Biography
Jack is a co-founder and co-publisher (with wife Felice) of The Nuclear Resister newsletter, which since 1980 has chronicled and supported imprisoned anti-war and anti-nuclear protesters. The Nuclear Resister has documented over 100,000 anti-war/anti-nuke arrests. Awarded the Nuclear Free Future Foundation 2020 education prize.
Felice and Jack Cohen-Joppa’s retrospective states that Jack’s first arrest occurred in June 1978 at Rocky Flats, following his participation in the spring campaign. It identifies him among the representative defendants at the November 1978 trial. The account gives no individual statutory charge, jail admission, physical release or measured custody duration for this episode.
The March 17, 2014 report individually lists Jack 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.
