since the late 1960s he has been active in antiwar demonstrations and resistance, focusing increasingly on antinuclear protests. he acted as "spokesman" for a group of "disarmament activists" active throughout the 1980s in connecticut. while most of the attention generated by the protests appears to have remained in connecticut, in some cases kobasa's statements found a larger audience. the protests were consistently nonviolent, but varied in terms of their degree of activism; in some cases the group would seek to be arrested he was arrested in 1987 for a protest at electric boat shipyard in groton, connecticut and in 1995 was convicted of vandalizing the enola gay at the national air and space museum in washington, dc.