Biography
Steve Clemens is a Mennonite-rooted peace and justice activist from Pennsylvania who registered as a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War. While living at Koinonia Farm in Georgia, he joined the February 10, 1981 prayer pilgrimage inside the Pantex nuclear weapons assembly plant. He refused bond, was sentenced to six months, and remained in custody until July 7, 1981. Clemens later organized against weapons production and the School of the Americas, joined peace delegations to Iraq and Afghanistan, and helped found the Iraqi and American Reconciliation Project in Minnesota.
Additional individually documented custody
The Georgia nuclear-train report individually names Joe Cohen, Mark Reeve, A.B. Short, Steve Clemens, Tom Kline, George Ostensen and Katy White as arrested at Montezuma in May 1985. It explicitly states all seven spent five days in jail before release on bond, later pleading no contest for time served. Exact May arrest and physical release days are not supplied. This is not the February 1986 overnight train blockade described separately in the article.
The Nuclear Resister No.38, March 10, 1986, original PDF pages 4.
In his April 25, 2010 first-person account, Clemens distinguishes the October 2, 2009 Alliant Techsystems arrest and April 23, 2010 hearing before Peter Cahill from the 2008 Republican National Convention arrest and September 2009 Ramsey County proceeding before Edward Wilson. Both described dispositions were conditional and noncustodial; they do not establish extra jail days or replace the separately recorded June 2012 ATK imprisonment. Source.
Following the prosecution of the March 17, 2014 Des Moines drone-war protest, Steve Clemens chose jail rather than a fine. His first-person account confirms two days served. The report does not establish the later admission and release dates; the March protest date is not used as a continuous prison start.
Sources: The Nuclear Resister, No.175.
