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2 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.

3 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.

4 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 morn- ing 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 move- ment, 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.

5 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.

6 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 non- proliferation 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.

7 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.

8 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.

9 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.

10 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.

11 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 inter- national 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.

12 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-prolif- eration 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.

13 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.

14 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 move- ment 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.

15 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 psycho- logical 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."

16 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 presen- tations 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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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.

18 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 collabo- rating 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 legis- lation 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 PSR-LA members Dr. Samuel immunization card, providing parents with a notification tool that their child should Sperling and wife, Beatrice, attend Nobel prize ceremony be tested. PSR-LA and its partner organizations are currently working on amend- in Oslo, Norway, 1985. ments 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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2008 • “Californians Against Medical Torture,” a medical, legal, and human rights coali- tion that PSR-LA forms with allied groups, works with State Senator Mark Ridley-Thomas to successfully pass a resolution condemning medical profes- sionals’ 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 dis- cussion with the members of the medical community and the public, the doc- tors 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 ground- breaking 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.

20 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 replace- ment 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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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 inte- grated pest management team, which helps to ensure the use of pest manage- ment 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 jus- tice 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 poly- brominated 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.

22 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.

23 “ Remember your humanity and forget the rest.” The cost of war Bertrand Russell • 2004 World military expenditures: and Albert Einstein, 1 trillion dollars Pugwash Manifesto • 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: • Estimated 1 million dead by 2008 Physicians • 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 Los Angeles • Annual cost for potable water for developing world: $9 billion • Annual cost for reproductive for your health care for all women in developing world: $12 billion • Annual cost for basic health and contribution to nutrition in the developing world: $13 billion a more peaceful and healthier world

Curren Warf M.D. and Susan Rabinovitz

24 25 26 “Thank you to all the staff of PSR for your passion and dedication to health, environmental justice and peace!”

Nancy Gibbs MD

27 28 Thank you, Physicians for Social Responsibility, for the work you do to promote policies that help protect

the public and our environment.

– Barbra Streisand

29 Lawrence,

Congratulations, my friend. Thank you for all of the good work you do!

Love, Nicole Avant

30 Congratulations Lawrence on being honored with the 2008 Socially Responsible Media Award.

We are proud to support you and Physicians for Social Responsibility.

31 Clark/Karras Property Congratulations to PSR-LA and the Honorees Thank you for your commitment to a safe, healthy future

Susan Clark & Alex Karras

32 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.

33 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.

C o n g r a t u l a t i o n s Lawrence

Connie Bruck & Mel Levine

34 “The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.” Congratulations Cesar Chavez and great appreciation In loving memory of Saul Niedorf, to Dr. James psychiatrist, social Yamazaki activist, friend, whose life was a testimony Dodie and Roy Danchick to this truth. Judith & John Glass

Thanks for all the Congratulations Jim. good work We are with you in spirit. you do.

Drs. Ruth and Victoria & William J. Schull M.D. Alan Larson

35 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 Saul’s life reminds us that: The recipient of the Founders Award Though we strive among wheelers for his steadfast commitment to and dealers, true doctors are disarmament. healers not heelers.

Rod Gorney, MD Dr. Paul J. Geller

Congratulations Martha

Joseph Lyou, PhD

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