Biography
Anthony Donovan is a Brooklyn peace activist, musician, and documentary filmmaker whose organizing has included the Catholic Worker movement, Veterans for Peace, Pax Christi International, and the War Resisters League. He has organized citizen diplomacy and antiwar projects concerning Iran, Iraq, nuclear weapons, and military spending. Donovan was cited and released during an April 1, 2026 blockade at Creech Air Force Base and was arrested for trespass two days later after crossing the Nevada National Security Site boundary during the Sacred Peace Walk.
A 2018 peace-delegation biography reports three actual jailings for nonviolent civil disobedience against the Vietnam War in 1971. His publisher’s author biography independently confirms three Vietnam-war protest jailings and identifies the same New York hospice nurse and producer of Good Thinking: Those Who’ve Tried To Halt Nuclear Weapons. The accounts do not identify three separate admission and discharge dates, locations or durations; no three new cases or total are reconstructed.
Sources: US peace-delegation biographies, 2018; Anthony Donovan’s publisher author biography.
The 2018 peace-delegation biography identifies his birth year as 1952 and birthplace as a US military hospital in Würzburg. No birth month or day is supplied.
