Biography
Sue Ablao is an activist documented in Nuclear Resister’s reporting on protest arrests.
On 2026-03-05, Sue Ablao was arrested at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor. Twelve cited for disorderly conduct and released at the scene.
On 2025-08-11, Sue Ablao was arrested at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, Washington. Cited and released at the scene during the Hiroshima/Nagasaki remembrance blockade.
Verified detail sources (October 9, 2026, peace-activist review): Ground Zero Center’s October 2023 newsletter introduces Sue Ablao’s own mitigation testimony using she/her and identifies her as its Stewardship Council member and former member-in-residence. This identifies the Bangor activist directly. References to fellow activist Jackie Hudson are not used as Sue’s biography. Source 1.
Separate March 4, 2018 brief Nevada detention and same-day release
The April 2018 Ground Zero newsletter, original page 6, individually names Sue Ablao among twenty-four Pacific Life Community participants arrested at the Nevada National Security Site on March 4, 2018. Felice Cohen-Joppa’s report says the participants crossed the site boundary, were escorted to a nearby pen, briefly held, processed and released. This is a same-day temporary detention and release, not an overnight prison stay, a served-day sentence, or continuous custody beginning that day. No imprisonment counter or new discrete prison episode is added, and other case dates remain unchanged. The newsletter prints Sue Albao; the Pacific Life Community’s March 10 community reprint of the same event and roster explicitly prints Sue Ablao, independently bridging the transposed spelling. No new alias or spelling change is inferred from appearance.
Ground Zero, April 2018, original page 6; Pacific Life Community, March 10, 2018.
The July 2018 Ground Zero newsletter individually names Sue Ablao among ten people briefly detained by Washington State Patrol during the Mother’s Day antinuclear demonstration at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor in May 2018. Officers issued citations for pedestrians being on the roadway unlawfully and released them. The source gives no exact arrest day, jail admission or measured confinement duration. Its twenty-minute roadway blockade is not treated as custody time. This was a separate action from the later Bangor cases.
The account individually names Sue Ablao among the demonstrators removed from the roadway by Washington State Patrol officers at Bangor on 2023-08-07. The reported citation was Pedestrians on roadways (RCW 46.61.250). The account explicitly reports release at the scene or after citation on that date. No jail admission, imposed prison term or full day of imprisonment is established by this report.
The account individually names Sue Ablao among the demonstrators removed from the roadway by Washington State Patrol officers at Bangor on 2023-05-13. The reported citation was Pedestrians on roadways (RCW 46.61.250). The account explicitly reports release at the scene or after citation on that date. No jail admission, imposed prison term or full day of imprisonment is established by this report.
The account individually names Sue Ablao among the demonstrators removed from the roadway by Washington State Patrol officers at Bangor on 2022-08-08. The reported citation was Pedestrian on roadway illegally. No jail admission, imposed prison term or full day of imprisonment is established by this report.
The account individually names Sue Ablao among the demonstrators removed from the roadway by Washington State Patrol officers at Bangor on 2022-05-07. The reported citation was Pedestrians on roadways (RCW 46.61.250). The account explicitly reports release at the scene or after citation on that date. No jail admission, imposed prison term or full day of imprisonment is established by this report.
The account individually names Sue Ablao among the demonstrators removed from the roadway by Washington State Patrol officers at Bangor on 2021-05-08. The reported citation was Pedestrians on roadways (RCW 46.61.250). The account explicitly reports release at the scene or after citation on that date. No jail admission, imposed prison term or full day of imprisonment is established by this report.
The March 2020 account individually names Sue Ablao among the nine people arrested by Washington state police for the roadway blockade outside Bangor on March 2, 2020, quickly cited and released. No precise statutory charge is supplied for this person. No jail admission, later verdict, imposed sentence or numerical duration is established.
Photo: native portrait crop from the individually captioned “Sue Ablao” photograph at the March 2, 2020 Bangor action, photographed by Felice Cohen-Joppa.
The Nuclear Resister, March 3, 2020; Original captioned photograph.
The March 10, 2018 participant report individually names Sue Ablao among twenty-four people arrested after crossing onto the Nevada National Security Site on March 4. It states that they were briefly held in the nearby pen, processed and released. This same-day arrest and release does not establish jail admission, an individual statutory charge or a completed whole day of imprisonment.
The report identifies Sue Ablao, Mack Johnson, Philip Davis and George Rodkey as receiving roadway citations and being released during the August 8, 2016 Bangor protest. The following day’s peace flotilla was a separate witness, with no arrests reported; the two-day event does not establish two days of custody. Contemporary report, The Nuclear Resister.
