MAY 12, 2002

CLAM LAKE, WI -- 100 anti-war activists braved Saturday's rain and wind to protest the Navy's submarine transmitter system, Project ELF, and six were cited for trespass, during the 15th annual Mothers' Day gathering at the site.

Photo by Mary Mechtenberg Left to right: Jeff Leys, Cory Bartholomew, John LaForge, Jane Hosking and Judy Miner. Not Pictured: John Bachman

The six who crossed the line onto government property and sat in the roadway included Judy Miner, a Registered Nurse from Madison, and an Eau Claire attorney, John Bachman, who has defended other nuclear weapons opponents in State and Federal courts in Wisconsin.

They face a maximum of 6 months in prison and/or a $5,000 fine, and were ordered to appear June 11 in U.S. District Court in Madison.

The arrests brought to 600, the number of citations given to line-crossers at the site since the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Navy's rationale for ELF and the submarine fleet.

Those arrested were: John Bachman, 47, an attorney from Eau Claire; Cory Bartholomew, 33, a construction worker from Blue Mounds; Jane Hosking, 34, a house painter, and John LaForge, 46, a staff member at Nukewatch, both of Luck; Jeff Leys, 37, a labor union employee from Milwaukee; and Judy Miner, 59, a Registered Nurse from Madison.

In a related event, four of the six activists arrested at the ELF site on Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday weekend will go on trial in U.S. District Court in Madison May 22.