Jennifer Haines

Date of birth:10. 08. 1973
Age:53
Gender:Female
Race:White
Era:1980s
State:Colorado
Support
Anti-Militarism Anti-War
Jennifer Haines

Biography

Plowshares peace activist named as a petitioner in the 1990 Special International Tribunal on Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War in the United States, jailed for nonviolent direct action against the U.S. nuclear-weapons complex.

Case

Charges: Violating a federal court injunction, at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant.
Arrested: Dec 25, 1981
Sentenced: Mar 3, 1982
Sentence: Suspended sentence. On Christmas Day 1981 she and four other Christian peace activists entered the gates of the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant near Denver to deliver a message asking workers to choose peaceful employment, and were arrested inside. Arraigned 4 January 1982; found guilty by Judge Zita Weinshienk on 1 March 1982; sentence suspended two days later.
Judge: Zita Weinshienk
Convicted: Yes — found guilty on 1 March 1982.

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