Biography
Cal Robertson was a Hartford Catholic Worker arrested in the July 2, 1999 sit-in at Senator Joseph Lieberman's Hartford office to protest U.S. sanctions on Iraq. Sentenced to 30 days.
On July 2, 1999, the Lieberman Five - Hartford Catholic Workers - held a sit-in at Senator Joseph Lieberman's Hartford office to protest U.S. sanctions on Iraq, ringing a bell every twelve minutes for an Iraqi child who had died from sanctions-related malnutrition. Most received 30-day jail sentences served at the Carl Robinson Correctional Institution in Enfield, Connecticut.
Birth-date source
- The Day obituary — identifies Vietnam Navy corpsman and peace activist Calvin “Cal” Robertson and gives his birth date as December 6, 1945.
Photograph source
Separate documented two-week Norwich blockade imprisonment
The General Dynamics/Norwich update individually names Theresa Allen, Peter Holladay, Cal Robertson, Dan Lawrence, Claire and Scott Schaeffer-Duffy, Daniel Sirhan, Jeffrey Spalter and George Thompson as having served two weeks in jail for a nonviolent blockade before being brought to court January 25, 1985, when charges were dismissed. Its Recently Released list also names the same people. This establishes fourteen documented days and actual release in 1985 for Cal Robertson, but dismissal is not silently treated as a precise physical-release day. First admission and exact discharge remain unknown; no January 11 admission is back-calculated. The source spells Clare as Claire; the distinctive compound surname and Scott pairing bridge the existing person, not a new duplicate. Earlier separately stored Scott Duffy identity questions are not resolved or merged from this report.
The Nuclear Resister No.29, February 27, 1985, original PDF pages 4,8.
Earlier 1984–1985 custody chronology
The earlier January 23 issue places this same nine-person Norwich blockade on January 11, 1985, the day before the January 12 USS Alaska launch protest. It individually lists all nine as then held in jail pending trial. This identifies the arrest/action date for the already recorded fourteen-day Norwich case; it does not create another January episode or turn the later January 25 dismissal into an independently printed physical-release day. No exact first booking timestamp is inferred merely from the action date.
The Nuclear Resister No. 28, January 23, 1985, PDF pages [4].
Source: individual memorial entry in The Nuclear Resister, issue 208.
