Biography
Ellen Barfield is a U.S. Army veteran (she served as a military police officer at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey and at U.S. Army Garrison Yongsan in South Korea) who left the Army and became one of the most consistently arrested anti-war activists in the United States. A founding member of Veterans for Peace and a War Resisters League organizer, she has been arrested approximately 50 times for civil disobedience, particularly SOA Watch line-crossings at Fort Benning, where she has served multiple short federal sentences.
The contemporary report documents a separate custody episode: Overnight detention; released after arraignment.
Barfield’s first-person account describes four days in jail before bail after a Pantex anti-nuclear protest. She says the later trial ended with a fine and probation.
The reproduced December 2009 report identifies Superior Court Judge Lynne Leibovitz as the judge who sentenced Barfield after the Senate-hearing protest.
Ken Mayers identified Barfield among those released at dawn after overnight custody following the September 15, 2007 Capitol antiwar protest.
The biographical introduction individually reports Barfield stood trial in February2002 and was jailed for civil resistance against the Afghanistan war at the Maryland Air National Guard base. This is distinct from her undated Pantex four-day detention, already structured, and her later2007–09 cases. The actual custody YEAR2002 is recorded without assuming that trial month was admission month or inventing an exact trial/sentence/release day or served duration.
