Biography
Russell De Young crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the November 2000 SOA Watch vigil. Sentenced to 6 months, $1000 fine.
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, 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 Nuclear Resister’s April 20, 2014 report names Russell De Young among six people arrested at Langley Air Force Base at the end of a Holy Week peace walk. On Good Friday they attempted to deliver a letter challenging drone warfare and blocked the gate with peace banners. The report says the four other participants were released and told that any charges would arrive by mail; no assigned charge is established for this person. No individual jail admission, exact physical release day, later outcome or custody duration is supplied. Contemporary report, April 20, 2014.
