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May 6th, 2010

The Rumpus Interview with Josh Wolf

At an anti-G8 demonstration in San Francisco in 2005, police and demonstrators clashed. Josh Wolf, then 23, videotaped the whole thing. When he refused to turn over his tapes to a federal grand jury, Wolf was jailed for 226 days—longer than any journalist in U.S. history for protecting sources. …more

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Richard Parks has journalism in McSweeney's and Salon, fiction in elimae and ABJECTIVE, videos at the Hungry Beast and the East Bay Express, and illustrations in the Believer and FANZINE. He lives in Oakland.

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