California

Bhavika Anandpura

Bhavika Anandpura protested U.S. support for Israel by blocking the Golden Gate Bridge in April 2024. A jury c...

Elmer Anderson

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Elmer Anderson was from Sacramento, California. Elmer Anderson was convicted at the mass IWW trial in Sacramen...

John D. Apel

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John D. Apel is a longtime Catholic Worker Movement activist who co-founded a Catholic Worker house in Guadalu...

Jacob Appelbaum

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Jacob Appelbaum is an American computer-security researcher, privacy activist and former Tor Project developer...

Bettina Aptheker

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Bettina Aptheker is an American political activist, feminist scholar, and longtime professor of feminist studi...

Mireya Arias

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Mireya Arias was imprisoned in California following a prosecution over gender-discrimination lawsuits against...

Albert Armour

Albert Armour was arrested after the raid on the Toure Community Center. Contemporary Party reporting and a ph...

Kevin Art

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Irish republican prisoner held at the Federal Detention Center in Pleasanton, California on US federal charges...

Alexandria Demetrius Augustine

Alexandria Demetrius Augustine is a Los Angeles activist and behavioral therapist who was arrested on July 24,...

Sherman Austin

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Sherman Martin Austin, age 18, was the founder and webmaster of the anarchist website raisethefist.com. Pleade...

Bob Avakian

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A longtime Maoist organizer and theorist, Avakian emerged from 1960s political organizing in Berkeley and went...

Joan Baez

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Joan Baez paired a high-profile music career with sustained public activism, particularly around civil rights,...

Frank Bailey

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Frank Bailey was an IWW member from Sacramento. Frank Bailey received a four-year prison sentence, which he se...

Miguel Balderos

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Miguel Balderos is an anarchist and current political prisoner who was sentenced to 10 years and 8 months in p...

Eugene Balthazar

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Eugene Balthazar was a Richmond Panther detained on February 9, 1970 during newspaper and breakfast-program wo...

Sonia Baltruin

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Sonia Baltruin, also known as Sonia Baltrun and Sonia Kaross, was a Lithuanian-born labor organizer. She immig...

Aiad Barakat

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

Sam Barman

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Sam Barman was a labor and unemployment organizer in Oakland, California. He was among the workers arrested at...

Peter De Bernardi

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Peter De Bernardi, an Industrial Workers of the World member from Mountain View, California, was convicted in...

Alvah Bessie

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Alvah Bessie, a screenwriter and novelist who had volunteered with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade to fight fascis...

Daoud Bey

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Daoud Bey was a member of the Richmond, California, branch of the Black Panther Party. On February 9, 1970, Be...

Herbert Biberman

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Herbert Biberman, a screenwriter and director was one of the “Hollywood Ten,” the screenwriters, directors and...

Warren Billings

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Warren Billings was born in Middletown, New York on Independence Day 1893; young shoe-workers' organizer convi...

Stephen Bingham

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Attorney for George Jackson. The Black Panther Vol. 19 no.10 (1979) describes as absurd the prosecution's 'gun...