Biography
Clare Therese Grady, age 59, KBP7 defendant; 12 months federal prison. Clare Grady is an American Catholic peace activist and longtime member of the Catholic Worker and Plowshares movements. She has participated in multiple high-profile acts of civil resistance against war, nuclear arms, and military bases, including the “Saint Patrick’s Day Four” anti-Iraq War protest in 2003.
Grady is best known as a member of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7, who in April 2018 entered the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in Georgia to protest U.S. nuclear weapons. Prosecutors convicted her and her co-defendants on federal charges in October 2019, and in November 2020 she was sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison; she has been serving her sentence at FPC Alderson in West Virginia.
Outside prison, Grady has worked for many years at a community kitchen in Ithaca, New York, and is married with two daughters.
The November 12, 2019 NYC Anarchist Black Cross compilation reproduces reporting on the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 jury verdict of October 24, 2019: conspiracy, destruction of property on a naval installation, depredation of government property and trespass. It describes the defendants other than Stephen Kelly as free at home awaiting sentencing, while Kelly remained jailed. The reported twenty- or twenty-five-year maximum was a possible penalty, not an imposed term or actual service. Later dispositions remain separately recorded. Source: https://nycabc.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/updates-12-nov-2019-1.pdf#page=2
The same compilation expressly reports that Grady spent six months behind bars in 2006 for the blood-splashing protest at a Lansing, New York recruiting office during the Iraq War. This is actual service in an earlier case, distinct from Kings Bay; exact admission and release days are not supplied. Source: https://nycabc.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/updates-12-nov-2019-1.pdf#page=1
The Paschal 2023 Catholic Peace Fellowship Philadelphia newsletter reports participation in the January 28, 2023 Chestnut Hill College discussion following a screening of The Nuns, The Priests and The Bombs. The profile traces her activity from Griffiss Air Force Base in 1983 through Kings Bay in 2018 and identifies her work at the Loaves & Fishes community kitchen in Ithaca. The retrospective prison references do not establish new custody endpoints. Source: https://www.cpfphila.com/ARTICLES/2023_May/2023-05-Paschal-CPF-Newsletter.pdf#page=8
Initial Hancock custody, October 25, 2012
The Upstate Coalition statement dated October 25, 2012 named Clare Grady among thirteen people still held in jail late that afternoon after a blockade of Hancock Field near Syracuse. The statement reported trespass and disorderly-conduct charges and bail between $250 and $1,000. Four other named participants had already been released on their own recognizance. It does not establish the physical release day for the thirteen still held. This initial October 2012 custody must not be extended through later 2014 sentencing or conflated with other protest cases. No new release date or measured days imprisoned are inferred from this report.
Initial Griffiss custody ended December 12, 1983
The Thanksgiving at Griffiss report individually names Clare Grady among seven resisters who entered Griffiss Air Force Base on Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 1983. All seven were initially held on an Air Force bus, then remained in Syracuse City Jail until their December 12 arraignment, when they were released on their own recognizance. This establishes an initial eighteen-elapsed-day interval, not continuous custody through any later July 1984 sentence or final federal discharge. The next court appearance in January was future and not a release date. All existing later proceedings and endpoints must remain separately preserved.
The Nuclear Resister No22, December 16, 1983, original page 3.
Later Griffiss sentence-era halfway-house custody
The December 9, 1985 Nuclear Resister directory individually lists Claire Grady with the Griffiss Plowshares group and says she had recently transferred to a halfway house in New York City; the Jonah House address is a correspondence contact, not proof that the New York halfway house was in Baltimore. The January 20, 1986 issue individually lists Claire Grady as recently released. These reports establish a later sentence-era custodial phase, separate from the eighteen-day initial November 24–December 12, 1983 Griffiss jail stay. They do not print the first later admission, the prison-to-halfway-house transfer day or the final release day. Halfway-house placement must not be counted as uninterrupted physical-prison days through a guessed final discharge. The Catholic Peace Fellowship’s 2023 organizer biography names Clare Grady and directly connects her 1983 Griffiss action to her later Kings Bay case, supporting the current-profile match without installing the printed Claire variant as an asserted alias.
The Nuclear Resister No.36, December 9, 1985, original page4; The Nuclear Resister No.37, January 20, 1986, original page4; Catholic Peace Fellowship, Paschal2023, original page8.
The contemporary report records immediate admission to custody at sentencing on January 25, 2006.
