Biography
Elton Davis — SOA Watch line-crosser at Fort Benning, Georgia. Convicted of trespass on a military installation and sentenced to 3 months in federal custody.
Each November on the anniversary of the assassination of six Jesuits, their housekeeper, and her daughter at the University of Central America in San Salvador in 1989, peace activists gather at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia, site of the U.S. Army School of the Americas / Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), to commemorate the dead and to call for the school's closure. Hundreds have crossed the line onto the base over four decades of vigils; many have served federal sentences ranging from 30 days to a year for trespass.
As a Des Moines Catholic Worker, Davis also participated in nuclear-disarmament vigils at Offutt Air Force Base. He was briefly detained and released after crossing the boundary on August 9, 2004. He later received a three-month prison sentence for that action and was released February 14, 2005. Sources: https://media.nukeresister.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/NR135_20041015small.pdf#page=1 ; https://media.nukeresister.org/wp-content/uploads/resister/nr136.pdf#page=3 ; https://media.nukeresister.org/wp-content/uploads/resister/nr137.pdf#page=5
