Bill Streit
Biography
Bill Streit was a Washington, D.C., Catholic Worker who took part in the 1991 ANZUS Peace Force Plowshares action.
Dorothy Day Catholic Worker (Washington, DC); took part in the 1991 ANZUS Peace Force Plowshares at Griffiss AFB, Rome, NY.
Bill Frankel-Streit was an Atlantic Life Community / Catholic Worker activist who poured human blood on the Pentagon entrance during the Holy Innocents witness on December 30, 2002, on the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Sentenced to 6 months in federal prison.
Catholic Worker and Plowshares peace activist arrested in a disarmament action against nuclear weapons systems and held in federal custody under register #03809-052. Convicted of federal sabotage and depredation of government property. Documented in PFOC Breakthrough magazine.
Calculated release date for the stay beginning September 28, 2000: September 29, 2000. The recorded overnight detention places release on the next calendar day; it does not assert twenty-four full hours of confinement. This is a calculated date from the recorded admission and duration, not a separately documented physical-discharge date.
Calculated release date
Calculated release date for the stay beginning September 28, 2000: September 29, 2000. The recorded overnight detention places release on the next calendar day; it does not assert twenty-four full hours of confinement. This is a calculated date from the recorded admission and duration, not a separately documented physical-discharge date.
The August 6, 2025 Pentagon protest led to processing and release; the newsletter reports an October 16 guilty plea and $100 fine.
The Plowshares chronology individually names the four ANZUS participants, their January 1, 1991 detention and actual March 6 pretrial release after over two months in jail. This initial phase is recorded separately from later sentencing. The existing ten-month actual-duration figure is preserved because the source does not resolve whether that aggregate includes credited pretrial time. Source.
Art Laffin’s March 29, 2024 report identifies this participant among four arrested after blocking a Pentagon entrance during the Good Friday witness. Pentagon police processed and released those arrested. The report gives charges of interfering with government agency functions and disobeying a lawful order. Its June 6 court date was prospective, not a documented hearing outcome. No overnight jail admission or additional imprisonment total is inferred.
Source: The Nuclear Resister, report 0075.
Art Laffin’s December 28, 2023 eyewitness account reports that Bill Frankel-Streit and Kim Williams were arrested after blocking the Pentagon checkpoint during the Holy Innocents witness, processed by Pentagon police and released. They were charged with disobeying a lawful order and given a prospective March 7, 2024 Alexandria federal court date. This supplies the release endpoint for the already recorded December 28 arrest; no overnight confinement, complete day of imprisonment or later court outcome is inferred. The Nuclear Resister, December 28, 2023.
Art Laffin’s report individually names Bill Frankel-Streit among eight arrested at the Pentagon’s December 27, 2019 Holy Innocents witness. Pentagon police processed them on two charges and released all within several hours. The announced February 20 court date was prospective, not a completed outcome.
The Nuclear Resister’s April 20, 2014 report names Bill Streit among six people arrested at Langley Air Force Base at the end of a Holy Week peace walk. On Good Friday they attempted to deliver a letter challenging drone warfare and blocked the gate with peace banners. The report says the four other participants were released and told that any charges would arrive by mail; no assigned charge is established for this person. No individual jail admission, exact physical release day, later outcome or custody duration is supplied. Contemporary report, April 20, 2014.
Art Laffin’s December 28, 2018 participant report names Bill Frankel-Streit among four people arrested at the Pentagon during the Holy Innocents witness that morning, following the December 27 retreat. They were taken to the Pentagon Police center, processed, charged with disobeying a lawful order and released. The proposed March 21 court appearance, which the group planned to reschedule, was prospective. This brief detention does not establish a jail admission, completed prison day or eventual verdict and is separate from the December 2019 witness.
Art Laffin’s participant report individually names Bill Streit among fourteen people arrested during the May 17, 2013 White House sidewalk vigil calling for Guantanamo’s closure. Park Police took the group to the Anacostia Park Police station and charged them with disobeying a lawful order. The report does not give an actual release day or establish jail admission or completed custody duration. The group’s return instructions for an arraignment date are not a completed court outcome. The roster uses Bill Frankel Streit of Little Flower Catholic Worker; his existing biography also identifies him as Bill Frankel-Streit. The Nuclear Resister, May 19, 2013.
Art Laffin’s participant report individually names Bill Frankel-Streit among seven people arrested at the Pentagon on December 28, 2017, after trying to deliver the nuclear-weapons prohibition treaty and refusing orders to leave a restricted checkpoint. They were taken to the Pentagon Police center, charged with disobeying a lawful order and released. The report does not individually establish jail admission or a precise physical release day; the announced February 1 hearing is not a verdict or imposed sentence.
Art Laffin’s contemporary account identifies Bill Frankel-Streit, recorded here as Bill Streit, and Eric Martin as the two people arrested at the Pentagon on August 9, 2017. They refused orders to enter the designated protest area during the Nagasaki anniversary witness, were handcuffed and taken for police processing, and were charged with failure to obey a lawful order. The October 19 court date was prospective. No separate jail admission, physical release calendar day, outcome or completed custody duration is supplied. Contemporary report, The Nuclear Resister.
The August 2012 compilation individually names Bill Streit among six people arrested at the Pentagon on August 6 and charged with violating a lawful order. The October court report records a no-contest plea, an $85 fine and Magistrate Judge Buchanan at the October 19 hearing. The earlier report describes release after processing; no separate prison admission or completed duration is established. Any later arrest on another warrant is a separate episode.
Art Laffin’s account individually names this participant among eleven people arrested on the Pentagon sidewalk during the 2012 Good Friday witness after three warnings to leave. It reports a failure-to-comply-with-a-lawful-order charge and a then-future May 18 court date. The Holy Thursday Israeli Embassy witness and the later White House witness are described separately. Contemporary source.
The December 2016 report names this activist among sixteen arrested at the Pentagon witness on December 28 for disobeying a lawful order and subsequently released from processing. Cardboard figures of Daniel Berrigan carried at the action were memorial cutouts, not an additional arrestee. The article supplies no measured jail interval. Contemporary report, The Nuclear Resister.
The Good Friday report names Bill Streit among seven people arrested at the Pentagon on April 3, 2015 and processed and released several hours later. The reported charge was failure to comply with a lawful order, with a June 4 court appearance still prospective. The symbolic crucifixion script and its named historical victims are separate from the seven-person arrest roster.
Sources: Contemporary report.
Hancock blockade acquittal in 2013
A contemporary report identifies this defendant among the five people prosecuted for the February 13, 2013 Hancock Air Base blockade. Judge Robert Jokl acquitted all five of disorderly conduct on October 24. The account does not establish a jail duration. Contemporary trial reports.
Art Laffin’s participant account names Bill Frankel Streit, Art Laffin and Nancy Gowen as arrested at the Pentagon on August 6, 2013 after kneeling outside the designated protest area. They were charged with disobeying a lawful order, processed and released several hours later. The announced October 4 trial was still prospective. The Nuclear Resister, contemporary source report 632.
