- Yvonne Margarula
Yvonne Margarula won the 1998
Friends of the Earth International Environment Award and the 1998Nuclear-Free Future Award . She also won the 1999 U.S.Goldman Environmental Prize , withJacqui Katona , in recognition of efforts to protect their country and culture againsturanium mining . [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=1NTQ6B-4YO8C&pg=PA292&lpg=PA292&dq=yvonne+margarula&source=web&ots=fXgyUmAZU6&sig=PddjnLQCoFhsjPbHhgawm4ITYYI Echoes from the Poisoned Well] ] [ [http://www.nuclear-free.com/english/yvonne.htm Yvonne Margarula, Australia] ]Protests
The Mirrar
aboriginal people, led by Margarula and Katona, mounted a large campaign in opposition to the proposedJabiluka uranium mine in theNorthern Territory ofAustralia . They used legal action and education to gain national and international support. In March 1998 the Mirrar, together with environmental organizations, used massive on-sitecivil disobedience to create one of the largest blockades in Australia's history. Over several months, approximately 5,000 people from across Australia and around the world travelled to the remote camp to protest with the Mirrar people. In July the land was cleared byEnergy Resources of Australia and construction of the entrance to the Jabiluka mine began; however, protesters intervened and about 550 were arrested, including Margarula and Katona. [ [http://www.goldmanprize.org/node/116 Goldman Environmental Prize] ] [ [http://www.unep.org/women_env/w_details.asp?w_id=380 Who's Who of Women and the Environment] ] [ [http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/ILB/2002/42.html Broken Promises: Land Rights, Mining and the Mirrar People] ]ee also
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Uranium mining controversy in Kakadu National Park
*List of Nuclear-Free Future Award recipients
*Uranium in the environment
*Women and the environment through history References
External links
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/asia-pacific/3743027.stm Aborigines count cost of mine]
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