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• Citizens Watch Newsletter December 2000, including:
  • DOE Releases Long-Term Environmental Stewardship Study
  • PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE
  • Print Bites: All the News That Fits to Print
  • Diversity Training
  
  
• Citizens Watch Newsletter November 2000, including:
  • Freedom of Information Not So Free at Energy Department: Agency Violates the Law, Keeps Unclassified Documents Secret
  • Lawsuit Challenges National Ignition Facility Review
  • Print Bites
  • Thank You!
  • Citizen's Alerts
  • Health Impacts of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  
  
• Citizens Watch Newsletter October 2000, including:
  • Senate Restrains NIF, Conference Committee Lets it Loose
  • Secret Sites Poisoned in Atomic Quest
  • Sick Workers Wait
  
  
• Citizens Watch Newsletter September 2000, including:
  • Federal Audit Chronicles National Ignition Facility Deception, Tri-Valley CAREs Seeks Criminal Investigation
  • National Missile Defense Deployment Delayed
  • Protect the Desert, Convert the Nevada Test Site
  • Hiroshima at Livermore Lab
  • What's New at Tri-Valley CAREs?
  • Citizen's Alerts: Calendar Section
  
  
  
• Citizens Watch Newsletter August 2000, including:
  • More Security for Less Cost: New Study Outlines Alternatives to U.S. Stockpile Stewardship
  • National Missile Defense: Not Ready for Prime Time
  • Tri-Valley CAREs'ANNUAL RETREAT
  • Citizens Alerts
  
  
• Citizens Watch Newsletter July 2000, including:
  • Congress and the NIF: Budget Honeymoon May Be Ending
  • Scientists on NIF
  • U.S. Sets Stage to Design New, Deep-Burrowing "Mini-Nuke"
  • Print Bites
  • Ballistic Missile Defense "Print Bites"
  • Citizen's Alerts
  • Tri-Valley CAREs is Hiring
  
  
• Citizens Watch Newsletter June 2000, including: Sandia Lab Position Paper Calls for Mega-Laser Cuts, Some Updates on the National Missile Defense Quagmire, Yes! 2,000 in 2000, Tri-Valley CAREs at the United Nations NGO "Snapshots", NPT Review: Now Words into Actions, New Pledge on Nuclear Disarmament, DC Days: Effective and Empowering
  
  
• Citizens Watch Newsletter May 2000, including: Aid Pledged to Sick Workers, More Subcritical Nuclear Tests Planned, Local Activists Take Message to Washington, D.C., START II and the CTBT, The New Agenda Coalition Plays a Lead Role at NPT Review Conference
  
  
• Citizens Watch Newsletter April 2000, including Public Action and the Non-Proliferation Treaty, Nuclear Crisis and the Non-Proliferation Treaty, Tri-Valley CAREs Wins Health, Environmental Awards, Groups Petition to Bar BNFL Contracts, and Fail Safe, a Movie.
  
  
• Citizens Watch Newsletter March 2000, including Missile "Defense" Puts the United States, Whole World at Risk; The Department of Energy Fiscal Year 2001 Budget Request for Nuclear Weapons Activities; Public Hearing on Site 300 Toxic Cleanup.
  
  
• Citizens Watch Newsletter February 2000, including Two Whistleblowers Quit Lab, Government Admits Radiation, Illnesses in Weapons Complex, Abolition 2000: Global Network for the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons, NIF and New Mexico, Print Bites, and Missile Defense Costs.
  
  
• Citizens Watch Newsletter January 2000, including The National Ignition Facility at the New Millennium, Tri-Valley CAREs and Allies File Lawsuit Over Lab Hazardous Waste, Public Hearing Sought on GE Vallecitos, Risky Business, Print Bites.
  
  
• Citizens Watch Newsletter December 1999, including Megalaser's Technical Problems are Coming to Light; National "Back From the Brink" Campaign Debuts; Print Bites; We Thank You! to Tri-Valley CAREs' Donors, Members and Friends.
  
  
• Citizens Watch Newsletter November 1999, including Independent Experts Come to Livermore: Radiation and Risk Town Meeting, Brown Bag Events; The CTBT: A Debacle and a Ray of Hope; Meeting on Nuclear Rods; Why Tri-Valley CAREs?; Citizen's Alerts; Action Alert: Public Hearing on the Construction and Operation of the National Ignition Facility.
  
  
• Citizens Watch Newsletter October 1999, including National Ignition Facility: Over Budget and Under Fire, Criticality Accident in Japan Revives Memories at Livermore, A First-Hand Account of the Aftermath of the 1963 Livermore Criticality, Print Bites, Opportunity Abounds!, Citizen's Alerts
  
  
• Citizens Watch Newsletter September 1999, including Plutonium to be Moved to Livermore, Lab Laser: $300 Million Cost Overrun?, Lab Uranium Fire Causes Shut Down, Health Study News, and ACTIONS you can take!
  
  
• Citizens Watch Newsletter August 1999, including Livermore Lab Gets Rocky Flats Plutonium: Shipments Proposed 'til 2002; Livermore Lab Flunks DOE Waste Audit; Worldwide Call to De-alert Nukes; Print Bites and Money Matters.
  
  
• Citizens Watch Newsletter July 1999, including "Wrong Medicine Prescribed for What Ails Weapons Labs" and "Megalaser Officials Cheer Proliferation." Also see Top Ten Ways to Promote Peace and a Healthy Environment with Tri-Valley CAREs.
  
  
• Citizens Watch Newsletter June 1999, including a major new waste facility to be built in Livermore without an environmental impact report (tell Governor Davis this is the wrong decision) and newly discovered accidents at the lab.
  Also, see our Action Alert to Stop the NIF, and analysis of What's Wrong with DOE's Restructuring and Security efforts.
  
  
• Citizens Watch Newsletter May 1999 - Shared Vision and DC Days, "Stockpile Stewardship:" Check Under the Hood, Hague Appeal: Groups to Present International Appeal to Stop Fusion Weapons Research, The Dysfunctional DOE, Events Calendar
  
  
• Citizens Watch April 1999 - Waste Isolation Pilot Plant: The Two Percent "Solution;" Nuclear Abolition: Good News From the People and the Congress; Censored Subcrits make "Project Censored" list; Print Bites; Citizen's Alerts
  
  
• Citizens Watch March 1999 - Livermore Lab's Plutonium Filters: Another Accident Waiting to Happen?; De-Alert Nuclear Weapons in 1999? Here's How You Can Help; Site 300: Risks and Remedies; Citizen's Alerts
  
  
• Citizen's Watch February 1999 - More Plutonium Found in Park: Lab Says No Action Needed, Green Scissors '99 Released - NIF included, The National Ignition Facility and the Test Ban Treaty, Citizen's Alerts, SUBCRITICAL NUCLEAR TEST ALERT
  
  
• Citizen's Watch January 1999 - U.S. to Produce Bomb Material in Civilian Reactor, Groups Win Landmark Nuclear Weapons Cleanup Victory, More PCBs Discovered at Livermore Lab, News Flashes, 1999 U.S. Congressional Resolution to Stop "Stockpile Stewardship" -- Your Help is Needed!
  
  
• Citizens Watch December 1998 - Nuclear Fuel Rods Coming to Vallecitos in 1999, De-Alerting: One Step Toward a Safer World, Print Bites, Action Alert: Subcritical Nuke Test, Legal Briefs, We're grateful
  
  
• Citizens Watch November 1998 - We've Moved!, Office Warming and Holiday Party, Lawsuit on Withheld Lab Data, Pacific Blue, Groups Demand DOE Address Illnesses Around Sites, Radiation and Health Findings, Learn & Participate in Health Action Month, Protest Cimarron
  
  
• Citizens Watch October 1998 - "Radiation and Your Health" workshop, "Rad" Controversy Deliberated, Citizen's Alerts & Oct./Nov. Calendar, "Atomic Audit" Author Dines With Local Activists, Meet Our Community Organizer, U.S. Subcritical Nuclear Test Decried, Illnesses Found Around Livermore Lab & Other Weapons Sites
  
  
• Citizens Watch September 1998 - Tri-Valley CAREs Meets with New Energy Secretary, Judge's Decision a Mixed Bag, Print Bites
  
  
• Citizens Watch August 1998 - New Report Calls National Ignition Facility Illegal and Dangerous; Another Plutonium Criticality Safety Violation; "Casks of Uncertainty" Pass in the Night; A World Without Weapons; Print Bites; September Calendar; Tri-Valley Cares is looking for a few good people..and office space.
  
  
• Citizens Watch July 1998 - U.S. Atomic Audit: $5.5 Trillion and Rising, Plutonium Sampling Update, Abolition News, Print Bites, Action Alert -- Phone and Boycott Nestle, Tri-Valley CAREs' -- "Inner Visions"
  
  
• Citizens Watch June 1998 - Ward Valley Update, Tri-Valley CAREs' Name -- Your Input Wanted, The Real alternative to Nuclear Testing -- Here and Abroad, A Success: Public Changes Lab Plans to Shortcut Cleanup, Order Now: National Ignition Facility Report Out Soon.
  
  
• Livermore Plutonium Sampling - Fox Guarding the Chicken Coop?
  
  
• DC Days Report May 1998
  
  
• Subcritical News - April 1998
  
  
• Reflections of a Citizen Weapons Inspector
  
  

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• Citizen's Watch December 1997 - Lab NIF Memo Incomplete, A Poison Tipped DARHT, Ward Valley.
  
  
• Citizen's Watch November 1997 - Judge Orders NIF Review, Stop "Stockpile Stewardship," New Nuclear Weapons Revealed, Plutonium Violations Shut Down Lab Ops.
  
  
• Citizen's Watch October 1997- Lab Hazardous Waste Permit, Second Subcritical Test, NIF Back in Court After Construction Finds Major Dump.
  
  
• Citizen's Watch September 1997 - Funding Snag Drops State Health Agency From LLNL Review, Working For a Global Family Reunion, Oops: NIF Backhoe Hits Toxic Wastes.
  
  
• Citizen's Watch August 1997 - Nuclear Overview of the U.S., Preliminary Decision in Lawsuit, Secret DOE Plan Reveals New Nukes, Hiroshima Commemorated at Livermore.