Iowa

Jessica Reznicek

In Custody

Jessica Reznicek is an environmental activist who was a leading opponent against the construction of the Dakot...

Darla Bradley

Released

Darla Bradley was 22 and a member of the Davenport Catholic Worker in Iowa at the time of Silo Plowshares. She...

Gilberto Castillo

Released

Gilberto Castillo is a Muscatine, Iowa man who, alongside his brother Marc Castillo, drove a vehicle toward th...

Marc Castillo

Released

Marc Castillo is a Muscatine, Iowa man who on August 9, 2020, during the period of widespread BLM protest acti...

Edwin Coppoc

Edwin Coppoc was a young Quaker from Springdale, Iowa, who joined Brown's force after meeting him there in 185...

Edwin Coppock

White abolitionist raider with John Brown's Harpers Ferry raid in October 1859. Coppock fatally shot Harpers F...

Frank Cordaro

Released

Father Frank Cordaro is a former Catholic priest, longtime Des Moines Catholic Worker, and Plowshares activist...

Gary John Eklund

Released

First Iowan indicted for nonregistration. Publicly burned his Selective Service paperwork in protest when regi...

Carolyn Feldman

Released

Carrie Feldman is accused of nothing more than refusing to give testimony to a grand jury seeking to indict me...

Black Hawk

Released

Sauk war leader who led the 1832 Black Hawk War — the last major armed Indigenous resistance east of the Missi...

Dennis A. Mahony

Released

Dennis A. Mahony was an Irish-born newspaper editor and Democratic politician in Iowa, best known as editor of...

Ruby Montoya

Released

Ruby Montoya, raised in Phoenix, Arizona, was a preschool teacher in Boulder, Colorado before quitting her job...

Wilhelm Schumann

Released

Wilhelm Schumann, a Lutheran pastor from Fort Dodge, Iowa, was convicted of preaching "disloyalty among his co...

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Ted Baer

Released

Ted Baer was the Communist Party section organizer in Sioux City, Iowa, whose home was raided at 2:30 a.m. and...

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Ed Bloomer

Released

Ed Bloomer was a Des Moines Catholic Worker arrested for re-entry trespass at Offutt Air Force Base / U.S. Str...

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Bob Carson

Released

Bob Carson was state secretary of the Communist Party of Iowa, taken in the criminal-syndicalism sweep just af...

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Laurence B. De Wies

Released

Laurence B. De Wies was a Quaker conscientious objector from Iowa imprisoned during World War I. Court-martial...

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Laurence Dewees

Released

Laurence Dewees was a Quaker conscientious objector from Iowa imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed f...

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William Nye Doty

Released

William Nye Doty of Cedar Rapids, Iowa was a conscientious objector imprisoned during World War I at Fort Leav...

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Michael Harris

Released

Michael Harris was a member of the Des Moines, Iowa chapter of the Black Panther Party. According to The Black...

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Dorothy M. Hennessey

Released

Dorothy M. Hennessey is one of the Hennessey sisters of Iowa, both Sisters of the Presentation, who became ico...

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Gwen Hennessey

Released

Gwen Hennessey is one of the Hennessey sisters of Iowa, both Sisters of the Presentation, who became iconic SO...

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Richard Johnstone

In Exile

Richard Johnstone, a farm boy from Brooklyn, Iowa, deserted from the United States Army during the Vietnam War...

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Guy H. Little

Released

Guy H. Little was a Quaker conscientious objector from Iowa imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed for...