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Julian Davis of the Free Josh Wolf Coalition introduced speakers at the press conference. Pueng Vongs, vice-president of the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists, spoke first. Four-minute QT movie. 54MB....

Sarah Olson speaks here for Josh, but she herself just concluded a defense of the First Amendment. Last month Phil Donahue said, "Say what you will about Sarah Olson, she got the story. On the ground and armed with only an audio tape recorder, reporter Olson did nothing more radical than dig deep -- the first law of journalism. Her interview with Lt. Ehren Watada vividly painted the portrait of a young man in anguish -- to serve or not to serve. As the after-hours boys in the Press Bar used t...

WASHINGTON--Last week over 200 immigrant rights leaders from across the country joined together, building strategies for immigration reform. The three-day conference, hosted by the Fair Immigration Reform Movement (FIRM), was held at the Galludet University in Washington, D.C....

Josh Wolf Becomes Longest Jailed Journalist in US History...

After 169 days in prison, Josh Wolf today earned the dubious distinction for incarceration intended to force him to make public videotape of a 2005 anarchist demonstration. Wolf maintains that as a journalist, it is his right to protect his sources from the government. The courts are hoping that after enough time in jail, the journalist will surrender the tapes....

Many states are rejecting National ID cards http://aclu.org http://legitgov.org http://eff.org...

24 year old San Francisco independent journalist and video blogger, Josh Wolf, passes the previous U.S. record, today, for jail time by a reporter on a contempt charge, for refusing to turnover raw video he shot at a local protest against corporate globalization, in 2005. His case, along with a growing number of cases filed since Judith Miller of the N.Y. Times was sent to jail, in July 2005, are raising alarms among journalists and activists across the Nation....

Here is background information on the illegal trial of a peasant leader from Colombia, Sonia, from the International Herald Tribune. The IHT article parrots the false charges that she and the FARC are narcoterrorists. On 2/15/07, there will be a meeting in the Mission to discuss this the two trials of Colombian FARC members in Washington DC. Extradited illegally to the US, they are denied the right to their own attorneys, and their witnesses have been prohibited. For more info on the 2/...

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction....

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