May 3, 2007 1:15 PM ESTIt is “World Press Freedom Press Day” at the United Nations.The US Mission to the United Nations is hosting a panel today at the UN titled “The Citizen Journalist: The Internet as a Tool for Freedom of Speech.” The following speakers will present a status report on blogging worldwide today and the state of free expression online and will be available to answer questions:- Tala Dowlatshahi, New York Director, Reporters Without Borders- Nora Younis, Egyptian and Activist- Watson Meng, Founder, Boxun News – Frank Xie, Chinese , Boxun News (Assistant Marketing Professor, Drexel University)- Jeffery Krilla, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor – Moderator: Bridget Johnson, columnist and blogger LA Daily NewsModerator Bridget Johnson blogs at GOP Vixen and today has an important post explaining the oppression of journalists throughout the world:”Democracy and the hunger for free speech are creeping across repressive societies, and the revolutionaries leading this charge are often the unlikeliest of soldiers – lone thinkers with minds for change and keyboards as their weapons.