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Healthy Communities Sponsors

Mattel Children’s Hospital UCLASt. John’s Well Child

and Family CenterMargaret Wacker

Table Sponsors

Maurine Doerken M.F.T. andPeter Doerken D.D.S.

Cliff GladsteinJapanese American Medical

AssociationMetropolitan Water District

of Southern CaliforniaSt. Mary’s Episcopal Church

Friends

Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. AttarBernard and Elaine Brandchaft M.D.Kris CalvinBruce CohenThomas Cook and Marie de VarenessLily Ann InouyeMoneium Fadali M.D.The Yamashiro FamilyAssemblymember Julia Brownley

Board of Directors

Neal A. Baer M.D.Robert Dodge M.D.Tova FullerNancy Gibbs M.D.Jimmy Hara M.D.Ken Levy M.F.T.Jeanne LondeJim MangiaWilliams E. Perkins M.D.Jose Quiroga M.D.Ruth Tavlin M.F.T.Margaret Wacker M.D.Curren Warf M.D.

Emeriti Shirley MagidsonRichard Saxon M.D.

Event Production

Dinner CoordinatorDenise Duffield

Video Production and Stage ManagementJulie Thompson and Brogan de Paor

Video clips for Dr. Yamazaki's presentationare courtesy of Steven Schecter,President of Schecter Films, Inc.

Invitation and Journal DesignCorky Retson

Floral ArrangementsJune Berk

PrintingHouse of Printing

PSR-LA Staff

Martha Dina ArgüelloExecutive Director

Denise DuffieldAssociate Director

Kathy AttarHealth and Environment Program Coordinator

Ana MascareñasMembership Coordinator

Linda KiteHealthy Homes Collaborative

Special Thanks

Liliana ArgüelloNeal Baer M.D.Michael CollinsAna MascareñasVikki PaulusThe Lippin Group

Physicians for

Social Responsibility-

Los Angeles

617 S. Olive Street, Suite 810Los Angeles, CA 90014-1629213-689-9170 phone213-689-9199 faxwww.psrla.org

Physicians forSocial Responsibility–Los AngelesAnnual Gala

Honorary Committee

Congressmember Xavier BecerraDr. Michael BeckwithCongressmember Howard BermanBob BlumenfieldDr. Lester and Devra BreslowAssemblymember Julia BrownleyHonorable Judy ChuAssemblymember Kevin de LeónSusan Clark and Alex KarrasHonorable Philip E. Coyle IIIMike FarrellSenator Diane FeinsteinCongressmember Bob FilnerDr. Wayne GlassArianna HuffingtonDr. Michael IntriligatorSenator Sheila KuehlDr. Joseph LyouAssemblymember Fabian Núñez

and Maria RoblesJonathan ParfreyDr. Bennett RambergReverend George RegasSenator Mark Ridley-ThomasSenator Gloria RomeroCouncilmember Bill RosendahlAlan SierotyStanley SheinbaumDr. Robert and Janet TranquadaCongressmember Henry WaxmanCongressmember Diane WatsonDr. Robert Wesley

Peacemaker Sponsors

Nancy Gibbs M.D.Southern California Air Quality

Management DistrictDr. Paul and Hisako Terasaki

Environmental Health Sponsors

Jodie Evans and Max Palevsky

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ProgramWelcome

Erica Frank M.D., M.P.H.

President, Physicians for Social Responsibility

Dedication toSaul Niedorf M.D.

by Curren Warf M.D.,

Chair of the Board, PSR-LA

Presentation of thePeacemaker Award to

Dr. Hans Blix

Special GuestGloria Romero

California Senate Majority Leader

Executive Director RemarksMartha Dina Argüello

Executive Director, PSR-LA

Musical TributeJune Kuramoto and Kimo Cornwell

Dinner

Presentation of theSocially Responsible Media Award to

Lawrence Bender

by Dean Ornish M.D.

Presentation of Special Musical GuestGustavo Santaolalla

by Michael Collins

Presentation of theSocially Responsible Medicine Award to

Dr. James Yamazaki

by Carmine Clemente M.D.

Presentation of theFounders Award to

Joseph Cirincione

by Kal Raustiala Ph.D., J.D.

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June Kuramoto & Kimo Cornwell

June Kuramoto (born in Japan but raised in Los Angeles) has been playingokoto since the age of 7. She was fortunate to study almost her entire lifewith the remarkable Kazue Kudo Sensei, receiving her classical degreesof koto authorized by the Miyagi School of Koto in Tokyo, Japan. Her manycredits include performing and/or recording with Ravi Shankar, George Duke,Manhattan Transfer, Taste of Honey, David Benoit, Stanley Clarke, KeikoMatsui, Michael Paulo, Yutaka Yokokura, Angela Bofill, and most recentlywith Ozomatli; and on films such as Pirates of the Caribbean — At World’sEnd, The Last Samurai, Blade II, Thin Red Line and Black Rain. She is oneof the principals of the group Hiroshima, a songwriter and producer and hascollaborated with Kimo on many songs and makes special appearances asa solo artist or duet when schedule permits.

Kimo (Hawaiian for James) Cornwell was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Blessedwith the love of music, he began his classical studies at the age of 8, andthat continued for 6 1/2 years. He is renown as one of the best keyboardplayers from the islands. His many credits include performing and/or recordingwith such artists as Cheryl Lynn, Ronnie Laws, Al Jarreau, Frankie Beverlyand Maze, John Klemmer, Rick Springfield, Julio Iglesias, Howard Hewitt,Shari Belafonte, Hubert Laws, Peter White, Charo, Michael Paulo, PaulineWilson (Seawind), Don Ho, and Kalapana. Kimo has also been involved withwriting and performing music for several TV movies, cooking shows, anddocumentaries. He has been one of the principals and heart and soul of theLos Angeles-based group Hiroshima as keyboardist, composer, arrangerand producer.

Both artists are extremely honored to be part of this important program andcongratulate all the honorees.

You can visit June and Kimo at www.hiroshimamusic.com.

Special Musical Tribute“Thousand Cranes”

PSR-LA’s 2008 Annual Gala Dinner is dedicated to the memory of Saul NiedorfM.D., a beloved child and adolescent psychiatrist and long time member ofPhysicians 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 onthe clinical faculty at UCLA, an emeritus physician at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center,and a consultant for the Department of Mental Health and the California YouthAuthority. His colleagues still say that whenever they encountered a particularlydifficult adolescent, Dr. Saul Niedorf was the one to call. Patients alwayscommented on his personal dedication to them, dignity, and kindness.

Saul went to Roosevelt High School in Boyle Heights and graduated from theUCLA School of Social Work 1952. Blacklisted during the McCarthy era, hemoved to Switzerland to complete his medical education where he studiedunder Jean Piaget. The State Department suspended his passport for five years,

raising a serious concern that he may have never been ableto travel or return to the United States. Upon his eventual returnto 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 wheretheir home became a meeting place for many progressive organizers includingCesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta of the United Farm Workers.

Saul understood the relationship between political conditions and the humanpsyche. During the 1980s, the civil war in El Salvador drove thousands of politicalrefugees to the United States. The refugees presented compelling testimony incourt, describing the use of bombing, torture, death and disappearances againstthe civilian population. After interviewing more than thirty refugees and readingcountless depositions of others, Saul provided pivotal testimony to the courtconcluding that Post Traumatic Stress Disorder was prevalent among those hehad evaluated. In 1988, in what was a major victory for the human rights ofimmigrants and refugees of all backgrounds, the court issued an injunction againstthe forcible return of Salvadorian refugees.

Saul had been a lifelong advocate for peace, nuclear disarmament and socialjustice. Despite having suffered severe personal consequences during theMcCarthy era, Saul was fearless in raising his voice regarding controversial issueseven during the most difficult times. Saul was known as an extraordinarily kindman, and beneath the kindness was profound courage. To be kind is to be opento others; he had the courage to be open. He was a man who cared deeply forothers and refused to descend into cynicism. He was a powerful and effectiveadvocate for civil rights, for the rights of refugees, for workers, for children andyouth, for women, against the war in Vietnam and more recently in Iraq, and fornuclear disarmament. Saul was irrepressible, an inspiration to others, and willalways be a model of an American who lived life with integrity and courage.

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In Memory ofSaul NiedorfFebruary 20,1931– March 17, 2008

by Curren Warf M.D.

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Emcee Erica Frank M.D., M.P.H is a Professor inthe Departments of Health Care and Epidemiology and Family Practice at theUniversity 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 healthsciences university), and the Research Director for the Annenberg PhysicianTraining Program in Addiction Medicine. Dr. Frank is also an active volunteerand environmentalist, and was recently selected as President of Physicians forSocial Responsibility.

Until 2006, she was a tenured Professor, Vice Chair (Academic Affairs), andDivision Director (Preventive Medicine) in the Department of Family and PreventiveMedicine, at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. She alsodirected Emory’s Preventive Medicine Residency Program, and had a clinicalpractice in cholesterol management. Following a transitional internship at theCleveland 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 nationalquestionnaire-based study of 4,501 women M.D.s, and the first large study oftheir 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 medicalstudents’ 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 healthreference materials, courseware, and other e-learning opportunities to healthprofessionals in training and practice around the world. She is extensivelypublished, including over 100 articles (four of which are first-authored JAMA

publications, with additional first-authored articles in the Lancet, BMJ and othermajor scientific medical journals).

Dr. Frank has considerable media and health education experience. She has beenthe Co-Editor in Chief of the journal Preventive Medicine (1994-1999) and theEditor of the student component of JAMA, and has served on the editorial boardsof the American Journal of Preventive Medicine and the Cleveland Clinic Journal

of Medicine. She has written for Vogue magazine, was the health reporter forthe central Georgia ABC affiliate for two years, was a medical editor for LifetimeMedical Television, and a health reporter for Medical News Network.

She has received a number of awards for her work. These include the AMA/PettisAward (outstanding U.S. medical student communicator), the American Collegeof Preventive Medicine’s (ACPM’s) “Rising Star Award” (received the first year theaward was offered), and the outstanding alumnus award from the Rollins Schoolof Public Health.

Peacemaker AwardDr. Hans Blix(via video)

Dr. Hans Blix is the recipient of PSR-LA’s 2008 Peacemaker Award for hisenduring 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 BoardMember and dual M.D./Ph.D. UCLA student, and Dr. Bennett Ramberg, a formerState 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 ofthe United Nations Monitoring, Verification, and Inspection Commission, Dr. Blixparticipated in a process that eradicated the Iraqinuclear weapons program.

In 2003, he headed the UN weapons inspectorswho were sent to Iraq to find out if SaddamHussein's regime had destroyed its weapons ofmass destruction. Dr. Blix courageously opposedproponents of war, stating that Iraq had probablydestroyed all its weapons of mass destruction in theearly 1990s. He later declared the war illegal.

In 2004 Blix was named as chairman of the newlyformed International Commission on Weapons ofMass Destruction. The purpose of the commission isto find new ways to achieve the disarming and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Dr. Blixhas also written several books about internationaland constitutional law and international affairs, mostrecently, Why Nuclear Disarmament Matters.

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Dean Ornish M.D. is the founder and presidentof the non-profit Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, California,where he holds the Safeway Chair. He is Clinical Professor of Medicine at theUniversity of California, San Francisco. Dr. Ornish received his medical trainingin internal medicine from the Baylor College of Medicine, Harvard Medical School,and the Massachusetts General Hospital. He received a B.A. in Humanitiessumma cum laude from the University of Texas in Austin, where he gave thebaccalaureate 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 evensevere coronary heart disease, without drugs or surgery. Recently, Medicareagreed to provide coverage for this program, the first time that Medicare hascovered a program of comprehensive lifestyle changes. He and his colleaguesare now training and licensing health professionals from around the world in hisprogram for reversing heart disease for free in an open source model.

He is the author of five best-selling books, including New York Times’ bestsellersDr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease, Eat More, Weigh Less,

and Love & Survival. His sixth book, The Spectrum, was published in January byRandom House/Ballantine Books and is also a New York Times bestseller.

The research that he and his colleagues conducted has been published in theJournal 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 scienceseries, and was featured on Bill Moyers' PBS series, Healing & The Mind. Theirwork has been featured in all major media.

Presenter

PSR-LA is proud to honor Lawrence Bender with our 2008 Socially

Responsible Media Award for using his innovative filmmaking talentsto create social change. Bender’s award-winning documentaryAn Inconvenient Truth has inspired the public to take unprecedentedpolitical and personal action to stop climate change.

His accomplishments in film are extensive; his movies have beenhonored with twenty-one Academy Award nominations, including twofor Best Picture (Good Will Hunting, Pulp Fiction) and they have wonfive. 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 issuesincluding racial justice, hate crimes, homophobia and social justice.He produced Chumscrubber, which helped alert the public to therise in teenage prescription drug use and was screened for membersof the US Congress. In 2004, Bender produced Voces Inocentes,

a Spanish language film directed by Luis Mandoki, which was inspiredby a true story during the war in El Salvador. In 2001 Bender producedAnatomy of a Hate Crime, depicting the brutal 1998 murder ofMatthew Shepard, an openly gay college student in Wyoming, whichhelped prompt tougher hate-crime laws.

Lawrence Bender is a passionate social and political activist. Hisinterest was first piqued at a young age attending anti-war marcheswith his parents while growing up in New York and New Jersey. In 2003, Benderpartnered with Arianna Huffington to found the Detroit Project, which targeted thegas guzzling SUV. He also traveled to the Middle East with the Israeli Policy Forumwhere he met with international leaders. In Israel he met with members of theKnesset. In Egypt, he met with President Hosni Mubarak, and in the West Bankin Ramallah and he met with the Palestinian Prime Minister, Mahmoud Abbas.

Bender recently created the “18 seconds” campaign, designed to demonstratethe simplicity of becoming part of the solution for global warming — that it onlytakes 18 seconds to change to a compact fluorescent light bulb — which couldcollectively save billions in energy costs.

Mr. Bender currently serves on the board of the Creative Coalition, the Israel PolicyForum, Rock the Vote and the Executive Board of the Natural Resources DefenseCouncil. He currently sits on the Deans’ Council at Harvard’s John F. KennedySchool of Government.

Bender is currently working on a documentary about nuclear weapons that willbe debuted as part of the World Security Institute campaign to eliminate nuclearweapons.

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Socially ResponsibleMedia AwardLawrence Bender

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Carmine Clemente M.D. joined the UCLAmedical school faculty when it was first founded in 1952. Though he officially"retired" in 1994 and is emeritus professor of anatomy and neurobiology, he isrecalled annually to teach anatomy to first-year medical students. Dr. Clementinetherefore has the astonishing distinction of having taught nearly every UCLA medicalstudent 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 textbookused 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 morethan 200 articles. He has produced a series of 42 dissection films which today areused in 170 medical schools throughout the world, including 120 of the nation's125 medical schools. Additionally, Dr. Clemente is widely recognized for the yeoman'stask of having edited the 30th American edition of Gray's Anatomy.

Dr. Clemente has played a vital role reshaping medical school curricula, both atUCLA and on the national level. In addition to serving for 10 years on the NationalBoard of Medical Examiners, he was a member of 14 Liaison Committee on MedicalEducation accreditation site visit teams. Dr. Clemente earned his A.B., M.S., andPh.D. degrees in anatomy from the University of Pennsylvania. He completed apostdoctoral fellowship in anatomy at University College, University of London, andhis early research focused on regeneration and transplantation of neural tissue inthe central nervous system of mammals.

Among Dr. Clemente's many awards and recognitions are the Henry Gray Award ofthe American Association of Anatomists, and the UCLA Award for Excellence inEducation. Dr. Clemente was the recipient of the 2006 Alpha Omega Alpha RobertJ. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award, which was established by the AOA medicalhonor society in 1988 to provide national recognition to faculty members who havedistinguished themselves in medical student education.

Presenter

Dr. James Yamazaki will receive PSR-LA’s 2008 Socially

Responsible Medicine Award for his lifelong work on theeffects of radiation on public health.

While his parents were interned in an American concentrationcamp, Dr. Yamazaki served as a World War II combat surgeonin the Battle of the Bulge, where he was captured by theGermans and held as a prisoner of war. After the war, at theage of 33, the US government asked Dr. Yamazaki to head theNagasaki Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission. From 1949 to1951, he worked with children in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and with Marshall Islanders who suffered from American postwarnuclear testing. His research focused on the effects of radiationon fetuses, and as his team had predicted, devastatingabnormalities were seen in babies who were yet unborn whenthe bombs hit, and numerous mothers experienced still-birthsor miscarriages.

Upon his return to the US, Dr. Yamazaki continued his dedicatedresearch on the effects of radiation on children, became aclinical professor of pediatrics at UCLA, and maintained apediatric practice. With his unwavering commitment towardscreating a more peaceful world, he has continued to testify togovernment commissions to promote nuclear disarmament,and has also continued to follow the effects of nuclear radiationon 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 thespecific 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 hasestablished a website that provides an eyewitness report about his experiencesin Japan and the US from his perspective as the lead physician of the US AtomicBomb Casualty Commission in post-war Nagasaki. Visit this innovative websitewww.ChildrenoftheAtomicBomb.com to view exclusive video interviews ofDr. Yamazaki, rare family archival images, and drawings and paintings by atomicbomb survivors.

For additional information about the project and ways to be involved in thecall to save the world's children, please contact Don Nakanishi, Director andProfessor of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center at dtn@ucla.edu or310.825.2974.

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Socially ResponsibleMedicine AwardDr. James Yamazaki

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Presenter Kal Raustiala Ph.d., J.D. is Director ofthe Burkle Center for International Relations, UCLA's primary academic unit thatfosters interdisciplinary research and policy-oriented teaching on the role of theUnited 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 Schooland the UCLA International Institute, where he teaches in the Program on GlobalStudies. Professor Raustiala's research focuses on international cooperation andconflict 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 StudiesProgram at The Brookings Institution, a Peccei Scholar at the International Institutefor Applied Systems in Austria, and an assistant professor of politics at BrandeisUniversity. His scholarship has been published in journals such as World Politics,

International Organization, and the American Journal of International Law. He isalso a frequent media contributor whose writing has been featured in the New

York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the New Republic, andthe New Yorker.

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Founders AwardJoseph 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 (ColumbiaUniversity Press, Spring 2007) and served previously as seniorvice president for national security and international policy atthe Center for American Progress and as director for non-prolif-eration at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace foreight years. He teaches a graduate seminar at the GeorgetownUniversity School of Foreign Service and is a member of theCouncil on Foreign Relations. He has written over 200 articleson defense issues, produced two DVDs on proliferation, appearsfrequently in the media, and has given over one hundred lecturesaround the world in the past two years.

Mr. Cirincione worked for nine years in the US House ofRepresentatives on the professional staff of the Committee onArmed 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 ofthe 100 people whose ideas will shape the policies of the nextadministration. The World Affairs Councils of America alsonamed him one of 500 people whose views have the mostinfluence in shaping American foreign policy. He was featuredin 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 editionsof 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 Strategicand International Studies.

Cirincione is an honors graduate of Boston College and holds a Masters ofScience with highest honors from the Georgetown School of Foreign Service.He is happily married with two children. To learn more about JosephCirincione and the Ploughshares Fund, visit www.ploughshares.org.

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Presenter Michael Collins is an award-winning investigativejournalist based in Los Angeles. He has covered a wide range of issues,beginning in 1983 with frontline reporting on “the Troubles” in Northern Irelandfor the Los Angeles Reader, LA Weekly, and the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner.In 1998, Collins wrote an article for Los Angeles magazine about “rock enespañol’s” godfather, Gustavo Santaolalla, and his Los Angeles-based recordcompany SURCO – one of the first American journalists to do so. Collins hasserved 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 pollutedland at Ahmanson Ranch in Ventura County and at the West Los AngelesVeterans 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 aproposed $1 million exploration of the nuclear and chemical dump in theBrentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles. Collins’ coverage of contaminationproblems at Boeing’s Santa Susana Field Laboratory helped contribute to therecent historic clean up agreement between the company and the State ofCalifornia.

Collins has won numerous awards, including the LA Press Club’s 2006Print Journalist of the Year award (under 100,000 circulation) for Los Angeles

CityBeat. He also won first place for EnviroReporter.com in the 2006 OnlineNews Story, Feature, Series or Package category. The Association of AlternativeNewsweeklies 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 PressClub's Investigative Series award which was widely credited as leading to thecreation of Ahmanson Ranch as public parkland.

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Probably, the word that best synthesizes the multiple areaswhere Gustavo Santaolalla sets forth his work, is "visionary":Singer, composer, producer, guitarist, player of charango andronroco, discoverer of talent, director of a record label and apublishing company. His vision, firmly connected with seekingan identity, covers his entire search, since his beginnings at16 years of age with the band Arco Iris, which later on wouldbecome a pioneer in the fusion of Latin American folklore androck. As a performer, after Arco Iris he joined Soluna, and aftermoving to the United States in the late 70’s, he formed theband Wet Picnic, then began a solo career that includes threealbums, among them Ronroco, a record of entirely instrumentalmusic played on charango. Starting in 2002, Santaolallacombined his talents as producer, performer and composer inthe collective Bajofondo (in its beginnings Bajofondo TangoClub), with which he has completed four albums.

As a producer, his career started with Leon Gieco’s first recordin 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 thatdecade, with Mexican bands such as Maldita Vecindad andCafé Tacuba, with these bands he set the pace for the move-ment known as “rock en español". In 1997, along with hispartner 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 ofBersuit, La Vela Puerca, Julieta Venegas, Jaime Torres, De LaGuarda, Arbol, El Otro Yo, Juana Molina, Orozco-Barrientos,Kronos Quartet, Antonio Carmona and Juanes. With Café delos Maestros, the double album that brings together the mostsignificant living legends of tango, Gustavo has won twoGrammy awards.

The inclusion of one of the songs from Ronroco in the soundtrack of "TheInsider" (Michael Mann, 1999), was the first step in his career as composerof soundtracks, working on films of some of today’s most important directors,such as Ang Lee, Alejandro González Iñárritu and Walter Salles. Santaolallawas brilliant on iconic movies such as "Amores Perros", "21 Grams","Motorcycle Diaries", "Tierra Fría", "Brokeback Mountain" and "Babel"; withthese movies he has won numerous awards, among them the BAFTA andthe 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, besidesthe ones listed above, we can mention the Premio Gardel, the Konex dePlatino, Personalidad del Año (CAPIF), and multiple Grammy awards invarious categories.

Special Musical GuestGustavo Santaolalla

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Peace & Security

Preventing the Proliferation and Use of Nuclear Weapons

PSR-LA asserts a strong medical voice against the development and use ofnuclear weapons. While a new age of terrorist threats and new nations seekingtheir own nuclear weapons has emerged, the massive over-kill capacity of the Cold War nuclear arsenals of the United States and Russia remains, withthousands of nuclear weapons still on hair-trigger alert. Over time, nuclear dangersmay have ebbed from the public consciousness, but physicians cannot give inwhen they know lives are in danger. PSR works to educate members of the publicand policymakers about the dangers that nuclear weapons pose to human health.We are a founding member of the recently formed Campaign for a NuclearWeapons Free World, which advocates that nations that possess nuclear weaponsmove swiftly toward multilateral, verifiable and irreversible nuclear disarmament.Last year, PSR members helped persuade Congress to deny funding for a newnuclear bomb plant and proposed new nuclear bomb, the “Reliable ReplacementWarhead.”

The Public Health Effects of War

PSR-LA promotes diplomatic solutionsto international conflicts to ensure thatpolicy makers and the public haveaccurate and timely information aboutthe public health consequences ofnation security decisions. In doing so,we address the medical and psycho-logical consequences of war on bothcivilian populations and Americantroops. PSR-LA has been a leadingvoice in Southern California againstthe war in Iraq. In October, 2006, we hosted a national conference "TheMedical Consequences of the Warin Iraq: Health Challenges Beyond theBattlefield." The conference addressedthe effects of the Iraq war on Iraqi

citizens and their families and American troops and their families. PSR is workingto promote a direct diplomatic solution to tensions with Iran, including bringingour 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) inCongressional Quarterly and The Washington Post. In April 2007, PSR producedthe publication "War is Not the Answer: The Medical and Public HealthConsequences of Attacking Iran."

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Sponsoring Global Security Educational Programs

PSR-LA is working to build a “security culture" in Los Angeles.Activists, scholars, elected officials, business-people, diplomatsand PSR-LA physicians gain greater insight through PSR-LAsponsored monthly seminars entitled Global Security Seminar.Hosted by renowned security scholar, Dr. Bennett Ramberg,lectures include such topics as Security and Global ClimateChange, Effectiveness of the International Criminal Court, andthe Impact of Infectious Diseases in War. Dr. Ramberg, andDr. Michael Intriligator and the Center for Defense Informationjointly present these seminar dinners at the UCLA FacultyCenter, 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 affectedAmerican culture, morality and politics, and Los Angeles is one of the nation’sforemost military regions. Weapons are regularly shipped from Seal Beach NavalWeapons Station to Afghanistan and Iraq. Intercontinental ballistic missiles arebuilt in Canoga Park, their engines tested in our foothills, and test-launched fromVandenberg Air Force Base, and the missile defense program and a majority ofour 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 localcommunities’ efforts to protect themselves from potential harm from toxicantscaused 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 andexplicitly 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 CaliforniansAgainst Medical Torture. The coalition is working to pass Senate Joint Resolution19 ( Ridley –Thomas), which requests all relevant California agencies to notifyCalifornia-licensed health professionals about their professional obligations underinternational law relating to torture and the treatment of detainees. It also calls fornotifying all licensed professionals that those who participate in torture may besubject to prosecution. In addition, the measure requests that the U.S. Departmentof Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency remove all California-licensedhealth professionals from participating in prisoner and detainee interrogations.On April 21, the measure successfully passed on the Senate floor by a vote of 22to 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 beaddressed through regulatory approaches and market-based policies that canprompt private sector investment and innovation in the new clean energy economy.PSR-LA has been involved at the local and state level in education, organizingand advocacy efforts for California’s AB 32-Global Warming Solutions Act. We area current member of California’s Global Warming Environmental Justice AdvisoryCommittee. We are working to create a strong broad-based movement for thewide spread deployment of renewable energy. Due to our fundamental commitmentto social justice, PSR-LA also believes that climate change solutions should addressa fair transition for workers and the creation of new economic opportunities inlow-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 morethan 2,400 premature deaths annually and cancer risk rates up to 20 times higherthan federal clean air standards. The Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles arethe single largest source of air pollution in Southern California. PSR-LA is part ofGREEN LA’s Port Work Group, which is advocating that the City of Los Angelesadopt, implement, and enforce a comprehensive plan for the Port of Los Angelesand related goods movement system; ensure benefits of goods movementoutweigh costs through independent cost-benefit analyses; and prevent or fullymitigate off-port community impacts by adopting land-use policies that protecthealth. PSR-LA is also a founding member of the Coalition for EnvironmentalHealth and Justice (CEHAJ), a coalition of community-based, health, environmentaland environmental justice organizations dedicated to promoting clean air andimproved 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 orimported in the U.S. for commercial and industrial uses, 90% of which rely onfossil fuel feedstocks. Current chemical regulation does not sufficiently protecthuman health. PSR-LA advocates for a re-thinking of how products can be mademore sustainably, environmentally friendly and healthier. As a founding memberof Californians for a Healthy and Green Economy (CHANGE) and a currentCo-convener, we are working to transform how chemicals are regulated inCalifornia by playing a key role in California’s Green Chemistry Initiative. The GreenChemistry Initiative is intended to lead the effort to fundamentally change how thestate 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 fromthe current model of cleaning up hazardous waste sites and managing pollutionthat result in health and environmental impacts and to solutions that prevent theuse of toxic materials in the first place.

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PSR-LA members Dr. Samuel

Sperling and wife, Beatrice,

attend Nobel prize ceremony

in Oslo, Norway, 1985.

Connecting Reproductive Justice to Chemical Policy Reform

PSR-LA is providing education and training to women and girls directlyimpacted by pollution and hazardous chemicals. This training isintended to empower them to participate in chemical policy changeefforts. PSR-LA has recently partnered with the Office of Women’shealth to include an environmental health/reproductive justice trackat their 2007 Women’s Health Policy Summit. PSR-LA is also collabo-rating with the Los Angeles Reproductive Justice Coalition to increaseunderstanding and awareness about how reproductive toxicants arefound in many commonly used personal care and cleaning products.

Preventing Lead Poisoning

Despite longstanding federally funded requirements for blood leadtests for children enrolled in the Medi-Cal and the Childhood Healthand Disability Prevention Program (CHDP), very few of California'schildren enrolled in these programs have been tested for leadpoisoning at age-appropriate levels. Blood lead testing is the onlyeffective way to detect lead poisoning before severe and oftenirreversible symptoms occur. PSR-LA is currently co-sponsoring legis-lation which seeks to increase the number of children tested forlead poisoning. Senate Bill 775, The Lead Poisoning Prevention Act of 2007, will increase lead screenings of children at high risk of leadpoisonings in California by adding lead risk assessments to the yellowimmunization card, providing parents with a notification tool that their child shouldbe tested. PSR-LA and its partner organizations are currently working on amend-ments to the legislation. The bill already passed the California Senate in thesummer 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 thehome, with a particular focus on low-income communities of color. PSR-LA’sstrategy to reduce urban pesticide use includes creating market demand for saferpest control by securing commitments to use Integrated Pest Management (IPM)and existing IPM certifications programs, such as Green Shield Certified, fromproperty management companies, low-income housing developers and localgovernments in the greater Los Angeles area. PSR-LA has engaged severalpartners, including: Community Corporation of Santa Monica, EsperanzaCommunity Housing Corporation, Little Tokyo Service Center, and Los AngelesCommunity Design Center. In March 2008, Colby Pest Control became the firstGreen Shield certified IPM provider in Southern California! PSR-LA is developinga campaign in the City of Los Angeles to win adoption of IPM in all city-ownedand managed buildings. In addition, PSR-LA trains and educate hundreds ofhealthy homes advocates on the use of IPM and how to decrease exposure toharmful 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 MarkRidley-Thomas to successfully pass a resolution condemning medical profes-sionals’ participation in torture.

• PSR-LA helps achieve a monumental victory regarding the highly contaminatedSanta Susana Field Laboratory (Rocketdyne). Working with Committee toBridge the Gap, Sierra Club, and community members, PSR-LA helped securelegislation for Rocketydyne’s polluted soil and groundwater to be remediated tothe strictest Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Superfund standards withstate oversight.

• Public health groups, along with PSR-LA, prevail in a legal action against theEPA, securing a court order that mandates it move quickly to protect the publicfrom carbon monoxide.

• Therapist members of PSR-LA convene and form a special project of PSR-LAcalled “Therapists for Social Responsibility,” whose goal is to use therapists’professional skills to further social justice. Members begin work with TheSoldiers’ Project to provide support for returning veterans and their families.The Soldiers Project was founded by past PSR-LA Board member Dr. JudithBroder to provide free counseling services to Operation Iraqi Freedom andOperation Enduring Freedom veterans and their families.

• PSR-LA becomes co-convener of the coalition, “Californians for a Healthy andGreen Economy” (CHANGE) working with state-wide coalition members todevelop a position paper on chemical policy reform.

• PSR-LA hosts two Iranian physicians and a chemical weapons survivor as partof a national tour to highlight the human consequences of war and promotethe 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 toachieve 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 foraddressing the health impacts of climate change on minority populations in theUnited States.

• PSR-LA is instrumental in recruiting the first Green Shield certified pest controlcompany 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 MedicalTorture, and galvanized many of the human rights groups working on tortureissues.

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2007• PSR-LA successfully lobbies Congress to oppose the Bush administration’s

new hydrogen bomb, the so-called reliable replacement warhead. PSR-LA alsoco-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 aretrained 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 researchand exposure to pesticides. The airing prompted an official response from theEPA, and screenings with hundreds of viewers took place.

• The Healthy Homes Collaborative, housed at PSR-LA, trains hundreds of housingcode enforcement inspectors on lead-safe practices; the program has reachedover 8,000 high-risk low-income tenant and property-owners.

• PSR-LA and HBO co-host a screening of the documentary by filmmaker StevenOkazaki, "White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki."Includes film discussion with Okazaki and Shigeko Sasamori, Hiroshima survivorand Hiroshima maiden.

2006• PSR-LA takes a leading role in the Asthma Coalition of

Los Angeles County to develop the publication “ControllingAsthma in Los Angeles County: A Call to Action.”

• Hundreds of activists and supporters attend PSR-LA hostedconference, “The Medical Consequences of War in Iraq:Health Challenges Beyond the Battlefield” at UCLA.The events address the devastating effects of war on Iraqicitizens, American troops, and their families.

• In collaboration with 9/11 families, PSR-LA hosts a specialevent with author, Gore Vidal.

• On the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident, PSR-LAhosts a national conference on radiation and health at UCLA.

• Shining a light on the region’s little-known military pollution, PSR-LA hosts thefirst-ever military toxin tour of Southern California. PSR-LA also commissionedand released a study on the military-toxin, trichloroethylene, which identified114 contaminated sites in Los Angeles.

• Working with Environmental Health Legislative Working Group and the LA GreenTeam, PSR-LA trains dozens of new policy advocates.

• PSR-LA is part of the LAX coalition that won a $500 million community benefitsagreement to protect low-income South Coast communities from air pollution.

• In conjunction with the Green Schools coalition, PSR-LA helps win AB 315 toreduce toxic exposure at California’s schools.

• PSR-LA coordinates the west coast leg of the Environmental Justice for Alltour, an eight-day event which highlighted lack of environmental enforcementin 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 onaccusations of physician complicity in torture.

• PSR-LA serves on California Environmental Protection Agency’s EnvironmentalJustice Advisory Board. Among the recommendations of this committee is theimplementation of precautionary approaches and the development of workingdefinitions of cumulative impacts.

• As part of the “Mayors for Peace Campaign,” PSR-LA hosts an event at theJapanese American National Museum featuring Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akibaand Japan’s consul general.

• PSR-LA organizes the first annual World Asthma Day event in LA County, drawingtogether hundreds of families, health professionals, environmental advocates, andyoung 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 inCalifornia, 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 publicand 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 beendetected in Californians’ breast milk at levels that cause health effects in laboratoryexperiments.

• PSR-LA directs a statewide program for community clinics on mercury pollutionprevention and patient risk.

• PSR-LA helps craft Cal/EPA’s Environmental Justice Guidelines, a first of its kindin the U.S.

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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 allfuture 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 seenby thousands at the Los Angeles Central Library.

• PSR-LA publishes the 160-page report, “Generations at Risk: How EnvironmentalToxins 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 ceremonyin 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.

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The cost of war• 2004 World military expenditures:

1 trillion dollars• 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

Human cost of Iraq war:• Estimated 1 million dead by 2008• 4.5 million refugees• 500,000 child refugees

The cost of peace• Annual cost of universal basic

education to the developingworld: $6 billion

• Annual cost for potable waterfor developing world: $9 billion

• Annual cost for reproductivehealth care for all women indeveloping world: $12 billion

• Annual cost for basic health andnutrition in the developing world:$13 billion

“ Remember yourhumanity andforget the rest.”

Bertrand Russelland Albert Einstein,Pugwash Manifesto

Congratulations

Physicians

for Social

Responsibility –

Los Angeles

for your

contribution to

a more peaceful

and healthier

world

Curren Warf M.D.

and Susan Rabinovitz

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“Thank you to allthe staff of PSR for your passion and dedication

to health, environmentaljustice and peace!”

Nancy Gibbs MD

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Thank you,

Physicians for Social Responsibility,

for the work you do

to promote policies that help protect

the public

and our environment.

– Barbra Streisand

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Lawrence,

Congratulations,

my friend.

Thank you for all

of the good work

you do!

Love,

Nicole Avant

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Congratulations Lawrence on being honored

with the 2008 Socially Responsible Media Award.

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

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Clark/Karras PropertyCongratulations to PSR-LA and the Honorees

Thank you for your commitment to a safe, healthy future

Susan Clark & Alex Karras

The Union of Concerned Scientistscongratulates the

Physicians for Social Responsibility 2008 Honorees

& offers a huge THANK YOU for theirwork and the work of PSR LA.

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The national office ofPhysicians for Social

Responsibility sends theirthanks and appreciationto Lawrence Bender, Dr. Hans Blix, Joe Cirincione,and Dr. James Yamazakifor their commitmentand passion for a healthierand safer world.

C o n g r a t u l a t i o n sLawrence

Connie Bruck & Mel Levine

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Thanks forall thegood workyou do.

Drs. Ruth and

Alan Larson

Congratulations Jim.We are with you in spirit.

Victoria & William J. Schull M.D.

“The fight is neverabout grapes orlettuce. It is alwaysabout people.” Cesar Chavez

In loving memoryof Saul Niedorf,psychiatrist, socialactivist, friend, whoselife was a testimonyto this truth.

Judith & John Glass

Congratulationsand great

appreciationto Dr. James

YamazakiDodie and Roy Danchick

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Tribute to Saul Niedorf, MD

Saul’s life reminds us that:

Though we strive among wheelers

and dealers, true doctors are

healers not heelers.

Rod Gorney, MD

congratulates our friend

and Steering Committee Chair,

Martha Dina Arguello,

on her new role as PSR-LA

Executive Director!

Congratulations to Joe CirincioneThe recipient of the Founders Awardfor his steadfast commitment todisarmament.

Dr. Paul J. Geller

Congratulations Martha

Joseph Lyou, PhD