Seasons change, fascists remain. Another one where Toshio and Tofu have a semi-incoherent discussion about things in the works at Sad Francisco HQ.

The protests that corporate media is mostly ignoring

(Erica Chenoweth, Jeremy Pressman, and Soha Hammam, Waging Nonviolence)

https://wagingnonviolence.org/2025/03/resistance-alive-well-us/

Citations Needed

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Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting

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In 1989, the Golden Gate Bridge was blockaded for the first time by a group of protesters going by the name Stop AIDS Now…or Else! They were sick of their friends dying in a government-facilitated genocide of queer people (the medical industrial complex and corporate media were complicit, too). 

It wasn't till 2016 that another group of protesters (black.seed) blockaded the Bay Bridge, this time propelled by the Ferguson uprisings and the crisis of Black people dying, especially at the hands of police.

And then in 2023 and 2024 the Bay Bridge 78 and Golden Gate 26 blockaded for Gaza; some still face charges. 

Actions to take for the Golden Gate 26: linktr.ee/gg26solidarity

Event hosted with Gay Shame (gayshame.net), HALA Collective (thehalacollective.com), and Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism! (quitpalestine.org)

Emceed by Lavelle Ridley and Stab and featuring:

Deeg, Stop AIDS Now…or Else!, Gay Shame and Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism! 

Jemma and Ralowe, black.seed and Gay Shame

Golzar and Turner, Bay Bridge 78

(Follow Golzar for COVID-safer events: instagram.com/cutiecraftyparty/)

Jordan and Mannan, Golden Gate 26

linktr.ee/gg26solidarity

Recorded at Counterpulse on June 24, 2025. 

Thanks to Ach and Eddie at Counterpulse, and Healthcare Workers for Palestine (linktr.ee/hcw4pal).

Related episodes:

Deeg on the boycott of Manny's

https://episodes.fm/1653309103/episode/OTExOGQwNDctNDFkOS00MzE3LTk2ZGQtNjk4NTVkMmFlZDQz

Deeg on queer Bay direct action group LAGAI-Queer Insurrection!

https://episodes.fm/1653309103/episode/OTIxNTJmOWUtMDAxZi00YjgxLWExZGMtZDJlMzBjN2M0OWMx

Jemma and Ralowe on hating Signal

https://episodes.fm/1653309103/episode/ZjhjYTc4MDktNzAyNS00NzYyLWIyZWYtNTM0MGUzNjEzOTAw

Jemma, Lavelle and Mama Ganuush: Trans Black-Palestinian Solidarities

https://episodes.fm/1653309103/episode/NmYwYTkxYmEtYmYxNS00ZTQxLTk1OWItMzZjNDY3YWMwZDRm

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Chris Roberts is who you call to learn how the Navy’s atomic weapons tests made parts of SF toxic, and the government’s radiation experiments on people incarcerated at San Quentin, military officers stationed at Pittsburg, and the 49ers.

Read Chris’s reporting and listen to Rebecca Bowe’s companion podcast: 

Exposed: The Human Radiation Experiments at Hunter's Point sfpublicpress.org/exposed

"The Naval Scientist Who Wanted To Know How Football Players Would Survive Nuclear War" (Chris for Defector) defector.com/the-naval-scientist-who-wanted-to-know-how-football-players-would-survive-nuclear-war

See Chris on July 12, 2PM at the Shipyard Gallery, Building 101, 451 Galvez Ave. Hunter's Point Shipyard Artists' "Decommissioned" is open Saturdays through August 2 shipyardartists.com/decommissioned

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Zionists are still trying to pinkwash Israel's genocide, co-opting queer and trans institutions in the service of the Netanyahu dynasty and the Christian Zionists behind Project Esther. 

One way they're doing this is by attempting to de-fang the radical history of Dyke March, a march that has happened every Saturday of Pride weekend in San Francisco since the early 1990s. 

With Lisa Roth of Dykes for Palestine, and Jemma and Kira from Gay Shame.

The Diametric Dyke March for a Free Palestine June 28, 2025 18th and Dolores, San Francisco Gather at 4PM March at 5PM

Gay Shame  gayshame.net https://www.instagram.com/gay.shame/   Kira's Linktree https://linktr.ee/kira_is_cold  A report back from the san Francisco dyke march town hall, April 2025 (Stab, in UltraViolet) https://lagaiultraviolet.wordpress.com/2025/06/15/a-report-back-from-the-san-francisco-dyke-march-town-hall-april-2025/   "No Gay Rights, Only Queer Wrongs" with Deeg, Deni and Jemma https://episodes.fm/1653309103/episode/NjA2NTZkZDgtODQ1Mi00MzlhLTliNDEtM2EyZWVmOGM4NThi  

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This week, rewind to one of our earliest episodes on how for two years, the SFPD was uninvited to Gay Pride. In solidarity with the cops, politicians boycotted the 2022 Pride parade, and a few pro-cop LGBTs sold everyone else out. 

New episode on the radical history of the Dyke March coming next week, also with Jemma!

Gay Shame's 5-0 Out of Pride video series: https://gayshame.net/index.php/five-o-out-of-pride-50

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Self abnegation is the total denial of oneself—which is how Emile Suotonye Deweaver describes what it took to get paroled by a white supremacist institution that is about reproducing power hierarchies, not repair or rehabilitation. He writes about the experience (plus notes on shibari and Dungeons & Dragons) in his new book about surviving 21 years in the California prison system, Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine. 

Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine https://thenewpress.org/books/ghost-in-the-criminal-justice-machine/

Emile's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/emilesuotonyedeweaver/

Previous episode with Emile on Gavin Newsom's 'Norway Model' for Prisons  https://episodes.fm/1653309103/episode/YzM1NzZmMjktNTQ5OC00NjhiLTliOTQtOGE2ZGU5ZjUxOWQxstice-machine/

Gavin Newsom's 'Norway Model' for Prisons (previous episode with Emile) https://episodes.fm/1653309103/episode/YzM1NzZmMjktNTQ5OC00NjhiLTliOTQtOGE2ZGU5ZjUxOWQx

Annalise Ophelian directed and StormMiguel Florez co-produced MAJOR!, the beloved documentary about the beloved Miss Major. The Roxie is screening the movie for its ten year anniversary this month; its messages about community, role models and resilience are relevant as ever given our current political moment.

Annalise and StormMiguel discuss how to make a documentary without objectifying your stars, making movies in the Bay, and their more recent film projects.

MAJOR! Trailer https://vimeo.com/173777439 

Tickets for June 8 at the Roxie https://ticketstripe.com/MAJOR10 

The Whistle  http://stormflorez.com/the-whistle.html 

Looking for Leia http://lookingforleia.com 

Annalise is offering free consults on navigating support letters (and pro bono appointments for getting a letter) for trans people http://www.drophelian.com 

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Protest is an expression of shared anger and a way to meet and skill-build with people whose politics are aligned with you own. But how do you measure the success of a protest if you have specific material demands? 

It’s an eternal question with no obvious answer that Andrew Lee deals with in their recent essay, “The end of protest,” up now on Substack.

Andrew’s “The end of protest” https://substack.com/@xandrewleex/p-161567796

Defying Displacement (AK Press) https://www.akpress.org/defying-displacement.html

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Tourmaline's work spotlighting the life of Marsha P. Johnson began with collecting a popular archive online, then a film, and now a biography that's out May 20. In the book, you learn about the notorious Black, trans heroine who moved to New York when she was thirteen, rioted at Stonewall, protected the dolls with Sylvia Rivera and their group Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries/STAR, performed in and around the Village, and left the door open behind her for future queer and trans people, and everyone who believes we should be allowed to self-determine our destinies.

Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/677583/marsha-by-tourmaline/

Happy Birthday Marsha - Tourmaline and Sasha Wortzel's movie about Marsha (free with a library card on Kanopy) https://www.kanopy.com/en/product/happy-birthday-marsha

The Personal Things - animated short film Tourmaline made about Miss Major (with Micah Bazant, Pamela Chavez, and Hope Dector) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzafzVv2G2E

Even if you don't use Spotify, the streaming platform's anti-labor orientation means it's affecting musicians and thus, the music you listen to, which Liz Pelly covers in depth in her new book, "Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist." Discussed this episode: Spotify's in-house "fake"/ghost artists, how it uses a "payola-like" system to charge artists to get discovered, Walter Benjamin's "aura loss," and more.

Liz's website  https://lizpelly.info

Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S93C6719844

Critical Listening (Liz's new podcast with Max Alper) https://www.patreon.com/criticallistening

Bay Beats - SF Public Library's music streaming service https://baybeats.sfpl.org

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