California

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Eugene Brunner

Released

Eugene M. Brunner was prosecuted for contempt for refusing to say whether he had belonged to the Communist Par...

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John Bruns

Released

John Bruns, an IWW member from Lasco, received a four-year prison sentence, which he served in San Quentin fro...

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Charles Brunson

Released

Charles Brunson had been a member of the Black Panther Party for about three years — working in Sacramento, Wa...

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Anthony Bryant

Released

Anthony Garnet Bryant was a Black Panther Party member from California who hijacked National Airlines Flight 9...

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Isaiah Bryant

Released

On June 30, 2020 Isaiah Bryant, 24, was arrested in Los Angeles, CA by the "Safe LA Task Force" after the Geor...

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Hugh Bryson

Released

President of the National Union of Marine Cooks and Stewards, a left-led maritime union expelled from the CIO...

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Richard Bunch

Richard Bunch was a young stockade prisoner at the Presidio of San Francisco whose killing triggered the "Pres...

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Ed Burns

Ed Burns was arrested in California and jailed while awaiting trial in the Sacramento IWW case, the federal Es...

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John Burns

Released

John Burns appears on the June 1925 labor-press political-prisoner birthday notice as held at San Quentin Peni...

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William Burns

Released

William Burns was arrested in Yosemite National Park for violating the California criminal syndicalism law by...

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James Burrows

Released

James Burrows was one of the eight "Modesto Boys" — maritime workers framed on a dynamite charge by Standard O...

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Charles Bursey

Released

Charles Bursey was a member of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, later well known for serving meals in the P...

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Ken Butigan

Released

Berkeley graduate-theological-union student who reworked the original Pledge document for mass appeal and help...

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Augustine Cabrera Oroza

Released

Augustine Cabrera Oroza was one of the five Spanish sailors who deserted a Franco naval vessel and sought poli...

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Carlos Calderon

Released

Carlos Calderon was a Brown Beret and an editor of El Barrio, a section of San Diego's Street Journal. He was...

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Alfo Canales

Released

Alfo Canales was a striker of the Amador County, California gold fields sentenced to one to five years at San...

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Julio Canales

Released

Julio Canales, a Ship Scalers Union member, was framed on a murder charge in the San Francisco Ship Scalers Un...

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Sal Candelaria

Released

Sal Candelaria was a leader and organizer of the Black Berets (Black Berets por La Justicia), a Chicano milita...

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Concha Cantu

Released

Concha Cantu was a secretary of the Fish Cannery Workers' Defense Committee and one of five women strikers of...

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Thomas Carey

Released

Thomas Carey, from San Francisco, California, was convicted of conspiracy to violate the Selective Service Act...

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Harry Carlisle

Released

Harry Carlisle was an English-born novelist, journalist, and lecturer held without bail on Terminal Island und...

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Frank Carlson

Released

Frank Carlson was a trade unionist held without bail on Terminal Island under the McCarran Act, one of the Los...

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J. A. Casdorf

Released

J. A. Casdorf, an IWW member from Sacramento, received a five-year prison sentence, which he served in San Que...

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Pat Casey

Released

Pat Casey, an IWW member from Oakland, received a five-year prison sentence, which he served in San Quentin fr...