California

Roosevelt Williams

Roosevelt Williams was a Black prisoner at Soledad State Prison and one of the Soledad Seven, a group the Blac...

Sharon Williams

Sharon Williams was arrested after the raid on the Toure Community Center. Contemporary Party and medical repo...

Tommye Williams

Tommye Williams was wounded in both thighs during the raid on Central Avenue headquarters. The Party newspaper...

Brian Willson

Released

S. Brian Willson is an American attorney, U.S. Air Force veteran of the Vietnam War (he served as a combat sec...

Joe Wilson

Released

Joe Wilson was the San Francisco district secretary of the International Labor Defense during the 1934 waterfr...

Martin Wilson

Released

Martin Wilson was a Communist and an organizer with the Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union (CAW...

Josh Wolf

Released

Josh Wolf was a freelance video blogger and internet videoblogger who was jailed by a Federal district court o...

Jennie Wolfson

Released

Jennie Wolfson was one of the staff of the communist children's summer camp at Yucaipa, California convicted i...

Jeane Wong

Released

Jeane “Blue” Wong is a San Diego educator and immigration enforcement protest organizer. Federal agents arrest...

Dean Wyrzykowski

Awaiting Trial

Dean Wyrzykowski, of San Francisco, California, is an animal-rights activist and one of four co-defendants — a...

Einosuke Yamaguchi

Released

Einosuke Yamaguchi, also recorded as Enosuke Yamaguchi and Pauley, was a Japanese radical organizer in Los Ang...

Oleta O'Connor Yates

Released

Oleta O'Connor Yates was the California CPUSA chair; lead named defendant in Yates v. United States, 354 U.S....

Karl Yoneda

Released

Karl Yoneda was a Japanese-American Communist and labor organizer active on the California waterfront and in t...

Wendy Yoshimura

Released

Wendy Yoshimura is a Japanese-American artist prosecuted for the 1972 Berkeley explosives and weapons case. Sh...

George "Duck" Young

George Young, known as Duck, was a Los Angeles Panther listed in the contemporary LA 18 defense campaign. The...

Peter Young

Released

Peter Young is an animal rights activist and the first person convicted of Animal Enterprise Terrorism. His ch...

Joyanna Zacher

Released

Joyanna "Sadie" Zacher is an environmentalist and a former Green Scare prisoner affiliated with the Earth Libe...

Curtis Zahn

Released

Curtis Zahn was a poet, playwright and journalist who spent a year in federal prison as a conscientious object...

Gus Zamora

Released

Gustavo was a Mexican-American defendant whose surname gave its name to the appellate decision that overturned...

Michael ZinZun

Released

Michael ZinZun was a Black Southern California community activist described by The Black Panther Vol. 14 no.4...

Conrad de Jesus

Conrad de Jesus protested U.S. support for Israel by blocking the Golden Gate Bridge in April 2024. A jury con...

Wilhelm von Brincken

Released

Wilhelm von Brincken was a German diplomat and military attaché who in 1915 was assigned to the German Consula...

Eckhardt H. von Schack

Released

Eckhardt H. von Schack was the German Vice-Consul in San Francisco. In October 1914, in the early months of Wo...

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Russell Gómez Dzul

In Custody

Russell Gomez Dzul was stopped by Border Patrol while riding a bicycle in Los Angeles County on June 7, 2025 d...