Biography
Patricia Weiland, known as Paki Wieland, was a Northampton-area peace activist and CODEPINK organizer. She participated in the October 25, 2012 Hancock Field protest against drone warfare near Syracuse, New York. Acquitted of trespass but convicted of disorderly conduct, she received a fifteen-day sentence on February 7, 2014; her documented jail episode ended February 14, 2014. The earlier summary's 2013 sentencing year was incorrect.
Identified photograph review October 13, 2026: The original, unchanged photograph is from CODEPINK's memorial for Paki Wieland, image Paki-4.jpg. The Hancock defendants' trial announcement identifies Patricia Weiland of Northampton and also names her as Paki; her published family obituary independently identifies Paki Patricia Ann Wieland. This resolves the alias/spelling bridge without using photographs of unrelated namesakes. The summary's sentencing year is corrected to 2014, consistent with the contemporaneous sentencing announcement and the existing case dates. The full original photograph is retained without retouching or cropping.
The October 12, 2023 Northampton report reproduced by The Nuclear Resister names Paki Wieland, a longtime local peace activist, among the seven arrested after blocking L3Harris Technologies’ driveway entrances. Patricia Weiland is also known as Paki Wieland; the separate New London report spells the short name Paki Weiland. The six-hour blockade is not treated as jail time, and the following Friday’s scheduled arraignment is not a documented hearing or release. No individual statutory charge or completed custody duration is supplied. L3Harris action report.
A separate November 13, 2023 General Dynamics–Electric Boat action report names Paki Weiland of Northampton among two people issued public-disturbance citations, separately from the nine people arrested and taken to the police station. The report supplies no jail admission or confinement term for this citation. New London action report.
The September 19, 2013 Shut It Down report individually names this person among nine women arrested at Vermont Yankee on September 18 after chaining themselves to the gate and refusing to leave when warned. The group was booked and released; no court date had been set. The warning that they were trespassing is not converted into a separately verified formal charge. The report’s collective age range and thirty-first campaign action do not establish an individual birth date, number of previous arrests or custody duration. No jail admission or complete day of imprisonment is inferred. The Nuclear Resister, September 19, 2013.
The October 25, 2012 participant report individually names Paki Wieland among thirteen Hancock air-base protesters still held in jail late that afternoon after DeWitt Town Court hearings. All seventeen arrestees had been charged with trespass and disorderly conduct and served with protection orders concerning Earl A. Evans; the report says four other people were released on recognizance. It gives no final release date or completed duration for Paki Wieland. This is the initial pretrial custody reported that afternoon.
The October 17, 2012 Vermont Yankee report individually identifies Patricia Weiland among twelve women arrested for trespass after chaining themselves across the nuclear power plant driveway in Vernon. Police arranged transportation to the nearby department. The report establishes no separate jail admission, release day or completed custody duration.
The September 2012 Shut It Down account individually names Patricia Weiland among eleven women arrested after entering the Vermont Yankee Governor Hunt House conference center in Vernon on September 12. Vernon police charged the participants with trespass. The account supplies no individual jail admission, release endpoint or completed duration.
The June 11, 2012 Shut It Down report individually identifies Paki Wieland among eight women arrested at Entergy headquarters in Brattleboro, Vermont. After the group refused to leave, Brattleboro police booked the participants for unlawful trespass. A July 17 arraignment was scheduled, but the report establishes no individual jail admission, release date or later court outcome.
Joy First’s contemporary account names this participant among eight people given disorderly-conduct citations after the April 8, 2011 Pentagon peace action. Police physically moved the demonstrators and transported them to the Navy Annex for processing. The account says police did not announce an arrest; it documents physical detention and citation, without identifying a jail admission or completed detention duration. A June 3 hearing was prospective when reported. Contemporary report.
The contemporary roster individually names this participant among 27 people arrested on the White House sidewalk on April 10, 2011 during a die-in calling for closure of the School of the Americas. The report does not specify an individual charge, jail admission, release date or detention duration. Contemporary report.
The contemporary Shut It Down report individually names this participant among eight women arrested on June 12, 2013 while blocking Glen Orne Drive and driveways at Entergy’s Vermont Yankee headquarters in Brattleboro. Police issued disorderly-conduct citations; the July 23 Windham County hearing was prospective. The report does not specify an individual jail admission, release date, completed detention duration or eventual case outcome. Contemporary report.
The contemporary report individually names this participant among those arrested at Hancock Air Base on April 28, 2013 after the anti-drone funeral procession. Its follow-up specifically includes this person in the twenty-one-person arraignment list. The report names Benack, Gideon and Jokl collectively as the judges and gives a range of bail amounts; it does not assign one judge or bail amount to each listed individual. Contemporary source.
The June 11, 2012 report describes this participant’s Shut It Down protest at Entergy headquarters in Brattleboro. Dressed as medical professionals, the women read radiation-health information in the vestibule and called attention to what they described as a health emergency. The eight named arrestees were booked for unlawful trespass; their July 17 arraignment was still prospective. The named supporters were a separate group, not additional arrestees. Contemporary source.
The September 26, 2016 Pentagon account names this activist among twenty-one people arrested for violating a lawful order while demanding accountability for war crimes. All were reported released with a future November 3 court date. That scheduled hearing does not establish a later verdict or an additional custody interval. Contemporary report, The Nuclear Resister.
The March 6, 2015 Creech Air Force Base report individually includes Patricia Weiland in its named arrest roster. The compilation reports trespass and roadway-related allegations and describes citation-and-release processing, but one person held on an outstanding warrant is unnamed. Neither that warrant detention nor an overnight stay is allocated to this person. The differing reported aggregate totals are retained without inventing an additional identity or completed custody duration.
Sources: Contemporary report.
The January 2012 Shut It Down report individually names this participant among fourteen women arrested at Vermont Yankee on January 18, 2012 and transported to Vernon police station for booking. Police initially announced unlawful trespass, but no written citations or arraignment dates remained in effect when booking ended; Hattie Nestel’s initially issued February 14 citation was withdrawn pending mailed notices. The Nuclear Resister, contemporary source report 806.
