Biography
Sam Day was an anti-nuclear journalist, former editor of The Progressive magazine, and longtime organizer with Nukewatch known for the Nuclear Weapons Highway and Missile Silo campaigns of the 1980s. Arrested numerous times for nonviolent civil disobedience at nuclear weapons sites. Documented in PFOC Breakthrough magazine.
Photograph source
- Nukewatch, “25 Years of Nonviolent Action” — the caption identifies the late Sam Day at center, blocking an Army tank during a 1991 Gulf War “victory” parade in Madison, Wisconsin. The profile image is cropped from the documented action photograph; no AI editing was used.
Additional individually documented custody
The Madison courthouse account names Sam Day among the January 9, 1986 trespass arrestees who were booked and released. It then explicitly says he later pleaded guilty and served two days instead of paying a fine. This later two-day imprisonment has no printed exact admission or discharge day; it is not continuous since January 9 and is separate from his 1991, 1993 and 1995 cases.
The Nuclear Resister No.38, March 10, 1986, original PDF pages 2.
The individually named Sam Day, Jr., journalist for The Progressive, had left before the July 10 group arrest and was later sought on a warrant. The source does not date his individual arrest. It explicitly says he entered jail August 10 after refusing a fine and was released August 19, 1983. These are nine elapsed days; the ten-day imposed sentence is preserved as a court term, not ten elapsed days actually served.
