Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights

January 22, 2025

Klee Benally Honored as Nuclear Free Futures Awardee 2025



Nuclear-Free Future Awards 2025 Laureates Announced

Klee was a passionate campaigner and filmmaker exposing the colonialist legacy of uranium mines and working for the cleanup of the more than 500 abandoned uranium mines that continue to contaminate the Navajo Nation. A month before his death on December 30, 2023, Klee published his book, “No Spiritual Surrender: Indigenous Anarchy in Defense of the Sacred.”

NEWS FROM BEYOND NUCLEAR
French translation by Christine Prat
https://chrisp.lautre.net/wpblog/?p=8512

Contact: Beyond Nuclear: Claus Biegert, biegertfilm@gmail.com; Lind; Pentz Gunter, linda@beyondnuclear.org, 301-455-5655; IPPNW-Geneva; Liaison Office: Chuck Johnson, cjohnson@ippnw.org, 503-777-27

TAKOMA PARK, Maryland -- The 2025 Nuclear-Free Future Awards will this year honor individuals from Brazil, India, Navajo country, the United States and Zimbabwe for their achievements in working for a nuclear-free world.

The Award laureates are chosen by an international jury of their peers and are offered in three categories: Resistance, Education and Solution. The 2025 laureates are: S.P. Udayakumar (India) for Resistance; Márcia Gomes de Oliveira and Norbert Suchanek (Brazil) for Education; and Edwick Madzimure (Zimbabwe) for Solution.