NUCLEAR-TESTING protesters

'Other’ Nobel prize for protesters

in the Pacific, Brazilian land reform groups, and Indian and British ecologists were named as winners of the “alternative Nobel prize” in Stockholm last month.

The annual 1 million kronor ($A207,619) prize from the Right Liveli hood Awards, founded in 1980 by Swedish-German writer Jakob von Uexkull, is to support individuals and groups doing practical work to solve modern day problems.

This year’s prize was shared by the Commissao Pastoral Da Terra (pastoral land commission) and Movimiento Dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (move ment of landless workers) for winning land for peasants in Brazil; the Save Narmada Movement in India, which is trying to block a huge river-damming project which would displace 300,000 people; Bengt and Marie-Therese Danielsson of French Polynesia for cam paigning against French nuclear tests in

the region since the 19605; and Senator Jeton Anjain and the people of Rongelap, in the Marshall Islands, for opposing us “nuclear colonialism in the

pacific”.

Anjain and (he Ro , were cited for repeated demands to the US Con to F make full reparations for heal f h blems caused by nudear radiation from the 1954 nudear bomb test at Bikini Atoll Anjain, a victim of radiation poisoning who doctors say has little time left to live. has been a k ] obbyist on behalf of the isl a nders, said Von Uexkull, who sold a private stamp collection to endow the annual prize The Rongelapese were evacuated from ‘ h f! r . lsl f" d , 50 hours after the blast on Bikini, 160 km away, They were told it was safe to return in 1957 but after decades of suffering health problems related to radiation exposure, they left Rongelap. □