This essay was actually written as a statement to be delivered at a meeting for the University of Arizona chapter of SPJ while I was still in custody; I’ve posted it here without any changes to what I originally wrote. As such, there is a number of temporal references that seem out of place. The [...]
It’s been crazy these past few weeks; to go from no incoming stimuli to a steady stream of contact has been quite a bit overwhelming. I’ve been pretty busy with media stuff and will be speaking at a few bay area events in the next few days. If you’re interested in engaging in a dialogue [...]
The trial on Secondlife today was very interesting. Unlike my own legal battle, there was a jury in the Secondlife case and the Federal government was found to have overstepped its bounds. I’ll be posting a transcript soon, and the folks at the Berkman Institute at Harvard law school plan to create some sort of [...]
After going through the reality of this ordeal this past year; I will be on trial again in a virtual world: Second Life. From Duranske Harvard Law Professor Charles Nesson and HLS Graduate/Computer Science Ph.D. Candidate Rebecca Nesson are preparing to run a moot court trial of the Josh Wolf case on Berkman Island in [...]
Hey everyone in the bay area! We’ll be having a concert and celebration of my release this Monday at the Brava theatre at 24th and York St, In the city of San Francisco. After the show, we’ll be having an afterparty somewhere in the Mission. Stay tuned to this page for details about the afterparty. [...]
From SFGate: PRO: Federal shield law is needed to extend journalist protections It feels as if I’ve barely had a chance to blink since walking out the front gate of the Federal Detention Center in Dublin on April 3, but the debates on what we should take away from my experience have already escalated into [...]
click here to download Hey everyone, First off, a big thanks to everyone who’s helped with all the support over the past 8 months or so! A huge thanks are due to my entire legal team: David Greene, Jim Wheaton, and Pondra Perkins at the First Amendment Project, Martin Garbus and Jose Luis Fuentes and [...]
In his dissenting opinion in the case of US v Coldwell (1972), Justice William O. Douglas wrote these prescient words which are not only significant to my case, but also reflect the greater state of affairs in the United States today: “As the years pass, the power of government becomes more and more pervasive. It [...]
Before you watch the complete footage: Check out the The Published Video. During the course of this saga I have repeatedly offered to allow a judge to be the arbiter over whether or not my video material has any evidentiary value. Today, you the public have the opportunity to be the judge and I am [...]
