Biography
Co-founder of the Pacific Life Community and Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action. On Ash Wednesday, Feb 16, 1983, she walked the rail tracks into Bangor naval base with Karol Schulkin and Mary Grondin, posting Hiroshima/Nagasaki photographs on warhead-transport rails before being arrested.
Her historical account, reprinted from March–April 1982, describes the Pacific Life Community’s 1975 founding, the 1977 acquisition of Ground Zero’s property and her family’s move from British Columbia to Kitsap County in 1978. Its reference to participants receiving up to ninety days in King County Jail is a group statement and supplies no separate individual ninety-day term for Douglass. The eighteen- and thirty-day fasts described are protest fasts, not jail totals. Source: https://www.gzcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/GZ_2026_1_January.pdf#page=10
Corrected arrest and custody-duration evidence
The original September 2015 Street Spirit, page 1, identifies Ash Wednesday, February 16, 1983 as the Bangor action and says security officers arrested the three women about an hour into it. It reports that Shelley Douglass was jailed for sixty days. Her own interview on page 9 separately describes the later trial and jail sentence. The arrest day is corrected; the source-stated sixty days is retained independently of unknown admission and discharge dates. The old February 15 admission and April 16 release are withdrawn, rather than shifting an assumed continuous interval by one day. Original September 2015 issue, pages 1 and 9; Original interview.
Separate 1983 episode and contemporary limits
The July 7, 1983 report confirms that sentencing actually occurred July 6: Shelley Douglass received sixty days and Karol Schulkin ten days. Both were immediately taken to Pierce County Jail in Tacoma. This supplies Shelley’s actual sentence-admission and sentencing day, separately from the February 16 arrest and initial release. Mary Grondin instead received ten days suspended and probation. The directory’s early-September date is only expected release and does not fill an actual discharge. Existing independently documented sixty-day service is not changed or expanded.
In her September 2015 interview, Shelley Douglass recalls spending three months in King County Jail following a 1976 anti-Trident protest. This preceded her separate 1983 Bangor case.
