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After finding the courthouse building, we made our way through the security and up the steel stairs that looked like jail bars until we reached the third floor. As people from various peace organizations from across New England, talked with each other, a jury was selected from the jury pool. During that time, I talked to a young woman who had been part of a delegation witnessing the effects of the bombing of Iraq which she said changed her life. I also got to talk with Jonathan Leviett of the Massachusetts Green Party. I had worked with Jonathan years before when he was part of a protest against the Department of Defense organized by Students for A Responsible University. After doing research about what military research was being conducted at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, the students found out that anthrax research was being carried on on campus. Making that knowledge public sparked off a campus-wide debate and protests that ended in student arrests. Making the courthouse a community meeting ground for peace activists was certainly democratic action. Hattie Nestle, one of the defendants, even brought nametags with her so that people could get to know each other for the next protest.
So, if my guess is correct Nass was a member of Students for a Responsible University.