Biography
Midge Potts was arrested during a 2012 nonviolent antiwar or antinuclear protest.
The issue names Midge Potts and Henry Stoever as arrested during an April 2012 protest at the Kansas City nuclear-weapons plant construction site. Their October trial was still prospective. No jail admission, discharge or completed punishment is supplied.
Jane Stoever’s contemporary account individually names this participant among four people arrested after crossing onto the site of the new Kansas City nuclear-weapons-parts plant on April 14, 2012. It reports their release on $100 bonds within a few hours and a then-planned May 15 municipal trespass hearing. Contemporary source.
The report also records Potts’s recollection of serving in the Navy in Bahrain in 1991 and observing the contrast between oil infrastructure and impoverished local communities. Contemporary source.
