The Alentejo town of Nisa was awarded an international prize which will be delivered in the city of Hiegen, Switzerland, the next 29th of September.
"The nuclear free future award" of 2012, was assigned to the movement uranium in Nisa, no! (Munn) and the president of the city council, Gabriela Tsukamoto for their commitment and social activism in favor of nuclear non-proliferation and preservation of the environment. Recalling, that the former government executive, sought to revive the mining of uranium in greater deposit of the region, but ran into a great civic movement that opposed strictly to the development of this industrial activity due to its social disastrous and environmental impact. An organized civil combat which caused a wide media frantic that helps to warn the Portuguese about the need to discuss the nuclear issue of the territory. More recently a documentary directed by Marcia Gomes and Norbert Schuchanek, helped to highlight even more the uprising of the populations of Nisa, as an example of a preventive civic struggle against the nuclear.
The "Nuclear-Free Future Awards" are awarded since 1998 by Franz Moll Foundation for Future Generations to activists, individuals or institutions that have distinguished themselves in the struggle for a world without nuclear power development in any of its components, and alternatively have been committed by citizenship and sustainability. This award was also created with the aim to raise an awareness of the dangers of nuclear and sharpening the understanding that the actions taken today must take into account how they will affect future generations, advocating the need for a paradigm shift for current energy.
