California

George O'Connell

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George O'Connell was an Industrial Workers of the World member from Imperial, California, prosecuted in the fe...

V. V. O'Hare

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V. V. O'Hare, a miner from Los Angeles, California, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chicago, sentenced...

Richard Oakes

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Richard Oakes was a Mohawk activist who led the 1969–1971 occupation of Alcatraz Island, a landmark event of t...

Kevin Olliff

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Kevin is a 28 year-old activist from the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, CA. A vegan since age 15, Kevin...

Edward James Olmos

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Edward James Olmos, the Mexican-American actor of Stand and Deliver and Battlestar Galactica, was arrested in...

Tillie Olsen

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Tillie Olsen, then known as Tillie Lerner and later famous as the author of Tell Me a Riddle, was a young Comm...

Alejandro Orellana

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Alejandro Orellana, an East Los Angeles activist, was arrested on June 12, 2025 and federally charged with con...

Samuel Ornitz

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Samuel Ornitz, a novelist and screenwriter and a founding member of the Screen Writers Guild was one of the “H...

Arvid Owens

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Arvid Owens was arrested and clubbed leading a 1930 Oakland, California City Hall demonstration protesting pol...

John Pancner

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John Pancner, from Chicago, Illinois, joined the IWW in 1905 and worked as aunion organizer in Nevada, Califor...

Louis Parenti

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

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...

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...

Edwin Pena

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Edwin Pena, 26, Justice 8 defendant; September 2023 Victorville street-vendor protest. 24 months California st...

Michael Petrelis

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

Hugo Pinell

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Hugo Pinell is a Nicaraguan prisoner currently incarcerated at Pelican Bay State Prison in California. Despite...

Larry Pinkney

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

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...

Elmer Geronimo Pratt

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Geronimo Pratt was a decorated military veteran and a high-ranking member of the Black Panther Party. In 1970...

James Quinlan

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

Paul Alwyn Redd Jr.

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Paul Alwyn Redd Jr. was an Oakland-born jailhouse lawyer, writer and prison organizer associated with the Shor...

Christina Reid

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Christina Reid, an electronics engineer from California, was prosecuted in the Boston federal case involving a...

Jasmine Richards

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Jasmine Richards is widely described in U.S. reporting as a local organizer associated with Black Lives Matter...

Al Richmond

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Al Richmond was the editor of the San Francisco Daily People's World, the West Coast Communist newspaper. He w...