New Mexico

Byron Chubbuck

In Custody

Byron Shane Chubbuck — "Oso Blanco" (White Bear), of Cherokee descent — is an indigenous activist nicknamed "R...

Jamison Wagner

In Custody

Jamison R. Wagner, 40, is a queer electrical engineer from Albuquerque, New Mexico, with a B.S. in electrical...

Dahteste

Released

Dahteste was a Chokonen Chiricahua Apache warrior, scout, and interpreter — a comrade of Lozen and Geronimo wh...

Manuelito

Released

Navajo (Diné) war leader who led armed resistance to Kit Carson's 1863-66 scorched-earth campaign against the...

Herbert Benjamin

Released

Herbert Benjamin was a national leader of the Unemployed Councils and the hunger marches, arrested by the army...

Walter H. Clark

Released

Walter H. Clark was a conscientious objector from New Mexico imprisoned during World War I. Court-martialed fo...

John Dear

Released

John Dear is an American peace activist, Catholic priest (formerly a Jesuit; he was dismissed from the Society...

Clinton Jencks

Released

Clinton Jencks was the Mine-Mill international representative who led the Empire Zinc strike of Mexican-Americ...

Rosaura Revueltas

Released

Rosaura Revueltas was the Mexican actress who starred in the pro-union film Salt of the Earth, arrested by imm...

Reies Lopez Tijerina

Released

Chicano land-grant activist who founded La Alianza Federal de Mercedes Libres to recover Spanish and Mexican l...

Johnny Earl Vines

Released

Johnny Earl Vines was an Albuquerque airport aircraft fueler who sheltered Charles Hill, Michael Finney, and R...

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Pedro Archuleta

Released

New Mexico-based Chicano/Mexicano activist jailed for civil contempt after refusing to testify before a federa...

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Manuel Avitia

Released

Manuel Avitia was one of the ten Gallup, New Mexico miners charged with first-degree murder after the 4 April...

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Fred Barreras

Released

Fred Barreras was a member of Mine-Mill Local 890 jailed for 90 days for defying an anti-picketing injunction...

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Joe Bartol

Released

Joe Bartol was one of the Gallup, New Mexico defendants of 1935 — the president of the UMWA's Southwestern loc...

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Agustin Calvillo

Released

Agustin Calvillo was one of the Gallup, New Mexico defendants of 1935 — acquitted after months in jail — in th...

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Victor Campos

Released

Victor Campos was one of the Gallup, New Mexico defendants of 1935 — jailed in the Gallup roundup — in the mas...

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Gregorio Correa

Released

Gregorio Correa was one of the Gallup, New Mexico defendants of 1935 — acquitted after months in jail — in the...

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Victorio Correa

Released

Victorio Correa was one of the Gallup, New Mexico defendants of 1935 — acquitted after months in jail — in the...

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Rafael Gomez

Released

Rafael Gomez was one of the Gallup, New Mexico defendants of 1935 — acquitted after months in jail — in the ma...

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Willie Gonzales

Released

Willie Gonzales was one of the Gallup, New Mexico defendants of 1935 — acquitted but re-held on charges of aid...

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George Kaplan

Released

George Kaplan was a strike leader court-martialed and jailed under the martial law imposed on the National Min...

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Wen Ho Lee

Released

Wen Ho Lee is a Taiwanese-American nuclear scientist who worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexic...

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Cipriano Montoya

Released

Cipriano Montoya was a Mine-Mill Local 890 member jailed for 90 days for honoring the picket line during the E...