California

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Alexander Akridgejacobs

Released

Alexander Akridgejacobs was one of the eleven defendants in the San Diego County District Attorney's prosecuti...

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Leonard Alexander

Released

Leonard Alexander was a Black inmate at the Correctional Training Facility at Soledad who, in a letter publish...

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Michele Alfaro

Released

On May 13, 2021 Michele Alfaro, 24, pled "no contest" to a charge of looting and was sentenced to 1 year count...

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J. C. Allen

Released

J. C. Allen, from Eureka, received a three-year prison sentence for having an IWW membership card and served i...

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Mark Edward Allen

Mark Edward Allen was a young Black man who died in police custody in Monrovia, California. Arrested on Novemb...

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Philip Allen

Young Black Los Angeles college student convicted in what The Black Panther Vol. 14 (1975) calls a police-murd...

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Mario Ernesto Alvarado

Released

Mario Ernesto Alvarado, 42, charged August 4, 2020 with arson for setting fire to Pizzeria Mozza / Mozza2Go in...

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Rudy Alvarez

Released

On July 2, 2020 Rudy Alvarez, 24, was charged with aiming a laser pointer at a San Diego Police Department air...

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Reuel Amdur

Released

Reuel Amdur was convicted in Berkeley for setting up a sidewalk table without a permit to gather clemency sign...

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A. E. Anderson

Released

A. E. Anderson received a four-year prison sentence for giving testimony in court on behalf of a fellow member...

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Charles Andrews

Released

Charles Andrews, an IWW member from Los Angeles, received a three-year prison sentence, which he served in San...

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Steve Argue

Steve Argue is known for antiwar street protest organizing in Santa Cruz during the late 1990s, where demonstr...

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Federico Arizméndez

Federico Arizméndez was jailed in the Los Angeles criminal-libel campaign against the Partido Liberal Mexicano...

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Kijana Tashiri Askari

Kijana Tashiri Askari, also known as Marcus L. Harrison, is a New Afrikan prison organizer and writer who chai...

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Aida Yagmur Aston

Released

Aida Yagmur Aston, 32, was one of six pro-abortion demonstrators charged for a July 30, 2022 action in which t...

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Kalima Aswad

Released

Kalima Aswad (s/n Robert Duren) is a New Afrikan political prisoner and writer who was held in the California...

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William Baker

Released

William Baker, an IWW member from Los Angeles, received a one- to fourteen-year prison sentence, which he serv...

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Eugene Balthazar

Released

Eugene Balthazar was a Richmond Panther detained on February 9, 1970 during newspaper and breakfast-program wo...

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Fred Bamman

Released

Fred Bamman, an IWW member from Portola, received a four-year prison sentence, which he served in San Quentin...

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Ivan Barnes

Released

Ivan Barnes, from Portola, received a four-year prison sentence, which he served in San Quentin from October 2...

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Meyer Baylin

Released

Meyer Baylin was one of six young workers, who was dragged to court with a 104-degree fever by the police Red...

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Jack Beavert

Released

Jack Beavert, from Eureka, received a three-year prison sentence, which he served in San Quentin from April 27...

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Hans Beck

Released

Hans Beck was a conscientious objector from California imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for refu...

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Isadore Berkowitz

Isadore Berkowitz was one of the staff of the communist children's summer camp at Yucaipa, California prosecut...