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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 ‘woke-washing’ 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 -
In the US, traditional media censorship of pro-Palestinian voices didn't start October 2023. A new report on Zionism's chilling effect on journalists is out this week, spotlighting how some reporters and editors self-censor, and corporate outlets keep Palestinian stories from being published. With Tiana Reid (@tianareid | tianareid.com ) of the National Writers Union's Freelance Solidarity Project.
*This episode was recorded in March. Subscribers to our Patreon got this episode early. Help support the show there.
Red Lines: Retaliation in the media industry during the war on Gaza National Writers' Union Freelance Solidarity Project Writers Against the War on Gaza Media Against Apartheid & Displacement International Federation of Journalists, War in Gaza death countSad Francisco is produced by Toshio Meronek and edited by Tofu Estolas.
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Dylan Rodriguez is back to talk about his new piece: "How the Stop Asian Hate Movement Became Entwined with Zionism, Policing, and Counterinsurgency."
Launching off the murders of Asian sex workers in Atlanta in 2021, The Asian American Foundation (TAAF) raised over $1 billion in six months. How was the rage over those deaths transformed into liberal, reformist solutions to violence, plus a TAAF board appointment for the ADL's Jonathan Greenblatt?
Dylan's "How the Stop Asian Hate Movement Became Entwined with Zionism, Policing, and Counterinsurgency" (Critical Ethnic Studies Journal)
"Astroturf Antisemitism Watchdogs" (Emmaia Gelman, Jadaliyya)
18 Million Rising: Drop the ADL
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Erin McElroy is back to talk about fresh release "Silicon Valley Imperialism." Starting in the 2010s, the post-socialist Romanian government created special visas to attract tech corporations and digital nomads. They hoped to create a mini-San Francisco; the book looks at how that materialized.
Silicon Valley Imperialism (Duke)
Anti-Eviction Lab
Previous Erin episode: Landlord Tech Watch
Silicon Holler episode f/ Tom Sexton
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Nonprofits could never: Three members of the autonomous West Side Tenants Association/WSTA discuss the evergreen problem of charity; what movements gain by putting collectivism before individualism; how knowing your neighbors is the most effective and meaningful survival tactic; and the inspiration we all get from past solidarity work in the Bay, like the thousands of people who came together around the I Hotel in the 1970s.
West Side Tenants Association (also on Instagram)
The Worst Evictors of San Francisco and Oakland
Past episodes mentioned:
Should Social Movement Work Be Paid? f/ Dean Spade
How City College Got Free f/ James Tracy
Landlord Tech Watch f/ Erin McElroy
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Politics have turned COVID into a dirty word, but Jillian Crochet, a Senior and Disability Action member, is working to get the San Francisco Department of Public Health to keep masking requirements in medical facilities and jails beyond April 30, when they're set to expire.
Letter to SFDPH to keep masks in healthcare
April 16 Action (IndyBay)
Senior and Disability Action (Instagram | Twitter)
Disability Visibility Project #N95s4UCSF
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Well-known drag artists have been using their platforms to combat the genocide in Gaza since last October. In part two, Lady Bunny takes on virtue signaling politicians, and describes her suspicions around the viral photo with her name written on an IDF missile.
Check part one for Nicki Jizz, host of locally beloved drag night Reparations, who explains how politics and drag mix.
And our recent episode with Bay Area-based Palestinian drag artist Mama Ganuush.
"Meet the Drag Artists Using Their Platforms to Combat the Genocide in Gaza" (Truthout)
Lady Bunny on Instagram and Twitter
Nicki Jizz (and Reparations) on Instagram and Twitter
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Well-known drag artists have been using their platforms to combat the genocide in Gaza since last October. In this first part, Nicki Jizz, host of locally beloved drag night Reparations, explains how politics and drag mix.
Check part two for Lady Bunny, who talks about virtue signaling politicians, and describes her suspicions around the viral photo with her name written on an IDF missile.
And our recent episode with Bay Area-based Palestinian drag artist Mama Ganuush.
"Meet the Drag Artists Using Their Platforms to Combat the Genocide in Gaza" (Truthout)
Nicki Jizz (and Reparations) on Instagram and Twitter
Lady Bunny on Instagram and Twitter
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Instead of demanding free housing or health care, some people think the answer to homelessness is to build "mental health" jails and forced "rehab" centers to stow unhoused people, indefinitely. With Clio/Thatcher Sady and Tory Becker, from Gay Shame.
"Cities Across the US Are Stripping Homeless People of Their Autonomy," by Tory and Toshio, for TruthoutIn other news:
April 5 at Bluestockings in New York City: Come hang out with Shuli Branson, Zuri Arman, and Toshio, around the anthology "Surviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies"Sad Francisco is produced by Toshio Meronek; this episode was edited by Caitlin Wood. Support the show and find links to all of our past episodes on Patreon.
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On February 15, eight artists altered their works at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) in solidarity with Palestine. Ralowe Ampu is on to talk about the YBCA's neoliberal nothingspeak response to the artists' - and now many staffmembers' - demands of a museum that claims to be centered on diversity and community. **The museum remains closed as of March 7.
Love Letter to Gaza, Open Letter from the Artists Boycott YBCA Artists' Statement Open Letter from YBCA Employees in Support of Palestine and BAN9 Artists Artists Alter Their Own Work at YBCA in Pro-Palestinian Protest (Nastia Voynovskaya, KQED) Welcome to Airspace: How Silicon Valley helps spread the same sterile aesthetic across the world (Kyle Chayka, The Verge) Screen Grabs: What did we learn from the fight for the Castro Theatre? Brooklyn Museum and PEN America Accused of “Silence” on Gaza Ceasefire (Maya Pontone, Hyperallergic)Sad Francisco is produced by Toshio Meronek and edited by Tofu Estolas. Please support the show and find links to our past episodes on Patreon.
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Pierre Labossiere and Charlie Hinton (Haiti Action Committee) speak on common threads between Haiti and Palestine, and how US-enabled death squads are creating chaos in the first country to come out of a successful slave uprising.
Haiti Action Committee HAC: Haiti Ten Years After the Earthquake HAC: 'From Haiti to Palestine: One Struggle/One Fight' on Antoine and Georges Izméry, Palestinian-Haitian brothers assassinated by US-backed death squads Randall Robinson: An Unbroken Agony (book) Graham Greene: The Comedians (book) The Comedians (1967 movie) Haiti Ransom Project (NY Times)Sad Francisco is produced by Toshio Meronek and edited by Tofu Estolas. Support the show and find links to our past episodes on Patreon.
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GrowSF, TogetherSF and other benign-sounding local political organizations are more rightwing innovations from rich tech barons like David Sacks and Michael Moritz. Julie Pitta, a journalist previously at the LA Times, Forbes, and the SF Richmond Review, talks about the newly launched Phoenix Project, which looks at how dark money flows in California politics.
(FYI: The conversation with Julie was recorded in early February, shortly after Garry "Die Slow" Tan's drunken appropriation of Tupac lyrics calling for the death of a bunch of local politicians, and just before a rightwing trolling campaign convinced the Richmond Review's publisher to abruptly end Julie's column there.)
The Phoenix Project 'Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics' (Julie Pitta in the Richmond Review) 'The Tech Plutocrats Dreaming of a Right-Wing San Francisco' (Gil Duran in the New Republic) Our Garry Tan episode (f/ Emily Mills)Sad Francisco is produced by Toshio Meronek and edited by Tofu Estolas. Please support the show and find links to our past episodes on Patreon.
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Chris Vargas, on the Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art (MOTHA), a project with no real estate that is "forever under construction," and its Bay Area connections.
MOTHA Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects Our episode with Susan Stryker (director of Screaming Queens), on the Tenderloin's Compton's CafeteriaSad Francisco is produced by Toshio Meronek and edited by Tofu Estolas. Support the show and find links to our past episodes on Patreon.
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In 2021, Lakeside Investment Company bought the Redstone Labor Temple in the Mission. Poor Magazine's tiny gray-garcia (aka povertyskola), and Rick Gerharter, a movement photographer who's had an office in the Redstone for decades, talk about the significance of the building, as the new landlord drops a gentrification bomb in the form of massive rent increases.
Poor Magazine Rick GerharterSad Francisco is produced by Toshio Meronek and edited by Tofu Estolas. Please support the show and find links to our past episodes on Patreon.
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Soleil Ho is an opinion editor at the San Francisco Chronicle who recently covered the Berkeley-based writer and wannabe California governor Michael Shellenberger. In Shellenberger's last book, San Fransicko, he says rising homelessness rates in West Coast cities comes from us "loving victims" too much. Shellenberger's latest escapade: positioning himself as an expert on trans people. Soleil breaks it down.
Soleil's SF Chronicle column on Michael Shellenberger Stop Garry Tan to Stop Asian Hate - our episode on Garry Tan, a Shellenberger ally based in SF (f/ Emily Mills)Support Sad Francisco and find links to our past episodes on Patreon.
- Visa fler