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George W. Crocker

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Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1980s
State:Minnesota
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Anti-War Anti-Nuclear
George W. Crocker

Biography

One of Minnesota's longest-serving energy and anti-nuclear activists, working since the late 1970s on energy-democracy and anti-nuclear-power issues. A member of the Northern Sun Alliance (the Minnesota anti-nuclear coalition), a frequent collaborator with Marv Davidov at the Honeywell Project, and longtime executive director of the North American Water Office. Author of "About Power: How to Democratize Electricity Now."

Identified photograph

The March 28, 2003 Minnesota House Session Weekly, page 10, explicitly captions this photograph as George Crocker, executive director of the North American Water Office, testifying March 25 about Prairie Island nuclear-waste storage. The publication's role identification matches this profile. The original embedded 173-by-253 JPEG is preserved without cropping, enhancement or reconstruction; this is a later-life photograph, not an arrest image. Credit: Minnesota House of Representatives, Session Weekly. Original legislature newsletter, page 10.

Custody review: targeted searches have not established an individual prison-admission or release day for the stored Honeywell case. Event-level protest accounts are not used as individual custody endpoints. Earlier draft-resistance imprisonment mentioned in Paul Wellstone's 1981 Studs Terkel interview is not assigned to this later case. No date change is made on the basis of missing corroboration alone. Original interview transcript.

Case

Charges: Trespass (Honeywell Project sit-ins at Honeywell HQ, Minneapolis, 1968–2002)
Arrested: Oct 23, 1983
Incarcerated: Oct 23, 1983
Sentence: Brief detention; most charges dismissed or short workhouse stints.