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'''Josh Wolf''' is a San Francisco blogger and journalist. | '''Josh Wolf''' is a San Francisco blogger and journalist. | ||
Revision as of 02:08, 31 January 2007
Josh Wolf is a San Francisco blogger and journalist.
He is a graduate of San Francisco State University with a degree in Psychology. He has been a contributor to his onw blog, Indymedia and the Haight Ashbury Beat. A biographical note states that he is "employed as the Outreach Director for peralta.TV, a department of the Peralta Community College District, and I am also an SAT teacher for the Kaplan Test preparation company." [1]
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Imprisoned for Refusing to Handover Video to Grand Jury
Wolf was jailed on August 1, 2006 when he refused to testify or turn over unpublished video out-takes to a federal grand jury investigating a July, 2005 anti-G8 demonstration. [2] He was temporarily released on bail from the Dublin Federal Detentention Center on September 1, 2006 but ordered to return to prison on September 22nd pending a hearing before the entire 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Link to Court Documents on the Case
Contact details
Joshua Wolf 98005-111
Dublin FDC
5675 8th St. Camp-Parks, Unit J2
Dublin, CA 94568
USA
Websites
- http://www.joshwolf.net/
- http://joshwolf.net/blog/ Blog
- http://freejosh.pbwiki.com/ The Free Josh Wolf Wiki
Related SourceWatch Resources
External Links
Biographical Note
- "Meet Josh Wolf…", The Revolution Will Be Televised, (Wolf's blog).
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Media Releases on the Case
- Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, "Freelance journalist jailed by federal judge", Media release, August 1, 2006.
- Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, "Order of contempt affirmed in freelance video blogger case", Media release, September 11, 2006.
- Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, "Video blogger headed back to jail", Media release, September 19, 2006.
- Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, "Attorneys for jailed blogger file motion for his release", Media release, November 20, 2006.
- Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, "Attorneys for jailed blogger file motion for his release", Media release, January 25, 2007.
General Articles
- "Editorial: Free Josh Wolf", San Francisco Examiner, August 3, 2006.
- Howard Vicini, "Josh Wolf: Thank God For Patriots", SF Bay Area Inymedia, January 16th, 2007.
- Chris Peck, "Journalist or not, he's no criminal", Memphis Commercial Appeal, January 21, 2007.
- Martin Kuz, "Free at Last", SF Weekly, January 24, 2007.
- "Attorneys for Jailed Independent Journalist Josh Wolf File New Motion for Release", Democracy Now, January 25, 2007. (scroll down)
- Gabriel Schoenfeld, "Why Journalists Are Not Above the Law", Commentary, February 2007. (Publication date was late January with a cover date of February). (Mention the Wolf case in passing).
