Nuclear-Free Future Award
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Since 1998 the Nuclear-Free Future Award (NFFA) is an award given to anti-nuclear activists, organizations and communities. The award has honored and helped facilitate the on-going work of individuals and initiatives struggling to undo this juncture of time for the sake of the coming generations. The central message is: leave the uranium in the earth ![1] The award is intended to promote the opposition to uranium mining, nuclear weapons and nuclear power.
The NFFA is a project of the Franz Moll Foundation for the Coming Generations and gives out awards in three categories: Resistance ($10,000 prize), Education ($10,000 prize) and Solutions ($10,000 prize). Additional optional categories are Lifetime Achievement and Special Recognition (contemporary work of art). The award ceremonies take place all around the world.
The NFFA is financed by donations, charity events, and benfit auctions.
== Laureates ==[2]
- 2011: Berlin, Germany
- Nadezhda Kutepova & Natalia Manzurova, Russia
- Barbara Dickmann & Angelica Fell, Germany
- Hans Grassmann, Germany
- Heinz Stockinger, Austria
- Helen Caldicott, Australia
- 2010: New York, USA
- African Uranium Alliance, Africa
- Bruno Barrillot, France
- Oleg Bodrov, Russia
- Martin Sheen, USA
- Henry Red Cloud, Lakota Nation
- 2008: Munich, Germany
- Jillian Marsh for opposition to uranium mining, Australia[3]
- Manuel Pino for opposition to uranium mining, USA[4]
- 2007: Salzburg, Austria
- Opposition: Charmaine White Face and the Defenders of the Black Hills, USA
- Education: Prof. Siegwart Horst Günther, Germany
- Solutions: Mayors for Peace
- Lifetime Achievement: Freda Meissner-Blau, Austria, and Prof. Armin Weiss, Germany
- 2006: Window Rock, USA
- Opposition: Sun Xiaodi, China (for his courage in reporting dangers associated with Chinese uranium production)[5]
- Education: Dr. Gordon Edwards, Canada (for his ongoing commitment to educate the Canadian public about the dangers of uranium mining)[5]
- Solutions: Wolfgang Scheffler and Heike Hoedt, Germany (for demonstrating solar cookers as an energy alternative for communities in southern countries)[5]
- Lifetime Achievement: Ed Grothus, USA (for devoting his life as a former weapons designer to be a loud voice of peace within the pro-nuclear community of Los Alamos, NM)[5]
- 2005: Oslo, Norway
- Opposition: Motarilavoa Hilda Lini, Vanuatu, South-Pacific
- Solutions: Preben Maegaard, Denmark
- Lifetime Achievement: Mathilde Halla, Austria
- Special Recognition: tribe council of the Navajo, represented by President Joe Shirley Jr., USA
- 2004: Jaipur, India
- Opposition: JOAR, indigenous Indian farmers (which has sought to defend the health of the tribal peoples who live near the state-operated Jaduguda uranium mine in Bihar)[6]
- Education: Asaf Durakovic, American nuclear medic (who founded the Uranium Medical Research Center, an independent non-profit institute which studies the effects of uranium contamination)[6]
- Solutions: Jonathan Schell, American publicist (who trusts the democratic power of informed consensus to set the world upon the path of universal nuclear disarmament)[6]
- Lifetime Achievement: Hildegard Breiner, Austria (the "grand dame" of the Austrian grassroots environmental movement, who protested against the Zwentendorf nuclear facility)[6]
- Special Recognition: the IndianCity Montessori School in Lucknow, India (the world's largest private school, which has a mission to create a nuclear-free future)[6]
- 2003: Munich, Germany
- Speech: Hans-Peter Dürr, German physicist
- Opposition: Dominican Sisters Carol Gilbert, Jackie Hudson and Ardeth Platte, who were imprisoned for breaking into the N-8 Minuteman missile site in October 2002
- Education: Souad Naij Al-Azzawi, Iraqi geologist
- Solutions: Corbin Harney, spiritual leader of the Western Shoshone-Indian
- Lifetime Achievement: Inge Schmitz-Feuerhake, German physicist
- 2002: St. Petersburg, Russia[7]
- Opposition: Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli nuclear scientist
- Education: Ole Kopreitan
- Solutions: Helen Clark, prime minister of New Zealand
- Lifetime Achievement: Alexei Yablokov, Francis Macy
- Special Recognition: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- 2001: Carnsore Point, USA
- Opposition: Kevin Buzzacott, Australia
- Education: Kenji Higuchi, Japan
- Solutions: Hans-Josef Fell, German politician
- Life's Work: Solange Fernex, French politician
- Special Recognition: David Lowry
- 2000: Berlin, Germany
- Opposition: Eugene Bourgeois, Normand de la Chevrotiere and Robert McKenzie
- Education: Yuri I. Kuidin (posthum)
- Solutions: The Barefoot College of Tilonia
- Lifetime Achievement: Klaus Traube, Germany
- 1999: Los Alamos, USA
- Opposition: Grace Thorpe and Dorothy Purley
- Education: Lydia Popova
- Solutions: Ursula Sladek and Michael Sladek, German physicians
- Lifetime Achievement: Stewart Udall
- 1998 Salzburg, Austria
- Opposition: Yvonne Margarula, Australia
- Education: Raúl Montenegro, Argentine biologist
- Solutions: Hari Sharan, India
- Lifetime Achievement: Maisie Shiell, Canada
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "Statement of Mission". http://www.nuclear-free.com/eng/wedo.htm.
- ^ "NFFA Recipients and Locations". http://www.nuclear-free.com/eng/recipients.htm#lark.
- ^ Jillian Marsh
- ^ Manuel Pino
- ^ a b c d Recipients of the 2006 Nuclear-Free Future Awards
- ^ a b c d e The 2004 Nuclear-Free Future Award Recipients
- ^ The 2002 Nuclear Free Future Awards
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