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We need your support! Tri-Valley CAREs relies on contributions from individuals such as you to support our effective grassroots work. We're very cost-conscious and rely on volunteers for a huge part of everything we do, but our programs and effective advocacy cannot happen without financial support from you. Please contribute today! (Read more about what your donation will help accomplish.)

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Dear friend,

I know you recognize the valuable work we do and the positive change it creates. And, I know you appreciate the significance of our amazing victories. But, did you also realize that 2008 marks a major milestone for Tri-Valley CAREs?

This is the year Tri-Valley CAREs turns 25. (Yes, wow. Let us hear a hip, hip, hooray!)

I invite you to help us celebrate a quarter century of stopping nuclear weapons where they start, at Livermore Lab. I ask you to please "gift" us with a generous donation on our special anniversary.

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Your contribution now will ensure that Tri-Valley CAREs will continue to protect communities and win new progress toward a nuclear weapon-free world. And, let's also take a moment to celebrate our many achievements together.

For 25 years, Tri-Valley CAREs has been a vigilant "watchdog," monitoring activities at Livermore Lab. We alert you with our monthly newsletter, Citizen's Watch, our reader-friendly reports, action alerts and our web site. For a quarter century, we have consistently stepped forward as the conscience of our community, speaking truth to power locally, in Washington, DC and at the United Nations.

We have organized, advocated and litigated to stop nuclear bombs from being developed, radioactive waste incinerators from being built, and bio-warfare research from being allowed to threaten our health and contaminate our communities.

We have acted to expand our democracy and community-right-to-know. We make sure that you and other members of the public have a place at the policy decision-making table. And, we have done this even when we had to creatively build that table from scratch and drag the government to it.

We have achieved so much because you and others have given so generously of your time and financial assistance. Our successes are your successes. As you may know, I have been with Tri-Valley CAREs since the early days in 1983. I can tell you from experience that all of our victories have been collective endeavors, made possible by you and other people like you.

That is why I am calling on you now to contribute toward our next victories. As you and I both know, there is still a lot to do!

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Your donation will be put to immediate good use. And, you can rest assured it will be used wisely. Let me share with you just a few of the ways --

* Your contribution now will allow us to continue a landmark lawsuit to prevent the Dept. of Energy (DOE) from importing dangerous bio-warfare agents and mixing bugs and bombs at Livermore Lab. As you know, our prior litigation won a ruling from the Ninth Circuit Court forcing DOE to analyze the potential harm from a terrorist attack. The DOE did a shoddy job of that analysis and then proceeded to secretly open the bio-lab. If not for Tri-Valley CAREs, they might have gotten away with it! We hauled them back into federal court. Today, we await the Judge's ruling on our motion to halt operation of the bio-lab while our lawsuit proceeds. We expect the main lawsuit to be heard later this summer, and donations to cover legal costs are urgently needed.

* Your financial gift will stop new nuclear weapons, like the so-called Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW), and the "Bombplex" that the Dept. of Energy wants in order to build the RRWs. Tri-Valley CAREs convinced Congress to cut funding for nuclear weapons last year. With your help, we will succeed again this year. As you may have read, Tri-Valley CAREs has just returned from 100 meetings in Washington, DC. We showed Congress where DOE has hidden money for new nukes in its 2009 budget. And, we are succeeding in securing support to remove it. Further, we have been instrumental in educating the public about the DOE's Complex Transformation plan (a.k.a. "Bombplex"). About 104,000 of our friends and allies either spoke at the DOE hearings in person or sent in written comments. By continuing our focus and actions now, you and I are effectively stopping new nuclear bombs from becoming a terrible reality tomorrow.

* Your donation will help us publicize major security flaws at Livermore Lab. Tri-Valley CAREs was recently quoted by TIME magazine on the Lab's failure to secure its nuclear materials during a terrorism drill. Specifically, we had been told that mock terrorists gained access to Livermore Lab's plutonium. Tri-Valley CAREs has worked tirelessly to call attention to the vulnerability of the plutonium and highly enriched uranium at Livermore Lab - and to the 7 million of us who live within 50 miles of it. You and 13,500 friends have signed our petition, made phone calls and sent letters. These past actions have pressured DOE into admitting that thousands of pounds of plutonium and millions of people do not make good neighbors.

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Yet, DOE wants to leave these deadly materials in Livermore for 5 more years. With your assistance, we will take word of this latest security fiasco to the Congress, into our community and throughout the greater Bay Area - and we will force the DOE to respond.

In fact, individuals like you make all of our work possible - from publishing our newsletter, to sponsoring the next Hiroshima action in August at the gates of Livermore Lab, to keeping our door open and affording recycled paper for leaflets. Your tax-deductible donation in any amount makes a difference, from $10 to $10,000 (hey, a girl can dream_).

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You and I share a vision of a world without nuclear weapons and war. And, we share a commitment to take the concrete steps necessary to get there. While there is much talk of change this political season (and I do give thanks for it), we both know that real, lasting change comes when the people band together and insist upon it. That is the journey ahead. Please give as generously as you can to speed us along the path.

For peace, justice and a healthy environment,
Marylia Kelley,
Executive Director

P.S. You and I recognize that Tri-Valley CAREs often accomplishes HUGE objectives with relatively MODEST money. Your tax-deductible contribution is truly important to our continuing success during this -- our big 25th anniversary -- year. I thank you!

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