Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) Chapter Handbook: 3 getting involved in the 1984 elections, 1984

The Ed Arnold Papers (1976-2009) consists of office files, meeting minutes, conference and workshop materials, campaign flyers, project information, audio and visual materials, periodicals, and artifacts. The contents of this collection covers Ed Arnold's involvement and his contributions to battling nuclear proliferation, fighting for social justice, and bringing awareness to environmental issues. Due to his position as the executive director of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), Atlanta Chapter (1985-2008), he collected a vast amount of office files that include correspondences with members, legal documents, and outlines of their goals. The meetings, conferences, and workshops series consists of many meeting minutes, conference pamphlets, and workshops flyers that educated and brought attention to issues that PSR was passionate about, such as National Security: A Global Imperative, which was a symposium held at the Carter Center to bring awareness to nuclear war, nuclear waste, and to end nuclear proliferation. The campaigns and projects series includes several plans, forms, and files about PSR allied organizations. This series includes materials from Woman's Action for Nuclear Disarmament (WAND). There are also applications and petitions that were submitted to government officials about banning certain toxins or suing companies that illegally dumped dangerous waste. The Campaigns and projects series includes materials relating to the PSR's long battle against the Savanah River Nuclear plant. This nuclear plant was utilized for reprocessing nuclear waste and the PSR fought to prevent the creation of a "Yucca Mountain of the South,” utilizing newsletters, correspondence, and informational articles. The reference materials series holds copious amounts of fact sheets, books, monographs, guides, news clippings, handbooks, periodicals, pamphlets, and excerpts from medical journals that Arnold utilized to cite his information included in agendas for meetings, newsletters, and correspondence to PSR ATL members. There are some separated materials in this collection including some audiovisual materials comprised of videotapes, DVDs, and audiocassettes of the conferences along with that there are also photographs, slides, and artifacts of the many events that PSR held.