California

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Edo Mita

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Edo Mita was a Japanese-American in Los Angeles whose deportation case, grounded in alleged Communist politica...

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Omar Abdi Mohamed

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Omar Abdi Mohamed was a Somali preacher paid $1,700 a month by the Saudi government to promote Wahhabism at a...

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Catherine Morris

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Catherine Morris is a longtime Los Angeles Catholic Worker — celebrating 50 years at the LA Catholic Worker in...

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Roger Moss

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Roger Moss helped organize the CNVA Everyman anti-nuclear voyage and was imprisoned for contempt in 1962. Walt...

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Leslie Mullin

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White anti-imperialist activist arrested in November 1977 in Los Angeles as one of the PFOC/LA 5 on conspiracy...

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Michael Murphy

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Michael Murphy was a U.S. Army soldier and one of the "Presidio 27" — the stockade prisoners at the Presidio o...

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Bill Nandris

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Bill Nandris was a British Greenpeace participant jailed in California following the 2001 Vandenberg anti-miss...

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Francis J. Nash

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Francis J. Nash, an IWW member from Sacramento, received a four-year prison sentence for giving testimony in c...

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Jack Nash

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Jack Nash was imprisoned at San Quentin State Prison in the mid-1920s, during the era of California's criminal...

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Jerry Newson

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Jerry Newson was a nineteen-year-old Oakland shoeshine worker sentenced to death for a double murder, in a cas...

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Vinh Tan Nguyen

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Vinh Tan Nguyen, a Vietnamese-American age 63, was convicted of misuse of a passport to facilitate an act of i...

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Alex Nicholson

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Alex Nicholson, an IWW member from Eureka, received a four-year prison sentence, which he served in San Quenti...

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James Nolan

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James Nolan was arrested in California and jailed while awaiting trial in the Sacramento IWW case. He was held...

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Lorine Norman

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Lorine Norman was a CAWIU organizer, one of the eighteen indicted at Sacramento in July 1934 for criminal synd...

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Frank Nubin

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

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Daniel O'Connell

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Daniel O'Connell, an attorney, a Socialist and an Irish Nationalist from San Francisco, was convicted of givin...

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Thomas O'Mara

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Thomas O'Mara, an IWW member from Sacramento, received a four-year sentence for giving testimony in court on b...

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James D. O'Neil

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James D. O'Neil was a former West Coast CIO publicity director jailed for contempt during the 1941 Harry Bridg...

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Joe O'Sullivan

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Joe O'Sullivan was a business agent for the Carpenters union in San Francisco during the 1976 strike by city c...

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Maurice Ogden

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Maurice Ogden, a Los Angeles-area writer, was indicted in 1959 under a federal false-statements law (18 U.S.C....

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Ruchelle Ogden

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Ruchelle Ogden was one of the eleven defendants in the San Diego County District Attorney's prosecution of ant...

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James Olson

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James Olson, an IWW member from Los Angeles, received a one- to fourteen-year prison sentence, which he served...

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John Orlando

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John Orlando, an IWW member from Sacramento, received a four-year prison sentence, which he served in San Quen...

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Alberto Ortiz

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Alberto Ortiz was a member of La Casa de Carnalismo, a Chicano community organization in East Los Angeles that...