The 2019 PsySR Election is now open! PsySR Membership, please follow the link below to vote.
Letter From President Mary Pelton-Cooper
As we begin 2019, we face a multitude of interacting struggles on every part of our planet. During this time, PsySR remains a valuable professional home for psychologists and other professionals who focus their work on social justice, who develop humanitarian applications of theory and practice, and who challenge racism and the persistence of nuclear weaponry and environmental damage. All of us are called to this work in some way, and every individual act matters in our collective influence. As your president, one key challenge is to work within the tension between necessary structure and the desire for a decolonized communal space. I am accountable to all of you to carry out my duties in a timely and effective manner, but I also have the opportunity to amplify your voices and encourage and appreciate your unique contributions. Let us continue to forgive, respect, accept, and inspire each other because we are always in a new place.
WATER PROTECTION IN THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY
Please join PsySR in supporting the documentary NECESSITY: OIL, WATER, AND CLIMATE RESISTANCE (currently in post-production). Co-directed by Samantha Praus and PsySR member Jan Haaken, the film traces the fight in Minnesota against the expansion of pipelines carrying toxic tar sands oil through North America. When official channels of protest fail or fall short, activists turn to civil disobedience and lawyers seek to make the courts more just in responding to the climate crisis. The film follows indigenous and non-indigenous activists and allies in their resistance to the pipelines traversing native lands and essential waterways. We look forward to showing the film in August 2019 in the PsySR suite during the APA Convention in Chicago.
View the trailer and find out more HERE.
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