Biography
Felice Cohen-Joppa co-founded The Nuclear Resister with Jack Cohen-Joppa in 1980 and has spent decades documenting arrests and supporting imprisoned anti-nuclear and anti-war activists. Tucson police arrested her and five others at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base on March 1, 1998; the court imposed probation and community service rather than jail. Washington police arrested her again at the Israeli Embassy on September 28, 2000 during a protest marking Mordechai Vanunu’s imprisonment. She was held overnight and released the following day.
The July 2013 Ground Zero newsletter individually names Felice Cohen-Joppa among the fourteen people arrested on the federal side of Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor during the Pacific Life Community action on March 4, 2013. The report does not establish a complete jail interval or an eventual prison sentence. Source: https://www.gzcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/July-13-newsletter-for-website.pdf#page=7
Custody record
Contemporary Nuclear Resister reporting names Cohen-Joppa among the August 16, 2010 Kansas City bomb-plant blockaders arrested. The trial follow-up reports fines or probation rather than jail sentences; her actual processing duration remains unresolved.
Separate March 4, 2018 brief Nevada detention and same-day release
The April 2018 Ground Zero newsletter, original page 6, individually names Felice Cohen-Joppa among twenty-four Pacific Life Community participants arrested at the Nevada National Security Site on March 4, 2018. Felice Cohen-Joppa’s report says the participants crossed the site boundary, were escorted to a nearby pen, briefly held, processed and released. This is a same-day temporary detention and release, not an overnight prison stay, a served-day sentence, or continuous custody beginning that day. No imprisonment counter or new discrete prison episode is added, and other case dates remain unchanged.
The March 17, 2014 report individually lists Felice Cohen-Joppa among those arrested after crossing the boundary at the Nevada National Security Site on March 10 during the Pacific Life Community gathering. The named participants were held in processing pens, issued citations and released a short time later. No statutory charge, individual jail admission, completed full day of custody or subsequent court outcome is supplied. The period during which the group crossed the boundary is not treated as an individual detention duration. The Nuclear Resister, March 17, 2014.
The March 10, 2018 participant report individually names Felice Cohen-Joppa among twenty-four people arrested after crossing onto the Nevada National Security Site on March 4. It states that they were briefly held in the nearby pen, processed and released. This same-day arrest and release does not establish jail admission, an individual statutory charge or a completed whole day of imprisonment.
