Make a difference in the challenge to confront global warming and prevent nuclear war and the development and use of nuclear weapons.
Today, PSR is joining with dozens of organizations, representing millions of Americans, calling on the U.S. Senate to pass clean energy and climate legislation. Please tell your Senators that we can no longer delay action if we are to protect our health and the health of future generations from catastrophic climate change.
Area of Focus: Environment, Ecology, Health and Medicine
Skills: Writing, research, outreach.
Start date: End-March, 2010 (flexible)
End date: Early-June 2010 (with possibility of staying through the summer)
Organization Description: Physicians for Social Responsibility is a non-profit advocacy organization that is the medical and public health voice for policies to slow, stop and reverse global warming and toxic degradation of the environment, and to prevent nuclear war and proliferation. PSR's 50,000 medical and health professionals and concerned citizen members, 31 PSR chapters, and over 60 Student PSR chapters form a unique nationwide network committed to a safe and healthy world. In 1985, PSR shared the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear Warfare for building public awareness and pressure to end the nuclear arms race.
Internship Description: Join PSR’s campaign to engage health professionals in phasing out coal-fired power plants. Coal produces massive toxic emissions and is one of the world’s worst sources of greenhouse gases. Replacing dirty coal plants with clean, renewable sources of energy will be crucial to reversing climate change – one of the world’s most critical health emergencies.
The Spring 2010 Environment and Health Intern will become an active member of the PSR Environment & Health team, working to inform and mobilize health professionals in target states. The intern will conduct research, help generate fact sheets and outreach materials, and support critical liaison between the PSR National office and local PSR chapters and activists. The intern will work under the direct supervision of the Environment & Health Deputy Director.
Interns will learn hands-on skills for both national health advocacy and local grassroots campaigning, while making an impact on a critical environmental health issue.
Primary responsibilities: The Code Black intern will contribute to such activities as:
Qualifications: Applicants must be highly motivated, organized and achievement-oriented. Excellent verbal and writing skills required. Activism experience and knowledge of environmental protection and/or public health are preferred.
Terms: Our small, friendly office is located on Connecticut Avenue north of Dupont Circle. This internship is unpaid.
Application instructions: Please submit:
Email these to Barb Gottlieb, E&H Program Manager, at bgottlieb@psr.org
The Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellowship pays a stipend for college graduates to work with NGOs in Washington, DC, including Physicians for Social Responsibility, on arms control, peace, and security issues for six to nine months. PSR provides strong mentoring and professional development opportunities for Scoville Fellows from any discipline. Scoville Fellows at PSR can expect to be meaningfully engaged in substantive work related to prudent and effective steps toward a world free of nuclear weapons, prevention of the use or spread of nuclear weapons, and promoting diplomacy and alternative conflict resolution techniques to avoid war. PSR’s current security programs include analytical work to develop new knowledge about the dangers nuclear weapons and security policies pose to human life and health, organizing work to mobilize doctors and allied health professionals for peace and security, and advocacy work to ensure that the interests of potential victims of nuclear weapons and war are represented in the policy process. For further information, please visit http://www.scoville.org/
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