Feature Archives

On April 16th, veteran Indybay reporter David Morse moved to quash a search warrant issued for photographs he took at a December 11th protest on the UC Berkeley campus. The photographs were taken while Morse was covering the protest for Indybay. Despite clearly identifying himself as a journalist, Morse was arrested along with seven others, had his camera and photographs seized, and was charged with multiple felonies. The charges were dropped within days. On June 18th, Judge Yolanda Northridge quashed the warrant, ordering the UC Regents to return the original photographs and all copies.

Josh Wolf spent seven and a half months in federal jail asserting his right as a journalist not to turn over videotape of a demonstration. He is now a student at UC Berkeley. Just last week, as this profile was being prepared for publication, the UCB administration announced it will try to suspend Wolf for seven months as punishment for his being arrested while covering the protest against fee hikes that led to the occupation of Wheeler Hall last November.

Tiny Garcia was arrested for the crime of living houseless in America. From that experience she co-founded POOR Magazine, a media organization that is much more than a weekly journal. Tiny describes the magazine as "a family of poverty scholars teaching on and speaking on issues of poverty, racism, disability, border fascism and indigenous resistance" in this interview with Angola 3 News.

On Sunday, March 28, Indybay will hold an orientation from 4-6 p.m. at Wheeler Hall Room 220 on the UC Berkeley campus. The orientation is intended to be for those interested in learning about the site and getting involved in media production and editorial work. Volunteers will demonstrate how to publish text, photos, audio, video, and much more, including how stories get made into center column features.

On March 27th, a birthday party was held to celebrate 15 years of Free Radio Santa Cruz. The party took place at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in downtown Santa Cruz. The night featured local musicians and brought together past and present station programmers, as well as other community members. In addition to the local musicians, Tom Lodge, a pirate radio legend and pioneer from England, spoke of the great days of Radio Caroline, which allowed for the British Invasion. Free Radio Santa Cruz can be picked up at 101.1 FM in most of Santa Cruz, and online at freakradio.org.

Chapter four of this series is Peter M’s profile of Oakland's Favianna Rodriguez. By any measure she is a successful poster artist, businesswoman and organizer. She organizes other progressive artists into projects, such as the mural that went up last year on the side of the Oakland Museum. She is a role model for up-and-coming Latina artists, proving in her life that sí se puede — yes it can be done.

Barbershop Punk is the true story of an unlikely hero who takes on the system, a classic David and Goliath story that plays out within the internet neutrality debate and larger context of censorship and access. When software engineer Robb Topolski uncovers that telecommunications company Comcast has been lying to the public, the Federal Communications gets involved, and the case for internet freedom makes headlines.