Biography
Eve Tetaz was a retired Washington, D.C. public school teacher who became a prominent peace-and-justice activist, repeatedly committing nonviolent civil resistance against the Iraq War, torture, and the Guantanamo detentions. Arrested some eleven times in 2007 alone and roughly a dozen more times in 2008-2010, she refused to pay fines and served a series of jail sentences — including 7 days (2007), 5 days (2008), 25 days (2010), and 60 days in the D.C. Jail after a 2012 banner protest at the U.S. Supreme Court. She was active with Code Pink, the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance, and Witness Against Torture.
2010s audit verified October 12, 2026: The January 25, 2010 Baltimore Nonviolence Center original report, retained and read locally, confirms sentencing and jail commencement that day. The existing exact January 25 endpoints are corroborated; the conflicting sentence note describing only an advance schedule was corrected. The 2012 Supreme Court episode remains distinct, and no release day is calculated from the 25-day sentence.
The contemporary report documents a separate custody episode: Overnight detention; released after arraignment.
A June 27, 2012 Abolition Action Committee report individually names Eve Tetaz among fourteen people arrested after displaying a “STOP EXECUTIONS!” banner at the U.S. Supreme Court on January 17. It identifies her among the defendants convicted before Judge Juliet McKenna on June 27 and reports an imposed sixty-day jail sentence after she refused fines or community service. The report announces that she would self-report on July 2; that announcement is not proof of actual admission or completed service. Existing custody dates and totals are preserved. Contemporary committee report, preserved in the WashLaw mailing-list archive.
The January 2015 Reuters report individually identifies Eve Tetaz of Washington, D.C., among the two people arrested January 10 at Dick Cheney’s McLean, Virginia home during a protest against torture and the Guantanamo prison. Police said the two who declined to leave faced misdemeanor trespassing and disorderly-conduct charges. The report supplies no jail admission, physical release date, completed custody duration or later disposition. The Nuclear Resister, January 11, 2015, reproducing Reuters.
Art Laffin’s participant report individually names Eve Tetaz 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 Nuclear Resister, May 19, 2013.
The National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance account individually names Eve Tetaz among thirteen people arrested on the lower U.S. Capitol steps on January 12, 2016, before the State of the Union address, while seeking to deliver a petition and list of alleged U.S. war crimes to the Vice-President’s office. They were charged with incommoding and obstructing. The announced February 3 arraignment was prospective; this account supplies no individual jail admission, physical release, verdict, sentence or completed custody duration. Contemporary report, The Nuclear Resister.
The January 27, 2011 account and reproduced Las Vegas Sun report individually identify this participant among the Creech 14 arrested on April 9, 2009. Judge William Jansen found all fourteen guilty of trespass and imposed time served on January 27, 2011. The statements below the article carry an inconsistent July 27, 2010 heading; the dated report and reproduced contemporary news account establish the January 2011 disposition. Time served is the imposed disposition, without a measured number of days or a claim of continuous custody from arrest to sentencing. Contemporary source.
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.
The contemporary report individually names this participant among those arrested at Hancock Air Base on April 28, 2013 after the anti-drone funeral procession. Its follow-up specifically includes this person in the twenty-one-person arraignment list. The report names Benack, Gideon and Jokl collectively as the judges and gives a range of bail amounts; it does not assign one judge or bail amount to each listed individual. Contemporary source.
The January 2017 report includes this activist in the combined sixteen-person arrest roster for January 11 protests at the Hart Senate Office Building and cabinet-confirmation hearings. The combined roster does not identify every individual’s precise location, charge, detention interval or case outcome. Contemporary report, The Nuclear Resister.
The September 26, 2016 Pentagon account names this activist among twenty-one people arrested for violating a lawful order while demanding accountability for war crimes. All were reported released with a future November 3 court date. That scheduled hearing does not establish a later verdict or an additional custody interval. Contemporary report, The Nuclear Resister.
The report individually names Eve Tetaz among fifteen people arrested at the White House on September 22, 2015. Joy First’s participant account describes arrest at about 2:15 p.m. and release at 9 p.m. that day. Her account distinguishes a blocking-passage charge form from others described as disorderly conduct, and says no actual citation was supplied. The intended future not-guilty response is not a recorded accepted plea; the several-hour detention is not counted as a whole prison day.
Sources: Contemporary report.
The Good Friday report names Eve Tetaz 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.
The January 29, 2015 Fort Benning court report describes Judge Stephen Hyles imposing a $5,000 fine on Eve Tetaz after her November 23, 2014 School of the Americas protest. Captain Corey McKinnon prosecuted. The requested six months in prison was not imposed. Leaving court that day is not treated as proof of continuous imprisonment from the prior November arrest.
Sources: Contemporary report.
The November 23, 2014 Fort Benning account individually names Tetaz and Nashua Chantal as arrested during the annual School of the Americas vigil. It supplies no later physical-release endpoint for that arrest. Separate arrests at Stewart and negotiated bonds are not treated as proof of release for Tetaz.
Sources: The Nuclear Resister report 521.
