Daniel Ellsberg: Preventing Extermination Of Humanity By Nukes | August 6, 2018 Hiroshima-Nagasaki Action at Livermore Lab 8 AM

"…The chart in my book, which I reproduce from memory—a very simple chart. I’m sure I have it right. [The chart] indicated that they expected to kill with our own first strike some 325 million people in the U.S.S.R. and China. Since they had an answer to that so quickly, they clearly had a model to go on, and I asked for how many would be killed altogether. And that figure added up to 600 million, a hundred Holocausts as I saw it."

DANIEL ELLSBERG ON A LIFE DEDICATED TO PREVENTING NUCLEAR ATTACK THAT WOULD RESULT IN NEAR-EXTINCTION OF HUMANS

podcast ---- Click here to LISTEN! – Daniel Ellsberg is best known as the whistleblower who released the Pentagon Papers, which exposed what United States government officials really knew and thought about the Vietnam War. But he also worked as a nuclear war planner when he was a RAND Corporation researcher and consultant for the Defense Department.

In a recently published book, “Doomsday Machine: Confessions Of a Nuclear War Planner,” Ellsberg recounts his journey as he discovered how close a nuclear strike by the United States government or a war between the U.S. and Soviet government could bring the Earth’s population to near-extinction.

From the late 1950s to the 1960s, he uncovered several traits of U.S. nuclear war plans that would produce quite devastating results for humanity. He attempted to persuade U.S. officials to address them and achieved rather mixed results.

On the “Unauthorized Disclosure” weekly podcast, Ellsberg highlights how he came to learn the military’s estimate for how many hundreds of millions of people would die if a nuclear attack was launched. He describes how there was no way to call back pilots if an execute order was given. He shares how his father refused to be part of the production of the H-bomb and talks about how he had classified documents on nuclear matters, which he planned to release until they were tragically lost.

Click here to listen: Daniel Ellsberg: Preventing Extermination Of Humanity By Nukes

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ANNOUNCEMENT: Daniel Ellsberg will be a keynote speaker at the August 6, 2018 Hiroshima-Nagasaki action at Livermore Lab 8am. Please spread the word - and visit this page for updates soon.

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“March for Nuclear Abolition & Global Survival”

– Major Rally, March & Nonviolent Direct Action on Aug. 9 at Livermore Lab will commemorate the atomic bombings of Hiroshima, Nagasaki at the site where U.S. is designing new nuclear weapons; call on Trump Admin. to sign Ban Treaty & reduce, not escalate, U.S. and global nuclear dangers…

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Contacts: Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs, 925-443-7148; cell, 925-255-3589 Dr. Robert Gould, Physicians for Social Responsibility, SF Bay Area, cell 415-407-8972

“March for Nuclear Abolition & Global Survival”

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August 9, 2017 Action at Livermore Lab 8 AM

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DANIEL ELLSBERG, EMMA'S REVOLUTION & MORE!

Rally and Nonviolent Action @ Livermore Lab (where they develop nuclear weapons right here in the Bay Area) to commemorate the U.S. bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and to protest nukes! Peace Camp the night before.

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UPDATED ::: Rally and Nonviolent Action @ Livermore Lab on August 9 to commemorate Hiroshima & Nagasaki bombing, and protest nukes!

DANIEL ELLSBERG, EMMA'S REVOLUTION & MORE!

Rally and Nonviolent Action @ Livermore Lab (where they develop nuclear weapons right here in the Bay Area) to commemorate the U.S. bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and to protest nukes! Peace Camp the night before.

August 9, 2017 Action at Livermore Lab 8 AM - Facebook event page

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Environmental Protection Agency's New Emergency Plan for Drinking Water Concerns Many | NBC Bay Area [VIDEO]

The EPA's Plan for drinking water concerns many, however, it may take effect within weeks



It happened with devastating speed in Fukushima, Japan.

It’s happening slowly all over the United States: radioactive waste is seeping into the soil and groundwater.

As she paces the fence at Lawrence Livermore Labs near her home, Marylia Kelley shakes her head about a new Environmental Protection Agency proposal that could affect communities like hers if a future radioactive release were to occur. It’s called a Protective Action Guide, or PAG. If formally adopted, it would set new, much higher levels on radioactive materials to be allowed in drinking water supplies following any kind of “radiological” accident or spill for an undetermined “intermediate” period of time...

more: Environmental Protection Agency's New Emergency Plan for Drinking Water Concerns Many | NBC Bay Area

11.6 Nuclear #Disarmament and the #SFBayArea: Free Sunday Talk w/ Q & A

How can Bay Area residents support global nuclear disarmament? Is there a local disarmament movement? Tri-Valley CAREs Staff Attorney, Scott Yundt, will speak about the opportunities and challenges for local people who are concerned about the dangers of nuclear weapons in our world. Come and learn about the environmental cost shared by the communities within a 50 mile radius of the lab and how you can get involved where you live.

Nuclear Disarmament and the Bay Area: Free Sunday Talk followed by Q & A Tickets, Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 1:30 PM | Eventbrite

Global Wave | Tri-Valley CAREs

Tri-Valley CAREs organized a Global Wave event at the gate of Livermore Lab on Sunday, April 26th as part of the international gathering beginning today in New York later for the 5-year Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).

Our picture will be included in a slide show shown to the full UN on Friday with dozens of other events from around the world. Thanks to all who took part.

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3.9 planning meeting for August 6 Hiroshima Commemoration and Action at Livermore Lab | Tri-Valley CAREs

Hi, peace and accountability advocates. The next planning meeting for the 70th Anniversary Hiroshima/Nagasaki commemoration will be March 9, 2015 at 6:30 PM in Oakland. Send me an email at marylia@trivalleycares.org if you would like more information. And, please CIRCLE THE DATE: August 6, 2015 at 8 AM at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab, corner of Vasco Road and Patterson Pass Road in Livermore. Join us.

3.9 planning meeting for August 6 Hiroshima Commemoration and Action at Livermore Lab

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Community Meets on Livermore Lab Cleanup | Tri-Valley CAREs

On Thursday, September 18th, Tri-Valley CAREs organized a meeting on the state of Livermore Lab's Superfund Cleanup from the community perspective. Participants gathered at the Livermore Public Library to hear from Environmental Scientist Peter Strauss (see link below for his talking points), Executive Director Marylia Kelley, and Staff Attorney Scott Yundt. Tri-Valley CAREs distributed its new report, The State of the Superfund.

Topics included details of the Superfund law, hazardous waste management, current cleanup technologies, and why Livermore Lab's broken public participation program imperils critical progress on cleanup.

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TVC Supports Marshall Islands Lawsuit Against US with Legal Brief | Tri-Valley CAREs

The "Baker" explosion, part of Operation Crossroads, a nuclear weapon test by the United States military at Bikini Atoll, Micronesia, on 25 July 1946.
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The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) yesterday continued its efforts to compel the United States government to comply with its obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), asking a Federal Court judge to reject the U.S. government's claim that the treaty cannot be enforced.

On April 24, 2014, the Marshall Islands filed a lawsuit in U.S. Federal Court, alleging the United States has violated its moral and legal obligations under the NPT by refusing to negotiate in good faith toward complete nuclear disarmament.

On July 21, the U.S. responded to these allegations by filing a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing that the issue of U.S. compliance with the treaty is not subject to the Court's jurisdiction.

Yesterday, the RMI filed an Opposition to the U.S. motion to dismiss, explaining why the Court cannot and should not look the other way.

The brief explains, among other points, that RMI is not asking the Court to decide whether the United States should enter into the NPT, or whether the NPT is a good or a bad treaty for the United States. Instead, the Marshall Islands makes the legally grounded argument that while the Non-Proliferation Treaty is in effect and the U.S. is a party to it, there is no choice but for the U.S. to comply with it.

Additionally, the brief points to prior rulings in U.S. courts make it clear that it is the courts that determine compliance with the law, not the Executive. It points out that the U.S. Constitution says "ALL" treaties are the supreme law of this nation, not just some treaties, or the treaties the current President happens to prefer at any particular time. The NPT is a treaty, and under the plain language of our Constitution, the federal courts are charged with interpreting it, and resolving disputes involving it, such as this dispute.

Tri-Valley CAREs was called upon to file an Amicus Curiae brief regarding the proper venue in federal court. The RMI wishes to have the case heard in the Northern District of California, home to significant nuclear weapons research and development at Livermore Lab. However, the Government's Motion to Dismiss alleged that the nuclear weapons work at the Lab was tangentially related to NPT compliance and argued that the case should be dismissed for lack of venue, or in the alternative, be moved to Washington DC District Court. Tri-Valley CAREs brief describes the significant nuclear weapons work being done at Livermore and the legal basis for maintaining venue in the Northern District of Califonia as preferred by the RMI.

The RMI was used as the testing ground for 67 nuclear tests conducted by the United States from 1946 to 1958. These tests - equivalent to 1.7 Hiroshima bombs being exploded daily for 12 years - resulted in lasting health and environmental problems for the Marshall Islanders. The RMI Nuclear Zero lawsuit against the U.S. seeks no compensation, but rather, seeks action to commence and conclude negotiations for complete nuclear disarmament by 2020, thus ending the nuclear weapons threat for all humanity, now and in the future.

Tony de Brum, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Marshall Islands, emphasizes that the Marshallese people "have suffered the catastrophic and irreparable damage of these weapons, and we vow to fight so that no one else on earth will ever again experience these atrocities."

Click here to read the Complaint filed by the RMI in United States District Court.

Click here to read the Government's Motion to Dismiss

Click here to read the RMI's Opposition to the Government's Motion to Dismiss

Click hereto read Tri-Valley CAREs Amicus Brief

TVC Supports Marshall Islands Lawsuit Against US with Legal Brief | Tri-Valley CAREs

8.6 Hiroshima Day Action in Livermore, CA | Berkeley: From Hiroshima to California, From Nuke Nightmare to Solartopia!

Save the Date - August 6th Hiroshima Action in Livermore

We hope you can join us for this year's Hiroshima Day rally, march and action planned for the morning of Wednesday, August 6th. We are still deep in the planning stage of the event, so check back soon for more details...

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8.6 BERKELEY, CA: HIROSHIMA DAY - From Hiroshima to California, From Nuke Nightmare to Solartopia! with Harvey Wasserman and Cecile Pineda
Wednesday, August 6 (Hiroshima Day) at 7:00 PM in the Fellowship Hall—1924 Cedar St.
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8.6 Hiroshima Day Action in Livermore, CA

Save the Date - August 6th Hiroshima Action in Livermore

We hope you can join us for this year's Hiroshima Day rally, march and action planned for the morning of Wednesday, August 6th. We are still deep in the planning stage of the event, so check back soon for more details...
Click here to download the Save the Date flier...

Tri-Valley CAREs

8.6 Hiroshima Commemoration and Action at Livermore Lab

Theme this year is "Unfinished Business and Our Most Urgent Responsibility; Banning the Bomb at the Livermore Lab and Globally." We will gather at the northwest corner of the Lab (Vasco Road and Patterson Pass Road in Livermore) on Tue, August 6, at 7am.

Update: Keynote speaker is Daniel Ellsberg!

Sixty-eight years after the United States dropped atomic bombs on the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, the threat of nuclear annihilation remains. Nuclear devastation could come by accident, miscalculation, madness or malevolent intent. Events like Fukushima demonstrate the dangers of nuclear technologies derived from the bomb. And, while instructions on how to “duck and cover” to survive a nuclear bomb may seem quaint, modern propaganda still blinds many to our most urgent and unfinished business: the total abolition of nuclear weapons.

We ask all who seek peace and justice to come to Livermore Lab on August 6 for a rally with musicians, speakers, Taiko drummers and more. Immediately following will be a short march and nonviolent direct action at the West Gate. We will gather at the location where U.S. nuclear weapons scientists are developing the world’s first so-­‐called “interoperable” warhead to deliver annihilation interchangeably from land or sea. Those who choose will peacefully risk arrest, while others will provide legal witness and support.

Initial sponsors include American Friends Service Committee, Asian Americans for Peace and Justice, Ecumenical Peace Institute, Livermore Conversion Project, Mt. Diablo Peace & Justice Center, No Nukes Action Committee, Peace Action West, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Bay Area Chapter, Tri-Valley CAREs, and Western States Legal Foundation.

WHAT: Hirosima Commemoration, Ralley and Action

WHEN: Tuesday, August 6, 2013, 7AM program, 8:15AM march

WHERE: Gather at Livermore Lab northwest corner, at Vasco & Patterson Pass Roads

PARKING: There will be parking set up along Patterson Pass Road

BART: Van pickups at the Dublin-Pleasanton BART Station. Must call to reserve a spot.

DETAILS: (925) 443-7148 or (510) 839-5877,
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August 6 Hiroshima Commemoration and Action at Livermore Lab (facebook event page)

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Livermore group to commemorate atomic bombings | Tri-Valley CAREs

LIVERMORE -- The 67th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima will be marked Sunday with a rally and protest at the exact time it occurred in Japan. The Livermore-based Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment is co-hosting "Foreclose on the Bomb, Not the People" at 4 p.m. Sunday at William Payne Park, at Patterson Pass and Vasco roads. The rally takes place kitty-corner to Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, where nuclear weapons have been developed...

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