FROM the LEFT: Independent Journalists and Photographers claim "Journalism is Under Attack"

 

"Journalism is Not a Crime" rally took place in Foley Square, New York City, on October 1, 2025.

Following the raid/arrest of a photojournalist + ICE assaults on press at 26 Federal Plaza (amid nationwide spike in assaults on press), a press conference/rally was organized by photojournalists (on the Left) in protest against attacks on the press in NYC & beyond.....to advocate for First Amendment protections following multiple incidents of alleged assault and intimidation by law enforcement (specifically ICE agents at 26 Federal Plaza Immigration Court).

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....the last time the NYC press corp organized a public demo, it was a vigil for journalists killed in Gaza. At the time, the number was 36.

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This event was a "press-led rally" organized by a group of independent journalists and photographers (from the Left)

It is extremely rare for NYC press to organize demos, but in both instances it’s largely attended by street press, not desk jockeys...to advocate for enhanced press protections, dropping charges against press, and defending First Amendment-protected activity"

VIDEO PLAY LIST 5 short videos

Talia Jane was the MC making the intro statement. (with CC)

 

.Flickr slide show from Press Rally

The journalism is not a crime presser/rally was primarily organized by independent journalists and photographers from the Left, claiming their First Amendment rights are under attack.   

Opposition to Israel, Trump and ICE were pro forma

 

.The following is a list that included NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams. I did not stay to hear all the speakers.

Key individuals involved in the rally or who spoke were:

• Talia Jane: An independent reporter and one of the primary organizers who addressed the crowd and explained the incidents that led to the rally.
• Jumaane Williams: The New York City Public Advocate, who spoke about the violence faced by journalists from law enforcement and called on the Manhattan District Attorney to drop charges against a photojournalist.
• Alexa Wilkinson: A New York-based photojournalist whose arrest and subsequent hate crime charges (which she pled not guilty to) were a central focus of the protest.
• Ian Bartlett: Another journalist mentioned by organizers as having been arrested by police.
• Neil Constantine and Josh Pacheco: Photographers/journalists who were thanked by organizers for their involvement.
• An amNewYork reporter and a Turkish journalist (Vural Elibol) who were reportedly assaulted by ICE agents at 26 Federal Plaza Immigration Court shortly before the rally. 

• Michael Loeb: An individual who spoke during a press conference segment, raising concerns about journalistic practices regarding the privacy of children's faces. 

Also, Leigh Kunkel: A Chicago journalist who spoke via phone about being shot with a pepper ball by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

The raison d'etre for the rally remained Alexa Wilkinson:  

.Police arrested and charged photographer Alexa Wilkinson with aggravated harassment and hate crimes. The speakers urged people to contact the Manhattan District Attorney's office to demand the charges against Alexa Wilkinson be dropped.

 

The charges stemmed from a July 30th incident Wilkinson reported on in which protesters covered the NY Times headquarters in Manhattan with graffiti.

Protesters charged the New York Times with complicity in the Gaza genocide because of its pro-Zionist reporting and editorial policies.

Wilkinson allegedly shared screenshots of an X post that read--‘They hanged newspaper editors at Nuremberg’ (a reference to the Nazi journalist Julius Streicher.)

The complaint said Wilkinson captioned the screenshots with the phrase ‘Looking at you (Joseph Kahn),’ referring to the NYTimes’ executive editor.” 

 

"The New York Times has an endless list of ties to the "IOF" and “israel”, as well as a clear bias towards Zionist and imperialist propaganda which manufacturers consent for the horrors we are live-streaming from Gaza day-after-day."

While the New York Times and its executive editor Joe Kahn have been targeted by various groups for their war crimes, the building itself has remained relatively untouched ... until now. ...

 

 4 am on July 30th-"An anonymous people-of-conscience escalated an ongoing protest of the NYT for their complicity and manufactured consent in the genocide of Palestinians.

This legacy-media outlet proves daily how embedded it is with empire and colonial power-players. Shame on the NYT and everyone who’s remained not only silent, but complicit."

Free Palestine 🇵🇸  Photos by @framed.unrest

Protest photographer Alexa Wilkinson -they/them
[@framed.unrest] IG 

 

..The World Socialist Web Site

"....the last time the NYC press corp organized a public demo, it was a vigil for journalists killed in Gaza. At the time, the number was 36.

It is extremely rare for NYC press to organize demos, but in both instances it’s largely attended by street-press, not desk-jockeys."

In conclusion, "Alexa Wilkinson is facing felony hate-crime charges for documenting protesters' vandalism of the New York Times office in Manhattan and social media posts critiquing the publication's executive editor."

READ THE DOSSIER: "The New York Times has been a zionist rag for decades. One look at the paper’s present and past staff proves that the paper’s racist and islamophobic coverage isn’t a matter of simple Western ignorance or run-of-the-mill media bias, but intentional and ideologically driven journalistic malpractice.

In our new dossier, published at newyorkwarcrimes.com, we show how—across each section and rank of the warmongering Times—you will find explicit connections between the paper’s staff and the "IOF", Zionist lobby groups and Israeli think-tanks. These connections to violent entities and the israel lobby should be considered conflicts-of-interest...." [newyorkwarcrimes.com/dossier]

Across the country, press freedoms are under attack!

Do ICE and the NYPD assault journalists in New York City? 
That is the question.

....World Socialist Website answers the claims....

Reject imperial propaganda.
Boycott, divest, and unsubscribe from the New York Times!

“Here in the so-called land of the free-press, journalists who dare to fulfill their mandate to document reality and report the truth are facing escalating retaliation. They are surveilled, raided, harassed, assaulted and arrested for capturing the moments Empire would prefer to stay hidden."[Writers against the War on Gaza]

JOURNALISM IS UNDER ATTACK!

[Where indicated pictures and videos property of Pamela Hall-VSB]

 

 

 

“Repression Breeds Resistance” LONG LIVE THE INTIFADA

 

Nerdeen Kiswani and Within Our Lifetime
Flooding NYC for GAZA

"We call on all those who stand with Palestine to take
to the streets to collectively demand an end
to U.S. sponsored genocide in Gaza.

“Repression Breeds Resistance”
LONG LIVE THE INTIFADA

Sept 2, 2024. Labor Day in the U.S.

Within Our Lifetime posted on Twitter-X that their Labor Day action was to raise awareness about work place discrimination in the tech and health care industries against employees who support the "palestinian" people. [Nurse fired in NYC for wearing pali flag]

Open in New Tab to enlarge next poster for a
closer look at who endorsed this action

Extinction Rebellion NYC was one of the surprise participants that joined the coalition

Led by Nerdeen Kiswani of Within Our Lifetime  ..... to oppose genocide in Palestine ...
she repeats endlessly that the palis are the VICTIMS of ZIONISTS.

 

Extinction Rebellion NYC was one of the surprise participants that joined the coalition

 

 .There were also Communist orgs
(at least two that I saw) recruiting.
[https://communistusa.org/]

."The RCA (Revolutionary Communists of America) is a party of class-fighters committed to the overthrow of capitalism. We fight for a world of superabundance and reject the artificial scarcity of a system based on the pursuit of profits. We fight to establish a workers’ government to tackle the roots of war, inequality, oppression, and climate catastrophe."

And the other soc/commie group:
The World Party of Socialist Revolution founded by Leon Trotsky.
[https://www.wsws.org]
[https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/08/08/iviz-a08.html]

As we remember today's meme  (some light reading)
"Repression Breeds Resistance"
LONG LIVE THE INTIFADA!

W.O.L. published a series of posters detailing accusations of criminal actions by the NYPD (a tool of Israel) against the the Palestinian Liberation Movement. (approx 10 seconds a slide/ pause video to read more info)

 

.“Israel is comparable to ISIS, just like how they (ISIS) hijacked Islam. And so we know Israel is a terrorist state. Israel’s a genocidal state. Israel is a colonial project and Palestinians will only get justice when Israel ceases to exist” WOL founder Nerdeen Kiswani said to the crowd on Labor Day. (always long winded, this vid is approx 17 minutes of agitprop)

 

 Note to @WOLPalestine's @Nerdeen Kiswani & her lackeys: If Israel ceased to exist, Hamas would rule & there would be no justice for Palestinians.

Flickr Slide Show Part 1, begins with posters that were put up and then quickly torn down by the palis

."The protesters carried Palestinian, Syrian, Iranian, and Hezbollah flags, one man waved a banner emblazoned with the images of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and PFLP general secretary Ahmad Sa’adat. The logo on the banner belonged to the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, a PFLP-tied NGO."

Flickr Slide Show Part 2 exposing more of the dangerously pathetic misdirection of so many tools....

.There is no shortage of radical propaganda
aimed at these gullible followers.

“Zionism is the Catastrophe”
Seven months and seventy-six years of Nakba

Wondering why: "Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram, shut down the Instagram account of WOL in early February.  In early July, Meta also shut down the Instagram account of the Samidoun Palestinian Political Prisoner Network, and in the last week shut down the accounts for Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine, and NYU’s People’s Solidarity Coalition."  ("VICTIMIZED" this time by META? )

From NY War Crimes Newszine
[https://newyorkwarcrimes.com/zionism-is-the-catastrophe]

"People are still either failing or refusing to grasp that this genocide is equally the product of US imperialism and Israeli democracy."

This is how you mis-direct the 20 somethings and more... including the PRESS...   with rinse / repeat- over and over: as they complain and DICTATE that the only genocide is against GAZA.

'' Those in power have doubled-down, sending more money and more weapons to the Zionist entity. The seemingly intractable appears at once daunting and hallucinatory, personally painful too, for those in our movement whose families and friends have spent their long October transmitting fear and rage from America’s extermination camps. If there is any solace to be found it is in those dreams and words and rockets that have remodeled the land — 76 years of assembly and disassembly, 76 years too long, but also proof that with Gaza as the heart, there will be courage and with Gaza as the eyes, the aim will be true.''

[Where indicated pictures and videos property of Pamela Hall-VSB]

Stop Deportations Now! ICE-Free NYC-The Speakers (1-8-16) vids/pics

I.C.E. Free NYC - NOW!

STOP DEPORTATIONS!

Say NO to SECURE Communities. Sanctuary Cities, Si!
45 minutes - 11 speakers  (2- 4 minutes each) A Sidewalk forum with no amplification.
Still, they forge ahead. Practiced. Skilled at disseminating agitprop to the home-team.

Flickr Slideshow of initial protest (before the street shut-down)


No one is in doubt amongst those lining the walls.
Dedicated to an ICE Free NYC.
Playing to the cameras from RT TV, Iran's Press TV, NY 1, Telemundo, Democracy Now! and Japanese TV, NHK.

They hang around. The media. They film (a little) Do interview (a few) But, the NY-ICE counter-protestor [in the background] was noticed by only a few...
The media reports are usually short and simple. So, what results from this all, too, familiar protest (with such modest coverage.)
Perhaps the results, too, are simple: The reason for the treason: The illegals. Their Families. Their children. Won-over. Manipulated.

The Illegals, convinced only the Communist Left cares about them, work hard to repay The Party. A voting block they can count on.
So, no matter that this protest seemed small and quiet.
Taking only a few NYPD officers off-the-streets. Patrolling the sidewalk. Making sure the entrance to the ICE Federal building wasn't blocked.
Even their "parade",  a small, quiet procession, was so low-key that it only involved a couple of scooter cops. [a walk around the block]
HOWEVER, there was more. Given a heads-up by a protestor about "A PLAN" Don't leave.  It was about to happen. Soon.

So, I hung around. Waiting. Walking 'round-the-block.
And there it was. As we came back to the Federal Building. A Street Action. (THE PLAN)  SHUT DOWN THE STREETS!

The anarchist's favorite toy : Chaos. Confusion. PLANNED.
Controlled, but, still, Chaos. The best laid plans (of Mice and Men) "Shut the whole Fuckin' City DOWN!" (If they could)


See previous post for more on "The Plan" [Part 1] Below is the Video Playlist and Flickr slideshow of the Civil Disobedience:

Picture slide show - The Plan in Action





And some extra screen shots of the action (slideshow)



Back to the speakers and their with 30-45 minutes of propaganda. Repeated. Over and over and over. Video Playlist of the speakers (before they shut down the streets)




The average guy. (America) Needs to hear this anti-American blather. Exposed. Countered. But, the media promotes them. Quietly. Without contradiction.
Transparency (for real) drives the LEFTISTS to distraction. (They do NOT like exposure)


Controlling every word. Every picture. (Immigration Prison? Family over (evil) Profits) 'Trade secrets' carefully disseminated. (To those chosen)

The 'subtle' approach demands more than the intellect. Emotions, Si!
The wrong press. The wrong message- unapproved. Not allowed. Requires ignoring those reporters. Bloggers. Blocking their cameras. This, too, is A PLAN.


So, I FILM. Expose (irritate and frustrate them). American should demand Transparency Unapproved!


Granted these are not Trade Secrets: Open Borders. Down with American Imperialism. The Evils of Greedy Capitalism. No Prisons. No "Crime and Punishment".
Crime (maybe) but punishment? Not for their Comrades. And NOT if you are a person of color. Or, say, ILLEGAL. Say NO to Fascism!  [Yeah, that's the ticket]
They preach the evils of White America. The White man's 21st century world is Unfair! He enslaves men and women, black and brown.
The White Man must suffer. His greedy Empire-building must be stopped. White people GET OUT.  Go BACK where you came from. Reverse Racism,  Si!
This palaver is but a secular, Marxist-controlled religion, peopled by faux- Christians.  "Do-Gooder" Lefties who Say NO to Secure Communities. Open the Borders! STOP Deportations!


They chip away at inconvenient laws. Nurture unrest. Manipulating. Corrupting (or ignoring) the RULE Of LAW.

The American Constitution-Bad. Communism-Good. Anarchy, Si! 
Even though the NYPD was caught off-guard by the SECRET Plan, they kept the peace.


Nothing new at Varick and Houston. Pro-Forma. Dealing with the well-rehearsed wild-side was a well-rehearsed NYPD.

The police were calm, focused, professional. They are a fine police force (in spite of De Blasio). Firmly dealing with the insurgents.
Bratty. Spoiled. Entitled. Anarchists with a plan. A game-plan. (For now)  For Real .... when we don't expect it ...

Can we hope to stop this insanity? Not while we have the Mark-Viveritos, De Blasios, Cuomos and Obamas (with Clintons and Sanders in the wings) All ELECTED to office and deconstructing America one day, one year, one decade  at a time.


They have a PLAN. 1. Create Chaos. 2. Restore order.  3. 'Keep the Peace'. [Can we say "Banana Republic?"]


Eventually, once accomplished, there will be no recovery from their mission. Just passive acceptance. Sad. Sad. Sad.

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