Biography
Alice Gerard — SOA Watch line-crosser at Fort Benning, Georgia. Convicted of trespass on a military installation and sentenced to 6 months in federal custody.
Each November on the anniversary of the assassination of six Jesuits, their housekeeper, and her daughter at the University of Central America in San Salvador in 1989, peace activists gather at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia, site of the U.S. Army School of the Americas / Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), to commemorate the dead and to call for the school's closure. Hundreds have crossed the line onto the base over four decades of vigils; many have served federal sentences ranging from 30 days to a year for trespass.
The February 2005 account reports that Gerard had completed a three-month prison term for the previous year’s School of the Americas protest before returning in November 2004. This is separate from her later six-month terms; exact admission and discharge dates are not supplied.
Joy First’s contemporary account names this participant among eight people given disorderly-conduct citations after the April 8, 2011 Pentagon peace action. Police physically moved the demonstrators and transported them to the Navy Annex for processing. The account says police did not announce an arrest; it documents physical detention and citation, without identifying a jail admission or completed detention duration. A June 3 hearing was prospective when reported. Contemporary report.
The contemporary roster individually names this participant among 27 people arrested on the White House sidewalk on April 10, 2011 during a die-in calling for closure of the School of the Americas. The report does not specify an individual charge, jail admission, release date or detention duration. Contemporary report.
