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Friends of the earth nominees win environmental prize

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Three of this year’s winners of the International "Nobel Prize for the Environment" were nominated by Friends of the Earth groups. Among the seven recipients of the 14th annual Goldman Environmental Prize three have worked closely with member groups of Friends of the Earth International.
goldman prize winners eileen kampakuta brown and eileen wani wingfield
Eileen Brown (left) and Eileen Wingfield, 2003 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners, Islands and Island Nations (Australia).
Photo Credit: Robert Roll 		Islands and Island Nations winners, Aboriginal elders Eileen Kampakuta Brown and Eileen Wani Wingfield from the Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta (or Senior Aboriginal Women from Coober Pedy), are campaigning to block the construction of a nuclear waste dump in their South Australian desert homeland. Since the 1950s South Australia’s traditional Aboriginal homelands have been one of the testing and dumping grounds for the world’s nuclear industry, causing asthma, birth defects and cancer as well as poisoning the environment and wildlife. Now Brown and Wingfield are leading their communities in an international campaign to say “Irati Wanti” — “the poison, leave it.”
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Julia Bonds at moutaintop removal valley fill silt pond at White Oak Creek, Raleigh County, WV in Spring 2002.
Photo Credit: Robert F. Gates

 

 Julia Bonds, from West Virginia, USA is the North America winner. A coal miner’s daughter and native West Virginian, Julia Bonds is leading the campaign to stop mountaintop removal coal mining. This highly destructive "strip mining on steroids” is ravaging communities throughout Appalachia, turning river valleys into mining waste dumps, driving up asthma rates and forcing whole communities to abandon their homes. goldman prize winner julia bonds
Julia Bonds (center), 2003 Goldman Environmental Prize Winner, North America (United States), and fellow activists at a protest against mountaintop removal coal mining, West Virginia State Capitol, 10/21/2002.
Photo Credit: Vivian Stockman, OVEC

see for more details the press release and
www.goldmanprize.org
www.iratiwanti.org

 
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