Selected Highlights from PSR-LA 25 Years of Service:

• PSR-LA jump-started the Los Angeles anti-nuclear peace movement in 1981 when we hosted the 3,000-strong symposium on the medical consequences of nuclear war.


• PSR-LA was the first to convene delegations of American physicians in the early 1980's to visit their counterparts in Russia and China.


• PR-LA was a leader in stopping the state’s proposed radioactive waste dump at Ward Valley, California – a few miles from the Colorado River.


• Over the past 25 year, PSR-LA has consistently been the region’s leading advocate for peace and nuclear disarmament.


• PSR-LA broadened its public health mission to include environmental issues in 1989. Since then, PSR-LA has become widely recognized for our unique ability to provide science-based resources on air quality, pesticides, toxins, and environmental justice to diverse communities and organizations.


• In 2000, PSR-LA’s Health Care Without Harm convinced UCLA to go mercury-free. PSR-LA has worked with over thirty community clinics in Southern California, removing hundreds of pounds of toxic mercury from old blood pressure machines and thermometers and replacing them with new mercury-free equipment.


• Working with the Los Angeles Safe Schools Coalition, PSR-LA passed one of the nation’s first integrated pest management and precautionary principle policies.


• In 1994, PSR-LA began organizing UC-Irvine medical students to protest (and ultimately drive out of business) California’s Saturday Night Special hand-gun manufacturers. PSR-national subsequently launched a violence prevention program of its own.


• PSR-LA has trained hundreds of physicians and medical students to identify and counsel those individuals most at risk of gun injury.
  

See Also: All PSR Accomplishments

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