Sad Francisco

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

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 Israel's 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: "Reflecting on Queerness in Times of Genocide"

Mama Ganuush on queers for Palestine, and Trans Black Palestinian Solidarities

Deeg on the Manny's in the Mission boycott, and LAGAI - Queer Insurrection

Brooke Lober on Urban Alchemy

Toshio's 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

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

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. "California Forever") 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

Kevin L. Jones from Doomloop Dispatch–"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

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)

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)

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