Biography
Daniel Burns was one of the St. Patrick's Four — Catholic Worker activists Peter DeMott, Teresa Grady, Clare Grady, and Daniel Burns — who on March 17, 2003, on the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, entered the Ithaca, New York Army Recruiting Station and poured their own blood inside the office in symbolic protest. Burns served six months at MDC Brooklyn for the action.
The contemporary report records immediate admission to custody at sentencing on January 23, 2006.
The June 28, 2012 Hancock report names Danny Burns, identified as an Ithaca Catholic Worker, among fifteen people arrested at the base. The account reports release without bail for the participants other than three individually named people held for prior community-service noncompliance. No separate jail admission or completed custody duration is assigned to Burns.
The March 2017 report states that a New York jury acquitted James Ricks, Daniel Burns, Brian Hynes and Ed Kinane of all charges arising from their March 19, 2015 protest at Hancock. The article does not state the exact calendar day of the verdict. Contemporary report, The Nuclear Resister.
