Biography
David Gardner was a member of the Los Angeles Catholic Worker who was jailed following an antiwar action at the downtown Los Angeles federal building on Ash Wednesday, March 5, 2003. In his interview for Rosalie G. Riegle's Crossing the Line, he described receiving a forty-five-day sentence in Los Angeles County Jail, with community service offered as an alternative. He said that overcrowding led to his early release after eight days. He distinguished this imprisonment from earlier protest arrests that had not resulted in a jail sentence.
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David Gardner was a Los Angeles Catholic Worker who participated in the Ash Wednesday March 5, 2003 blockade of the downtown Los Angeles federal building, two weeks before the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Sentenced to 45 days federal custody beginning May 1, 2003.
On Ash Wednesday, March 5, 2003 — two weeks before the U.S. invasion of Iraq — Los Angeles Catholic Workers blockaded an intersection at the downtown Los Angeles federal building in liturgical antiwar witness. They received 45-day federal sentences.
