California

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Arthur Isaacson

Arthur Isaacson was one of the named defendants arrested in the September14, 1931 San Francisco City Hall unem...

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Helen Isline

Helen Isline was named in the November 22, 1934 Western Worker continuation listing San Francisco Jefferson Pa...

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Kanzen Ito

Kanzen Ito is individually listed in the INS civilian custody roster as confined at Sharp Park Detention Camp,...

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Frank James

The July 16 Western Worker reports Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union organizer Frank James pul...

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Jimmy James

Jimmy James was a Black prisoner at Soledad State Prison and one of the Soledad Seven, a group the Black Panth...

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Lemuel James

Lemuel James was a Southern California Black Panther who worked in the Watts breakfast program. Police arreste...

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John Janosco

Released

John Janosco was a Hungarian-born western field representative of the United Packinghouse Workers. Immigration...

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Pierre Jans

Released

Pierre Jans was an IWW member from Los Angeles. Pierre Jans received a four-year prison sentence, which he ser...

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Jartjes (San Pedro maritime striker)

Released

A maritime striker identified only as Jartjes was among six workers arrested and held in San Pedro on assault,...

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Kareem Dewayne Jefferson

Released

On August 24, 2020 Kareem Dewayne Jefferson, 20, of Los Angeles, CA pled "no contest" to a charge of looting a...

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Sam Jesky

Released

Sam Jesky was listed in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecutions an...

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Bernard Jillson

Released

Bernard Jillson appears in the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors’1969 current-prisoner lists of dr...

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Gabriela Brigitte Jimenez

Released

On March 24, 2022 Gabriela Brigitte Jimenez, 33, of Los Angeles, CA pled "no contest" to a charge of looting....

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Francisco Jiminez

Released

Francisco Jiminez was a militant member of San Francisco Ship Scalers Union Local 38-100 during its 1935 strik...

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John Johannessen

John Johannessen was a seaman of thirty years’ experience, including twenty continuously in American ships, wh...

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B. Johansen

Released

B. Johansen was an IWW member from Sacramento prosecuted under California criminal-syndicalism law and sentenc...

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B. Johnson (San Quentin relief roster, 1926)

The July 1926 Labor Defender birthday-relief report specifically lists B. Johnson at San Quentin among its sup...

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Angus Johnson

Released

Angus Johnson was prosecuted in a federal case arising from a 2025 Los Angeles protest. Johnson pleaded guilty...

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Claudette Johnson

Claudette Johnson was an Oakland woman imprisoned at Alameda County’s Santa Rita Jail in Pleasanton, Californi...

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Greg Johnson

Greg Johnson spent two weeks in jail following the June 10, 1982 peace action at the Rockwell plant in El Segu...

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Harold Johnson

The July 9, 1934 Western Worker names Harold Johnson among four visitors the International Labor Defense sent...

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Jackie Johnson

Jackie Johnson, known as Pee Wee, was arrested after the assault on Central Avenue headquarters. The Party new...

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Jimmy Johnson (San Diego Black Panther)

Jimmy Johnson was individually named among San Diego Black Panthers arrested on July 16, 1969 while going to a...

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Marcel Johnson

Released

Marcel "Khali" Johnson, a Black Occupy Oakland organizer involved in food and blanket distribution at the Fran...