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Month August 2008

China releases most SFT activists, documentarians

I’ve just received the good news that my friend Brian Conley, and most of the other independent media makers and the activists they were documenting, have been released and are heading home. The so-called “Beijing 6″ were ultimately sentenced, through an extrajudicial proceeding (they did not get to go to court), to 10 days of [...]

Activist ships being jammed by Israel in international waters?

Two ships, the Free Gaza and the Liberty, are sailing against the Israeli blockage of the Gaza Strip as a form of human rights protest. I’ve received an email blast from The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD). Apparently early this morning they were in contact with the sea-going activists for a brief period and [...]

Citizen Journalism / Brian Conley held by Chinese Authorities

What is a non-citizen journalist? A correspondent from abroad? I think “citizen journalism” has become a bogus term. (The synonyms that Wikipedia currently suggests are mostly better.) To me, one can reduce it to either you’re doing journalism or you are not. Journalism does not have to mean professionalized, dispassionate, (allegedly) neutral stuff that one [...]