Congress of Conscience Arrests at the U.S. Capitol on Monday, April 18
35 Movement Leaders and 271 Activists Were Arrested After Sitting In to Save a Runaway Democracy
Movement Leaders
Andy Banks, Teamsters
Rev. Barber, Clergy
Andy Bichlbaum, The Yes Men
Heather Booth, Activist
Cornell William Brooks, president and CEO, NAACP
Patrick Carolan, Franciscan Action Network
Larry Cohen, Democracy Initiative
Ben Cohen, Ben and Jerry
J. David Cox, AFGE
Wendy Fields, Democracy Initiative
Jeff Furman, Ben and Jerry
Tefere Gebre, AFL-CIO
Ginna Green, ReThink
Jerry Greenfiled, Ben and Jerry
Sarita Gupta, Jobs with Justice
Rev. Bob Hardies, All Souls Unitarian
Wenonah Hauter, Food and Water Watch
Jim Hightower, Public Citizen
Pam Horowitz, In Memory of Julian Bond
Brian Kettenring, Center for Popular Democracy
Annie Leonard, Greenpeace
Rabbi Mordechai, Clergy
Patty Lovera, Food and Water Watch
Aaron Mair, Sierra Club
Chris Miller, Ben & Jerry’s
Nick Nyhart, Every Voice
Erich Pica, Friends of the Earth
Phil Radford, Democracy Initiative
Chris Shelton, CWA
Sandy Sorensen, Franciscan Action Network
Sandra Steingraber, Ithaca College
Gustavo Torres, CASA of MD
Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Clergy
Robert Weissman, Public Citizen
Miya Yoshitani, Asian Pacific Environmental Network