Episodes
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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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Abe Woodliff on how it's impossible to actually predict when a meme will hit, writing, and the shocking lack of negatives there are to existing authentically. Plus his recent piece on who wins and loses from fake narratives around crime rates.
"Crime is Down in the Bay Area, Why Are People Pretending It's Not?" at Broke-Ass Stuart
Abe Woodliff on Substack | Instagram | Twitter | Abe's Book
@realbayareamemes on Instagram | Facebook
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YIMBY billionaires are buying up thousands of acres northeast of the Bay, to build a planned community of rich tech types. To sell their East Solano Plan (f.k.a. âCalifornia Foreverâ) to locals, its founders launched a PR campaign complete with artwashing and more. Vallejo-based Anna Kirsch of Artists Against Billionaires is part of the resistance.
Artists Against Billionaires on Instagram
Anna Kirsch (@girlonbus) on Instagram
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Kevin L. Jones from Doomloop Dispatchâ"the podcast about the worst parts of the San Francisco Bay Area" reached out! Him and Toshio speak on the ongoing death of traditional corporate news, plus background on the origins of Sad Francisco.
Doomloop Dispatch is on all the podcast platforms, plus Twitter and Instagram.
Toshio Meronek and Tofu Estolas are Sad Francisco. Support us and find links to our past episodes: patreon.com/sadfrancisco
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Get to know the gay Zionist Burner Manny Yekutiel, of Manny's cafe in the Mission, and why groups like Gay Shame and Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT!) have been boycotting Manny's since 2018.
HALA Collective
BAD (Bay Area Drag) Fund
"Progressive coalition boycotts âwoke-washingâ of San Francisco event space" (Toshio at Waging Nonviolence)
"What boycott of Manny's in the Mission is about" (Margot Goldstein and Rachel Lederman at SF Chronicle)
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For our first live show taping in May, Jemma DeCristo, LaVelle Ridley, and Mama Ganuush spoke brilliantly on Trans Black-Palestinian Solidarity amidst the ongoing genocide in Palestine. Naturally, given the topic, things got emotional.
Thanks to everyone who made the night possible!
Jemma Decristo currently holds the record for most appearances on Sad Francisco! Her repertoire includes the episodes "Is the Transgender District a Force for Liberation or Gentrification?" and "Hot Cop of the Castro"
This was LaVelle Ridley's debut episode; she will return!
Mama Ganuush (the episode with Mama Ganuush from earlier this year, "We're Queer, We're Trans, No Peace on Stolen Land!" is a must-listen)
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LEFT IN THE BAY exposes histories of the Bay Area that explain how we got our ideological reputation. Two from the collective, Matt Ray and Matt Wranovics, speak on their recent piece covering the Bay's protests in the 1980s against South African apartheid, and some lessons to genocide in Palestine.
"They're watching you; don't let them down": the 1985 anti-apartheid occupation movement at Berkeley by Left in the Bay (at Notes from Below)
Left in the Bay on Instagram
Left in the Bay on Twitter
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Julie Pitta and Jeremy Mack are part of the Phoenix Project, which is tracking the wealthy wannabe overlords of the Bay. They run down dossiers of five extremely rich dudes who want to run local politics: Michael Moritz, William Oberndorf, Chris Larsen, John Kilroy, Jr., and Garry Tan.
Phoenix Project - request the Phoenix Papers: Volume 2
Episodes mentioned:
"VCs vs. SF" f/ Julie Pitta
"Michael Shellenberger Thinks He Knows Your Gender" f/ Soleil Ho
"Stop Garry Tan to Stop Asian Hate" f/ Emily Mills
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Part 2 of the conversation with Deeg, with more on LAGAI-Queer Insurrection (formerly Lesbians And Gays Against Intervention), the Bay Area collective that started organizing in 1983 in response to the US war machine meddling overseas.
UltraViolet (LAGAI's zine)
"How a queer liberation collective has stayed radical for almost 40 years" (Toshio in Waging Nonviolence)
Episode with Deeg on the Boycott of Manny's in the Mission
Episode with LAGAI member Kate Raphael: Queers for a Free Palestine
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Deeg is back for some oral history lessons about LAGAI-Queer Insurrection (formerly Lesbians And Gays Against Intervention), a radical collective that started organizing in 1983 in response to the US war machine meddling overseas.
Some of the same members from forty years ago continue to meet, plan direct actions, and send thousands of copies of their zine UltraViolet into prisons for free, with no 501(c)3 and next to no funding. We talk: avoiding burnout and cooptation, how to measure movement successes (and why sometimes you can't), and more.
This is Part 1 of a two-part episode.
UltraViolet (LAGAI's zine) "How a queer liberation collective has stayed radical for almost 40 years" (Toshio in Waging Nonviolence) Episode with Deeg on the Boycott of Manny's in the Mission Episode with LAGAI member Kate Raphael: Queers for a Free Palestine - Montre plus