California

Wendy Lujan

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Wendy Lujan, 40, one of the Justice 8 (Edin Alex Enamorado et al.) defendants for a September 24, 2023 Victorv...

Peter Lumsdaine

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Peter Lumsdaine is associated with direct-action peace protest that sought to interrupt weapons development th...

Daniel Michael Lynem

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Daniel Michael Lynem helped organize the Santa Ana Black Panthers. He was jailed in the Nelson Sasscer investi...

Gina Lynn

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Gina Lynn organized with the Animal Rights Direct Action Coalition and volunteered for No Compromise. Her resi...

Ruchell Magee

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Ruchell "Cinque" Magee (born Ruchell Lewis, 1939–2023) was one of the longest-held prisoners in U.S. history,...

Ricardo Flores Magón

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Ricardo Flores Magón was a Mexican anarchist journalist and revolutionary organizer whose writing and organizi...

Chuck Malone

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Chuck Malone was a San Francisco-based Irish republican activist who became a long-running figure in U.S. inve...

Albert Maltz

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Albert Maltz, an award-winning short-story writer, novelist and screenwriter was one of the “Hollywood Ten,” t...

Eric McDavid

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Eric McDavid is a green anarchist who organized as part of an environmentalist group consisting of Zach Jenso...

Pete McEvoy

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Pete McEvoy, an iron molder from San Jose, California, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sentenc...

Keith McHenry

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Keith McHenry is an American activist and co-founder of Food Not Bombs, a global all-volunteer movement that r...

Phil McLaughlin

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Phil McLaughlin, an IWW officer from Sacramento, California, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Sacramento...

James B. McNamara

James B. McNamara was an Iron Workers' union militant and the brother of John J. McNamara. He placed the dynam...

John J. McNamara

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John J. McNamara was the secretary-treasurer of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Wo...

Gabriel Meyers

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Gabriel Meyers is a protestor who — in the aftermath of the BART police killing of Oscar Grant in Oakland — sp...

John Mitigli

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John Mitigli was arrested and clubbed leading a 1930 Oakland, California City Hall demonstration protesting po...

Kevin Mitnick

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Note to editors: Kevin Mitnick does not seem political in nature. He was charged and convicted for crimes that...

Richard Mohawk

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American Indian Movement (AIM) activist framed with Paul Skyhorse in the 1974 killing of cab driver George Air...

Rena Mooney

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Rena Mooney was a San Francisco music teacher, socialist activist, and the wife of Tom Mooney. She was indicte...

Thomas Mooney

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Thomas Mooney San Francisco labor organizer and IWW militant — son of an Irish coal-miner Knights of Labor org...

Steve Murphy

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Steve Murphy was an environmentalist activist and vegan political prisoner who wrote of his struggles obtainin...

Huey P. Newton

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Huey P. Newton was the co-founder, with Bobby Seale, of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in October 19...

Edward D. Nolan

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Edward D. Nolan was a machinist and officer of the International Association of Machinists in San Francisco, i...

Gail Noldon

Gail Noldon was jailed on August 1, 1969 while distributing the Panther newspaper near San Francisco’s bus ter...