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Category Resistance – 2002

Mordechai Vanunu was hired as a technician at the Dimona Research Center in the Negev Desert in 1976 and found that plutonium for nuclear weapons was produced deep underground. He begins to photograph in secret and gathers evidence that Israel has around 200 warheads, making it the sixth-largest nuclear power. In 1985 he leaves Dimona and makes his knowledge public.

Category Resistance – 2003

After George W. Bush called for the destruction of weapons of mass destruction, three Sisters of the Dominican Order gained access to a Minuteman III missile silo in northeastern Colorado on October 6, 2002. They painted a cross on the silo with their blood and hit the building with a hammer. “We just did what the president asked us to do,” they said.

Category Resistance – 2004

For decades, the Uranium Corporation of India Ltd has been mining uranium in Singhbhum District, Bihar State, and has been trying to expropriate and expel indigenous settlers, the “Adivasis” (first settlers). The JOAR, headed by Ghanshyam Birulee, opposes this. JOAR activists have been overwhelmed with lawsuits. Nolens volens they became experts in Indian litigation law.

Category Resistance – 2005

Hilda Lini, sister of Vanuatu’s Prime Minister Father Walter Lini and politically crossed with him for a few years, was a freedom fighter against the colonial powers and pioneer for women’s rights during her student days. After her university career, she became the first minister of the island nation and in the South Pacific and an anchor woman for all those who want a nuclear-free future.

Category Resistance – 2006

There are rich uranium deposits in Gansu Province in western China. Sun Xiaodi worked on the site of uranium mine No. 792. In 1988 he began to ask questions – about illegal sales, the inadequate disposal of uranium remains, contamination and damage to health. Although he was fired in 1994, he filed petitions and gave interviews. He was imprisoned several times.

Category Resistance – 2007

In 2002, Charmaine White Face, an Oglala woman from the Pine Ridge reserve, founded the “Defenders of the Black Hills” organization with like-minded people. The extraction of uranium has led to a major radioactive contamination in the south and west of the mountains. To this day, the former boreholes, sinkholes and flood basins are waiting for remediation and provide increased radioactive contamination.

Category Resistance – 2008

The resistance to uranium mining shaped Manuel Pino’s life. He grew up near the Jackpile-Paguate Mine, America’s largest uranium ore mining day tree. He made the destructive impact of open pit uranium mining on Native American culture the subject of his dissertation and gave a loud voice to the victims of the uranium boom at the World Uranium Hearing and at many conferences.

Category Resistance – 2008

As a member of the Australia Nuclear Free Alliance, Jilian Marsh is critically engaged in uranium mining. Her major achievements include her instrumental role in enforcing Native Title Legislation in the exploration and operation of the Beverley Uranium Mine. It states that traditional Aboriginal rights and claims are taken into account by Australian national law.

Category Resistance – 2010

Resistance to uranium mining in Niger, Tanzania, Malawi, Namibia and South Africa was hardly noticed in the past. However, in November 2009, anti-uranium activists from the five states joined forces and formed the African Uranium Alliance. The main task of the alliance is, besides the resistance against new mines, the education of the workers in the old mines.

Category Resistance – 2011

Nadezhda Kutepova co-founded the self-help organization Planeta Nadezhd in 1999. The main goal: to inform people in the “closed city” of Mayak about radiation doses and dangers as a result of the nuclear accident in 1957 and about their rights. Her comrade-in-arms, radiologist Natalia Manzurova, suffers from thyroid cancer. As a result of her liquidator mission in Chernobyl.