Biography
Clare Schaeffer-Duffy is a Worcester, Massachusetts Catholic Worker, journalist, and peace organizer. She and her family have lived and worked at Saints Francis and Therese Catholic Worker, operated a community bakery and house of hospitality, and organized nonviolent resistance to war and nuclear weapons. She also organizes with the Center for Nonviolent Solutions. Schaeffer-Duffy was arrested and released after a March 27, 2026 peace witness at the Pentagon.
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 Clare Schaeffer-Duffy, 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 original correction expressly says Claire Schaeffer-Duffy and Dan Lawrence actually spent seven days in jail for the September 24, 1984 Draper Lab trespass charge, superseding a previous three-people/three-day report. Seven is actual service, not an imposed term. Exact admission and discharge are not printed; September 24 dates the underlying action, not a guessed later entry. This stay is separate from the January 1985 Norwich case.
The Nuclear Resister No. 28, January 23, 1985, PDF pages [4, 9].
The same GTE August 6, 1984 and November 19 prosecution is tied to the existing Clare Schaeffer-Duffy by the distinctive surname and Scott pairing. The source spells Claire. Fifteen days are explicitly reported served, but the publication timing is ambiguous; no exact custody endpoints are calculated.
The GTE account individually identifies this defendant in the April 5, 1985 arrest. All eight refused a promise to remain off GTE property and were held on $1,000 bond until April 11 conviction and time-served sentencing, with seven credited days. This is actual multi-day imprisonment distinct from the August 1985 GTE action. Seven credited days are not equated with six elapsed calendar days; physical release on April 11 is not explicitly reported and remains blank. The source’s Claire/Daniel Lawrence spellings are bridged to the existing distinctive GTE community identities; Daniel Either remains separately held for spelling verification.
