MACBRIDE PEACE PRIZE AWARDED TO JACKIE CABASSO, US NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT ADVOCATE
The International Peace Bureau made its 2008 award, the Sean MacBride Peace Prize, to Jacqueline Cabasso, a well-known US advocate of of nuclear disarmament. The prize was awarded on Nov. 14, during the IPB's annual seminar, held in Copenhagen. Cabasso has been involved in nuclear disarmament, peace and environmental advocacy on local, national and international levels for over 25 years. She is a leading voice for nuclear weapons abolition, speaking at conferences and events across North America, Europe and Asia. She serves on the Steering Committee of United for Peace and Justice, the largest anti-war coalition in the U.S., and convenes its Nuclear Disarmament & Redefining Security working group. In 1995 she was a “founding mother” of the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons, the largest anti-nuclear network in the world, and she continues to serve on its Coordinating Committee.  Today she remains active with the World Court Project to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Cabasso is a co-author of Nuclear Disorder or Cooperative Security? U.S. Weapons of Terror, the Global Proliferation Crisis and Paths to Peace (2007) and the co‑author of Risking Peace: Why We Sat in the Road (1985), an account of the huge 1983 nonviolent protest at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Laboratory and the subsequent mass trial conducted by WSLF. For more see press releases below
P.release (1) with the background to MacBride, the Prize and previous laureates. P.release (2) with extracts from Cabasso's speech. For full text of speech >>>READ HERE
Congratulatory message for Ms Cabasso from Mr. Sergio Duarte, the UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs>>>HERE
For a recent Cabasso's Q and A, 'Will Nuclear Disarmament be on Obama's Agenda?' >>>Read Here