Episodes
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Join Tofu and Toshio on an end of the year, stream-of-consciousness check-in.
New episode of Sad Francisco on January 3. AIPAC Zombies with Mama Ganuush premieres January 1.
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A check-in with Mama Ganuush where we hear about their recent hunger strike, their visit with family who evacuated Gaza for Egypt, and discuss how US elections are bought and sold by AIPAC.
SF Drag Artist Leads Hunger Strike Against US Funding of Israel (Nastia Voynovskaya, KQED)
https://www.kqed.org/arts/13967427/sf-drag-artist-leads-hunger-strike-against-us-funding-of-israel
Mama Ganuush on Instagram
HALA Collective
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[This episode went up back in September, but it felt OK to put it back on the feed for anyone who might've missed it. New episodes soon.]
As liberation movements face intense repression from CEOs, cops, landlords, politicians, and Zionists, Dean Spade and friends put together a list of questions we can all ask ourselves, so we don't reproduce the logics of the state.
Dean is author of the classics Mutual Aid and Normal Life: Administrative Violence and the Limits of the Law, and future classic Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell, Together.
"Cultivating Solidarity in Times of Escalating Repression" (Dean, with Community Justice Exchange, Jocelyn Simonson, Pilar Weiss, Atara Rich-Shea and Zohra Ahmed: http://bit.ly/cultivatesolidarity
Our last episode with Dean: Should Social Movement Work Be Paid? https://www.patreon.com/posts/should-social-be-109620321?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
Dean's website: http://deanspade.net
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Lavender Phoenix https://lavenderphoenix.org/
SF People's Budget: https://www.instagram.com/sfpeoplesbudget/
#JusticeForAkaiGurley: AAPI response to people supporting Peter Liang, the NYPD officer who killed Akai Gurley.
https://caaav.org/justiceforakaigurley-national-sign-on-letter
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*People's Budget Coalition listed for ID purposes only.
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Originally from San Francisco, Brandon Lee was working as a journalist in Ifugao in the Philippines when he survived an assassination attemptâa shooting carried out by forces close to the US-backed Duterte regime.
Brandon talks about surviving the attack, the US disinformation machine, and why the Bay goes so hard for liberation in the Philippines.
Website: Justice4BrandonLee.org
IG: Justice4BrandonLee: https://www.instagram.com/justice4brandonlee/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/Justice4BrandonLee
International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines-US: https://ichrpus.wordpress.com/
BAYAN USA: https://www.bayanusa.org/
"Death Squads Hunting Environmental Defenders" (Brandon, In These Times): https://inthesetimes.com/article/brandon-lee-philippines-violence-environmental-activists
"The U.S. Is Complicit in War Crimes in the Philippines" (Brandon, Inkstick Media): https://inkstickmedia.com/the-us-is-complicit-in-war-crimes-in-the-philippines/
"The Forces That Nearly Murdered Me Are Meeting In San Francisco Today" (Brandon, The Nation): https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/apec-summit-san-francisco/
"Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic" (Chris Bing and Joel Schectman, Reuters): https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/
"SHUTDOWN: The Rise and Fall of Direct Action to Stop the War": documentary about the protests in response to the Iraq war in 2003 that shut down San Francisco for: https://vimeo.com/57710595
Past episodes mentioned:
Imperial War Games of RIMPAC f/ Abbey Irodistan from BAYAN USA NorCal: https://www.patreon.com/posts/video-imperial-f-108415933
SF Against APEC w/ Anakbayan CCSF: https://www.patreon.com/posts/sf-against-apec-109660245
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Jeremy Mack (from The Phoenix Project, which exposes dark money in Bay Area politics) is back for a discussion about upcoming elections, TogetherSF, the billionaire-funded, "pro-moderate" astroturfing group behind SF's Prop. D, and Balaji Srinivasan's plan for "The Network State," a techbro-led New World Order complete with a walled-off Hayes Valley.
The Phoenix Project: https://www.phoenixprojectnow.com/
Instagram: @phoenixprojnow | Twitter: @phoenixprojnow
Past episodes mentioned:
-Alison Collins on being recalled from SFUSD: https://www.patreon.com/posts/project-2025-in-111973369
-Anna Kirsch on the billionaire attempt to create a billionaire's compound in Solano County, "California Forever": https://www.patreon.com/posts/video-planning-f-107097104
"The Tech Baron Seeking to Purge San Francisco of 'Blues'" (Gil Duran, The New Republic): https://newrepublic.com/article/180487/balaji-srinivasan-network-state-plutocrat
"SF Demsâ sexual-misconduct inquiry puts politico Jay Cheng back in the spotlight" (Joe Rivano Barros, Mission Local): https://missionlocal.org/2024/05/sf-dems-sexual-misconduct-committee-puts-allegations-against-politico-jay-cheng-back-in-spotlight/
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Mama Ganuush hosts a discussion on whether people in the US actually stand a chance under American democracy, when money rules everything around us. Guests from The Phoenix Project (exposing dark money in Bay Area politics) and Pups for Palestine (what it says :) ).
Salon HALA will return in 2025.
Salon HALA on Instagram
The Phoenix Project
Zinedogs | Instagram @zinedogssf
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It's one year since the start of the most recent wave of Israel's US-backed genocide of Palestinians. This episode was recorded last fall with Loubna Qutami (co-founder of the Palestinian Youth Movement and a member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective), and one of her mentors, and ours, Dylan Rodriguez (co-founder of Critical Resistance and the Critical Ethnic Studies Association).
Both organizers and professors, Loubna (UCLA) and Dylan (UC Riverside) discuss Zionist repression, and why we must continue to fight it.
>> LISTEN TO ALL 14 OF OUR PALESTINE EPISODES FROM THE PAST YEAR HERE.
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"Brothers in recovery" Matt Dorsey (an ex-SFPD staffer turned politician) and Tom Wolf (the rightwing influencer who said the impending closure of a Macy's store was "San Francisco's 9/11") are examples of how conservatives are using their drug rehab journeys to prop up the war on drug users.
With enemies like Tom Wolf, rightwing lobbyist Christopher Rufo, and conservative misinformation machine PragerU, our guest, Tenderloin-based writer Lea McGeever, must be doing something right.
Lea:
Substack: https://leftylea.substack.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leftylea_in_sf/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@leftylea?lang=en
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Project 2025 soft launched in San Francisco years ago, with successful attempts to replace politicians with people who are obedient to the rightwing. Because itâs the Bay, these replacements are registered as Democrats and they virtue signal about diversity, but make no mistake, they are deeply aligned with rightwing forces like the Heritage Foundation.
This episodeâs guest Alison Collins is a SFUSD teacher and former school board member who was recalled in a rightwing recall campaign in 2022.
Aliâs Patreon: www.patreon.com/justtalkspodcast
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Mutual aid and relationships with people we trust are gonna be key to surviving the political and climate apocalypses ahead.
Brooke, Lauren and Mama Ganuush on Bay2Gaza Mutual Aid, and how to sustain connections with people living through the genocide in Palestine, as the US and Israel do everything they can to repress signals of solidarity.
Bay2Gaza Benefit is 9/20 at Oakland Secret https://www.instagram.com/p/C_ggDqUyDoj/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
https://www.Bay2Gaza.org
Thank you to LoCura for this episodeâs outro track âGuerriller@s (Bang Data remix)
https://www.locuramusica.org
Past Sad Francisco episodes mentioned:
Pinkwashing, with Brooke, Mama Ganuush and Deeg
https://www.patreon.com/posts/video-genocide-f-108029780
Trans Black Palestinian Solidarities with Jemma Decristo, Lavelle Ridley and Mama Ganuush
https://www.patreon.com/posts/video-trans-f-105794127
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"Cultivating Solidarity in Times of Escalating Repression" (Dean, with Community Justice Exchange, Jocelyn Simonson, Pilar Weiss, Atara Rich-Shea and Zohra Ahmed: http://bit.ly/cultivatesolidarity
As liberation movements face intense repression from CEOs, cops, landlords, politicians, and Zionists,
https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/over-60-people-indicted-on-rico-charges-in-atlanta-allegedly-promoting-anarchist-ideas/
Official Indictment: https://unicornriot.ninja/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/atlanta-rico-indicts-doc-official.pdf
Dean Spade and friends put together a list of questions we can all ask ourselves, so we don't reproduce the logics of the state.
Dean is author of the classics Mutual Aid and Normal Life: Administrative Violence and the Limits of the Law, and future classic Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell, Together https://www.deanspade.net/2024/08/14/new-book-out-january-pre-order-now/
Our last episode with Dean: Should Social Movement Work Be Paid? https://www.patreon.com/posts/should-social-be-109620321?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
Dean's website: http://deanspade.net
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Debt is a tool of control wielded by rich people. Maddy Clifford and Debt Collective (the union for people dealing with debt) want to wipe it out.
Maddy's Linktree https://linktr.ee/madlines
Debt Collective https://debtcollective.org/
Tenant Power Toolkit https://tenantpowertoolkit.org/
"They Want to Keep You in Debt" (Maddy at More Perfect Union) https://perfectunion.us/the-secret-student-debt-fight/
âItâs a system thatâs rigged. Itâs messed up, and weâre the ones that have to bear that burden." (Maddy at In These Times) https://inthesetimes.com/article/leimert-park-jubilee-debt-collective
"Debt" by David Graeber https://linkencore.iii.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb42088729
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Hate to be that bummer podcast, but Zionism has invaded party culture, too.
Mama Ganuush discusses Adam Swig, a party promoter from the real estate empire that brought you San Franciscoâs posh Fairmont and St. Francis hotels.
Next, we talk Israelâs colonization of the Playa, complete with a Nova Music Festival memorial, and a âNo donations for Doctors Without Bordersâ policy at the queer Comfort & Joy camp.
More episodes on with Zionist culture-washing:
âCivic Joy Brings Sorrowâ with Mama Ganuush https://www.patreon.com/posts/civic-joy-brings-108848550?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_linkâZionists and Counterinsurgency in Stop Asian Hateâ with Dylan Rodriguez https://www.patreon.com/posts/zionists-and-in-103600189?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
âThe Anti-Zionist Boycott of Mannyâsâ with Deeg https://www.patreon.com/posts/anti-zionist-of-106162019?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
âPinkwashing Genocideâ with Brooke Lober, Deeg and Mama Ganuush https://www.patreon.com/posts/pinkwashing-f-108029935?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
âQueers for a Free Palestineâ with Kate Raphael https://www.patreon.com/posts/queers-for-free-109660043?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
âHaaretz confirms Grayzone reporting it dismissed as âconspiracyâ showing Israel killed own festivalgoersâ (via The Grayzone) https://thegrayzone.com/2023/11/21/haaretz-grayzone-conspiracy-israeli-festivalgoers/amp/
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Elections suck people's energy, money, and imagination, while legitimizing a system where a few elites cling to most power and wealth. (Not to mention the multiple genocides.) What's not to love?
Edxi's Linktree linktr.ee/bettsurevolt
I'm NOT Dreaming of a White 'Insurrection': How the Right Wing Stole Crisis https://edxithatradgworl.substack.com/p/im-not-dreaming-of-a-white-insurrection?r=327odc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Love to everyone who listens to the podcast. Short announcement today.
BTW, if you're a member, the new Patreon-only content is up today!
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Homelessness is becoming even more criminalized thanks to the Grant's Pass decision at the Supreme Court, plus the desire by politicians to suck up to their Nextdoor.com lurker donors. Permanent supportive housing (PSH) is one way to give people a roof over their heads without taking away their self-determination. Jordan Davis discusses living in, and fighting for, permanent supportive housing.
Jordan's columns in Street Sheet
Jordan on Instagram: www.instagram.com/veganpaczki or reach out directly: [email protected]
"Do Not Speak for Us" in Street Sheet (throwback from Toshio and Miya Sommers)
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The Civic Joy Fund is an artwashing front for nefarious causes like Zionism and the Police Officers Association, helmed and funded by sociopaths like Manny Yekutiel of Manny's in the Mission, crypto bro Chris Larsen, and Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie. Mama Ganuush on the boycott directed at the aforementioned rich guys and the milquetoast art they're funding.
HALA Collective - Mama Ganuush-founded artist collective (Toshio is a member)
https://www.mamaganuush.com/hala
Our episode with Deeg on the Anti-Zionist Boycott of Manny's
https://www.patreon.com/posts/anti-zionist-of-106162019?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_fan&utm_content=web_share
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For RIMPAC, 29 countries and so-called Israel are in Hawaii to explode some old naval ships, waste a ton of money, kill some birds and dolphins, and make local kids feel like they're under a perpetual state of siege. Abbey Irodistan is with the Filipino anti-imperialist group BAYAN USA NorCal, which is joining Hawaiians to call for an end to RIMPAC forever.
"SF Against APEC" episode with Anakbayan CCSF
BAYAN USA NorCal (Instagram)
Anakbayan USA
Gabriela USA
SF Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines
Toshio Meronek and Tofu Estolas make Sad Francisco.
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Sad Francisco fam Brooke Lober (Jewish Voice for Peace Bay Area), Deeg (Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism), and Mama Ganuush on why Zionists started putting rainbow flags on tanks destroying Gaza, and the Bay Area roots of Brand Israelâs gay hasbara campaign.
Recorded June 27, 2024 at the Queer & Trans Artists for a Free Palestine closing at SOMArts, hosted by the BLOOM Collective.
Palestinian queer group alQaws: âReflecting on Queerness in Times of Genocideâ
Mama Ganuush on queers for Palestine, and Trans Black Palestinian Solidarities
Deeg on the Mannyâs in the Mission boycott, and LAGAI - Queer Insurrection
Brooke Lober on Urban Alchemy
Toshioâs reporting on pinkwashing at Truthout, Waging Nonviolence, and Bitch magazine
Toshio Meronek and Tofu Estolas make Sad Francisco. Support us and find links to our past episodes: patreon.com/sadfrancisco
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