On Dec 10, 2019, Montgomery County Council in Maryland passed a Back from the Brink resolution, becoming the first county council in the United States to do so. The resolution calls on Maryland’s congressional delegation to take commonsense steps to prevent nuclear war. This milestone was achieved thanks to the hard work of Maryland Peace …
On December 4, the Trump administration approved a rules change around SNAP benefits, commonly referred to as food stamps, which will remove up to 688,000 adults from participating in the program unless they find part-time work. While some estimates predict this change will save the U.S. $5 billion over 5 years, anti-hunger activists worry it …
Letter to the editor in the Spokesman-Review from Washington PSR’s Dr. Donald D. Storey.
Thanks to the hard work of Oregon PSR, on November 13, the Portland City Council in Oregon unanimously passed Resolution 1050 to declare Portland’s “opposition to nuclear weapons and urge the U.S. Federal Government to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and take action to prevent nuclear war.” The resolution is part …
On September 29, Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility and the Washington Against Nuclear Weapons Coalition convened a People’s Town Hall on Nuclear Weapons, which brought together anti-war, environmental and Indigenous rights activists. The event was held to inform the public and elected officials about the nuclear weapons threat, highlighting Washington state’s nuclear arsenals, the role …
Op-ed in Common Dreams by Olivia Alperstein, PSR Media Relations Manager.
Op-ed in Common Dreams by Robert Dodge, MD, PSR board member.
Op-ed in VTDigger by PSR member John Reuwer, MD, for International Day for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons.
Op-ed in the Chicago Tribune by Olivia Alperstein, PSR Media Relations Manager.
You may have been following PSR’s updates on recent developments in the House of Representatives regarding zeroing out funding for so-called “low-yield” nuclear weapons. Thanks to the great leadership of House Armed Services Committee Chair Adam Smith (WA), the House voted to zero out funding for low-yield nukes. Now, the fight is in the Senate. …