Josh Wolf Jailed Again & Free the Media! Benefit September 21, 2006
San Francisco, California 94102
Blogger and video-journalist Josh Wolf has been ordered back to jail for refusing to let a federal grand jury have unedited footage of a July 2005 protest demonstration.
Free the Media! Is a benefit to raise money for the Rise Up Network legal defense fund for freelance journalists.
Speakers at Thursday’s event will include Josh Wolf (on the eve of his return to prison), Bruce Brugmann, editor and publisher of the San Francisco Bay Guardian; San Francisco Supervisors Ross Mirkarimi and Chris Daly; filmmaker Kevin Epps; Sarah Olson, Truthout.org journalist; Jeff Perlstein, executive director of the Media Alliance; Richard Knee, acting Journalism Division chair of the National Writers Union’s Bay Area chapter; and Njeri Sims, filmmaker.
Live music by Magnetism. Chuck Gonzalez to DJ.
Official Website: http://www.joshwolf.net/blog/?p=258
Added by eddie on September 11, 2006
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srhodes
Unfortunately, unless a higher court does the right thing, Josh will be back in prison.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/19/BAGQ1L87KV1.DTL
http://www.joshwolf.net/blog/?p=256
Update: Josh now has to go back to jail on friday
http://www.joshwolf.net/blog/?p=259
scoobyfox
eddie+josh,
I've got a Cookie gig late that night or I'd be there and happy to perform.
So glad you're free Josh!