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DESCRIPTION:On World Press Freedom Day May 3, 2025\n\nStand Up To Protest The Genocide 
 Against Palestinian Journalists, Their Families and the Defense of All 
 Journalists Around the World & In The US\nFree The Journalists NOW!\n\nMay 
 3, 2025 11:00 AM\nHarry Bridges Plaza Next To SF Ferry Building\nSan 
 Francisco\n\nMay 3, 2025 is recognized as World Press Freedom Day.  It 
 comes as the horrific targeting, arrests, torture and murder of Palestinian 
 journalists by Israel with the support of the United States continues 
 unabated.\n\nOver 180 journalists have been murdered in Gaza and the West 
 Bank and the arrests and murders continue.\n\nOne of them was Fatima 
 Hassouna. Nine members of her family were also reportedly killed in the 
 bombing. She was going to get married  a few days before her death and that 
 of her family.\nIn an Instagram post from August of last year, Hassouna 
 wrote the following:\n\n“If I die, I want a loud death. I don’t want to 
 be just breaking news, or a number in a group; I want a death that the 
 world will hear, an impact that will remain through time, and a timeless 
 image that cannot be buried by time or place.”\n\nMany journalists have 
 also been arrested and jailed by the Israeli government such as Nablus 
 journalist Samer Khuwaira. The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate has 
 condemned the arrest of Samer Khuwaira from his home in the city of Nablus 
 and are calling for his release.\n\nThe growing fascist movements around 
 the world have also been a deadly threat to journalists globally and the 
 attack on US journalists who have been  labeled scum by President 
 Trump.\n\nWe must stand together to remember the Palestinian journalists 
 and their families who have lost their lives because these journalists were 
 prepared to give up their lives to break the information blockade by the 
 Israeli government and the corporate media who have helped do damage 
 control for these crimes.\n\nWe urge all journalists and their unions to 
 join this fight for journalists and the right to report without fear of 
 imprisonment and death.\n\nSponsored by WorkWeek, UPTE Members For 
 Palestine, United Front Committee For A Labor Party, Pacific Fight 
 Back\n\nFor more information, to endorse and speak 
 contact:\ninfo@ufclp.org\n\nAdditional links:\n\n“If I die, I want a loud 
 death" Fatima 
 Hassouna\nhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/18/gaza-photojournalist-killed-by-israeli-airstrike-fatima-hassouna\n\nPalestine: 
 At least 156 journalists and media workers killed in Gaza            
 \nhttps://www.ifj.org/media-centre/news/detail/category/press-releases/article/palestine-at-least-156-journalists-and-media-workers-killed-in-gaza\n\nStand 
 Up To Protest The Genocide Against Palestinian 
 Journalists\nhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/18/gaza-photojournalist-killed-by-israeli-airstrike-fatima-hassouna\n\nJournalist 
 Burned Alive in Tent Strike Among Scores of Gazans Killed by Israeli 
 Forces\n"How many more Israeli war crimes do we need to witness?" asked one 
 Australian 
 journalist.\nhttps://www.commondreams.org/news/journalist-burned-alive-gaza\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/04/20/18875706.php
SUMMARY:On World Press Freedom Day, Stop the Genocide Against Palestinian Journalists
LOCATION:Harry Bridges Plaza\nAcross From SF Ferry Building\nSan Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/04/20/18875706.php
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