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Portland Indymedia has been broadcasting all day (and will continue to do so) live over the interwebs. Tune in at any of these three mirrors:

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PRESS RELEASE -- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Repeated attacks on the civil liberties of independent press and activists before and during the election process emerge as a pattern. Video after the break...

Tacoma cops arrested Joe LaSac and his camera just after midnight, August 5th 2008 with a charge of criminal trespassing. Jail support bailed Joe out of jail just before 5am Tuesday morning. Joe was arrested while retreating form a parking lot onto the sidewalk at the Port of Tacoma where Tacoma police were threatening protesters with laser pointer equipped tasers.

His arraignment is this Friday at 1:30 pm.

Declaration of Intent: We the people of the University of Puget Sound declare The Trail, The Anti-Trail, and any other form of "news" at this University to be poorly written and obsolete. We state that change must occur through rhetoric and reporting or else publications at UPS need to be disbanded and destroyed. Words created by the media should inspire truth, understanding and collaboration within our campus community. The media should not slander or otherwise disguise important information.

The international network demanding accountability for the murder of US journalist Brad Will released secret documents detailing proposed military support for Mexican security forces implicated in murder, torture and continuing arbitrary detentions.

Click here to download! The SDS News Bulletin working group is proud to bring you our third issue, much improved over the first two issues in our humble opinion. We amped up the articles, poetry, art and layout from Issue 1 & 2, and you made it all possible by sending in your work, thoughts, ideas and love.

Here is the result:
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The SouthSound Indymedia project was hacked by a pro-war group who spammed the site and deleted all the recent coverage on the Olympia port protests and other coverage. "They may try to censor people writing their own histories. We don't have to put up with it," the site administrators said. Whoever is responsible may or may not be caught and prosecuted, but this is a felony crime if it can be shown to cause at least $5,000 in damages under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the Cyber-Crime Act of 2007.

Bert Krages is an attorney from Portland who concentrates on intellectual property and environmental law. He is recognized nationally as an advocate of the right to take photographs in public places, having appeared in media such as National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, Popular Photography, Shutterbug, and Wired.

He has authored several books on photography, law, and the environment. Much of his relevant authorship regards unauthorized use issues, licensing, privacy and right-to-publicity issues, gallery and agent agreements, and harassment issues.

The First Issue of the SDS News Bulletin is OUT!

There are two versions - one, the "electronic" version, is meant to be read on a computer, and the pages appear in the order they are supposed to be read in. Please do not print this version out, it will waste a bunch of paper.
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