Biography
Medea Benjamin was a Codepink co-founder held overnight after an October 2007 antiwar protest in Washington, D.C..
Codepink co-founder Medea Benjamin was individually reported held overnight in a Washington, D.C. jail following an October 24, 2007 antiwar protest at a congressional hearing.
Codepink co-founder Medea Benjamin was individually reported held overnight in a Washington, D.C. jail following an October 24, 2007 antiwar protest at a congressional hearing.
The April 30, 2024 entry reports that Medea Benjamin was arrested while confronting Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at a congressional hearing in Washington, D.C., and was released in time to question him again as he left the Capitol that day. No jail-admission time or measured duration is established. The Nuclear Resister, chronicle of Gaza solidarity arrests.
The CODEPINK account individually names Medea Benjamin among five people arrested at the March 22, 2023 Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, charged with “incommoding” a public event, each paying a $50 fine before release two hours later. Its caption describes the group after getting out of jail. The source establishes jail custody in 2023 but gives no precise admission date, conviction or sentencing date. The reported two-hour interval is not converted into whole days of imprisonment.
The May 9, 2014 report names this participant among the women arrested for unlawful trespass while blocking the Vermont Yankee gate in Vernon that day. Officer Albrey Crowley transported the arrestees in small groups to Vernon Police Station. The report states that no court date had been set; it gives no physical release date, individual jail admission, completed custody duration or later disposition. The Nuclear Resister, May 9, 2014.
