Biography
Sam Day was an anti-nuclear journalist, former editor of The Progressive magazine, and longtime organizer with Nukewatch known for the Nuclear Weapons Highway and Missile Silo campaigns of the 1980s. Arrested numerous times for nonviolent civil disobedience at nuclear weapons sites. Documented in PFOC Breakthrough magazine.
Calculated release date for the stay beginning September 28, 2000: September 29, 2000. The recorded overnight detention places release on the next calendar day; it does not assert twenty-four full hours of confinement. This is a calculated date from the recorded admission and duration, not a separately documented physical-discharge date.
Calculated release date
Calculated release date for the stay beginning September 28, 2000: September 29, 2000. The recorded overnight detention places release on the next calendar day; it does not assert twenty-four full hours of confinement. This is a calculated date from the recorded admission and duration, not a separately documented physical-discharge date.
Photograph source
- Nukewatch, “25 Years of Nonviolent Action” — the caption identifies the late Sam Day at center, blocking an Army tank during a 1991 Gulf War “victory” parade in Madison, Wisconsin. The profile image is cropped from the documented action photograph; no AI editing was used.
Additional individually documented custody
The Madison courthouse account names Sam Day among the January 9, 1986 trespass arrestees who were booked and released. It then explicitly says he later pleaded guilty and served two days instead of paying a fine. This later two-day imprisonment has no printed exact admission or discharge day; it is not continuous since January 9 and is separate from his 1991, 1993 and 1995 cases.
The Nuclear Resister No.38, March 10, 1986, original PDF pages 2.
The individually named Sam Day, Jr., journalist for The Progressive, had left before the July 10 group arrest and was later sought on a warrant. The source does not date his individual arrest. It explicitly says he entered jail August 10 after refusing a fine and was released August 19, 1983. These are nine elapsed days; the ten-day imposed sentence is preserved as a court term, not ten elapsed days actually served.
The Summer 2001 Nukewatch Pathfinder, PDF page 9, reprints Day’s Omaha sentencing statement dated March 27, 1995 and identifies U.S. Magistrate Kathleen Jaudzemis. The statement’s date is not treated as a separately verified date of judgment.
