Who do you think should be OneWorld's "Person of 2006"? Maybe it's someone who was working at the grassroots to bring change to their community or their country. Maybe someone working to improve governments' policies towards marginalized people. Or someone who raised issues that others were neglecting.
Activist and independent journalist Brad Will, killed in Oaxaca, Mexico earlier this year, should definitely be considered. As should murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya and Ugandan peace negotiator Betty Bigombe. How about the scientists and doctors working furiously around the world to develop microbicides--the gels that will soon allow women to protect themselves against HIV infection.
It doesn't have to be a single person either. Is there a corporation, an organization, or other group you'd like to nominate? How about Kenya's Umoja villagers creating a safe haven for women escaping violence? Or the town of Kinsale, Ireland, which has adopted a plan to wean itself off of fossil fuels? How about Al Gore?
We'll leave it there. Now you tell us who you would nominate for OneWorld's Person of 2006. Leave your nomination(s) by commenting below by Monday, December 18!
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Country: Nigeria
Organization (optional): http://www.nairaland.com
Issue(s) of Focus: Popular Interactive Community Forum
Why should this person be nominated?
Seun Osewa is only 24 years old and lives in Otta in the South Western state of Ogun in Nigeria. He is an armchair Linux Programmer who created Nairaland in 2005 and today Nairaland is the most popular online forum by an African with over 64,000 active members from all over the world and Nairaland has become a forum for free speech on all issues of the facts of life.
Seun Osewa is a role model for the youths of Africa and those in Nigeria in particular. Because he is proving that a young man in a developing country can be a positive force in the global village and be proactive in the promotion of better community relations for better understanding through dialogue for world peace.
Country: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Organization (optional): www.farmtocity.org
Issue(s) of Focus: encouraging fresh, local food use in its local community and maintaining local family farms and foodways
Why should this person be nominated? He has made great efforts--and strides--in bringing together the outlying farmers, especially organic ones, and their produce and residents of the heart of the city for mutual health and benefit. he has set up numerous farmers' markets around the city on several days a week, CSA resources asnd other ways to help city residents eat fresh, local foods directly from the surrounding farming region. This includes getting Amish farmers with pastured cows and goats and good aging caves on their properties together with skilled French cheesemakers in order to create a new catgory of PA cheeses.