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Informed activism is principled and effective activism. PSR aims to provide the best materials for its network of members and activists to work at the grassroots level against nuclear weapons, global warming, and environmental contamination. Select an Issue or Resource Type to search for up-to-date information to help you take action in your community.

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Niños Seguros y Sanos: Safe and Healthy Children
This one-year pilot program aimed to develop culturally and linguistically appropriate training resource guide, complete with several trainer tools as well as fact-sheets and case studies about environmental health for staff of Migrant and Seasonal Head Start and the Migrant and Seasonal Health Clinics. Read more »
Environmental Justice and Toxic Chemical Exposures
Healthcare providers and public health practitioners know that disadvantaged communities suffer from chronic disease -- asthma, heart disease, obesity, cancer, and others -- at far greater rates than do others. From PSR's Environmental Health Policy Institute. Read more »
Infographic: America's Gun Violence Epidemic
This infographic created by the George Washington University Master of Public Health program looks at gun violence and mental health. Read more »
Status Syndrome: A Challenge to Medicine
The poor have poor health. At first blush that is neither new nor surprising. Perhaps it should be more surprising than it is. In rich countries, such as the United States, the nature of poverty has changed—people do not die from lack of clean water and sanitary facilities or from famine—and yet, persistently, those at the bottom of the socioeconomic scale have worse health than those above them in the hierarchy. Read more »
California Senate Joint Resolution on Torture
Senate Joint Resolution 19 condemns the practice of torture and requests health professionals to report abusive interrogation tactics. Read more »
California Senate Committee Hearing on Medical Participation in Torture
Statement by Jose Quiroga, M.D. before the California Senate Business Professions and Economic Development Committee, January 14, 2008. Read more »
Social Justice as a PSR Issue Over the Past Half-Century
The PSR Social Justice Committee has been meeting over the past year to develop PSR programs in the areas of social justice. Read more »
Outline of Domestic Violence Response Initiative
PSR Maine and Maine Primary Care Association's program on domestic violence. Read more »
The Topography of Poverty in the United States
This paper describes a spatial analysis of poverty in the United States at the county level for 2000. Read more »
Income Inequality Hits Record Levels, New CBO Data Show
Real after-tax incomes jumped by an average of nearly $180,000 for the top 1 percent of households in 2005, while rising just $400 for middle-income households and $200 for lowerincome households, according to new data from the Congressional Budget Office. Read more »