Biography
Craig Simpson was a pacifist organizer with War Resisters League Southwest in Albuquerque. Beginning in the early 1970s, he organized resistance at Kirtland Air Force Base, Sandia and Los Alamos laboratories, supported GI resistance, and helped create the New Mexico Peace Conversion Project and Cactus Alliance. On September 7, 1981, Simpson joined the Coalition for Direct Action at WIPP protest near Carlsbad. He pleaded no contest to trespass, refused to pay a $50 fine, and served seven days in jail before paying the remaining balance and returning to work.
WIPP custody documented by participant
Dorie Bunting reports the September 7, 1981 demonstrators were taken to Eddy County Jail overnight. Tuesday September 8 arraignment is followed by Simpson receiving two days and a $50 fine; refusal to pay resulted in a ten-day term. The actual release day remains unverified. The existing reported seven days served is retained, not converted into a calculated release date.
Source: Dorie Bunting, WRL News, November-December 1981, printed page 3. Entire original page visually checked. The uncaptioned march faces were not assigned to individual profiles.
