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Posted: Mon, Aug 7, 2006 5:45am PDT
Greetings,
Today, Congress begins its August recess while legislative debates continue to heat up that will shape our media for generations. Here's an update on where things stand....
Posted: Fri, Aug 4, 2006 3:10pm PDT
Israel's aerial attack on the suburbs of Beirut is intensifying. On Thursday Israel dropped leaflets on the suburbs of Lebanon's capital warning residents to flee their homes ahead of a massive bombardment. Earlier today Israeli warplanes bombed three bridges linking Beirut to northern Lebanon. On Thursday Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah threatened to strike the Israeli capital of Tel Aviv if Israel continued to bomb Beirut. We go to part two of our interview with Mohamad Bazzi, a Le...
Posted: Fri, Aug 4, 2006 7:42am PDT
SAN FRANCISCO (EEUU).- Un joven periodista independiente, responsable de un 'weblog' de información, ha sido encarcelado esta semana en EEUU acusado de obstrucción a la Justicia, tras haberse negado a entregar a un juez unas imágenes grabadas en una manifestación en contra de una reunión del G-8....
Posted: Fri, Aug 4, 2006 2:37am PDT
PR firm hired to flag and remove content that defamed SF...
Posted: Fri, Aug 4, 2006 1:31am PDT
Josh Wolf is a new federal prison inmate, and he could be locked up until next summer. His crime? Shooting video at an anti-G8 summit protest in San Francisco and refusing to turn the tape over to the cops or testify to a federal grand jury investigating a riot that developed out of the protest....
Posted: Thu, Aug 3, 2006 4:29pm PDT
What Israel is clearly saying is that it is going to wipe out all opposition to its existance in that region - and so since there are no Arab countries who are not opposed to the existance of the State of Israel - then Israel will have to crush them all!...
Posted: Wed, Aug 2, 2006 7:37pm PDT
Relying on Israeli propaganda can sometimes come back to bite you on the butt, as Paula Zahn and CNN have recently discovered. Read on to find out how they were used and abused by the Israeli Defense Force....
Posted: Wed, Aug 2, 2006 2:03pm PDT
Independent journalist Josh Wolf was jailed today for refusing to provide video footage to a federal grand jury convened in January. U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup denied Wolf's First, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment arguments, found him in civil contempt, and ordered him immediately jailed. Wolf, 24, was taken to the Dublin federal detention center, and could remain there until July 2007, for the duration of the grand jury....
Posted: Tue, Aug 1, 2006 11:18pm PDT
Today in San Francisco, Josh Wolf refused to testify or turn over unpublished video out
takes to a Federal Grand Jury investigating a July, 2005, anti-G8 demonstration. He was
charged with civil contempt by U.S. District Judge William Alsup and has been jailed
until further notice. He could be held for up to a year (the remainder of the Grand
Jury)....
Posted: Tue, Aug 1, 2006 11:13pm PDT
The First Amendment Rights of Jailed Videographer Joshua Wolfe are supported by the Society of Professional Journalists and its Freedom of Information Committee....
Posted: Tue, Aug 1, 2006 1:54pm PDT
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (KCBS) -- A free-lance journalist has been jailed for refusing to give a grand jury notes and video footage shot during a protest....
Posted: Tue, Aug 1, 2006 1:00pm PDT
NEW YORK – Bloggers - as the feisty class of Internet pundits are known - love to paint themselves as free-speech warriors who bravely tackle the hard truths that mainstream media outlets either ignore or distort. But as the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah raged on and conventional media outlets covered the news from the ground, major players in the liberal blogosphere were keeping, by their own admission, decidedly quiet....
Posted: Tue, Aug 1, 2006 9:31am PDT
Native American Berkeley Liberation Radio DJ Thunder (AKA Rafael Donner), a lifelong Berkeley Activist, died July 17th, 2006 of complications from diabetes. Berkeley Liberation Radio released the following statement....
Posted: Mon, Jul 31, 2006 9:07pm PDT
The National Lawyers Guild has issued a press release and press confernece annoucement on the case of Josh Wolf It is below:...
Posted: Mon, Jul 31, 2006 6:06pm PDT
Josh Wolf, a radical videographer, has refused to turn over his videotapes to the Federal grand jury On Tuesdya August 1 there is a contuation of his contempt hearing, and a San Frnacisco Board of Supervisons meetin where they willl vote on a resolution supporting him....
Posted: Mon, Jul 31, 2006 2:58pm PDT
An Indian government order to Internet service providers (ISPs) to block 17 Internet web sites and web pages resulted in Indians being denied access for well over a week to whole swathes of the Internet, including the blogs hosted on blogspot.com, typepad.com and Geocities....
Posted: Sat, Jul 29, 2006 9:32am PDT
This July, Army First Lt. Ehren Watada became the first high ranking U.S. military officer to refuse to deploy to Iraq. Watada made headlines after notifying both the Army and members of the US anti-war movement that he would refuse to deploy for personal political reasons. Just yesterday, the 1st Lieutenant again offered to tender his resignation from the Army rather than face court-martial. The case against Watada has also gained notoriety for what some call a potentially chilling effect on...
Posted: Fri, Jul 28, 2006 6:03pm PDT
SEATTLE (AP) _ A journalist listed as a potential Army witness in the case of an officer refusing to go to Iraq is concerned the military is threatening free speech.
Sarah Olson is also concerned the military is threatening free press rights as it builds its case against First Lieutenant Ehren Watada of Honolulu.
Olson is a radio producer and free-lance journalist in Oakland, California.
Watada's attorney -- Eric Seitz -- says Olson is one of two reporters listed as potential witness...
Posted: Fri, Jul 28, 2006 6:02pm PDT