California

Louis Parenti

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Louis Parenti was a laborer from San Francisco, California. Louis Parenti was convicted at the mass IWW trial...

Gilbert Parker

Gilbert Parker was arrested on December 8, 1969. Contemporary reporting places Gilbert Parker, also called Gi...

David Pasquarelli

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David Pasquarelli was a San Francisco AIDS activist and a leader of ACT UP/San Francisco, a dissident faction...

Carl Patterson

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Carl Patterson was the chief leader of the UCAPAWA cotton pickers' strike in California's San Joaquin Valley i...

Alexandra Paul

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Alexandra Paul is an actor and activist whose work includes opposition to the Iraq War and animal rescue. She...

Walter Pawlowski

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Walter Pawlowski was a U.S. Army soldier and one of the leaders of the "Presidio 27" stockade protest of Octob...

Julian Pecora Cárdenas

Julian Pecora Cardenas was arrested by Border Patrol agents on July 6, 2025, after following a convoy from the...

Edwin Pena

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Edwin Pena was one of the Justice Eight street-vendor advocates prosecuted over three September 2023 confronta...

Michael Petrelis

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Michael Petrelis is a longtime AIDS and LGBTQ-rights activist known for confrontational direct action. After b...

Wayne Pharr

Wayne Pharr survived the police assault on Central Avenue headquarters with gunshot wounds. Contemporary medic...

Jesse Lee Phillips

Jesse Lee Phillips was a Black prisoner at Soledad State Prison and one of the Soledad Seven, a group the Blac...

Hugo Pinell

Hugo "Yogi Bear" Pinell was a Nicaraguan-born prisoner and member of the San Quentin Six. Already imprisoned b...

Larry Pinkney

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Larry Pinkney was the co-chairman of the San Francisco Black Caucus, a community organization that fought the...

Fr. Chris Ponnet

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Fr. Chris Ponnet was a Los Angeles Catholic Worker who participated in the Ash Wednesday March 5, 2003 blockad...

Nathan Pope

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Nathan Pope was one of the AETA 4 - four young people indicted in 2009 under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism A...

Walter Pope

Walter “Toure” Pope was a Southern California Black Panther Party newspaper distribution manager. Safiya Bukha...

John W. Powell

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John W. Powell was the editor and publisher of the China Monthly Review, a Shanghai magazine his family had ru...

Sylvia Powell

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Sylvia Campbell Powell was an editor of the China Monthly Review. A federal grand jury indicted her, John W. P...

Elmer Geronimo Pratt

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Elmer Geronimo Pratt was arrested on December 8, 1970. Geronimo Pratt was a decorated military veteran and a...

Saundra Pratt

Saundra Pratt was a Black Panther arrested in the December 8 raid on the 55th Street residence. The Party news...

Larry Purcell

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Larry Purcell is a longtime Catholic peace activist arrested in Plowshares-style actions at Lawrence Livermore...

James Quinlan

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James Quinlan was a laborer from Sacramento, California. James Quinlan was convicted at the mass IWW trial in...

Orlando Javier Ramirez

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Orlando Javier Ramirez, of Fresno CA, was charged in 2023 with felony vandalism, hate crime, and criminal thre...

Ralph Ramirez

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Ralph Ramirez was a Brown Beret organizer prosecuted in the 1969 Biltmore Hotel case in Los Angeles. Contempor...