Sad Francisco

[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 

Support us and watch the video version of this episode on Patreon.

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.

Originally from San Francisco, Brandon Lee was working as a journalist in Ifugao in the Philippines when he survived an assassination attempt–a 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 Dems’ 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.

"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 it’s 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 episode’s guest Alison Collins is a SFUSD teacher and former school board member who was recalled in a rightwing recall campaign in 2022.

Ali’s 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 episode’s outro track “Guerriller@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 

Support us and find links to our past episodes: patreon.com/sadfrancisco

"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 

Support us and find links to our past episodes: patreon.com/sadfrancisco