Iowa

Jessica Reznicek

In Custody

Jessica Reznicek is an environmental activist who was a leading opponent against the construction of the Dakot...

Ed Bloomer

Released

Ed Bloomer was a Des Moines Catholic Worker arrested for re-entry trespass at Offutt Air Force Base / U.S. Str...

Darla Bradley

Released

Darla Bradley was 22 and a member of the Davenport Catholic Worker in Iowa at the time of Silo Plowshares. She...

Gilberto Castillo

Released

Gilberto Castillo is a Muscatine, Iowa man who, alongside his brother Marc Castillo, drove a vehicle toward th...

Marc Castillo

Released

Marc Castillo is a Muscatine, Iowa man who on August 9, 2020, during the period of widespread BLM protest acti...

Joeanna Cheatom

Released

Joeanna Cheatom was a Des Moines welfare-rights organizer who worked alongside the local Black Panther Party....

Marvin Cheatom Jr.

Released

Marvin Cheatom Jr. was a 16-year-old Black Panther in Des Moines when he and his mother, welfare-rights organi...

Edwin Coppoc

Released

Edwin Coppoc was a young Quaker from Springdale, Iowa, who joined Brown's force after meeting him there in 185...

Frank Cordaro

Released

Father Frank Cordaro is a former Catholic priest, longtime Des Moines Catholic Worker, and Plowshares activist...

Mark Curtis

Mark Curtis was a Socialist Workers Party member, former Young Socialist Alliance secretary, packinghouse work...

Gary John Eklund

Released

First Iowan indicted for nonregistration. Publicly burned his Selective Service paperwork in protest when regi...

Carolyn Feldman

Released

Carrie Feldman is accused of nothing more than refusing to give testimony to a grand jury seeking to indict me...

Michael Harris

Released

Michael Harris was a member of the Des Moines, Iowa chapter of the Black Panther Party. According to The Black...

Black Hawk

Released

Black Hawk was a Sauk war leader who led the 1832 Black Hawk War — the last major armed Indigenous resistance...

Dorothy M. Hennessey

Released

Dorothy M. Hennessey was a Franciscan sister, teacher and peace activist from Iowa. She and her sister Gwen we...

Gwen Hennessey

Released

Gwen Hennessey is a Franciscan sister and peace activist from Iowa. She and her older sister Dorothy were sent...

Charles Knox

Released

Charles Knox was a leader and defense captain of the Des Moines, Iowa chapter of the Black Panther Party. He w...

George Koval

In Exile

George Koval was an American-born chemist and Soviet military-intelligence officer who returned to the United...

Dennis A. Mahony

Released

Dennis A. Mahony was an Irish-born newspaper editor and Democratic politician in Iowa, best known as editor of...

Shaun Maloney

Shaun McGillin Maloney, also known as Jack Maloney and John or Jack Severson, was a Teamsters organizer active...

Ruby Montoya

Released

Ruby Montoya, raised in Phoenix, Arizona, was a preschool teacher in Boulder, Colorado before quitting her job...

Wilhelm Schumann

Released

Wilhelm Schumann was pastor of the First Evangelical Church in Pomeroy, Iowa, affiliated with the Evangelical...

Edward T. Sheldon

Released

Edward T. Sheldon was an Underground Railroad operative in southwest Iowa. In February 1860 he and Newton Wood...

Stephen L. Smith

Released

A University of Iowa student who burned his draft card on October 20, 1965, at the Iowa Memorial Union in Iowa...