Citizen's Watch
Communities Against a Radioactive Environment
All the Lab enviro-foibles and misdeeds that are fit to print!
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Citizen's Watch Newsletter Summer 2010, click the PDF below:
- Report Out Non-Proliferation Treaty Conference
- August 6 Action at LLNL The Power of Your Presence
- Print BitesAll the News that Fits to Print
- Alerts 4 U Upcoming Events with Tri-Valley CAREs
- Citizen's Watch Newsletter Spring 2010, click the PDF below:
- New START A Hopeful Sign but will Ratification be Costly?
- Tri-Valley CARES and the NPT Influencing the Cornerstone of the global nonproliferation regime.
- Report Back From Your DC Days TeamAdvocating for Our Members.
- National Week of Action on the Nuclear Weapons Budget! Cut the Nuclear Pork- May 31st to June 5th
- The Nuclear Posture Review Our New Guiding Nuclear Weapons Policy- Some Cheers and Jeers
- Alerts 4 U Upcoming Events with Tri-Valley CAREs
- Citizen's Watch Newsletter Winter 2010, click the PDF below:
- Biggest Nuclear Weapons Budget Ever Proposed! Dr. Robert Civiak Analyzes our Bloated Fiscal Year 2011 Nuclear Weapons Budget.
- Ugly Proposal to Relax Uranium Cleanup Report Seeks to Lower Tracy's Site 300 Cleanup Standard. We Say "No Way!"
- Connecting the Dots The Nuclear Posture Revew, Politics, New START Treaty and More...
- Print Bites have all the news thats fit to print.
- Upcoming events Info on a special Tri-Valley CARES meeting and report back from DC Days.
- Support Tri-Valley CAREs stopping nuclear weapons where they start.
Citizen's Watch Newsletter November December 2009, click the PDF below:
- Accounting Scandal at the NIF Livermore Lab hides enormous cost overruns.
- Update on Biosuit Tri-Valley CAREs files Motion for Summary Judgment.
- Action Alert! Help stop a new B61 nuclear bomb.
- Upcoming events Info on a local celebration of the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Support Tri-Valley CAREs stopping nuclear weapons where they start.
Citizen's Watch Newsletter Fall 2009, including:
- Nuclear Materials at Livermore Lab plutonium still in the mix.
- Gov't Doctor Resigns charges sick worker program flawed.
- Youth and Mentors: Think Outside the Bomb!
- Nuclear Weapons Budget new details emerge.
- Support Tri-Valley CAREs stopping nuclear weapons where they start.
Citizen's Watch Newsletter June/July, 2009, including:
- Hazardous Waste Building Closure building 419 may close.
- Bomb Budget: more money for nukes, less for cleanup.
- By and for Youth: Think Outside the Bomb!
- Livermore Lab Security Failures new details emerge.
- Support Tri-Valley CAREs stopping nuclear weapons where they start.
Citizen's Watch Newsletter April/May, 2009, including:
- From DC. Your team is back. Get the latest.
- NIF Ceremony. We bring a NIF Truth Telling Exhibit.
- Strategic Planning. Should you come? Find out.
- New Report. by six national and regional groups.
- Peace and a Parade, too. Circle the date!
- Rummage and Bake Sale. Our fundraising.
- Illegal Bio-Experiments Read all about it.
Citizen's Watch Newsletter February/March, 2009, including:
- Victory Nuclear Pork Cut from Final Stimulus Bill
- Cleanup and the Stimulus A Slightly More Complicated Story
- Partial Win Partial Loss in Our Ongoing Bio-Lawsuit
- Tri-Valley CAREs Brings the Grassroots to Washington, D.C. You Can Help
- Upcoming Events Good Friday Action
- Report Back on Two Events King Day Celebration, UC Regents Meeting
- EPA Levies Fine Superfund Violations
Citizen's Watch Newsletter January, 2009, including:
- Suing the government to protect your right to know.
- January 19 commemoration and peace walk to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and more.
- Our take on two nuclear appointments to Obama's cabinet, Dr. Steven Chu and Robert Gates.
- Our notes on the interim report of the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States.
- Our very own "lame duck watch" (a la Rachel Maddow) finds the Bush DOE rushing decisions on new bomb plants before Obama takes office.
Citizen's Watch Newsletter November/December, 2008, including:
- Tri-Valley CAREs holiday party. Drop in Wednesday, December 10 from 4:30 PM to 7:30 PM for fun, food, friends, music and more.
- Litigation to stop new bomb plant. Peace and environmental groups, including Tri-Valley CAREs, file a lawsuit to prevent DOE from building a new bomb plant in a Kansas City, MO soybean field.
- Print Bites. Tri-Valley CAREs unveils its newly remodeled website, GAO releases a report on security at biodefense labs, LLNL unleashes new NIF hype, an Obama quote of the day, and more.
- Mark your calendar. Meetings and upcoming events.
- Take the next step for change. Stopping nuclear weapons, waste and pollution and winning disarmament in the new Administration.
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Citizen's Watch Newsletter October, 2008, including:
- Livermore Lab Anthrax Release. We have documents and new, never before reported information.
- 25 Years and Counting Celebrate a quarter century of effective activism with Tri-Valley CAREs and win fabulous prizes, too.
- Strategic Planning. Get a "report back" from Tri-Valley CAREs' annual strategic planning retreat.
- Toxic Permit, Peace Poll and Bombplex Update. Our "print bites" give you all the news that fits to print.
- Meeting, Vigil, Rock Legend and More. Get your events news here.
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Citizen's Watch Newsletter August/September, 2008, including:
Download fliers for the 2008 "Run for Peace" and Tri-Valley CAREs 25th Anniversary Celebration!
- Youth Activism. Students press UC Regents on nuclear weapons at Livermore, Los Alamos.
- A Win for Cleanup. Superfund cleanup gets a boost.
- Bomb Blasts. Lab withdraws its permit application.
- Beryllium. Investigations probe contamination of workers.
- Bites. RRW gets zero, plutonium (in)secure, and much more.
- Party! Check our calendar.
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Citizen's Watch Newsletter July 2008, including:
August 9 Hiroshima/Nagasaki Commemoration Flier Front and Back
Site 300 Permit Renewal Comment Letter
Written comments are due by August 18, 2008.- Lab Seeks Permit Renewal for Site 300, Tri-Valley CAREs Opposes
- Hiroshima/Nagasaki Commemoration, Action on August 9 at Livermore Lab.
- Tri-Valley CAREs Strategic Planning Retreat, Sign up now, space is limited!
- Alerts 4 U Community Meeting, Vigil, Hiroshima/ Nagasaki Commemoration, and Strategic Planning Retreat
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Citizen's Watch Newsletter June 2008, including:
- Lab Fails Drill, Allows Mock Terrorists to Obtain Plutonium.
- 25 Top Successes TVC Celebrates 25 Years!
- Alerts 4 U Mailing Party, Community Meeting, Vigil, and Site 300 Hearing.
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Citizens Watch Newsletter May 2008, including:
- Bio-weapon Agent Research. Litigation Update.
- Report Back. On 100 Meetings in DC.
- People News. New Adventures and Opportunities.
- Thwart George Bush and See Bonnie Raitt. All for a good cause.
- Print Bites. Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Weapons.
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Citizens Watch Newsletter April 2008, including:
- Action Alert. Save the Superfund cleanup.
- Bombplex. Read all about the public hearings and what you can still do today.
- New Law. There is a change in the law to help sick workers. Plus, next steps.
- What's Up. Meetings, reports, litigation update.
- TVC team in DC. We are meeting with Congress, delivering a "radioactive report card"--and more.
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Citizens Watch Newsletter March 2008, including:
- Public Hearings on March 18 & 19
- Nukes, the Budget and You
- Litigation News
- Superfund
- Good Friday at Livermore& More
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Citizens Watch Newsletter January / February 2008, including:
- 178 Workers Exposed at Lab
- Livermore Keeps the Spirit of Dr. King Alive
- Local Bombplex
- Does Bypasses Law, Opens Bio-War Research in Livermore
- Bombplex Hearings, City Council, Good Friday & More
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Citizens Watch Newsletter February 2008, including:
- Bombplex News
- Path for Sick Workers
- Still Deadly
- Superfund Workshop
- Write Now! Letters to the Editor Writing Group.