2003

Categories: Lifetime Achievement and Special Recognition – 2003

Inge Schmitz-Feuerhake’s life’s work is determined by her scientific achievements in the research of long-term effects in the low-radiation range and their measurability. Exemplary for her commitment is the search of more than ten years for the causes of the accumulation of leukaemia in children in the vicinity of the Geesthacht nuclear facilities. Schleswig-Holstein was therefore given a leukaemia commission. She received the NFFA for her life’s work.

Category Solution – 2003

Corbin Harney, now a medicine man of the Western Shoshone and one of the great Indian teachers and leaders, was still a small boy when he realized something: Your roots are important! In 1994 he founded the Shundahai Network, an organization that wants to make the voice of the indigenous people audible – for example, against the 1000 or so atomic bombs that exploded on their land for testing purposes.

Category Education – 2003

The geologist Dr. Souad Naij Al-Azzawi completed her doctorate on the radioactive contamination of the groundwater in Colorado by nuclear power plants and returned to Iraq with this knowledge. In 1995/96, as head of the Department of Environmental Engineering at the University of Baghdad, she investigated the contamination of soil, water, air and agricultural products by ammunition hardened with depleted uranium.

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.