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Marcia Timmel

Released
Gender:Female
Race:White
Era:1980s
State:District of Columbia
Support
Anti-War Anti-Nuclear Plowshares Movement Catholic Worker
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Biography

Marcia Timmel was a longtime member of the Olive Branch / Dorothy Day Catholic Worker in Washington, DC, and one of the most active women in the early Plowshares movement. She participated in Plowshares Number Four (1982) and acted alone in the 1988 Credo Plowshares, where she hammered and poured blood on a Textron Defense System MX missile display at the Air Force Association Arms Bazaar at the Sheraton-Washington Hotel, leaving her own creed of life and faith in response to the bazaar's slogan "Freedom: A Creed To Believe In."

Case

Charges: Property damage (Credo Plowshares action, Air Force Association Arms Bazaar)
Arrested: Sep 19, 1988
Sentenced: Dec 28, 1988
Incarcerated: Dec 28, 1988
Released: January 1989
Sentence: 90 days (83 suspended), 90 days probation, 7 days served. Verdict as recorded: Yes — jury verdict (November 18, 1988)
Convicted: Yes