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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.)
We offer a secure methods to donate online through Network for Good. Tri-Valley CAREs is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization; contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.
To Donate Using Network for Good:
Dear Tri-Valley CAREs supporter:
If you've seen our recent newsletters, you are aware that Livermore
Lab is responsible for an anthrax release. You know, also, that the Lab
attempted to cover up this vitally important information. Their hope was
that you would never find out.
And, Livermore Lab might have succeeded in bamboozling the public
-- if Tri-Valley CAREs had not been on the job.
We are your "watchdog" organization. We do the research, alert the
media, contact the neighbors, educate the public, and always speak truth to
power. That's why I am writing to you today.
I need your financial support now to take the next step. Together,
you and I will take the U.S. Department of Energy and Livermore Lab back
into Federal Court. We will hold the government accountable for its actions
and, together, we will ensure that our country's environmental laws are
upheld.
To Donate Using Network for Good:
We stand at a critical moment. We now have indisputable evidence
that Livermore Lab cannot safely handle deadly biological pathogens. The
Lab released anthrax, breached security and violated shipping laws. A Lab
employee who lacked authorization to handle potentially deadly bio-agents
shipped more than 4,000 vials of anthrax from Livermore to facilities in
Florida and Virginia. Two vials of anthrax arrived with no caps, while
another had a loose screw cap.
Anthrax was released, and the unsuspecting workers who opened the
box had to be placed on the antibiotic Cipro. Livermore Lab's priority was
to keep it mum, which it did for two years. Nonetheless, we found out and
took it public.
To Donate Using Network for Good:
Today Livermore Lab stands poised - not to remedy its anthrax
accident, but to open a more deadly and dangerous biowarfare agent research
center. Any day now, the Department of Energy is slated to release a (most
likely) poorly done, incomplete environmental assessment. It will not fully
analyze the anthrax incident. Instead, I expect that it will be used to
"justify" the first biowarfare agent research center in the nation to be
located inside a classified nuclear weapons facility -- mixing bugs and
bombs at Livermore Lab.
This new bio-lab will genetically modify and aerosolize (spray)
anthrax, plague, Q fever and scores of additional deadly pathogens, making
it many times more dangerous than what already exists. Our mission is to
prevent it. I believe that together we can! Let me give a few reasons ...
As you may recall, the Department of Energy first tried to open the
new biowarfare research facility in December 2002. With financial
contributions from our members (thank you), we filed a lawsuit the
following year. It was David v. Goliath, and, like the story goes, we won.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ultimately ruled that the government had
failed to analyze terrorism risks -- in effect, compelling additional
review before the Department of Energy could move forward.
By acting together we have stymied this deadly Livermore Lab
biowarfare agent research center for five years. That's right, for five
years! With your generous gift now, I am certain that we can go on to win a
final victory.
To Donate Using Network for Good:
Consider also that the Department of Homeland Security wanted to
locate a massive bio-warfare agent research facility at the Livermore Lab's
Site 300 near Tracy. We rallied our supporters to sign petitions, write
letters and speak to lawmakers. Working together we totally defeated that
awful proposal. Because of the timely support we received from you and
other like-minded folks, there will be no bio-war research at Site 300.
Hooray!
We have done it before, and we can do it again. You and I both
recognize, however, that no matter how critically necessary litigation is,
hauling the government back into Federal Court will not be cheap. I
estimate that the lawsuit will cost $30,000 for filing fees and associated
expenses -- not including my hours, our staff attorney's hours, and other
volunteer time, all of which I can tell you from first-hand experience is
considerable.
The cost of not litigating, however, is beyond calculation. What
price do you put on the potential loss of life, contamination of the Earth,
flaunting of national environmental laws, and weakening of international
treaties (in this case, the Biological Weapons Convention)?
To Donate Using Network for Good:
I know that you probably can't write a check for $30,000, no matter
how much you would like to. Nor, frankly, can I. What you and I can do is
contribute according to the utmost of our ability. Remember, none of us is
asked to carry the burden alone. We are in this together. If we each give
what we can, I am confident we will raise the $30,000 we need to win.
You know, too, that Tri-Valley CAREs is in the forefront of
stopping the Department of Energy's new "Bombplex" and preventing the
development of a new generation of nuclear warheads, under the so-called
"Reliable Replacement Warhead" program. Moreover, we are making real
progress toward stopping plutonium activities at Livermore Lab and ensuring
cleanup of contaminated soil and groundwater. Look to your Citizen's Watch
newsletter in the coming months for up to the minute information you cannot
get anywhere else on these and other key policy issues.
You and I recognize that Tri-Valley CAREs accomplishes BIG goals with
relatively SMALL money. Please give as generously as you can.
For Peace, Justice and a Healthy Environment,
Marylia Kelley
Executive Director
P.S. Your contribution is tax-deductible and truly important. I'm counting
on you! Together, we will sue the government to prevent a biowarfare agent
research facility, oppose a "Bombplex", and advocate for a "green lab" in
Livermore and a nuclear weapons free world. MANY THANKS!
To Donate Using Network for Good:
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Email: marylia@earthlink.net
