California

Ruchell Magee

Released

Ruchell "Cinque" Magee (born Ruchell Lewis; died 2023) was one of the longest-held prisoners in U.S. history,...

Ricardo Flores Magón

Released

Ricardo Flores Magón was a Mexican anarchist journalist and revolutionary organizer whose writing and organizi...

Joseph Maizlish

Released

Joseph Maizlish was a Los Angeles draft resister who declined a graduate-student deferment and refused Selecti...

Chuck Malone

Released

Chuck Malone was a San Francisco-based Irish republican activist who became a long-running figure in U.S. inve...

Albert Maltz

Released

Albert Maltz, an award-winning short-story writer, novelist and screenwriter was one of the “Hollywood Ten,” t...

Michael Henry Marcus

Released

Michael Henry Marcus was an anti-nuclear protester and Berkeley Free Speech Movement participant who later bec...

Augustin Marti

Augustin Marti was a Central American revolutionary arrested by U.S. immigration officers after landing at San...

Adrian Andrew Martinez

Awaiting Trial

Adrian Andrew Martinez was a 20-year-old United States citizen and Walmart employee in Pico Rivera, California...

Mario Martinez

Released

Mario Martinez was one of Los Siete de la Raza, a group of young Latino men from the Mission District of San F...

Tony Martinez

Released

Tony Martinez was one of Los Siete de la Raza, a group of young Latino men from the Mission District of San Fr...

Keith Mather

Released

Keith Mather was a U.S. Army private and one of the leaders of the "Presidio 27," the stockade prisoners at th...

Anthony Mathews

Released

Anthony Mathews was detained on November 13, 1976. Lance Corporal Anthony Mathews was one of the Camp Pendlet...

Tara Reade

In Exile

Tara Reade, legally named Alexandra Tara McCabe, is a former junior Senate aide who accused then-senator Joe B...

James McClain

Released

James was a San Quentin prisoner on trial for allegedly assaulting a guard when Jonathan Jackson entered the M...

Eric McDavid

Released

Eric McDavid is a green anarchist who organized as part of an environmentalist group consisting of Zach Jenso...

Pete McEvoy

Released

Pete McEvoy was an iron molder from San Jose, California. Pete McEvoy was convicted at the mass IWW trial in C...

Ricky McGivery

Released

Ricky McGivery was detained on November 13, 1976. Black Marine, one of the 'Camp Pendleton 14' charged with a...

Keith McHenry

Released

Keith McHenry is an American activist and co-founder of Food Not Bombs, a global all-volunteer movement that r...

Juanita McKamey

Released

Juanita McKamey was an Industrial Workers of the World activist in the San Diego free speech fight. Police arr...

Phil McLaughlin

Released

Phil McLaughlin was an IWW officer from Sacramento, California. Phil McLaughlin was convicted at the mass IWW...

James B. McNamara

Released

James B. McNamara was an Iron Workers' union militant and the brother of John J. McNamara. He placed the dynam...

John J. McNamara

Released

John J. McNamara was the secretary-treasurer of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Wo...

Robert Meisenbach

Released

Robert Meisenbach was a University of California student charged with felony assault with a deadly weapon — ac...

Danilo Melendez

Released

Danilo Melendez was one of Los Siete de la Raza, a group of young Latino men from the Mission District of San...