Truth-Telling Under Siege: The Perils of Journalists in Palestine and Mexico
Date/Time: Nov 10, 5-7PM
Location: Rady Wells Fargo Hall, Room 1N108 UC San Diego
This event will be in Person as well as Live Streamed

Register Here: https://tinyurl.com/comm-truth

PANELISTS
   Nancy Postero, Moderator, UCSD Human Rights and
                               Migration Program
   Amanda Batarseh, UCSD, Department of Literature
   Farid Abdel Nour, SDSU, Dept of Political Science
   Celeste González de Bustamante, University of Texas,
                                    School of Journalism & Media    
   Marco Werman, Host of PRI’s The World

In May of this year, Israeli military forces shot and killed the most celebrated Palestinian journalist working in the region, Shireen Abu Akleh.  During the first 9 months of the same year, 13 Mexican journalists have been murdered making 2022 the deadliest year ever for those working in Mexican media.  In both regions, perpetrators of these crimes have not faced justice and in both cases, powerful forces are using violence to suppress the telling of inconvenient truths that these journalists were committed to uncovering.  This suppression and even murder of journalists is occurring all over the world, from Saudi Arabia to Myanmar, from Syria to Nicaragua and beyond.  Sadly, the U.S. is far from innocent in this macabre use of violence against journalists as witnessed by its bombing in 2003 of Al Jazeera headquarters in Baghdad, driven by a hostile U.S. attitude toward truth-telling in the war. 
 

This event explores this worldwide phenomenon of violence against journalists by focusing on two cases – Palestine and Mexico.  The event aims to promote a far-reaching and free ranging exploration of the forces working to suppress truth-telling in these two regions and beyond while situating the issue within a larger problem of free expression and the right to free speech.

Sponsored by the UCSD Department of Communication’s Democracy Lab and the IAH Middle East Studies, with co-sponsoship by the Latin American Studies, the Human Rights and Migration Program, Elenor Roosevelt College, John Muir College, the Department of Visual Arts, the Department of Political Science, the Department of History, the Department of Literature, the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, the International Institute, and the Center for US-Mexican Studies.