California

Kevin Art

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Irish republican prisoner held at the Federal Detention Center in Pleasanton, California on US federal charges...

Sherman Austin

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Sherman Martin Austin, age 18, was the founder and webmaster of the anarchist website raisethefist.com. Pleade...

Bob Avakian

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A longtime Maoist organizer and theorist, Avakian emerged from 1960s political organizing in Berkeley and went...

Joan Baez

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Joan Baez paired a high-profile music career with sustained public activism, particularly around civil rights,...

Frank Bailey

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Frank Bailey, an IWW member from Sacramento, received a four-year prison sentence, which he served in San Quen...

Benny Baker

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One of six gay men arrested by undercover LAPD officers during the January 1, 1967 raid on the Black Cat Taver...

Miguel Balderos

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Miguel Balderos is an anarchist and current political prisoner who was sentenced to 10 years and 8 months in p...

Sonia Baltruin

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Sonia Baltruin was arrested and clubbed leading a 1930 Oakland, California City Hall demonstration protesting...

Sam Barman

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Sam Barman was arrested and clubbed leading a 1930 Oakland, California City Hall demonstration protesting poli...

Peter De Bernardi

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Peter De Bernardi, from Mountain View, California, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Sacramento and sente...

Alvah Bessie

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Alvah Bessie, a screenwriter and novelist who had volunteered with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade to fight fascis...

Herbert Biberman

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Herbert Biberman, a screenwriter and director was one of the “Hollywood Ten,” the screenwriters, directors and...

Warren Billings

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Warren Billings Born in Middletown, New York on Independence Day 1893; young shoe-workers' organizer convicted...

Stephen Bingham

Attorney for George Jackson. The Black Panther Vol. 19 no.10 (1979) describes as absurd the prosecution's 'gun...

Elaine Black

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Elaine Black was an ILD district organizer convicted of "belonging to an illegal organization" and sentenced t...

Franz Bopp

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Franz Bopp was the German Consul-General in San Francisco from 1914 until his arrest on April 8, 1917. He was...

Veronza Bowers

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Veronza Leon Bowers Jr. was a member of the Kansas City chapter of the Black Panther Party. He was arrested in...

Lenni Brenner

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Lenni Brenner, known as Lenny Glaser during the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, was a civil-rights and antiwar...

Harry Brewer

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Harry Brewer, a railroad man from Sacramento, California, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Sacramento an...

Harry Bridges

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Australian-born president of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) for 40 years. Led the 1934...

Carl Browne

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California labor agitator, illustrator, and chief lieutenant of Coxey's Army — known within the Commonweal of...

Jackson Browne

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Singer-songwriter and co-founder of Musicians United for Safe Energy (MUSE) and the No Nukes concerts. Among t...

Joseph Buddenberg

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Joseph Buddenberg is an animal rights activist from Southern California who, along with Nicole Kissane, was in...

Nilak Butler

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Nilak Butler was an Inuit activist who joined the American Indian Movement in 1974 and later helped found the...