The Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage is presented annually by The Shafeek Nader Trust for the Community Interest. The Callaway Award "recognizes individuals who take a public stance to advance truth and justice, at some personal risk". The award was established by in 1990 by Joe Callaway to recognize "individuals in any area of endeavor who, with integrity and at some personal risk, take a public stance to advance truth and justice, and who challenged prevailing conditions in pursuit of the common good." The first recipient of the award was Joseph A. Kinney, of the National Safe Workplace in Chicago, who was credited for his fearless advocacy of safety for America's workers. In 2006 the Sharon Shaffer, Charlie Swift and

Bunnatine Greenhouse Bunnatine (Bunny) H. Greenhouse is a former chief contracting officer Senior Executive Service (Principal Assistant Responsible for Contracting (PARC)) of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. On June 27, 2005, she testified to a Congressiona ...

were awarded the prize. Shaffer and Swift were military officers who vigorously defended Guantanamo captives before

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. Greenhouse was a contracting officer employed by the

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, who exposed financial improprieties. In 2007, award recipients were:

Dahr Jamail Dahr Jamail (born 1968) is an American journalist who was one of the few unembedded journalists to report extensively from Iraq during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He spent eight months in Iraq, between 2003 and 2005, and presented his stories on ...

(independent journalist in Iraq) and

Linda Peeno Linda Peeno is an American physician, ethicist, and lecturer known for being a whistleblower against the American managed healthcare industry. Whistleblowing Following employment as a medical reviewer for Humana and medical director at Blue Cros ...

, M.D., (

whistleblower A whistleblower (also written as whistle-blower or whistle blower) is a person, often an employee, who reveals information about activity within a private or public organization that is deemed illegal, immoral, illicit, unsafe or fraudulent. Whi ...

and patient advocate). In 2012, the award was shared by William Binney & J. Kirk Wiebe for their work on ''Government Data Centers & Spying on Citizens'', as well as

John Kiriakou John Chris Kiriakou (born August 9, 1964) is an American author, journalist and former intelligence officer. Kiriakou is a columnist with Reader Supported News and co-host of ''Political Misfits'' on Sputnik Radio. He was formerly an analyst and ...

for his work on the ''Government's Torture Policy''.

Past winners

1990 Joe A. Kinney, Marie Cirillio 1991

Roldo Bartimole Roldo Bartimole (born April 5, 1933) is an American journalist. He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He worked for a series of newspapers, including ''The Wall Street Journal'' and ''The Cleveland Plain Dealer,'' before founding his own newslett ...

, Thomas E. Gish and Patricia Ann Burnett Gish, Forrest (Frosty) Troy and Helen B. Troy 1992 Karl Z. Morgan, Robert D. Pollard, Mary P. Sinclair 1993 William J. Lehman, William Reid,

Terri Swearingen Terri Swearingen is a nurse from the state of Ohio Ohio () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Of the List of states and territories of the United States, fifty U.S. states, it is the ...

1994 Robert Bigham, Julie Boyd, Roger Crisafi, Von Marie Erkert, Sherene Lee Jennings, James Keefer, Thomas Vernon Russell Jr., Dennis Shrader, Steven Craig Slagowski, Joseph A. Villarreal, Carroll E. Cox,

Allan Nairn Allan Nairn (born 1956) is an American investigative journalist. He was imprisoned by Indonesian military forces under United States-backed strongman Suharto while reporting in East Timor. His writings have focused on U.S. foreign policy in such ...

1995 Lance Hughes, Steven W. Jones, Agnes Mulroy 1996 John Brodeur,

Janet Chandler Janet Chandler (December 31, 1911 – March 16, 1994) was a model and actress in American films. She had starring roles in several films of the 1930s. She was born Lillian Guenther in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. She began her film career as a child actr ...

, Peter Gunn Montague 1997 Merrell Williams,

Stanton Glantz Stanton Arnold Glantz (born 1946) is an American professor, author, and tobacco control activist. Glantz is a faculty member at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine, where he is a Professor of Medicine (retired) in ...

1998

Jane Akre Jane Akre is an American journalist best known for the whistleblower lawsuit by herself and her former husband, Steve Wilson (reporter), Steve Wilson, against Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox station WTVT in Tampa, Florida. Akre and Wilson are featur ...

, Steve Wilson,

David F. Noble David Franklin Noble (July 22, 1945 – December 27, 2010Morrow, Adria"David Noble, academic and activist, dies at 65" ''The Globe and Mail'', December 28, 2010, accessed December 30, 2010.) was a historian and critic of technology, science ...

1999

Roberta Baskin Roberta Baskin is an American journalist and nonprofit director. She co-founded and served as Executive Director of the AIM2Flourish global learning initiative, hosted at Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit at the Weatherhead ...

Nancy Olivieri Nancy Fern Olivieri (born 1954) is a prominent Toronto haematologist and researcher with an interest in the treatment of haemoglobinopathies. She is best known for a protracted struggle with the Hospital for Sick Children and the pharmaceutical c ...

, Martha L. Crouch 2000

Doris Haddock Doris "Granny D" Haddock (born Ethel Doris Rollins; January 24, 1910 – March 9, 2010) was an American political activist from New Hampshire. Haddock achieved national fame when, between the ages of 88 and 90, starting on January 1, 1999, and cul ...

, Paul E. Farmer 2001 Anthony Mazzocchi,

Amy Goodman Amy Goodman (born April 13, 1957) is an American broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, investigative reporter, and author. Her investigative journalism career includes coverage of the East Timor independence movement, Morocco's occupation ...

2002

Barry Commoner Barry Commoner (May 28, 1917 – September 30, 2012) was an American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician. He was a leading ecologist and among the founders of the modern environmental movement. He was the director of the ...

, Herbert L. Needleman 2003 John Munsell, Theodore A. Postol 2004 David Graham, Mark Livingston 2005

Bunny Greenhouse Bunnatine (Bunny) H. Greenhouse is a former chief contracting officer Senior Executive Service (Principal Assistant Responsible for Contracting (PARC)) of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. On June 27, 2005, she testified to a Congressiona ...

, Lieutenant Colonel Sharon A. Shaffer, Lieutenant Commander Charles D. Swift 2006 John Thayer, Thomas Baker,

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, Martin R. Blanchet, Edward J. Hill, Richard Leonard, Charles Morris, Christian Raley, Scott Smith, Timothy Taylor,

Maria Gunnoe Maria Gunnoe (born 1968) is an environmentalist who opposes mountaintop removal mining, and is a winner of the Goldman Prize and Wallenberg Medal. Early life Maria was born in Boone County, West Virginia, where she continues to reside. She is a ...

, Edward (Ed) Wiley 2007

2008 Michael German, Barbara Bailey, Peter Chase, George Christian, Jan Nocek 2009

Frances Crowe Frances Crowe (née Hyde; March 15, 1919 – August 27, 2019) was an American peace activist and pacifist from the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. Early life Frances Hyde was born in Carthage, Missouri on March 15, 1919. Growing up, she ...

Ivor Van Heerden Ivor van Heerden holds a doctorate degree in Marine Sciences and was the deputy director of the Louisiana State University (LSU) Hurricane Center, before being dismissed by LSU with no reason given, following Hurricane Katrina. He is also the dire ...

2010 Becky A. McClain,

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and Louise Schmeiser 2011 Concepcion Picciotto,

Harry Kelber Harry may refer to: TV shows * ''Harry'' (American TV series), a 1987 American comedy series starring Alan Arkin * ''Harry'' (British TV series), a 1993 BBC drama that ran for two seasons * ''Harry'' (talk show), a 2016 American daytime talk show ...

2012 William Binney & J. Kirk Wiebe,

2013

Ramsey Clark William Ramsey Clark (December 18, 1927 – April 9, 2021) was an American lawyer, activist, and federal government official. A progressive, New Frontier liberal, he occupied senior positions in the United States Department of Justice under Presi ...

(lawyer, U.S. Attorney General 967-69 antiwar campaigner, defender of due process and the rule of law),

Saul Landau Saul Landau (January 15, 1936 – September 9, 2013) was an American journalist, filmmaker and commentator. He was also a professor emeritus at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, where he taught history and digital media. Educa ...

(human rights activist, journalist, filmmaker) 2014 Marcy Benstock, Dinesh Thakur 2015 John Crane, James Love and Manon Ress, Jonathan G. Lundgren 2016 Whistleblowers for the Common Good,

Robert MacLean Robert J. MacLean (born March 8, 1970, in Torrejon Air Base, Spain) is a former United States Federal Air Marshal and whistleblower. Early career MacLean served in the U.S. Air Force from 1988 to 1992. After his discharge, MacLean entered th ...

, Larry Criscione 2017 Joel Clement,

Megan Rice Megan Gillespie Rice S.H.C.J. (Society of the Holy Child Jesus) (January 31, 1930 – October 10, 2021) was an American nuclear disarmament activist, Catholic nun, and former missionary.William J. Broad"Behind Nuclear Breach, a Nun's Bold Fervo ...

, Michael R. Walli, and Greg Boertje-Obed 2018 Sandra C. Black, John Slowik

References

External links

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