Lucy Sharratt
Nominated for Best Peoples Defense
Nominated by E. Ann Clark (Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, but I do not represent them) – Monday 06 February 2006
Reasons for this nomination
Subcategory - 'On a Shoestring'
Lucy Sharratt, who has worked for the Polaris Institute, the Quakers, the Council of Canadians and other NGOs, deserves to be recognized and affirmed for her personal and lifelong commitment to biojustice. What distinguishes her from many other deserving candidates is her ability to come up with imaginative approaches to reveal corporate encroachment and government dissembling, and to mobilize others to further expose the risks - and to drive her ideas to completion - always on a slender shoestring budget. She is a model to be emulated.
Supporting info
Map Your Corporate Campus is a particularly novel approach to empowering students to investigate and expose corporate involvement on their own campuses, resulting in a detailed campus map. Remarkably effective and powerful - yet simple and readable.
Genetically Modified Organisms and Precaution: Is the Canadian Government Implementing the Royal Society of Canada's Recommendations? (Oct 2004) by Peter Andree and Lucy Sharratt is a detailed, point by point analysis of what the RSC recommended and how government has responded. Priceless. This needed to be done, but required painstaking and tedious effort to expose the fraud of the Canadian government.