California

Kipp Dawson

Released

Kipp Dawson organized civil-rights sit-ins against discriminatory hiring in San Francisco and helped organize...

Har Dayal

Released

Lala Har Dayal was an Indian revolutionary, scholar, and anti-colonial organizer who became a leading figure o...

Caroline Decker

Released

Caroline Decker was the secretary of the Cannery and Agricultural Workers' Industrial Union, one of the eighte...

Jeff Dietrich

Released

Jeff Dietrich is a longtime Los Angeles Catholic Worker and editor of the Catholic Agitator. In March 2003 - o...

Edward Dmytryk

Released

Edward Dmytryk, the director of “Murder, My Sweet” and the Oscar-nominated “Crossfire” was one of the “Hollywo...

Ben Dobbs

Released

Southern California CPUSA organizer; WWII Army infantry vet. Yates defendant; conviction reversed; later ran f...

Mortimer Downing

Released

Mortimer Downing, secretary of the IWW chapters in Oakland and Stockton, California, at the time of his arrest...

Christopher Doyon

Released

Christopher Doyon was a homeless rights activist and hacker associated with Anonymous who in 2010 took down th...

Denzel Draughn

Released

Denzel Draughn was arrested during a Black Lives Matter protest in San Diego on August 28, 2020. Police accuse...

Fleeta Drumgo

Released

Fleeta Drumgo was a Black prisoner at Soledad Prison in California and one of the three men known as the Soled...

Frank Elliott

Released

Frank Elliott, from Fresno, California, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Sacramento and sentenced to ten...

James Elliott

Released

James Elliott, from Fresno, California, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sentenced to five year...

Leo Ellis

Released

Leo Ellis was arrested in San Francisco in November 1919 and convicted under the California Criminal Syndicali...

Daniel Ellsberg

Released

Former RAND Corporation military analyst and State Department official who in 1971 leaked the Pentagon Papers...

Lawrence Emery

Released

Lawrence Emery, from Sacramento, was convicted of violating the California Criminal Syndicalism Act because of...

Oscar Erickson

Released

Oscar Erickson, an IWW officer and a leader of the Imperial Valley farm workers strike, received a three- to f...

Frederick Esmond

Released

Frederick Esmond, an Oxford University graduate, was a newspaper and publicity agent for the IWW. Esmond heade...

Carlos Espriu

Released

Carlos Espriu, 23, of Palm Desert, CA was charged with attempted arson in the May 31, 2020 firebombing of the...

Michael Finney

In Exile

Michael Finney was a member of the Republic of New Afrika, the Black-nationalist movement seeking an independe...

Zeph Fishlyn

Released

Zeph Fishlyn, age 52, of Oakland, Greenpeace 28 - September 2019 Houston Ship Channel bridge rappel.

Romaine Fitzgerald

Compton-born Black Panther who joined the Southern California Chapter of the BPP in early 1969 as a teenager a...

William Flanagan

Released

William Flanagan, an IWW member, received a one- to fourteen-year prison sentence, which he served in San Quen...

Flores Forbes

Released

Flores Forbes joined the Black Panther Party in San Diego as a teenager in 1968 and rose to assistant chief of...

Richard "Blackie" Ford

Released

IWW spokesman convicted of second-degree murder for the 1913 Wheatland Hop Riot near Wheatland, California — a...