What’s New
Tri-Valley CAREs Launches New Environmental Mapping Tool of the Tracy Area
In March of 2024, Tri-Valley CAREs was an inaugural recipient of the Environmental Justice Action Grant from the California Environmental Protection Agency (“CalEPA”) to support community member involvement in environmental and climate decision-making in San Joaquin County....
Nuclear Safety Oversight Under Threat!
The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB or Board) has safety oversight authority over the nuclear facilities at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), including Livermore Lab’s plutonium and tritium facilities. Without urgent action in the Senate Armed...
Groups Fire Back at Feds’ Move to Dismiss Plutonium Pit Lawsuit
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: OCTOBER 26, 2021 Media Contacts: Leslie Lenhardt, South Carolina Environmental Law Project, (843) 527-0078, leslie@scelp.org Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs, in CA, (925) 255-3589, marylia@earthlink.net Tom Clements, SRS Watch, in S. Carolina,...
Tri-Valley CAREs’ New Strategic Plan
The Tri-Valley CAREs board members and staff recently got together to think strategically, review our progress on last year’s priorities, and choose the group’s program priorities for the coming year. After reviewing the past year we looked carefully at strategic...
INVITATION
Mon., Aug. 9th – Nagasaki Day – 9 AM PacificWe invite you to participate on August 9th at 9 AM Pacific in an amazing virtual rally with Nagasaki survivor, Nobuaki Hanaoka, Daniel Ellsberg, Nell Myhand, Tsukuru Fors, John Burroughs, Marylia Kelley, Marshallese climate...
Join Us on August 6th and 9th
Commemorate Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Stand with the Hibakusha. Abolish nuclear weapons. You are invited to tune in and act for positive change! We invite you to participate in a virtual rally with Daniel Ellsberg, Nobuaki Hanaoka, Nell Myhand, Tsukuru Fors, John...
Every Day is a Good Day to Stop Nuclear Bombs
Dear members and friends, Every day is a good day to stop nuclear bombs, but now is a particularly crucial time to support Tri-Valley CAREs’ work to abolish nuclear weapons globally and address the health and environmental harms that occur with nuclear development. To...
Groups File Lawsuit Over Plutonium Bomb Core Production
Complaint alleges that the government’s refusal to review nationwide impacts of plutonium pit production is illegalToday, a coalition of community and public interest groups filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Nuclear Security...
Livermore Lab Budget Request for Fiscal 2022: Weapons Up, Science Down… Again
Tri-Valley CAREs has more news on President Biden’s first annual budget. Finally the Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22) for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has been released, months later than usual. The numbers show a continued momentum for...
International Nuclear Weapons Spending Analyzed in New Report
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) issued a new report entitled Complicit: 2020 Global Nuclear Weapons Spending that outlines the $72.6 billion spent by the nine nuclear weapons states on their nuclear weapons programs during the 2020...
South Carolina Environmental Law Project, Nuclear Watchdogs from Across the U.S. to Hold Virtual Press Conference
MEDIA ADVISORY FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 24, 2021 WHAT: Public interest groups will hold a Zoom press conference for a major announcement of a forthcoming legal action as the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration forge ahead with...
June Virtual LTE Writing Party
CLICK HERE to join the Zoom Meeting using the link. Meeting ID: 832 7450 8584 • Password: 622864 Please click links below for A "How to" guide on how to write letters to the editor (English & Spanish). Remember, Your Voice is Power. CLICK HERE "How to" in English...
Careening Over the Nuclear Precipice: New Warheads in the First Biden Budget
Tri-Valley CAREs’ Analysis of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Fiscal Year 2022 Budget Request, Part One…Over the course of four years, the Trump Administration increased funding for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to redesign nuclear...
Tri-Valley CAREs’ June Virtual Meeting
Tri-Valley CAREs' would like to remind you of our monthly virtual meeting that will be held at 7:30 pm on Thursday June 17, 2021. Our monthly meetings are open to all interested members of the public. You will get up-to-the-minute reports on nuclear issues, and become...
Join Us on August 6 and 9
The U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki seventy-six years ago on August 6 and 9, 1945. The explosions created shadows where there had been people. On many levels nuclear shadows have been with us each day since, and they are with us today. On August 6...
Tri-Valley CAREs Zooms into Washington, DC
Posted by the TVC DC Days team: Marylia Kelley, Raiza Marciscano-Bettis, Scott Yundt, Mary Perner, Inga Olson and Pam Richard A team of advocates from Tri-Valley CAREs is Zooming (literally) into Washington, DC this month to participate in “DC Days,” an annual event...
Tri-Valley CAREs’ May Virtual Meeting
Tri-Valley CAREs' would like to remind you of our monthly virtual meeting that will be held at 7:30 pm on Thursday May 20, 2021. Our monthly meetings are open to all interested members of the public. You will get up-to-the-minute reports on nuclear issues, and become...
Good Friday at LLNL 2021
Listen to Marylia Kelley, Executive Director of Tri-Valley CAREs, talk at the West Gate of the Livermore Lab about the importance to change U.S. policy by stopping the further development of nuclear weapons. Livermore Lab’s most recent federal budget shows that more...
May Virtual LTE Writing Party
CLICK HERE to join the Zoom Meeting using the link. Meeting ID: 811 1493 0084 • Password: 085043 Please click links below for A "How to" guide on how to write letters to the editor (English & Spanish). Remember, Your Voice is Power. CLICK HERE "How to" in English...
Legislation to Stop New Missile and Livermore’s W87-1 Warhead
Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) and Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA-Silicon Valley) have introduced a bill to defund the Pentagon’s development of a new Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) and Livermore Lab’s development of a wholly new warhead that would sit atop the...
Biden Budget Lacks Specifics; Full Request Delayed
The Biden Administration released its top line numbers for funding the federal government in fiscal year 2022, which begins on October 1, 2021. This is sometimes called a “skinny budget” because it lacks detail. Here is our analysis of the military portion. Overall,...
Good Friday at LLNL 2021
On Friday April 2nd, 2021, activists in the San Francisco Bay Area gathered for an ecumenical Good Friday service of worship and witness focused on the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab. Most folks participated virtually rather than in person. This year we celebrated the...
Tri-Valley CAREs’ April Virtual Meeting
Tri-Valley CAREs' would like to remind you of our monthly virtual meeting that will be held at 7:30 pm on Thursday April 15, 2021. Our monthly meetings are open to all interested members of the public. You will get up-to-the-minute reports on nuclear issues, and...
Good Friday Swords into Plowshares participants call for abolition of all nuclear weapons
Source: People's World By Marilyn Bechtel, LIVERMORE, Calif.–Nuclear disarmament activists in the San Francisco Bay Area gathered virtually on April 2 to honor a nearly four-decades-long tradition, the Good Friday Swords into Plowshares Worship and Witness at Lawrence...
Tri-Valley CAREs Meeting Agenda April 15, 2021 • 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM
ZOOM LINK IN THIS E-NEWSLETTER AND ON OUR WEBSITE www.trivalleycares.org- Introductions (5 min.) - Biden’s Top Line Military & Nuclear Budget Release: What’s in it; What’s Next? (10 min) President Biden released top line numbers for funding the federal government...
Good Friday, April 2, at Livermore Lab
You are invited to the annual Good Friday interfaith service of worship and witness to be focused on the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab. You are invited to join virtually (see below for how to get the link). Some of the speakers, including Marylia Kelley of Tri-Valley...
April Virtual LTE Writing Party
CLICK HERE to join the Zoom Meeting using the link. Meeting ID: 821 8562 2638 • Password: 511830 Please click links below for A "How to" guide on how to write letters to the editor (English & Spanish). Remember, Your Voice is Power. CLICK HERE "How to" in English...
Nuclear Ban Treaty: a Moment Becomes a Movement
On January 22, 2021 the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons entered into force and became part of international law. Across the U.S. and around the globe, people celebrated this historic moment. And took action: at nuclear weapons sites, military bases,...
Tri-Valley CAREs’ March Virtual Meeting
Posted by Raiza Marciscano-Bettis Tri-Valley CAREs' would like to remind you of our monthly virtual meeting that will be held at 7:30 pm on Thursday March 18, 2021. Our monthly meetings are open to all interested members of the public. You will get up-to-the-minute...
Ending Nuclear Weapons…
Posted on Wednesday, February 26, 2021 Posted by Marylia Kelley On January 22, 2021 the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) entered into force, enshrining the illegality of nuclear weapons under international law. The TPNW is binding on the countries...
March Virtual LTE Writing Party
Posted on Friday, February 24, 2021 Posted by Raiza Marciscano-Bettis CLICK HERE to join the Zoom Meeting using the link. Meeting ID: 847 8058 7045 • Password: 398600 Please click links below for A "How to" guide on how to write letters to the editor (English &...
Veterans for Peace to Host TPNW Talk
Posted on Monday, February 22, 2021 Posted by Raiza Marciscano-Bettis Tri-Valley CAREs’ executive director will be the guest speaker on Wednesday, March 3rd at 6pm to discuss the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Hosted by the San Diego Veterans for Peace,...