Sad Francisco

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.

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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.

New episode next week.

Mentioned this episode:

• Palestine Legal: 'Distorted Definition: Redefining Antisemitism to Silence Advocacy for Palestinian Rights'

• 'Professor 'un-hiring' fuels battle for academic freedom' (Toshio Meronek, Waging Nonviolence)

• 'Students fight smears as universities back Israel's genocidal attacks' (Nora Barrows-Friedman, Electronic Intifada)

• A Communique on Sabotaging Zionist Infrastructure: Shutting Down Friends of the IDF (IndyBay)

• 'The Lobby' (Al Jazeera documentary on the Israel lobby, featuring UC Davis)

• Dylan on Instagram | Twitter | YouTube

• Loubna on Academia.edu | Twitter

"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

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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/

"It's a system that's rigged. It's messed up, and we're 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 Francisco's posh Fairmont and St. Francis hotels.

Next, we talk Israel's colonization of the Playa, complete with a Nova Music Festival memorial, and a "No donations for Doctors Without Borders" policy at the queer Comfort & Joy camp.

More episodes on with Zionist culture-washing:

• "Civic Joy Brings Sorrow" 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_link

• "Zionists and Counterinsurgency in Stop Asian Hate" 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

• "The Anti-Zionist Boycott of Manny's" 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

• "Pinkwashing Genocide" 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

• "Queers for a Free Palestine" 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

"Haaretz confirms Grayzone reporting it dismissed as 'conspiracy' showing Israel killed own festivalgoers" (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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