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Marvin Allen Davidov

AKA: Marv Davidov
Released
Date of birth:26. 08. 1931
Date of death:14. 01. 2012
Age:80 Deceased
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1980s
State:Minnesota
Support
Anti-War Anti-Militarism Anti-Nuclear Vietnam Veterans Against the War
Marvin Allen Davidov

Biography

Born in Detroit on August 26, 1931, moved to St. Paul in 1949 to attend Macalester College and served in the U.S. Army 1953-1955. A 1961 Freedom Rider arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, and a participant in the 1963-1964 Canada-to-Cuba Peace Walk, he founded the Honeywell Project in 1968 after reading a Staughton Lynd article calling on activists to target war-profiteering corporations. He led the Project for over two decades, organizing annual protests at Honeywell's Minneapolis headquarters and shareholder meetings against cluster bombs, missile-guidance systems, anti-personnel mines, and depleted-uranium munitions. Co-authored "You Can't Do That" (2010) with Carol Masters.

Case

Charges: Trespass (Honeywell Project sit-ins at Honeywell HQ, Minneapolis, 1968–2002)
Arrested: Oct 23, 1983
Incarcerated: Oct 23, 1983
Sentence: Brief detention; most charges dismissed or short workhouse stints.
Convicted: Misdemeanor trespass