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DESCRIPTION:\n\nWhat: Free Josh Wolf Event\n\nWhen: Thursday, December 7th 2006, 
 7:30\n\nWhere: Balazo Gallery, 2183 Mission Street @18th, 415-255-7227 ALL 
 AGES\n\nFREE JOSH WOLF!\n\nOn December 7th journalists, activists, and 
 local leaders will convene to call upon the United States Government to 
 free Josh Wolf  from "coercive custody."  Josh is a San Francisco 
 free-lance journalist  being held for his refusal, based on journalistic 
 principles, to turn over to a federal grand jury his news footage from a 
 July 2005 protest. Free press advocates from around the world have called 
 his incarceration unjust and a grave violation of the freedom of the 
 press.\n\nHe is well on his way to becoming the longest incarcerated 
 journalist in US history. His case has prompted the international free 
 press watchdog group Reporters Without Borders to lower the United States' 
 ranking for press freedom nine points to 53rd in the world. \n\nFor his 
 commitment to journalistic freedom Josh Wolf has just received the 2006 
 Journalist of the Year Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. 
 On this occasion he was praised by Assemblyman Mark Leno who commended his 
 "courageous dedication to protecting freedom of the press in our 
 country."\n\nPlease join the San Francisco community in supporting Josh 
 Wolf and demanding that Congress pass a Federal Shield Law protecting 
 journalists and freedom of the press. For more information about Josh Wolf 
 go to www.joshwolf.net or contact Andy Blue at 
 andy.blue@yahoo.com.\n\nSpeakers to Include:\nMark Leno, California State 
 Assemblyman\nBruce Bruggman, Editor/Publisher San Francisco Bay 
 Guardian\nDavid Greene, Executive Director, The First Amendment 
 Project\nChris Daly, SF Supervisor\nRoss Mirkarimi, SF Supervisor\nJane 
 Kim, SF School Board Commissioner Elect\nSarah Olson, radio producer and 
 independent journalist\nKevin Epps, Filmmaker (Straight Outta Hunters 
 Point)\n\nEvent Sponsors:\nSF Bay Guardian\nLeague of Young 
 Voters\nReporters Without Borders\nYouth Radio\n\n$10 suggested donation. 
 No one turned away for lack of funds. All proceeds go to Josh's Legal 
 Fund.\n\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/11/22/18332255.php
SUMMARY:Free Josh Wolf Event
LOCATION:\nWhere: Balazo Gallery, 2183 Mission Street @18th, 415-255-7227 ALL 
 AGES\n\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/11/22/18332255.php
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