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Past Events
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- June 14, 2008 2 - 4:30 pm: Reaching Out To Our Veterans And Their Families
Dr. Judith Broder, Studio City psychiatrist and psychoanalyst spoke on the Los Angeles area The Soldiers Project which provides free, individualized therapy to Iraq and Afghanistan military/veterans and their families. Zohreh Whitaker, Military Families Speak Out, and PSR Board Member talked about the experience of her son's military service and deployment in Iraq.
Sponsored by Therapists for Social Responsibility and co-sponsored by PSR/Sacramento and California Society for Clinical Social Work.
- June 12, 2008 -- Cori Traub presented an "Update on Environmental Issues" and led a discussion about environmental issues our chapter may wish to address in the coming 18 months. Ms. Traub is currently a Development Officer at UC Davis School of Medicine and has previously been a development director for Clean Water Action, Pesticide Action Network, and Coalition for Clean Air.
- March 12, 2008 -- Aashika Damodar spoke on "Sex Trafficking in the U.S.: Addressing the needs of Survivors Locally and Abroad." She discussed what sex trafficking is, where it occurs in the U.S. and the dynamics of victim identification and services. Ms. Damodar is a senior studying Anthropology & Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and is the Director of the 'STOP the Traffick' group at Berkeley.
- January 9, 2008 -- Priscilla Abbott from the Coalition of Concerned Medical Professionals (CCMP) spoke on health care access issues for low-income workers. CCMP assists workers in obtaining health care without losing their financial resources.
- December 2, 2007 -- Alice Rothchild talk and book signing
Obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. Alice Rothchild read from her book Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience (Pluto Press, 2007) at the Belle Cooledge LIbrary Community Room in Sacramento in an event cosponsored with Jewish Voice for Peace. Hear her interview with Jeffrey Callison on the KXPR Insight program.
- October 28, 2007 -- Joseph Cirincione, formerly Senior Fellow and Director for Nuclear Policy at Center for American Progress and now the president of Ploughshares Fund, was the keynote speaker at the 4th annual PSR/Sacramento Dinner. One of America's best known weapons experts, Mr. Cirincione is author of Bomb Scare: The History & Future of Nuclear Weapons (Columbia University Press, 2007). Between 1998 and 2006, Mr. Cirincione was the director for nonproliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He was featured in the award-winning documentary Why We Fight. Mr. Cirincione was interviewed on the October 25, 2007 Capital Public Radio Insight program. Access Sacramento and California State University, Sacramento were co-sponsors of the event.
- June 29, 2007 -- Dr. Catherine Thomasson talk
Dr. Catherine Thomasson, president of national PSR, was in Sacramento on June 29, was interviewed on three radio stations and gave an evening presentation on her recent trip to Iran and U.S.-Iran relations. Read the Sacramento News and Review article about her talk. Hear her interview with Jeffrey Callison on the KXPR Insight program.
Read her article "Diplomacy: Best Solution to Impasse with Iran".
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