Freda Meissner-Blau
/Overview
Freda Meissner-Blau born Dresden, Germany March 11, 1927. Austrian anti-nuclear activist. Led successful civil disobedience effort to save Hainberg Forest, 1984. Founder of Austrian Green Party, 1987. Chaired first International Human Rights Tribunal in Vienna, 1995. Received Nuclear-Free Future Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of her work with UNESCO and the Atomic Energy Agency, 2007.
Quotations
“Nonviolence is the most radical form of resistance because it robs power of its aims.” (1989, in Rocheleau & Thomas-Slater, Feminist Political Ecology: Global Issues and Local Experience, 1996, p.92; photo Wikipedia)