California

Edward D. Nolan

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Edward D. Nolan was a machinist and officer of the International Association of Machinists in San Francisco, i...

Gail Noldon

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Gail Noldon was jailed on August 1, 1969 while distributing the Panther newspaper near San Francisco’s bus ter...

Frank Nubin

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Frank Nubin was a 46-year-old Oakland, California steelworker — married, studying structural engineering — who...

George O'Connell

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George O'Connell was an Industrial Workers of the World member from Imperial, California, prosecuted in the fe...

Jenny O'Connell-Nowain

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Jenny O'Connell-Nowain is a 41-year-old former preschool teacher from Redding, California with no prior crimin...

Tom O'Connor

Tom O'Connor was a Newspaper Guild president involved in the 1939 Huntington Park Bulletin strike in Californi...

Bill O'Donnell

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Father William “Bill” O'Donnell, a Berkeley peace activist associated with the San Carlos Foundation, crossed...

V. V. O'Hare

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V. V. O'Hare was a miner from Los Angeles, California. V. V. O'Hare was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Chi...

Richard O'Neal

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O’Neal was a former Black Panther connected to Bay Area political organizing who became entangled in the reviv...

Richard Oakes

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Richard Oakes was a Mohawk activist who led the 1969–1971 occupation of Alcatraz Island, a landmark event of t...

Amjad Obeid

Amjad Obeid was one of the Los Angeles Eight, detained in U.S. maximum-security prisons for several weeks in 1...

Ayman Obeid

Ayman Obeid was one of the Los Angeles Eight, detained in U.S. maximum-security prisons for several weeks in 1...

Kevin Olliff

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Kevin is a 28 year-old activist from the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, CA. A vegan since age 15, Kevin...

Edward James Olmos

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Edward James Olmos, the Mexican-American actor of Stand and Deliver and Battlestar Galactica, was arrested in...

Tillie Olsen

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Tillie Olsen was a writer and labor activist associated with the Young Communist League. She was jailed in Kan...

Alejandro Orellana

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Alejandro Orellana, an East Los Angeles activist, was arrested on June 12, 2025 and federally charged with con...

Anthony Orendorff

Anthony Orendorff is an independent journalist and photographer who documents Los Angeles communities. LAPD of...

Samuel Ornitz

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Samuel Ornitz, a novelist and screenwriter and a founding member of the Screen Writers Guild was one of the “H...

Arvid Owens

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Arvid Owens was among seven workers arrested after a demonstration demanding work at Oakland City Hall on Dece...

Eddie Page

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A Black Marine private, the Pendleton 14 defendant given the harshest sentence after an August 1977 court-mart...

John Pancner

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John Pancner was from Chicago, Illinois. John Pancner joined the IWW in 1905 and worked as aunion organizer in...

Louis Parenti

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Louis Parenti was a laborer from San Francisco, California. Louis Parenti was convicted at the mass IWW trial...

Gilbert Parker

Contemporary reporting places Gilbert Parker, also called Gil, in New County Jail after the raid on Central Av...

David Pasquarelli

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David Pasquarelli was a San Francisco AIDS activist and a leader of ACT UP/San Francisco, a dissident faction...