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Six Interviews on the current crisis in the Middle East focusing on the Palestine Occupation and Lebanon Israel conflict....

Josh Wolf is being charged with civil contempt and may be jailed Thursday for refusing to testify or turn over video out takes to a Federal Grand Jury investigating a July, 2005, demonstration. We have fought to make this next hearing public, so come out and pack the courtroom. July 20th, Press conference at 12pm, hearing at 1pm at the SF Federal Building (450 Golden Gate Ave.)...

San Francisco Independent journalist Josh Wolf, who is facing civil contempt charges for refusing to testify and provide evidence to a federal grand jury, will appear before U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup this Thursday. On behalf of the government, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Finigan is seeking video footage of a July 2005 protest in the Mission district against the Group of Eight (G8), meeting in Scotland at the time. If convicted, Wolf could be jailed for up to 13 months....

Many of us following the court proceedings relating to the July 2005 G8 protest fiasco had last heard that J. Wolfe had successfully resisted orders to turn his journalistic tapes and notes taken at the event over to a grand jury proceeding. This has been covered in several articles on Indybay. The FBI had been assigned to research whether a G8 protester had battered and injured a police officer on 23rd and Mission Street during the event. The San Francisco Chronicle reports today that anothe...

OPP officers raided Grassy Narrows blockade site yesteday arresting Six Nations people who had come to participate in a gathering as guests of the Grassy Narrows community. 5 six nations people were detained, 4 were charged. The OPP are targeting 6 nations people and people of colour. >> >> Police cruisers also entered the Grassy Narrows reserve without permission, violating the community's sovereignty and legal jursidiction over their reserve lands. Grassy Narrows Band councilors seized an...

I was surprised yesterday afternoon when a Reuters article popped onto my computer screen reporting that 53 Lebanese civilians had been killed by Israeli forces, part of the suddenly chaotic two-front battle Israel's military is fighting in the Middle East. Surprised, because I had been monitoring the day's events on CNN and hadn't heard much about that kind of swelling Lebanese death toll....

review of support groups for solar energy, climate protection, clean air and food securtiy...

Note: The intended purpose of this piece is to help various activist communities in Santa Cruz, and the UC system at large, better understand Chancellor Denice Denton’s role at the University, and to spark a community conversation about how we will move forward for the better. I have specifically chosen not to speculate about the circumstances surrounding Denton’s death, focusing instead on discussing her achievements, contextualizing her criticism, and analyzing the potential for radical soc...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is destroying yet another family of Mexican gray wolves – even though the agency has identified the species as the most endangered mammal in North America. The male of the recently released Nantac Pack was just shot and killed, and the female is being hunted down right now. Both members of this pack were survivors of past predator control actions....

U.S. government dismissed subpoena yesterday to compel testimony and video evidence to grand jury in San Francisco....