California

Joseph Buddenberg

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Joseph Buddenberg is an animal rights activist from Southern California who, along with Nicole Kissane, was in...

John Burrows

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John Burrows was one of the maritime workers prosecuted in the Modesto dynamite case during the 1935 tanker st...

Charles Bursey

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Charles Bursey was a member of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, later well known for serving meals in the P...

Ken Butigan

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Berkeley graduate-theological-union student who reworked the original Pledge document for mass appeal and help...

Nilak Butler

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Nilak Butler was an Inuit activist who joined the American Indian Movement in 1974 and later helped found the...

William Buwalda

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William Buwalda was a United States Army soldier with some fifteen years of service who, in 1908, attended a l...

Edinson Calderon

Edinson Calderon, a Venezuelan asylum seeker and human rights advocate, spent four months in ICE detention bef...

Sal Candelaria

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Sal Candelaria was a leader and organizer of the Black Berets (Black Berets por La Justicia), a Chicano milita...

Jesse Merel Cannon

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Jesse Merel Cannon was one of eleven anti-fascist counter-protesters prosecuted after confrontations with supp...

Terry Cannon

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Terry Cannon was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee organizer, founder of The Movement newspaper, and...

Sara Cantor

Sara Cantor protested U.S. support for Israel by blocking the Golden Gate Bridge in April 2024. A jury convict...

Clarence Capers Jr.

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Corporal Clarence Capers Jr., 21, of Edgewater Park, New Jersey, was one of the Camp Pendleton 14, Black Marin...

David Caplan

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David Caplan was an anarchist and labor militant, a grocery-store keeper on Bainbridge Island, Washington, pro...

Jonathan Caravello

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Jonathan Caravello was arrested on July 10, 2025 while protesting a federal immigration raid at Glass House Fa...

Brian Carmichael

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Brian Carmichael was incarcerated at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville and organized for HIV medica...

Vanessa Carrasco

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Vanessa Carrasco was one of the Justice Eight street-vendor advocates prosecuted over three September 2023 con...

Alprentice Bunchy Carter

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Alprentice Bunchy Carter was the founder of the Southern California chapter of the Black Panther Party and the...

Evon Carter

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Evon Carter was the Los Angeles chapter’s communications secretary. She and her children were at the 55th Stre...

Sal Castro

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Castro was a Mexican American educator and major figure in the 1968 East L.A. walkouts (“Chicano Blowouts”), e...

Christian Damian Cerna-Camacho

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Christian Damian Cerna-Camacho, a United States citizen from Boyle Heights in Los Angeles, was 28 when federal...

Pat Chambers

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Pat Chambers was a leader of the Cannery and Agricultural Workers Industrial Union (CAWIU) and the California...

Rocky Chau

Rocky Chau protested U.S. support for Israel by blocking the Golden Gate Bridge in April 2024. A jury convicte...

Cesar Chavez

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Cesar Estrada Chavez was the co-founder, with Dolores Huerta, of the United Farm Workers and the most prominen...

David Chavez

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David Chavez was one of the Justice Eight street-vendor advocates prosecuted over three September 2023 confron...