FeedJosh’s Acceptance Speech at SPJ Dinner
Good evening. I’m sorry I wasn’t able to make it tonight to accept this award. But I just couldn’t leave my live-work loft. I’m sure the food there tonight will blow the roof of whatever I will be eating here.
I’d like to thank the Society of Professional Journalists for supporting my struggle. SPJ came out on my behalf very early on. They have helped immeasurably – both in terms of getting the word out and also through providing generous aid in my defense.
Now tonight I am being honored alongside Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams as Journalists of the Year through our determination to uphold the ethics of the profession against prosecution and persecution. Thank you.I’d like to thank everyone who has supported me including my legal team, Siegel & Yee, First Amendment Project and Martin Garbus.
Finding myself in prison has cemented my realization that the US government is engaged in not one, not two, not three, but five simultaneous wars. There are the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the so-called wars on terror and drugs, and a covert, undeclared war that thrusts everyone in this room between the cross-hairs – the war on journalism.
According to Bill Moyers, as quoted in Static by Amy and David Goodman: “There is a desire to silence any dissent in this country by the [Bush] administration. They practice extraordinary media manipulation . . . and this whole attack on me is indicative of how when anyone rises up to speak an alternative truth, an alternative vision of reality, they try to discredit them.”
There is a war on journalism and I am a POW. I am not the first. And I will probably not be the last. But I’d like to thank the Northern California chapter of SPJ for recognizing how crucial this matter is and for honoring the resistance of Mark, Lance and myself by naming us Journalists of the Year.
Josh Wolf’s acceptance speech at Northern California Society for Professional Journalists dinner on November 9, 2006
SPJ blog post with a picture at: prenpressclub.org
LE FABULEUX DESTIN D’ALEXANDRA ROSENFELD
-MISS LANGUEDOC-ROUSILLON 2005
-MISS FRANCE 2006
-MISS EUROPE 2006
A voir sur :
http://miss2france.skyblog.com
Hmm someone breaks the law and won’t help police bring justice to criminals gets an award… Congratz anarchist action you’re slowly fucking up our country little by little.
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BB, thanks for reading the site. The only crime that the police are rightfully investigating was the injury to the police officer, which Josh did not film. There was no damage to the police car in question except a damaged tail light. Josh is not in jail to protect people who have committed a crime, he is in jail to protect the rights of journalists to not turn over unpublished sources and to protect the rights of people who gather in the name of free speech to protest policies they are against. There is no legitimate reason for this to be in a federal court at all, except that California Shield Law would protect Josh’s journalistic rights to keep unpublished material. The rights of a journalist are there so that we, the public, have access to news and events without government censorship. If news gathers can be called to turn over source material and testify in what is truly a McCarthy like witch hunt, what journalists will even cover protests and then we, the people, lose our access to news.
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I’ve just been letting everything happen without me , but shrug. Whatever. I feel like a void.