California

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...

Anna Robbins

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

Aida McCray Robinson

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Aida McCray Robinson was a 20-year-old student at Golden Gate College when she fell in love with Allen Sims wh...

John Anthony Robles

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John Anthony Robles II is an indigenous Taino, anti-racist activist and journalist from Puerto Rico. In 1995 R...

Luis V. Rodriguez

Apache/Chicano indigenous rights activist convicted in California of the murder of two police officers, a case...

Zoe Rosenberg

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Zoe Rosenberg is an American animal rights activist, animal sanctuary founder, and a leading public face of th...

Danny Roxas

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Danny Roxas, a farm worker activist and IWW officer, received a three- to forty-two-year prison sentence for v...

Irving David Rubin

Irving David Rubin, 74, JDL Chairman and former Air Force serviceman, was indicted December 12, 2001 with Earl...

Rebecca Rubin

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Rebecca Rubin is an environmentalist affiliated with the Earth Liberation Front. She received a 5-year sentenc...

Domenick Sallitto

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Domenick Sallitto was an Italian-born anarchist in the San Francisco Bay Area who chaired anarchist meetings a...

Ramon L. Sanchez

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Ramon L. Sanchez was a Spanish-born laborer and Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) organizer arrested in Sa...

Vincent Santilli

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Vincent Santilli, a miner from Sacramento, California, was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Sacramento and s...

Benjamin Sasway

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Benjamin H. Sasway was the first American indicted since the Vietnam War for refusing to register with the Sel...

Mario Savio

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Mario Savio, the son of Sicilian immigrants, became the leading orator of the 1964 Berkeley Free Speech Moveme...

Matthew Schmidt

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Matthew Schmidt was an anarchist and union ironworker connected to the McNamara brothers' bombing of the Los A...

William Schneiderman

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William Schneiderman was the secretary of the California Communist Party and, after the 1951 arrests, its acti...

Adrian Scott

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Adrian Scott, the producer of the acclaimed anti-antisemitism film noir “Crossfire” (1947), which was in theat...

Bobby Seale

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

Tamura R. Seiji

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Tamura R. Seiji was one of 22 Greenpeace activists federally charged after the September 12, 2019 blockade of...

J. Tony Serra

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J. Tony Serra is a legendary San Francisco criminal defense attorney known for representing Black Panthers, th...

Sanyika Shakur

Sanyika Shakur (born Kody Scott), also known as “Monster,” became widely known through his prison-written memo...

Richard A. Sisney

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Richard A. Sisney was one of 22 Greenpeace activists federally charged after the September 12, 2019 blockade o...

Carl Sklar

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Carl Sklar a Communist Party organizer and a leader of the Imperial Valley farm workers strike, from Los Angel...

Paul Skyhorse

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American Indian Movement (AIM) activist framed alongside Richard Mohawk in the 1974 murder of taxi driver Geor...