[NukeNet] Nuclear-Free Future Awards

[Michael Mariotte]

THE NUCLEAR-FREE FUTURE AWARD

Since 1998 the Nuclear-Free Future Award (NFFA) has annually honoured the visionaries and

architects of a nuclear-free planet. The Award is given out in four categories: Resistance, Education,

Solutions (all with a $10,000  USD money prize), and Lifetime Achievement.

MUNICH, 17 October --The 2007 Nuclear-Free Future Awards ceremony will take place at the Salzburg Archbishop's Residence on 18 October. The international event in Austria will bring together scientists and activists to discuss the issue of nuclear energy and climate change. An international jury has selected as this year's recipients:

Charmaine White Face and the Defenders of the Black Hills, USA (in the category solutions) 
Charmaine is the founder and coordinator of Defenders of the Black Hills, a group of volunteers whose mission is to preserve, protect, restore and respect the area of the 1851 and 1868 Fort Laramie Treaties that were made between the United States and the Great Sioux Nation. The group monitors abandoned uranium mines on sacred Lakota Lands and seeks the remediation of hazardous waste ponds that contaminate the region with high levels of radium 226, arsenic, lead and iron.

Prof. Dr. Siegwart Horst Günther, Germany (in the category education)
He was the first to demonstrate the medical connection between the 'Gulf War Syndrome' and the US military's widespread use of shells hardened by depleted uranium (DU). This year the Nuclear-Free Future Award honors for the third time a scientist who at least is doing whatever he can to find out what really happened (in f.i Iraq) and visits countries to study the real-life consequences of DU-use.

Tadatoshi Akiba and Mayors for Peace, Japan (in the category of solutions) In 1982 Takeshi Araki, then mayor of Hiroshima, came up with a simple idea: what would happen if all the mayors of the world declared their cities nuclearfree zones? So began the movement that became known as, 'Mayors for Peace,' and to this day (October, 2007) has grown to include some 1698 cities in 122 countries. Since 1998, Hiroshima mayor Tadatoshi Akiba has headed this organization that transcends national borders and allows citizens from around the globe to work together to press for the abolition of nuclear weapons.

Freda Meissner-Blau, Austria, and Prof. Armin Weiss, Germany (Lifetime Achievement Award) Two veteran mentors of the Middle European anti-nuclear movement - she in Austria fighting against Zwentendorf, he in Germany pushing to terminate the construction of Wackersdorf. The two Lifetime Achievement Award recipients - today, both over 80 years of age - remind us of our duty to wage peace for a nuclear-free future in the name of the coming generations.

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