Sad Francisco

Politicians always warn that there's never enough funding to pay for the basic things people need to live. Reporting from Northwest Arkansas, Gracie Fuhrman (Arkansas Justice Reform Coalition) and (Sad Francisco's editor) Caitlin Wood describe how politicians wasted federal COVID relief on cops and jails.

Sad Francisco is one year old. Listed in no particular order, our five most downloaded episodes:

• Queers for a free Palestine, with Kate Raphael
• Should social movement work be paid? with Dean Spade
• Is the transgender district a force for gentrification or liberation? with Jemma DeCristo
• APEC: SF bends over for Asian dictators and Biden, with CCSF Anakbayan
• Urban Alchemy: a new layer of police in the Tenderloin, with Brooke Lober and Norma Azucar

Support Sad Francisco and find links to our past episodes on Patreon. 'Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary' is available at most libraries and bookstores (if not, request it!)

Gavin Newsom is soft-launching his presidential campaign with his "California model" of prisons as a centerpiece. Emile Suotonye DeWeaver on how Newsom's attempt to mimic the "Norway model" of imprisonment will affect the biggest single prison system in the world.

• Re:Frame | Emile Suotonye DeWeaver
• Gavin Newsom's Prison Reform Isn't Progress - It's a 'Near Enemy' (The Appeal)
• Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) Prison Closure Roadmap

Support Sad Francisco and find links to our past episodes on Patreon.

Gaslighting and double-standards are all over the media and at schools, where Zionists often get put on pedestals, while pro-Palestinian voices get silenced. A discussion of how censorship works on and off college campuses, featuring:

Dylan Rodriguez, co-founder of Critical Resistance and the Critical Ethnic Studies Association, and professor of Media and Cultural Studies at UC Riverside

Loubna Qutami, co-founder of the Palestinian Feminist Collective and the Palestinian Youth Movement, and assistant professor in Asian American Studies at UCLA

Shownotes:

• 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
• Past episodes on Palestine: Queers for a Free Palestine with Kate Raphael; the Antizionist Boycott of Manny's with Deeg

Support Sad Francisco and find links to our past episodes on Patreon.

If you are in the Bay this weekend:

THIS SATURDAY, 12/2/23 Palestine solidarity action c/o QUIT! and Gay Shame, 1 p.m. at Market and Castro

THIS SUNDAY, 12/3/23 Howard Zinn Book Fair

Ahead of 'Giving Tuesday,' it's our episode from the archives featuring Dean Spade, on the nonprofit industrial complex.

Next week: a brand-new episode with Dylan Rodriguez and Loubna Qutami, on the Zionist censorship campaign.

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Jan Tokumaru and Kimi Maru (Nikkei Progressives) describe mutual aid projects that connect Japanese American internment camps to today's ICE detention centers.

• Nikkei Progressives
• Nikkei Resisters
• Shut Down Adelanto

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Kate Raphael co-founded Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT!) in the Bay back in 2001. She talks about getting arrested in Israel for taping IDF harassment of Palestinians, why Palestinian liberation is a queer issue, and how Israel hired an SF-based PR firm to pinkwash Israel's genocide.

Also check the archives for the recent episode with another QUIT! Member, Deeg, who speaks on the anti-Zionist boycott of Manny's in the Mission.

• Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT!)
• Kate Raphael
• 'Major News Networks Sideline Palestinian Analysts' (Mari Cohen in Jewish Currents)
• Budrus (documentary by Julia Bacha)
• Pinkwashing Exposed (documentary by Dean Spade and Amy Mahardy)

Biden, Bongbong Marcos and dozens of billionaires will be shaking hands and making deals at the APEC conference downtown in November. Malaya and Mara (Anakbayan CCSF) explain how a locked-down meeting of free trade-loving elites from Asia and North America will hurt the working class, and why protesters might want to ruin their party.

• no2apec
• Anakbayan CCSF

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A GAY SHAME podcast.

Emmanuel Yekutiel is a marketing associate for conservative causes and Israel who in 2018, opened a gentrification cafe in the Mission that he named after himself.

Since then, Manny's has been a safe space for neoliberal figures to gather, including Dr. Jill Biden, Matt Yglesias, Nancy Pelosi, Sam Bankman-Fried, SFPD chief Bill Scott, and the trio of local politicians Manny dubbed the "Power Gays."

Deeg from Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT!) speaks on the boycott of Manny's, and the tradition of queers organizing against Israel's genocide of Palestinians.

• Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT!)
• BDS Movement
• "Alive in Limbo" documentary
• "Pinkwashing Exposed" documentary
• Queer Cinema for Palestine
• "Progressive Coalition boycotts 'woke-washing' of San Francisco event space"
• "Mark Zuckerberg's Immigration Hustle"

Kansas City, Olympia, and parts of Boston and DC now have fare-free public transportation. Yet BART and MUNI fares keep going up. Aditya, of the copwatching project Unfare SF, on moving the Bay toward no-ticket public transit.

• Unfare SF on Mastodon
• Unfare SF on Twitter
• Bikehopper
• Segregation by Design
• The Bay Area's Lost Streetcars (Chris Arvin)
• Shaping SF: The Freeway Revolt (Chris Carlsson)

Support Sad Francisco and find links to our past episodes on Patreon.