Biography
Genevieve “Mickey” Allen participated in resistance to Trident submarines. She described spending five days in jail after refusing to sign a promise to appear in court.
Family memorial confirms birth and death dates
The memorial heading on original page 4 explicitly gives Genevieve “Mickey” Allen’s dates as August 12, 1919–January 3, 2008. Her son-in-law Christopher Allen-Doucot describes being present at her death that January 3. Although the cover says Advent 2007, page 2 explains the issue was delayed and combines Advent and Christmas; the memorial explicitly concerns January 2008. Pages 5–6 also recount a separate Hartford Federal Building protest during President Clinton’s first inauguration: Allen and Christopher were actually put in cells at the old Morgan Street jail, then later received time served and walked out of court. The later trial/discharge day is not stated. This episode is not silently combined with Allen’s separate five-day Trident detention, whose date remains unresolved.
The June 1993 Hartford Catholic Worker reports a later court appearance for the January 20, 1993 symbolic chaining of the federal building in protest of the bombing of Iraq. Genevieve Allen and the co-defendant declined to plead guilty to disturbing the peace, accepted no-contest pleas to creating a public disturbance, and were sentenced to time served for their day in court. The report does not give the court date or establish a longer jail term.
St. Martin De Porres Hartford Catholic Worker, June1993, PDF page 6.
