Biography
Michael “Mike” Wisniewski was a Los Angeles-area Catholic Worker community member and peace activist who crossed onto Fort Benning during the November 2002 School of the Americas Watch vigil. On February 10, 2003, he was sentenced to three months in federal prison and a $1,000 fine.
Sources
The March 17, 2014 report individually lists Mike Wisniewski among those arrested after crossing the boundary at the Nevada National Security Site on March 10 during the Pacific Life Community gathering. The named participants were held in processing pens, issued citations and released a short time later. No statutory charge, individual jail admission, completed full day of custody or subsequent court outcome is supplied. The period during which the group crossed the boundary is not treated as an individual detention duration. The Nuclear Resister, March 17, 2014.
The August 2013 compilation names this Los Angeles Catholic Worker participant among six arrested after carrying a Hiroshima–Never Again banner into Vandenberg Air Force Base on August 9, 2013. They were cited for trespassing and released an hour and a half later at Ryon Park in Lompoc. The Nuclear Resister, contemporary source report 632.
