We went to Josh Wolf’s Grand Jury appearance earlier this week. The video is 10 minutes long, but has good information and we wanted to document as much of the event as possible.
As we understand it, the Federal prosecutors want him to turn over a raw video tape he recorded during a protest over a year ago. Josh refuses to hand it over and now, potentially, faces jail time.
Here’s the original video that got Josh in trouble.
At this hearing last Thursday, July 20th, the judge extended his judgement till August 1st. Go to joshwolf.net for more updates.
Why should any of us care?
For us, it’s important to support journalists or anyone with a camera being harassed by the government to turn over recordings of public events that each of us has every right to record. We don’t want the government, local or federal, to make it a habit of asking for anything we happen to record. Then we each might question: “Do I want to record this and be harassed later on?” This is especially true during controversial political events.
The good news was this-
At Josh’s press conference, there were about 30 people there. Mostly regular people. 40% of the people had some kind of recording device: audio, video, digital photo, and plain old notebook. Its very cool to see that we all realize that we have the power to disseminate information we think is important. Things can be remembered and discussed without permission.
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wow, hadn’t heard about that, thanks for posting.
thanks for being there with the camera. i’ve been wondering how things are going for josh, and if it weren’t for your video & his web site I would have no way to know. great coverage, too!
This is just wrong. All bloggers should get behind this, no matter your political bent or persuasion.
I downloaded the video and plan to (assuming this is okay) use it as part of my own videocast on the subject where I offer my take and comments on the subject.
And to think this is THE SAME Federal Government that likes to PROP UP this notion that we ACTUALLY have a democracy here!
They MUST think foreigners are SO STUPID!
THE FEDS DON’T EVEN KNOW THE MEANING OF THE WORD “Democracy”!!
THEIR idea of so-called “Democracy” is with good ol’ KING GEORGE W. BUSH as leader.
He’s THE MOST DISGRACEFUL President this country HAS EVER seen. His Administration is a shoe-in for IMPEACHMENT.
Anyways….Enough ranting for now. Gotta save SOMETHING for my VideoCast.
Good to see that the word’s getting out … grains of sand make a mighty dune!
Just to make it clearly known: Josh started a blog for news at http://joshwolf.net/blog/ and we’re collecting news stories on his wiki at http://freejosh.pbwiki.com/
cheers
Too bad one of the feds didn’t crack your skull, you degenerate a-hole.
Keep up the great work on your blog. Best wishes WaltDe