anatomy, as well as more
than 200 articles. He has produced a series of 42 dissection films which today are
used in 170 medical schools throughout the world, including 120 of the nation's
125 medical schools. Additionally, Dr. Clemente is widely recognized for the yeoman's
task of having edited the 30th American edition of Gray's Anatomy.
Dr. Clemente has played a vital role reshaping medical school curricula, both at
UCLA and on the national level. In addition to serving for 10 years on the National
Board of Medical Examiners, he was a member of 14 Liaison Committee on Medical
Education accreditation site visit teams. Dr. Clemente earned his A.B., M.S., and
Ph.D. degrees in anatomy from the University of Pennsylvania. He completed a
postdoctoral fellowship in anatomy at University College, University of London, and
his early research focused on regeneration and transplantation of neural tissue in
the central nervous system of mammals.
Among Dr. Clemente's many awards and recognitions are the Henry Gray Award of
the American Association of Anatomists, and the UCLA Award for Excellence in
Education. Dr. Clemente was the recipient of the 2006 Alpha Omega Alpha Robert
J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award, which was established by the AOA medical
honor society in 1988 to provide national recognition to faculty members who have
distinguished themselves in medical student education.
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Socially Responsible
Medicine Award
Dr. James Yamazaki
Dr. James Yamazaki will receive PSR-LA’s 2008 Socially
Responsible Medicine Award for his lifelong work on the
effects of radiation on public health.
While his parents were interned in an American concentration
camp, Dr. Yamazaki served as a World War II combat surgeon
in the Battle of the Bulge, where he was captured by the
Germans and held as a prisoner of war. After the war, at the
age of 33, the US government asked Dr. Yamazaki to head the
Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission. From 1949 to
1951, he worked with children in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and
with Marshall Islanders who suffered from American postwar
nuclear testing. His research focused on the effects of radiation
on fetuses, and as his team had predicted, devastating
abnormalities were seen in babies who were yet unborn when
the bombs hit, and numerous mothers experienced still-births
or miscarriages.
Upon his return to the US, Dr. Yamazaki continued his dedicated
research on the effects of radiation on children, became a
clinical professor of pediatrics at UCLA, and maintained a
pediatric practice. With his unwavering commitment towards
creating a more peaceful world, he has continued to testify to
government commissions to promote nuclear disarmament,
and has also continued to follow the effects of nuclear radiation
on generations of families in Japan throughout his career.
Dr. Yamazaki is the author of Children of the Atomic Bomb: An
American Physician's Memoir of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and the
Marshall Islands. In this book, he recounts in personal terms the
specific vulnerability of children to the effects of nuclear warfare,
and makes his impassioned plea for peace.
In partnership with the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, Dr. Yamazaki has
established a website that provides an eyewitness report about his experiences
in Japan and the US from his perspective as the lead physician of the US Atomic
Bomb Casualty Commission in post-war Nagasaki. Visit this innovative website
www.ChildrenoftheAtomicBomb.com to view exclusive video interviews of
Dr. Yamazaki, rare family archival images, and drawings and paintings by atomic
bomb survivors.
For additional information about the project and ways to be involved in the
call to save the world's children, please contact Don Nakanishi, Director and
Professor of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center at [email protected] or
310.825.2974.
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Presenter Kal Raustiala Ph.d., J.D.
is Director of
the Burkle Center for International Relations, UCLA's primary academic unit that
fosters interdisciplinary research and policy-oriented teaching on the role of the
United States in global cooperation and conflict, and military, political, social
and economic affairs.
Professor Raustiala writes and teaches in the areas of international law and international relations. He holds a joint appointment between the UCLA Law School
and the UCLA International Institute, where he teaches in the Program on Global
Studies. Professor Raustiala's research focuses on international cooperation and
conflict in areas such as environment, trade, armed conflict, dispute resolution,
and intellectual property. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Columbia,
Princeton, and Chicago.
Prior to coming to UCLA he was a research fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies
Program at The Brookings Institution, a Peccei Scholar at the International Institute
for Applied Systems in Austria, and an assistant professor of politics at Brandeis
University. His scholarship has been published in journals such as World Politics,
International Organization, and the American Journal of International Law. He is
also a frequent media contributor whose writing has been featured in the New
York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the New Republic, and
the New Yorker.
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Founders Award
Joseph Cirincione
Joseph Cirincione is the president of the Ploughshares Fund,
a global security foundation. He is the author of Bomb Scare:
The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons (Columbia
University Press, Spring 2007) and served previously as senior
vice president for national security and international policy at
the Center for American Progress and as director for non-proliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace for
eight years. He teaches a graduate seminar at the Georgetown
University School of Foreign Service and is a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations. He has written over 200 articles
on defense issues, produced two DVDs on proliferation, appears
frequently in the media, and has given over one hundred lectures
around the world in the past two years.
Mr. Cirincione worked for nine years in the US House of
Representatives on the professional staff of the Committee on
Armed Services and the Committee on Government Operations,
and served as Staff Director of the Military Reform Caucus.
In May 2004 the National Journal listed Cirincione as one of
the 100 people whose ideas will shape the policies of the next
administration. The World Affairs Councils of America also
named him one of 500 people whose views have the most
influence in shaping American foreign policy. He was featured
in the 2006 award-winning documentary Why We Fight.
He is the co-author of Contain and Engage: A New Strategy for
Resolving the Iranian Nuclear Crisis (March 2007), two editions
of Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Threats
(2005 and 2002), Universal Compliance: A Strategy for Nuclear
Security (March 2005) and WMD in Iraq, (January 2004).
He has held positions at the Henry L. Stimson Center,
the US Information Agency, and the Center for Strategic
and International Studies.
Cirincione is an honors graduate of Boston College and holds a Masters of
Science with highest honors from the Georgetown School of Foreign Service.
He is happily married with two children. To learn more about Joseph
Cirincione and the Ploughshares Fund, visit www.ploughshares.org.
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Presenter Michael Collins is an award-winning investigative
journalist based in Los Angeles. He has covered a wide range of issues,
beginning in 1983 with frontline reporting on “the Troubles” in Northern Ireland
for the Los Angeles Reader, LA Weekly, and the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner.
In 1998, Collins wrote an article for Los Angeles magazine about “rock en
español’s” godfather, Gustavo Santaolalla, and his Los Angeles-based record
company SURCO – one of the first American journalists to do so. Collins has
served on the Board of Directors for the Los Angeles Press Club since 2003.
Collins currently specializes in environmental issues. He runs EnviroReporter.com,
a website featuring his investigations and supporting documentation. To date,
his reporting has helped stop over $6 billion worth of development on polluted
land at Ahmanson Ranch in Ventura County and at the West Los Angeles
Veterans Administration. His coverage of toxins issues also helped lead to the
$23 million cleanup of the former Aerojet facility in Chino Hills as well as a
proposed $1 million exploration of the nuclear and chemical dump in the
Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles. Collins’ coverage of contamination
problems at Boeing’s Santa Susana Field Laboratory helped contribute to the
recent historic clean up agreement between the company and the State of
California.
Collins has won numerous awards, including the LA Press Club’s 2006
Print Journalist of the Year award (under 100,000 circulation) for Los Angeles
CityBeat. He also won first place for EnviroReporter.com in the 2006 Online
News Story, Feature, Series or Package category. The Association of Alternative
Newsweeklies awarded Collins second place in the Investigative Reporting
(circulation over 60,000) category for their 2007 Altweekly Awards. Collins’ 2002
"Rocketdyne Ranch" exposé in the Ventura County Reporter won the LA Press
Club's Investigative Series award which was widely credited as leading to the
creation of Ahmanson Ranch as public parkland.
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Special Musical Guest
Gustavo Santaolalla
Probably, the word that best synthesizes the multiple areas
where Gustavo Santaolalla sets forth his work, is "visionary":
Singer, composer, producer, guitarist, player of charango and
ronroco, discoverer of talent, director of a record label and a
publishing company. His vision, firmly connected with seeking
an identity, covers his entire search, since his beginnings at
16 years of age with the band Arco Iris, which later on would
become a pioneer in the fusion of Latin American folklore and
rock. As a performer, after Arco Iris he joined Soluna, and after
moving to the United States in the late 70’s, he formed the
band Wet Picnic, then began a solo career that includes three
albums, among them Ronroco, a record of entirely instrumental
music played on charango. Starting in 2002, Santaolalla
combined his talents as producer, performer and composer in
the collective Bajofondo (in its beginnings Bajofondo Tango
Club), with which he has completed four albums.
As a producer, his career started with Leon Gieco’s first record
in 1973, continued in the 80’s with iconic albums by G.I.T.
and Divididos (La era de la Boludez), and at the end of that
decade, with Mexican bands such as Maldita Vecindad and
Café Tacuba, with these bands he set the pace for the movement known as “rock en español". In 1997, along with his
partner Aníbal Kerpel, he established his own record label,
SURCO, whose first release was the Mexican band Molotov,
an international success selling around 2,000,000 copies.
An incomplete list of his productions includes the names of
Bersuit, La Vela Puerca, Julieta Venegas, Jaime Torres, De La
Guarda, Arbol, El Otro Yo, Juana Molina, Orozco-Barrientos,
Kronos Quartet, Antonio Carmona and Juanes. With Café de
los Maestros, the double album that brings together the most
significant living legends of tango, Gustavo has won two
Grammy awards.
The inclusion of one of the songs from Ronroco in the soundtrack of "The
Insider" (Michael Mann, 1999), was the first step in his career as composer
of soundtracks, working on films of some of today’s most important directors,
such as Ang Lee, Alejandro González Iñárritu and Walter Salles. Santaolalla
was brilliant on iconic movies such as "Amores Perros", "21 Grams",
"Motorcycle Diaries", "Tierra Fría", "Brokeback Mountain" and "Babel"; with
these movies he has won numerous awards, among them the BAFTA and
the Golden Globe, winning two Oscars in a row from Hollywood’s Academy,
for "Brokeback Mountain" and "Babel".
Among the numerous awards and distinctions received by Gustavo, besides
the ones listed above, we can mention the Premio Gardel, the Konex de
Platino, Personalidad del Año (CAPIF), and multiple Grammy awards in
various categories.
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PSRLA
Programs & Campaigns
Peace & Security
Preventing the Proliferation and Use of Nuclear Weapons
PSR-LA asserts a strong medical voice against the development and use of
nuclear weapons. While a new age of terrorist threats and new nations seeking
their own nuclear weapons has emerged, the massive over-kill capacity of
the Cold War nuclear arsenals of the United States and Russia remains, with
thousands of nuclear weapons still on hair-trigger alert. Over time, nuclear dangers
may have ebbed from the public consciousness, but physicians cannot give in
when they know lives are in danger. PSR works to educate members of the public
and policymakers about the dangers that nuclear weapons pose to human health.
We are a founding member of the recently formed Campaign for a Nuclear
Weapons Free World, which advocates that nations that possess nuclear weapons
move swiftly toward multilateral, verifiable and irreversible nuclear disarmament.
Last year, PSR members helped persuade Congress to deny funding for a new
nuclear bomb plant and proposed new nuclear bomb, the “Reliable Replacement
Warhead.”
The Public Health Effects of War
PSR-LA promotes diplomatic solutions
to international conflicts to ensure that
policy makers and the public have
accurate and timely information about
the public health consequences of
nation security decisions. In doing so,
we address the medical and psychological consequences of war on both
civilian populations and American
troops. PSR-LA has been a leading
voice in Southern California against
the war in Iraq. In October, 2006, we
hosted a national conference "The
Medical Consequences of the War
in Iraq: Health Challenges Beyond the
Battlefield." The conference addressed
the effects of the Iraq war on Iraqi
citizens and their families and American troops and their families. PSR is working
to promote a direct diplomatic solution to tensions with Iran, including bringing
our public health voice to The Campaign for a New American Policy on Iran.
Last spring, PSR and six other national groups placed a powerful ad (see left) in
Congressional Quarterly and The Washington Post. In April 2007, PSR produced
the publication "War is Not the Answer: The Medical and Public Health
Consequences of Attacking Iran."
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Sponsoring Global Security Educational Programs
PSR-LA is working to build a “security culture" in Los Angeles.
Activists, scholars, elected officials, business-people, diplomats
and PSR-LA physicians gain greater insight through PSR-LA
sponsored monthly seminars entitled Global Security Seminar.
Hosted by renowned security scholar, Dr. Bennett Ramberg,
lectures include such topics as Security and Global Climate
Change, Effectiveness of the International Criminal Court, and
the Impact of Infectious Diseases in War. Dr. Ramberg, and
Dr. Michael Intriligator and the Center for Defense Information
jointly present these seminar dinners at the UCLA Faculty
Center, and PSR-LA regularly offers other lectures and presentations on nuclear weapons and national security issues.
Cleaning Up Military Pollution in California
Building the most powerful military force in human history has profoundly affected
American culture, morality and politics, and Los Angeles is one of the nation’s
foremost military regions. Weapons are regularly shipped from Seal Beach Naval
Weapons Station to Afghanistan and Iraq. Intercontinental ballistic missiles are
built in Canoga Park, their engines tested in our foothills, and test-launched from
Vandenberg Air Force Base, and the missile defense program and a majority of
our nation’s military satellites are manufactured in the greater Los Angeles area.
Despite the presence of this influential industry in our midst, the economic,
environmental and moral implications of local military activities are largely ignored.
PSR-LA advocates that polluted sites be remediated and supports local
communities’ efforts to protect themselves from potential harm from toxicants
caused by nearby military production.
Human Rights and California Health Professionals
Torture runs counter to medicine’s fundamental obligation to “first, do no harm.”
International treaty, U.S. law, and professional credo universally deplore torture and
explicitly preclude medical professionals from cooperating or engaging in torture.
That’s why PSR-LA has joined forces with American Friends Service Committee,
Program for Torture Victims, and San Francisco Bay PSR to form Californians
Against Medical Torture. The coalition is working to pass Senate Joint Resolution
19 ( Ridley –Thomas), which requests all relevant California agencies to notify
California-licensed health professionals about their professional obligations under
international law relating to torture and the treatment of detainees. It also calls for
notifying all licensed professionals that those who participate in torture may be
subject to prosecution. In addition, the measure requests that the U.S. Department
of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency remove all California-licensed
health professionals from participating in prisoner and detainee interrogations.
On April 21, the measure successfully passed on the Senate floor by a vote of 22
to 11. Over 150 PSR-LA members sent letters in support of the resolution.
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PSRLA
Programs & Campaigns
Environmental Health & Justice
Working for Climate Justice and the New Green Economy
PSR-LA believes that climate change is a public health crisis that must be
addressed through regulatory approaches and market-based policies that can
prompt private sector investment and innovation in the new clean energy economy.
PSR-LA has been involved at the local and state level in education, organizing
and advocacy efforts for California’s AB 32-Global Warming Solutions Act. We are
a current member of California’s Global Warming Environmental Justice Advisory
Committee. We are working to create a strong broad-based movement for the
wide spread deployment of renewable energy. Due to our fundamental commitment
to social justice, PSR-LA also believes that climate change solutions should address
a fair transition for workers and the creation of new economic opportunities in
low-income communities and communities of color.
Advocating for Communities Affected by Air Pollution
and the Goods Movement
In California, pollution related to the ports and goods movement causes more
than 2,400 premature deaths annually and cancer risk rates up to 20 times higher
than federal clean air standards. The Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles are
the single largest source of air pollution in Southern California. PSR-LA is part of
GREEN LA’s Port Work Group, which is advocating that the City of Los Angeles
adopt, implement, and enforce a comprehensive plan for the Port of Los Angeles
and related goods movement system; ensure benefits of goods movement
outweigh costs through independent cost-benefit analyses; and prevent or fully
mitigate off-port community impacts by adopting land-use policies that protect
health. PSR-LA is also a founding member of the Coalition for Environmental
Health and Justice (CEHAJ), a coalition of community-based, health, environmental
and environmental justice organizations dedicated to promoting clean air and
improved quality of life along the I-710 Long Beach Freeway Corridor.
Campaigning for Chemical Policy Reform
Each day, a total of 42 billion pounds of chemical substances are produced or
imported in the U.S. for commercial and industrial uses, 90% of which rely on
fossil fuel feedstocks. Current chemical regulation does not sufficiently protect
human health. PSR-LA advocates for a re-thinking of how products can be made
more sustainably, environmentally friendly and healthier. As a founding member
of Californians for a Healthy and Green Economy (CHANGE) and a current
Co-convener, we are working to transform how chemicals are regulated in
California by playing a key role in California’s Green Chemistry Initiative. The Green
Chemistry Initiative is intended to lead the effort to fundamentally change how the
state addresses toxic chemicals in order to develop safer processes and products,
create new jobs and reduce waste. The goal of the initiative is to shift away from
the current model of cleaning up hazardous waste sites and managing pollution
that result in health and environmental impacts and to solutions that prevent the
use of toxic materials in the first place.
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Connecting Reproductive Justice to Chemical Policy Reform
PSR-LA is providing education and training to women and girls directly
impacted by pollution and hazardous chemicals. This training is
intended to empower them to participate in chemical policy change
efforts. PSR-LA has recently partnered with the Office of Women’s
health to include an environmental health/reproductive justice track
at their 2007 Women’s Health Policy Summit. PSR-LA is also collaborating with the Los Angeles Reproductive Justice Coalition to increase
understanding and awareness about how reproductive toxicants are
found in many commonly used personal care and cleaning products.
Preventing Lead Poisoning
Despite longstanding federally funded requirements for blood lead
tests for children enrolled in the Medi-Cal and the Childhood Health
and Disability Prevention Program (CHDP), very few of California's
children enrolled in these programs have been tested for lead
poisoning at age-appropriate levels. Blood lead testing is the only
effective way to detect lead poisoning before severe and often
irreversible symptoms occur. PSR-LA is currently co-sponsoring legislation which seeks to increase the number of children tested for
lead poisoning. Senate Bill 775, The Lead Poisoning Prevention Act
of 2007, will increase lead screenings of children at high risk of lead
poisonings in California by adding lead risk assessments to the yellow
immunization card, providing parents with a notification tool that their child should
be tested. PSR-LA and its partner organizations are currently working on amendments to the legislation. The bill already passed the California Senate in the
summer of 2007.
Reducing Use and Exposure to Harmful Pesticides Through Integrated
Pest Management (IPM)
PSR-LA works to reduce the use of and exposure to harmful pesticides in the
home, with a particular focus on low-income communities of color. PSR-LA’s
strategy to reduce urban pesticide use includes creating market demand for safer
pest control by securing commitments to use Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
and existing IPM certifications programs, such as Green Shield Certified, from
property management companies, low-income housing developers and local
governments in the greater Los Angeles area. PSR-LA has engaged several
partners, including: Community Corporation of Santa Monica, Esperanza
Community Housing Corporation, Little Tokyo Service Center, and Los Angeles
Community Design Center. In March 2008, Colby Pest Control became the first
Green Shield certified IPM provider in Southern California! PSR-LA is developing
a campaign in the City of Los Angeles to win adoption of IPM in all city-owned
and managed buildings. In addition, PSR-LA trains and educate hundreds of
healthy homes advocates on the use of IPM and how to decrease exposure to
harmful pesticides in the home.
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PSR-LA members Dr. Samuel
Sperling and wife, Beatrice,
attend Nobel prize ceremony
in Oslo, Norway, 1985.
PSRLA
Select Highlights
2008
• “Californians Against Medical Torture,” a medical, legal, and human rights coalition that PSR-LA forms with allied groups, works with State Senator Mark
Ridley-Thomas to successfully pass a resolution condemning medical professionals’ participation in torture.
• PSR-LA helps achieve a monumental victory regarding the highly contaminated
Santa Susana Field Laboratory (Rocketdyne). Working with Committee to
Bridge the Gap, Sierra Club, and community members, PSR-LA helped secure
legislation for Rocketydyne’s polluted soil and groundwater to be remediated to
the strictest Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Superfund standards with
state oversight.
• Public health groups, along with PSR-LA, prevail in a legal action against the
EPA, securing a court order that mandates it move quickly to protect the public
from carbon monoxide.
• Therapist members of PSR-LA convene and form a special project of PSR-LA
called “Therapists for Social Responsibility,” whose goal is to use therapists’
professional skills to further social justice. Members begin work with The
Soldiers’ Project to provide support for returning veterans and their families.
The Soldiers Project was founded by past PSR-LA Board member Dr. Judith
Broder to provide free counseling services to Operation Iraqi Freedom and
Operation Enduring Freedom veterans and their families.
• PSR-LA becomes co-convener of the coalition, “Californians for a Healthy and
Green Economy” (CHANGE) working with state-wide coalition members to
develop a position paper on chemical policy reform.
• PSR-LA hosts two Iranian physicians and a chemical weapons survivor as part
of a national tour to highlight the human consequences of war and promote
the need for new policies of engagement with Iran. Through lectures and discussion with the members of the medical community and the public, the doctors contrasted the consequences of war in comparison to the possibilities to
achieve peace through diplomacy.
• In collaboration with environmental justice advocates, PSR-LA issues a groundbreaking statement against pollution trading as a solution to climate change.
PSR-LA is also invited by the CDC to participate in setting the agenda for
addressing the health impacts of climate change on minority populations in the
United States.
• PSR-LA is instrumental in recruiting the first Green Shield certified pest control
company in Los Angeles.
• PSR-LA hires a membership coordinator to increase organizational capacity,
train, and mobilize the next generation of physician advocates.
• Academy of Television Arts & Science honors Law & Order Episode, “Hurt,”
which was in part inspired by PSR-LA’s work with Californians Against Medical
Torture, and galvanized many of the human rights groups working on torture
issues.
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2007
• PSR-LA successfully lobbies Congress to oppose the Bush administration’s
new hydrogen bomb, the so-called reliable replacement warhead. PSR-LA also
co-hosts a special briefing at the American Film Institute on the reliable replacement warhead with former Assistant Secretary of Defense Philip Coyle.
• Hundreds of health educators, community leaders, and tenant organizers are
trained by PSR-LA in the practice of integrated pest management.
• PSR-LA, along with the Pesticide Action Network, serves as a consultant for
“Loophole,” an episode of the crime drama “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.”
The episode focused on the controversial EPA practice of observational research
and exposure to pesticides. The airing prompted an official response from the
EPA, and screenings with hundreds of viewers took place.
• The Healthy Homes Collaborative, housed at PSR-LA, trains hundreds of housing
code enforcement inspectors on lead-safe practices; the program has reached
over 8,000 high-risk low-income tenant and property-owners.
• PSR-LA and HBO co-host a screening of the documentary by filmmaker Steven
Okazaki, "White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki."
Includes film discussion with Okazaki and Shigeko Sasamori, Hiroshima survivor
and Hiroshima maiden.
2006
• PSR-LA takes a leading role in the Asthma Coalition of
Los Angeles County to develop the publication “Controlling
Asthma in Los Angeles County: A Call to Action.”
• Hundreds of activists and supporters attend PSR-LA hosted
conference, “The Medical Consequences of War in Iraq:
Health Challenges Beyond the Battlefield” at UCLA.
The events address the devastating effects of war on Iraqi
citizens, American troops, and their families.
• In collaboration with 9/11 families, PSR-LA hosts a special
event with author, Gore Vidal.
• On the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident, PSR-LA
hosts a national conference on radiation and health at UCLA.
• Shining a light on the region’s little-known military pollution, PSR-LA hosts the
first-ever military toxin tour of Southern California. PSR-LA also commissioned
and released a study on the military-toxin, trichloroethylene, which identified
114 contaminated sites in Los Angeles.
• Working with Environmental Health Legislative Working Group and the LA Green
Team, PSR-LA trains dozens of new policy advocates.
• PSR-LA is part of the LAX coalition that won a $500 million community benefits
agreement to protect low-income South Coast communities from air pollution.
• In conjunction with the Green Schools coalition, PSR-LA helps win AB 315 to
reduce toxic exposure at California’s schools.
• PSR-LA coordinates the west coast leg of the Environmental Justice for All
tour, an eight-day event which highlighted lack of environmental enforcement
in low-income and communities of color.
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PSRLA
Select Highlights
2005
• Bearing the signatures of more than sixty physicians, PSR-LA petitions the
California Medical Board seeking investigation of Guantánamo’s medical chief on
accusations of physician complicity in torture.
• PSR-LA serves on California Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental
Justice Advisory Board. Among the recommendations of this committee is the
implementation of precautionary approaches and the development of working
definitions of cumulative impacts.
• As part of the “Mayors for Peace Campaign,” PSR-LA hosts an event at the
Japanese American National Museum featuring Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba
and Japan’s consul general.
• PSR-LA organizes the first annual World Asthma Day event in LA County, drawing
together hundreds of families, health professionals, environmental advocates, and
young people to address the asthma epidemic in Los Angeles.
• Los Angeles Unified School District engages PSR-LA to be a leader in their integrated pest management team, which helps to ensure the use of pest management practices with the lowest risk to children’s health at Los Angeles schools.
• PSR-LA hosts a groundbreaking summit on the subject of chemical policy reform in
California, bringing together environment, women’s health, and environmental justice advocates.
2004
• PSR-LA leads a statewide effort in publishing, “Recommendations for Improving
California’s Public and Environmental Health.”
• PSR-LA appointed as regional center for the leading statewide effort to reduce
asthma.
• “Degrees of Danger,” released – a PSR-LA report linking climate change with
human health effects.
• PSR-LA is a national leader in the cleanup of the rocket fuel contaminant, perchlorate—
assisting researchers and releasing studies on perchlorate contamination in milk.
• PSR-LA’s conference, L.A.’s Untold Media Stories: The Environmental and National
Security Stories You Haven’t Heard About, May 8, successfully attracts both public
and the press.
2003
• PSR-LA submits detailed critique of the Department of Defense’s environmental
documents on ground-based interceptor missiles in Southern California.
• PSR-LA plays a key role in the passage of a bill that bans two types of polybrominated diphenyl ethers, PBDE’s, from consumer products. PBDE’s have been
detected in Californians’ breast milk at levels that cause health effects in laboratory
experiments.
• PSR-LA directs a statewide program for community clinics on mercury pollution
prevention and patient risk.
• PSR-LA helps craft Cal/EPA’s Environmental Justice Guidelines, a first of its kind
in the U.S.
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2002
• PSR-LA takes a leading role in winning legislation that ends the state’s attempt to
build a radioactive waste dump at Ward Valley. The act furthers ensures that all
future waste dumps are built to the highest standards.
• PSR-LA organizes the “Weapons of Mass Destruction” conference at UCLA.
2001
• PSR-LA is a founding member of Interfaith Communities United for Justice
and Peace and addresses the national trauma wrought by September 11.
• PSR-LA teams with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to reduce mercury
and dioxin emissions in a City of Los Angeles program.
2000
• PSR-LA campaigns to win implementation of the “Healthy Schools Act,” which will
give parents the right to know before toxic pesticides are used on school grounds.
1999
• PSR-LA helps secure new pest-control policies at Los Angeles Unified School
District, implementing a new integrated pest-management plan.
1998
• PSR-LA’s photographic exhibit, Atomic City: Los Angeles in the Nuclear Era, the
first historical depiction of Los Angeles’s participation in nuclear affairs, is seen
by thousands at the Los Angeles Central Library.
• PSR-LA publishes the 160-page report, “Generations at Risk: How Environmental
Toxins May Affect Reproductive Health in California.”
1995
• The Atomic Age Film Series runs for 19 weeks at Laemmle theaters and serves
as the city’s chief remembrance of the 50th anniversary of the nuclear age.
1992
• PSR-LA and Committee to Bridge the Gap force the cleanup of nuclear pollution
at Rockwell International’s Santa Susana facility.
1989
• PSR-LA organizes Los Angeles’ first widely attended symposium on global warming;
3000 jam into the Bonaventure Hotel
1985
• Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to International Physicians for the Prevention of
Nuclear War, of which PSR is an affiliate. PSR-LA members attend the ceremony
in Oslo, Norway.
1982
• PSR-LA produces the award-winning film, Race to Oblivion, starring Burt Lancaster.
1981
• PSR-LA’s symposium on nuclear war catalyzes L.A’s anti-nuclear movement.
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“ Remember your
humanity and
forget the rest.”
The cost of war
Bertrand Russell
and Albert Einstein,
Pugwash Manifesto
• 2004 World military expenditures:
1 trillion dollars
• 2004 U.S. military expenditures:
572 billion
• 2006 U.S. nuclear weapons
expenditures: $54 billion
• 2008 projected U.S expenditures
on the Iraq war: $567 billion
• Long term projected expense
of Iraq war: $3 trillion
Congratulations
Human cost of Iraq war:
Physicians
• Estimated 1 million dead by 2008
• 4.5 million refugees
• 500,000 child refugees
for Social
The cost of peace
Responsibility –
• Annual cost of universal basic
education to the developing
world: $6 billion
• Annual cost for potable water
for developing world: $9 billion
• Annual cost for reproductive
health care for all women in
developing world: $12 billion
• Annual cost for basic health and
nutrition in the developing world:
$13 billion
Los Angeles
for your
contribution to
a more peaceful
and healthier
world
Curren Warf M.D.
and Susan Rabinovitz
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“Thank you to all
the staff of PSR for your
passion and dedication
to health, environmental
justice and peace!”
Nancy Gibbs MD
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Thank you,
Physicians for Social Responsibility,
for the work you do
to promote policies that help protect
the public
and our environment.
– Barbra Streisand
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Lawrence,
Congratulations,
my friend.
Thank you for all
of the good work
you do!
Love,
Nicole Avant
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Congratulations
Lawrence
on being honored
with the 2008 Socially Responsible Media Award.
We are proud to support you and Physicians for Social Responsibility.
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Clark/Karras Property
Congratulations to PSR-LA and the Honorees
Thank you for your commitment to a safe, healthy future
Susan Clark & Alex Karras
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The Union of Concerned Scientists
congratulates the
Physicians for Social Responsibility
2008 Honorees
& offers a huge THANK YOU for their
work and the work of PSR LA.
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The national office of
Physicians for Social
Responsibility sends their
thanks and appreciation
to Lawrence Bender,
Dr. Hans Blix, Joe Cirincione,
and Dr. James Yamazaki
for their commitment
and passion for a healthier
and safer world.
Congratulations
Lawrence
Connie Bruck & Mel Levine
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“The fight is never
about grapes or
lettuce. It is always
about people.”
Congratulations
and great
appreciation
to Dr. James
Yamazaki
Cesar Chavez
In loving memory
of Saul Niedorf,
psychiatrist, social
activist, friend, whose
life was a testimony
to this truth.
Dodie and Roy Danchick
Judith & John Glass
Thanks for
all the
good work
you do.
Congratulations Jim.
We are with you in spirit.
Drs. Ruth and
Alan Larson
Victoria & William J. Schull M.D.
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congratulates our friend
and Steering Committee Chair,
Martha Dina Arguello,
on her new role as PSR-LA
Executive Director!
Tribute to Saul Niedorf, MD
Congratulations to Joe Cirincione
The recipient of the Founders Award
for his steadfast commitment to
disarmament.
Saul’s life reminds us that:
Though we strive among wheelers
and dealers, true doctors are
healers not heelers.
Dr. Paul J. Geller
Rod Gorney, MD
Congratulations Martha
J o s e p h Ly o u , P h D
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