Index — All Topics A–Z
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The "Black Identity Extremist" Program (2017–2019)
"Jail, No Bail": Rock Hill, Albany & Selma (1961–1965)
"Premature Anti-Fascists": the Lincoln Brigade & Its Punishments (1937–1955)
The "Reign of Terror" on Pine Ridge (1973–1976)
The "Second-String" Smith Act Trials (1951–1956)
The "Uhuru 3" Trial & Sentences (2023–2025)
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The 1936 Seditious Conspiracy Trial of the Party Leadership
The 1954 Attack on the U.S. House of Representatives
The 1981 Brink’s Robbery
The 1985 Island Raids & the Hartford 15 Trials
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The 2022 FBI Raids (July 29, 2022)
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A16: The IMF & World Bank Protests (2000)
Abolitionism & the Slave Power (1850–1861)
ACT UP & the AIDS Civil Disobedience (1987–1996)
The AETA Era & the Return of Open Rescue (2006– )
African People's Socialist Party
Albizu's Final Imprisonment & Death (1950–1965)
Alcatraz & the Red Power Occupations (1969–1975)
Alexander Berkman & the Homestead Attentat (1892–1906)
The Altgeld Pardons (1893)
American Indian Movement
The American Indian Movement & Wounded Knee (1973–1977)
The Angelo Herndon Insurrection Case (1932–1937)
The Angola 3 (1971–2016)
Animal Liberation Front
Anti-Fascism
The Anti-Globalization Movement (1999–2001)
The Anti-Klan Committees & Their Prisoners (1978–1990)
Anti-Nuclear Resistance
Anti-War Resistance
Appalachia: The Mountain Valley Pipeline Blockades (2018–2024)
The April 1965 March & the Turn Against the War
The Armed Resistance Unit Bombings & the Capitol (1983–1985)
The Arrests (1984–1985)
Assata Shakur’s Prison Escape
Attica & the Attica Brothers (1971–1976)
The August 8, 1978 Shootout & the Beating of Delbert Africa
The August Uprising & the Mass Arrests (2014)
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The Bail-Fund Raid (2023)
The Baltimore Uprising (2015)
The Battle of Seattle (1999–2007)
Before Stonewall: a Criminalized People (1920s–1969)
The Biltmore Six (1969–1972)
Bisbee Deportation
Black Government Conference & RNA Founding
Black Liberation
Black Liberation Army
Black Lives Matter
Black Panther Party
Black Power, H. Rap Brown & the "Rap Brown Act" (1966–1970)
The Blair House Attack: Collazo & Torresola (1950)
The Blowouts & the East L.A. Thirteen (1968)
The Bombing Campaign (1975–1977)
The Bombing Campaign: Apartheid & Central America (1976–1984)
The Bombing of Osage Avenue (May 13, 1985)
The Bridgman Raid & Criminal-Syndicalism Prosecutions (1922–1927)
The Brigade's Prisoners & Legacy (1993– )
The Brink's Robbery at Nyack (1981)
The Brooklyn Bridge Mass Arrest (2011)
The Browder Passport Case (1940–1942)
Brown Berets
Bunchy Carter & John Huggins Killings
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The Campaign at Its Peak — and the Luers Case (1999–2003)
The Campus Encampments & Mass Arrests (2024)
The Case of Imam Jamil Al-Amin (2000– )
The Case of the Legless Veteran: James Kutcher (1948–1956)
The Catonsville Nine & the Draft Board Raids (1967–1973)
Cecily McMillan (2012–2014)
The Cedar Rapids Acquittal of Butler & Robideau (1976)
Centralia Massacre
Chicago 1968, the Conspiracy Trial & the 1969 Split
The Chicago Conspiracy Trial (1969–1972)
The Chicano Moratorium & the Death of Rubén Salazar (1970)
The Christiana Treason Trial (1851)
The CIO Era: Little Steel, Memorial Day & the Strike Prosecutions (1936–1941)
Civil Disobedience & Plowshares
Civil Rights & Black Power
The Clemency Campaigns: 1979, 1999 & Oscar López (1977–2017)
The Cleveland 4 (2012)
Clinton Clemency Controversy
COINTELPRO & the Sieges of the Mosques (1956–1974)
COINTELPRO's "SWP Disruption Program" (1961–1976)
COINTELPRO (1956–1971)
The COINTELPRO Frame-Ups (1968–1975)
The Collapse of the Prosecution (2018)
The Columbia Occupation (1968)
The Communication Management Units (2006–)
Communist Party USA
Conscientious Objectors & Military Resisters
Contempt of Congress: The Committee's Prisoners (1946–1961)
The Continuing New Afrikan Prisoner Tradition
Continuing Political-Prisoner Campaigns
Cook County Building Bombing
The Criminal-Syndicalism Era (1917–1937)
The Criminal Anarchy Laws & the Turner Case (1901–1904)
Criminal Syndicalism: Whitney, Gitlow & the State Cases (1917–1927)
The Critical-Infrastructure Laws (2017–)
Custer & the Courthouse Cases (1973)
The Custer Courthouse Confrontation (1973)
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The Dakota 38 & the Davenport Prisoners (1862–1866)
Days of Rage
Death-Row Political Prisoners
The Death of Trooper Philip Lamonaco (1981)
Debs & the Espionage Act Prosecutions (1917–1921)
Debs, Pullman & Government by Injunction (1894–1895)
Declaration of Independence & Provisional Government
Decline & Dissolution
Delta Flight 841 Hijacking
Dennis v. United States & the Party Underground (1951–1955)
Designations, Funding Probes & the State Cases (2024–)
Diablo Canyon & the Abalone Alliance Blockade (1977–1984)
The Domestic-Terrorism Arrests (2022–2023)
Draft Resistance, Dow & the Oakland Seven (1966–1969)
The Draft Resisters (1964–1974)
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Earth First!, Redwood Summer & the Judi Bari Bombing (1985–2002)
Earth Liberation Front
Elaine Brown Leadership Period
Elder Political Prisoners
El Grito de Lares & the First Political Prisoners (1868)
Ellsberg, Russo & the Pentagon Papers (1971–1973)
Emergence from the Panther Splits
Emma Goldman's Blackwell's Island Sentence (1893–1894)
The Encampments & the Deportation Campaign (2023– )
Entrapment & the Longest Sentence: Eric McDavid & Marius Mason (2006– )
Environmental & Animal Liberation
Environmental Justice
Eric McDavid & the Informant "Anna" (2006–2015)
Evanston Arrests
Everett Massacre
Executive Order 9066 & the Camps (1942–1946)
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FALN
The FBI Killing of Filiberto Ojeda Ríos (2005)
The Federal Dragnet (2020–2021)
Federal Raids & Mass IWW Trials
The Felony Riot Indictments (2017)
Ferguson & the Movement for Black Lives (2014–2016)
Fighting the Bund & the Silver Shirts (1933–1941)
First FALN Bombing Wave
The First People's Church Occupation (1969–1970)
The First Red Scare (1917–1920)
The First Smith Act Trial (1941)
The First Trial & the Acquittals (2017)
The Fish Wars: Billy Frank Jr. & the Fish-Ins (1954–1974)
The Foley Square Smith Act Trial (1949)
The Foley Square Smith Act Trial (1949–1951)
Formation from the Weather Underground's Ashes (1978)
Formation in Seattle's Prison Movement (1975)
Fort Marion, the Plains Prisoners & Geronimo's Apaches (1875–1913)
Founding & Early Persecution (1930–1942)
Founding & Filiberto Ojeda Ríos (1976)
Founding & the Palmer Raids (1919–1920)
Founding & the Rise of Albizu Campos (1922–1930)
Founding, the Sit-Ins & "Jail, No Bail" (1960–1961)
Founding in Minneapolis & the AIM Patrol (1968)
Founding of the Black Panther Party
Founding of the IWW
Founding the Party & the Uhuru Movement (1972–1991)
The Frame-Ups: Geronimo Pratt & Dhoruba bin Wahad (1970–1997)
Fraunces Tavern Bombing
Fred Hampton & Mark Clark Raid
Fred Hampton & the Chicago Raid (1969–1982)
Free Breakfast for Children Program
The Freedom Riders at Parchman (1961)
The Freedom Rides & Parchman Farm (1961)
Freedom Summer, the MFDP & the Atlanta Draft Cases (1964–1966)
Fresno Free Speech Fight
From Ferguson to Minneapolis: A Decade of Protest Prosecutions (2014–2023)
From Ferguson to the George Floyd Uprising: the New Prosecutions (2014– )
From Street Gang to Movement: Chicago & Cha Cha Jiménez (1968–1969)
From the Band of Mercy to America (1976–1982)
From Young Citizens to Brown Berets (1967)
The Fugitive Slave Rescue Trials (1851–1859)
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The George Floyd Uprising (2020)
George Jackson, the Soledad Brothers & the San Quentin Six (1970–1976)
George Jackson Brigade
The GI Movement: Resistance Inside the Military (1966–1972)
GI Resistance: The Fort Hood Three & the Presidio 27 (1966–1970)
The Golden Rule & the Test-Ban Voyages (1958–1962)
Goldfield Organizing Drive
The Grand Jury Resisters (1976–2011)
The Grand Jury Resisters (1981–1990)
The Great Laboratory Raids: Penn & Riverside (1984–1985)
The Greensboro Massacre & the Prosecutions That Followed (1979–1985)
The Green Scare (2005–2010)
The Green Scare Sentences: McGowan, Paul & the Enhancement (2006–2013)
Greenwich Village Townhouse Explosion
Guantánamo & Indefinite Detention (2002–)
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H. Rap Brown & the Black Power Prosecutions (1966–1972)
The Haymarket Affair & the Anti-Anarchist Era (1886–1903)
Haymarket Police Monument Bombing
The Hearst Kidnapping & the Hibernia Bank Robbery (1974)
The Hearst Trial, Commutation & Pardon (1975–2001)
The Heart Mountain Draft Resisters (1944–1947)
The Hollywood Ten (1947–1950)
The Holy Land Five (2001–2009)
Huey Newton Arrest & the "Free Huey" Campaign
Hunger Strikers
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The Ideological-Deportation Policy & the Courts (2025–)
Imari Obadele’s Imprisonment
The Imprisoned Conductors: Torrey, Fairbank & Walker (1844–1864)
The Imprisoned Conscientious Objectors (1940–1946)
Indigenous Sovereignty
Industrial Workers of the World
Infiltration, Repression & the Organization's End (1971–1976)
The IWW Mass Trials (1917–1919)
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J20: The Inauguration Day Prosecutions (2017)
Jackson, Mississippi Shootout
Jasmine Richards & "Felony Lynching" (2015–2016)
Jessica Reznicek & the Terrorism Enhancement (2016–2021)
Joe Hill's Trial and Execution
John Africa Founds MOVE (1972)
John Brown & the Harpers Ferry Prisoners (1859–1860)
Joshua Williams (2014– )
Julio Roldán, the Tombs & the Second Church Occupation (1970)
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The Kettle at 12th & L (January 20, 2017)
Killing of Bobby Hutton
Killing of NYPD Officers Foster & Laurie
Killing of NYPD Officers Piagentini & Jones
The Killing of Tortuguita (2023)
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Labor & Industrial Unionism
La Caravana de la Reconquista, Catalina & Dissolution (1971–1972)
La Ley de la Mordaza — the Gag Law (1948–1957)
Las Carpetas: the Surveillance State (1936–1999)
The Last Prosecutions: the González Claudio Brothers (2008–2012)
Later Prosecutions & AIM's Prisoner Legacy
Lawrence Textile Strike ("Bread and Roses")
The Leonard Peltier Case (1977– )
LGBTQ+ Liberation
The Liberation of Assata Shakur (1979)
The Lincoln Hospital Takeover & the Health Offensives (1970)
The Line 3 Arrests (2021)
Little Feather & Rattler: The Federal Cases (2017–2020)
Long-Term Political-Prisoner Campaigns
The Long Reckoning: Sara Jane Olson & the Opsahl Case (1999–2009)
The Long War: Resisters from the Gulf to the Drone Era (1991– )
The Los Angeles Eight (1987–2007)
The Los Angeles Shootout (May 17, 1974)
Los Macheteros
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The Mainland Bombing Campaign
Malcolm X: Conversion in the Cellblock (1946–1952)
Manhunt & Captures (1977–1981)
The Marcus Foster Assassination & the Remiro–Little Case (1973–1981)
Marcus Garvey & the UNIA Prosecution (1919–1927)
Marion, Lexington & the Control-Unit Fight (1972–2006)
Marius Mason (2008–2024)
The Mass Arrests & the Treaty Camp Raid (2016–2017)
The Material-Support Prosecutions (2001–)
May 19th Communist Organization
The McCarran Act, Deportations & the Communist Control Act (1950–1965)
McCarthyism (1947–1957)
McComb, Albany & the Organizers' Jails (1961–1963)
McKees Rocks Strike
Mckesson v. Doe & the Legal War on Organizers (2016–2024)
The Media Burglary & the Church Committee (1971–1976)
The Miami Model (2003)
The Minneapolis Arson Sentences (2020–2022)
The Minneapolis Smith Act Trial (1941)
Missoula Free Speech Fight
The Modern Era: Charlottesville to the Antifa Prosecutions (2017– )
The Molly Maguires (1876–1879)
Montgomery to Birmingham: Jail as Witness (1955–1963)
MOVE
The MOVE 9 Trial & Sentences (1979–1980)
The Mumia Abu-Jamal Case (1981– )
The Mural: Joe Waller's Imprisonment (1966–1971)
Muslim Prisoners & Cooper v. Pate (1957–1965)
Mutulu Shakur Prosecution
The Muñiz Air National Guard Base Raid (1981)
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Nation of Islam
The NATO 3 (2012–2014)
The Nevada Test Site & the Desert Witness (1982–1994)
New Bethel Acquittals
New Bethel Incident
New Haven Panther Trials
New Jersey Turnpike Shootout & the Assata Shakur Case
New York Police Headquarters Bombing
The New York Young Lords & the Garbage Offensive (1969)
The Non-Leadership Trials (1973–1976)
O
Oakland Community School
The Occupation & the Leadership Trial (1973–1974)
The Occupation of Wounded Knee (1973)
Occupy Wall Street (2011–2012)
The October 1950 Insurrection: Jayuya & Utuado
The Oglala Firefight & the RESMURS Prosecutions (1975)
The Ohio 7 Arrests (1984–1985)
The Ohio 7 Sedition Trial (1985–1989)
Operation Backfire (2005–2007)
Operation Backfire (2005–2007)
Operation Bite Back & Rod Coronado (1991–1995)
Origins: from Earth First! to the ELF (1992–1997)
Origins: Prisoners, SCAR & the Melville–Jackson Unit (1971–1976)
Oscar López Rivera’s Imprisonment
Out of the Prison Movement: the SLA Forms (1973)
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Pacific Northwest Lumber Strike
Palestine Solidarity
The Palmer Raids & the Buford Deportations (1919–1920)
The Panther 21 (1969–1971)
Panther 21 Arrests & Trial
Paroles, Deaths & the Remains Scandal (2018–2021)
PATCO & the Criminalized Strike, Again (1981– )
Paterson Silk Strike
Pentagon Bombing
Pine Ridge, RESMURS & Leonard Peltier (1975–2025)
Pipeline Sabotage & the Terrorism Enhancement: Reznicek & Montoya (2016–2021)
The Plowshares Prosecutions (1980–1989)
The Plowshares Tradition (1980– )
Police Patrols in Oakland
Political Prisoners in Exile
The Ponce Massacre (Palm Sunday, 1937)
Port Huron & the Founding of SDS (1960–1962)
Portland: Operation Diligent Valor (2020)
The Post-9/11 Sweeps (2001–2003)
The Powelton Village Standoff & Starvation Blockade (1977–1978)
Prairie Fire Manifesto
Preemptive Prosecution & the Entrapment Cases (2004–2023)
The Prison-Strike Era & Its Reprisals (2010– )
Prison Abolition
The Program: Disruption as Policy (1956–1971)
Puerto Rican Independence
Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
Q
Queer Radicals of the Underground (1970s–2010s)
R
R2K: The Philadelphia RNC Prosecutions (2000–2004)
Rahman & Mattis (2020–2022)
RAM & the Early Black Power Prosecutions (1964–1968)
Ramona Africa: The Survivor Imprisoned (1985–1992)
Rasmea Odeh (2013–2017)
The Reagan Era (1981–1989)
Recently Released Political Prisoners
Red Fawn Fallis (2016–2020)
Relocation toward Mississippi Organizing
Republic of New Afrika
The Resistance Conspiracy Case & the Lexington HSU (1984–1990)
The Resistance Conspiracy Case & the Long Release (1988–2021)
The RICO 61 (2023–)
RNA-11 Prosecutions
Rocky Flats: the Tracks Blockades (1978–1989)
The Rosenbergs & Morton Sobell (1950–1969)
The Río Piedras Massacre & the Killing of Rosado and Beauchamp (1935–1936)
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The Sabana Seca Ambush (1979)
Sacco & Vanzetti (1920–1927)
Sacramento Capitol Protest
The Sami Al-Arian Case (2003–2015)
The Sanctuary Movement Trials (1984–1986)
San Diego Free Speech Fight
SDS Split & the Weatherman Faction
Seabrook & the Clamshell Alliance (1976–1978)
The Second-String Prosecutions & Yates (1951–1957)
Seditious-Conspiracy Convictions
SHAC & the SHAC 7 (1999–2006)
The SHAC 7 & the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (2004–2006)
The Skyhorse–Mohawk Case (1974–1978)
Socialist Workers Party
Spokane Free Speech Fight
The Springfield Sedition Trial (1989)
Standing Rock & the #NoDAPL Water Protectors (2016–2017)
Standing Rock & the Water Protector Prosecutions (2016–2018)
State Department Bombing
Stonewall, STAR & the Liberation Generation (1969–1974)
Stop Cop City: Domestic Terrorism & RICO for a Forest (2021– )
The Stop Cop City Era (2022–)
The Student Detentions: Khalil, Öztürk & Mahdawi (2025)
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Students for a Democratic Society
Surrenders & Decline
The Surveillance of the Movement (2015–)
SWP v. Attorney General: the Verdict on the FBI (1973–1986)
Symbionese Liberation Army
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Taft-Hartley & the Anticommunist Purge of Labor (1947–1957)
The Test Cases: Hirabayashi, Yasui, Korematsu & Endo (1942–1944)
TigerSwan & the Counterinsurgency Campaign (2016–2017)
Timothy Leary Prison Escape
Trail of Broken Treaties & the BIA Occupation (1972)
The Trans Prisoners' Struggle: CeCe McDonald to Chelsea Manning (2011– )
Tree-Sits, Forest Defense & the Pain-Compliance Era (1995–2002)
The Trial of the Chicago Eight (1886–1887)
Trotskyists, Teamsters & the Road to Prosecution (1928–1941)
The Trump-Era Crackdown on Palestine Solidarity (2024–)
The Tukwila Bank Shootout (January 1976)
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U.S. Capitol Bombing
The UFF Prisoners & the Long Releases (1992–2021)
United Freedom Front
V
The Vail Arson (1998)
The Valve Turners & the Climate Necessity Defense (2016–2018)
Vieques: the Navy, the Fishermen & the Mass Arrests (1978–2003)
Vietnam: Draft Resistance & the Draft-Board Raids (1964–1973)
The Vietnam War Era (1964–1975)
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The War on Terror (2001–)
Weather Underground
The Wells Fargo Robbery & Víctor Gerena (1983)
Wheatland Hop Riot
The Whistleblower Prosecutions (2010–2024)
Whistleblowers
William Morales Explosion & Escape
The Wilmington Ten & the Charlotte Three (1971–1980)
World War I: the Espionage Act & the Conscientious Objectors (1917–1921)
World War II: Japanese Incarceration & the First Smith Act Trials (1941–1945)
World War II: the Prison Strikes of the COs (1940–1946)
The World War II Draft Prosecutions (1942–1946)
The Wounded Knee Leadership Trials (1974)
Wrongfully Convicted / COINTELPRO Frame-Ups
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Yates, Scales & the Collapse of the Smith Act Prosecutions (1957–1962)
Young Lords