12-- Seven activists from the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance were found not guilty in a jury trail in Superior Court. Ellen Barfield, David Barrows, Gordon Clark, Sam Crook, Joy First, Malachy Kilbride and Eve Tetaz were arrested on Mar. 29 during a "tombstone action" in the Hart Senate Office Building. Set up in the atrium of the building were more than 100 cardboard tombstones with pictures of U.S. and Iraqi dead.
10— An activist was arrested in Sen. Patrick Leahy's office.
1— Lynn Curit-Smith and Eric Washeski were arrested and charged with trespass outside the Bush family estate. G. W. Bush was inside collaborating with Vladimir Putin.
JUNE
26— Pete Perry pled no contest to a charge of unlawful entry and was sentenced to 6 months of supervised probation, which included a weekly drug test, 40 hours of community service and a $50 assessment fee. Kristin Sundell, Jean Athey and Steve Lane pled guilty and were ordered to pay the $50 fee and do three months unsupervised probation. The four sat in Sen. Barbara Mikulski's office on Feb. 27.
22— Mary Pat Brennan, Debbie Churchman, Louie Vitale, Bill Streit, Vicky Andrews, Nancy Gowan, Liz McAlister, Jerry Zawada, Elizabeth Adams, Malachy Kilbride, Susan Crane, Garland Robertson, Eve Tetaz and Kay Warren were found guilty of crossing a police line or failure to obey. On Mar. 16, 222 participants in a Christian Peace Witness were arrested while praying on the White House sidewalk. However, the others paid a $100 citation fee.
11— Members of the 8th Day Center for Justice were convicted of failure to obey, but the judge declined to impose any sentence. In a dual action on Mar. 15, three of them were arrested in the office of Sen. Dick Durbin and four in the office of Barack Obama.
7— Nine activists were arrested outside the federal building during a die-in to oppose the war in Iraq. The event was organized by Declaration of Peace Bay Area.
7— Rob Mulford was convicted in federal court for refusing to leave the premises of Sen. Lisa Murkowski's on Feb. 5. He was sentenced to a fine of $75, which was paid by the fifteen peace activists who were in court to support him.
MAY
19— Fr. Louie Vitale, Fr. Steve Kelly, Jeff Dietrich, Dennis Apel and Mike Wisniewski were arrested for trespass and scheduled to be arraigned in December. However, they are seeking a continuance as Vitale and Kelly are serving time in prison.
15— Eight people silently blocked the employee entrance of the federal building, holding signs that stated "NOT ONE MORE DAY, NOT ONE MORE DOLLAR, NOT ONE MORE DEATH." Five would be arrested and charged with failure to comply with a lawful order. In August, the federal case against the five longtime Syracuse Peace Council activists was dismissed.
14— U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema ordered that the June 16, 2006 conviction for “failure to obey a lawful order” of Max Obuszewski, who was arrested one half mile from the Pentagon on Mar. 20, 2006, be vacated. There were 51 arrests that day, and four separate trials. Obuszewski was represented at the May 3, 2007 oral arguments by public defender Michael Nachmanoff before U.S. District Judge T. S. Ellis. Ellis trumpeted the First Amendment, mocked the government’s original conviction and chastised the prosecutors for thinking one can sidestep procedures when dealing with pro se defendants. He hinted that the government might consider filing a motion to vacate the conviction, which it did.
11— Jerry Zawada, Eve Tetaz, Ellen Barfield and Jeff Leys were convicted of unlawful assembly for the Feb. 5 occupation of Sen. John McCain’s office. Six others paid a citation fee the day of the arrest. Jerry, Ellen and Jeff were sentenced to a suspended 7-day sentence with four months probation, while Eve received a suspended 10-day sentence with six months probation. Each was to pay a $50 assessment.
10— The AERO 8, facing a charge of trespass, were scheduled for trial. On Apr. 9, Patrick O’Neill and his daughter Moira, whose case was dismissed, Ellen Biesack, Frank Coyle, Steve Woolford, Scott Bass, Josh McIntyre, Barbara Zelter and Lisa Marcusson were arrested when they tried to enter an air field to deliver indictments to three pilots from Aero Contractors for flying torture taxis. Germany indicted 13 crew members, including pilots for Aero, in the 2004 kidnapping, detention and transport of Khaled El-Masri, a German citizen of Lebanese descent.
9— Karen Barker, Tom Barker, Jon Hutchinson, Mary Lee Sargent, Pat Wilczynski, Nellie Grant, Chris Hobby, Jordan Butterfield and Anne Miller were arrested at Sen. John Sununu's office for criminal trespass. Bail was set at $1,000. One person posted a bond, but the others spent the night in jail.
10— An activist was arrested in Sen. Patrick Leahy's office.
1— Lynn Curit-Smith and Eric Washeski were arrested and charged with trespass outside the Bush family estate. G. W. Bush was inside collaborating with Vladimir Putin.
JUNE
22— Mary Pat Brennan, Debbie Churchman, Louie Vitale, Bill Streit, Vicky Andrews, Nancy Gowan, Liz McAlister, Jerry Zawada, Elizabeth Adams, Malachy Kilbride, Susan Crane, Garland Robertson, Eve Tetaz and Kay Warren were found guilty of crossing a police line or failure to obey. On Mar. 16, 222 participants in a Christian Peace Witness were arrested while praying on the White House sidewalk. However, the others paid a $100 citation fee.
11— Members of the 8th Day Center for Justice were convicted of failure to obey, but the judge declined to impose any sentence. In a dual action on Mar. 15, three of them were arrested in the office of Sen. Dick Durbin and four in the office of Barack Obama.
7— Nine activists were arrested outside the federal building during a die-in to oppose the war in Iraq. The event was organized by Declaration of Peace Bay Area.
7— Rob Mulford was convicted in federal court for refusing to leave the premises of Sen. Lisa Murkowski's on Feb. 5. He was sentenced to a fine of $75, which was paid by the fifteen peace activists who were in court to support him.
MAY
19— Fr. Louie Vitale, Fr. Steve Kelly, Jeff Dietrich, Dennis Apel and Mike Wisniewski were arrested for trespass and scheduled to be arraigned in December. However, they are seeking a continuance as Vitale and Kelly are serving time in prison.
15— Eight people silently blocked the employee entrance of the federal building, holding signs that stated "NOT ONE MORE DAY, NOT ONE MORE DOLLAR, NOT ONE MORE DEATH." Five would be arrested and charged with failure to comply with a lawful order. In August, the federal case against the five longtime Syracuse Peace Council activists was dismissed.
14— U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema ordered that the June 16, 2006 conviction for “failure to obey a lawful order” of Max Obuszewski, who was arrested one half mile from the Pentagon on Mar. 20, 2006, be vacated. There were 51 arrests that day, and four separate trials. Obuszewski was represented at the May 3, 2007 oral arguments by public defender Michael Nachmanoff before U.S. District Judge T. S. Ellis. Ellis trumpeted the First Amendment, mocked the government’s original conviction and chastised the prosecutors for thinking one can sidestep procedures when dealing with pro se defendants. He hinted that the government might consider filing a motion to vacate the conviction, which it did.
11— Jerry Zawada, Eve Tetaz, Ellen Barfield and Jeff Leys were convicted of unlawful assembly for the Feb. 5 occupation of Sen. John McCain’s office. Six others paid a citation fee the day of the arrest. Jerry, Ellen and Jeff were sentenced to a suspended 7-day sentence with four months probation, while Eve received a suspended 10-day sentence with six months probation. Each was to pay a $50 assessment.
10— The AERO 8, facing a charge of trespass, were scheduled for trial. On Apr. 9, Patrick O’Neill and his daughter Moira, whose case was dismissed, Ellen Biesack, Frank Coyle, Steve Woolford, Scott Bass, Josh McIntyre, Barbara Zelter and Lisa Marcusson were arrested when they tried to enter an air field to deliver indictments to three pilots from Aero Contractors for flying torture taxis. Germany indicted 13 crew members, including pilots for Aero, in the 2004 kidnapping, detention and transport of Khaled El-Masri, a German citizen of Lebanese descent.
9— Karen Barker, Tom Barker, Jon Hutchinson, Mary Lee Sargent, Pat Wilczynski, Nellie Grant, Chris Hobby, Jordan Butterfield and Anne Miller were arrested at Sen. John Sununu's office for criminal trespass. Bail was set at $1,000. One person posted a bond, but the others spent the night in jail.
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