Resisting Silence: From Palestine to Cop City

In the first part of the program, Mickey Huff sits down with author and professor Omar Zahzah to talk about his upcoming book: Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital Settler Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle. Omar discusses the impetus for the book which predates October 7th and how the book grew not only to encompass the current genocide but indeed to look at how Palestine and Palestinian resistance serves as a window into a broad system and practice of digital censorship globally. Omar outlines his struggles in refusing the language of silence, and talks about how corporate media enforces censorship, dehumanization and the overall actions of the military industrial complex despite public dissent. In the second half of the program, Eleanor Goldfield welcomes back to the show organizer, lawyer, and author Kamau Franklin to talk about the book he co-edited called No Cop City, No Cop World. Kamau discusses the diversity of tactics used by the diverse movement to stop cop city, the derision by local politicians and indeed media, highlighting the important fact that a local media isn’t enough - it’s got to be local AND independent media. Kamau talks about the importance of the people creating their own narrative for these fights for justice, as well as the importance of reframing the fight against cop city as one of global proportions that isn’t over, it’s just entered a new phase. The post Resisting Silence: From Palestine to Cop City appeared first on Project Censored.