Biography
Robin Lloyd crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the annual SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army School of the Americas / Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. Convicted of trespass on a military installation and sentenced to 90 days in federal custody.
Each year on the November anniversary of the assassination of six Jesuits, their housekeeper, and her daughter at the University of Central America in San Salvador in 1989, peace activists gather at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia (now Fort Moore), site of the U.S. Army School of the Americas / Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), to commemorate the dead and to call for the school's closure. Hundreds have crossed the line onto the base over four decades of vigils; many have served federal sentences ranging from 30 days to a year for trespass.
The July 1, 2011 report individually names Robin Lloyd among fifteen women arrested for trespass during the June 30 Vermont Yankee demonstration advocating replacement of nuclear power with solar energy. The women were taken to the Vernon police station, booked and released pending a July 19 court appearance. The court appearance was still prospective, and the report does not document jail admission, a completed whole-day detention period or an eventual court outcome.
The February 14, 2012 Shut It Down account names this participant among nine women arrested for unlawful trespass during the previous day’s Valentine protest at Entergy headquarters in Brattleboro. Police transported and booked them; after release they distributed Valentines in the business district. Their March 27 court appearance was still prospective. The Nuclear Resister, contemporary source report 802.
