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Saturday, July 15, 2017
Posted by Marylia Kelley
On Saturday, July 15, Tri-Valley CAREs’ board, staff, interns and representatives from our membership met for an annual strategic planning retreat. Through expert facilitation, group planning exercises, a detailed analysis of strategic opportunities, and thoughtful discussion, the participants decided on the group’s program priorities for the coming 12 months.
1st Place: CLEAN UP AND PREVENT POLLUTION AT THE LIVERMORE LAB MAIN SITE & SITE 300 HIGH EXPLOSIVES TESTING RANGE.
This priority is about remediating leaking toxic and radioactive wastes at Livermore Lab, preventing further contamination, and involving affected communities in Superfund cleanup decision-making.
2nd Place (tie): OBTAIN JUSTICE FOR SICK WORKERS WITH A FOCUS ON LIVERMORE & SANDIA LAB WORKERS MADE ILL BY ON THE JOB EXPOSURES.
This priority is about justice for workers exposed to toxic and radioactive materials on the job and includes assisting ill workers, or surviving family members, in obtaining compensation under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act.
2nd Place (tie): STOP NEW NUCLEAR BOMBS AND BOMB PLANTS.
This priority is about stopping the development of new and modified U.S. nuclear warheads, with a focus on Livermore Lab’s development of the Long-Range Stand Off warhead and the “Interoperable Warhead-1,” and preventing construction of new bomb plants nationally that would be used to produce the new bombs.
2nd Place (tie): WATCHDOG LIVERMORE LAB ACTIVITIES, WITH A FOCUS ON CONSTRAINING USE OF PLUTONIUM AT THE NATIONAL IGNITION FACILITY AND PROMOTING CIVILIAN SCIENCE.
This priority is about monitoring activities at Livermore Lab that are not specifically part of the “Stop New Nuclear Bombs…” and “Clean Up…” priorities and would include new activities by the group in support of a “green lab.”
5th Place: PROMOTE GLOBAL NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, NON-PROLIFERATION & THE “RULE OF LAW.”
This priority is about promoting the global elimination of nuclear weapons, with a focus on activities to support the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, the Non-Proliferation Treaty and similar instruments of international and humanitarian law.
