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Whistleblowers Conscientious Objectors & Military Resisters Civil Disobedience & Plowshares Political Prisoners in Exile Death-Row Political Prisoners Hunger Strikers Wrongfully Convicted / COINTELPRO Frame-Ups Recently Released Political Prisoners Elder Political Prisoners
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE & PLOWSHARES
Prisoners convicted of nonviolent direct action — line-crossings, lock-downs, banner drops, symbolic disarmament. Includes the Catonsville Nine, the Camden 28, the Plowshares Eight (1980) and every subsequent Plowshares action, the SOA Watch line-crossers, the Trident Ploughshares defendants, and contemporary climate-defense actions.