6PM at New York Times Building (40th St and 8th Ave)
An urgent mobilization hold New York Times accountable for provoking a grave assault on press freedom.
In its latest anti-democratic attack on journalists, the government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi unleashed dozens of raids today targeting the highly popular progressive news outlet NewsClick. Indian media outlets cited a New York Times article that smeared NewsClick journalists as the pretext for their arrests. Last month, the New York Times published an article full of shameful McCarthyite smears directed against journalists and activists who the Times falsely insinuate are part of a global influence operation of the Chinese government.
NewsClick was one of the targeted outlets, and following the publication of the article in the Times it became the target of intense attack by right wing politicians and media outlets. While posturing as a champion of freedom of the press, the New York Times in fact provokes crackdowns on free expression through their overriding loyalty to the Pentagon’s new Cold War.
