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"On Saturday afternoon, 16th and Valencia Streets steadily began to fill with hundreds of young people โ excitedly talking amongst each other and passing one another handmade signs, pamphlets, even a paper newspaper, commemorating the Nakba โ the violent displacement of Palestinians in 1948.
'Do you need a sign?' asked a young woman to an empty-handed man leaning against a wall. Readily, he grabbed a sign โ and a pamphlet โ and began reading.
By 2:30 p.m., the block had closed, and young protesters in neon jackets began redirecting traffic, as two young men clad in keffiyehs hopped onto the back of a truck, their make-do stage.
Mission Local logo, with blue and orange lines on the shape of the Mission District.
By this time, a couple hundred protesters had taken over the street, their voices reverberating off the walls of the Valencia Street corridor as people went about their Saturdays, buying coffee and walking their dogs.
A crowd of people, many wearing black and white keffiyehs, hold signs and a large Palestinian flag at an outdoor protest on a sunny day.
The protest took place two days after 'Nakba Day' on May 15, which commemorates the forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes and villages upon the founding of the state of Israel, in 1948. Nakba means 'catastrophe' in Arabic."
https://missionlocal.org/2025/05/young-protesters-overtake-the-mission-on-foot-and-on-truck/