Biography
Barbara Weidner was individually named in a contemporary report of the April 9, 1982 anti-nuclear blockade at Mather Air Force Base near Sacramento, California. The five named protesters refused citation release and bail and were held in jail through their April 12 arraignment. They pleaded no contest and received time served, described by the report as four days, plus one year of probation. April 9 to April 12 spans three elapsed calendar days, consistent with inclusive counting, and does not prove four full 24-hour days. The article does not expressly state the physical discharge date, so no final release date or completed duration is asserted.
Sources and limits
National No-Nukes Prison Support Collective newsletter No. 11, April 15, 1982, original page 4.
The report individually names the participant and supplies direct physical custody in a politically motivated anti-nuclear protest. No race, gender, exact vital dates, later prison term or present-day custody status is inferred. The original prints Barbara Weidner. This is not silently renamed to Barbara Wiedner or linked to the separately preserved later Grandmothers for Peace portrait; that spelling/identity bridge requires independent evidence.
The Aerojet report individually identifies Barbara Weidner among twelve protesters who refused citation release following May 10, 1985 arrest and remained in jail for four days over the weekend. Their time-served arraignment disposition is reported without a separately dated physical discharge. Four is the source’s inclusive actual served count, not a silently inferred three elapsed days. Neither an unprinted Monday sentencing day nor exact release is invented.
