Media, Money & Zohran Mamdani

In this peculiar occurrence of The Listening Post, we analyse the emergence of New York City mayoral campaigner Zohran Mamdani. A antiauthoritarian socialist and outspoken professional of Israel’s genocide successful Gaza, Mamdani has faced a barrage of hostility from US mainstream media, the governmental donor people and the antiauthoritarian constitution alike. The property has been peculiarly relentless, questioning not lone Mamdani’s progressive policies but besides his individuality arsenic a Muslim and an immigrant.

But Mamdani is simply a integer autochthonal with an planetary pursuing and a double-digit pb successful the polls. His triumph would reverberate acold beyond New York City, shaking up the Democratic Party nationwide.

This occurrence exposes however the media and the affluent governmental people attempted to discredit Mamdani and how, against each odds, helium turned their attacks into the instauration of a movement.

Contributors:

Kate de Gruyter – Senior manager of communications, Third Way

Adam Johnson – Podcast co-host, Citations Needed

Briahna Joy Gray – Podcast host, Bad Faith

Jon Paul Lupo – Consultant, Vocable Communications

Presenter: Richard Gizbert

Produced by: Elettra Scrivo, Ella Willis & Meenakshi Ravi