Sad Francisco

Churches, nonprofits and politicians have turned the anti-sex trafficking movement into a billion-dollar industry. The lives and stories of migrant sex workers get used as an excuse to hire more cops, and criminalize a form of labor that pays better than most. Chanelle and Elene, on their new book featuring the stories of migrant sex workers from across North America.

Not Your Rescue Project (Haymarket Books) [https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2258-not-your-rescue-project]

Butterfly: Asian and Migrant Sex Workers Support Network [https://www.butterflysw.org]

"Abolish Rent" is a new organizing bible from Leonardo Vilchis and Tracy Rosenthal, laying out the reasons why capitalism will never provide everyone with the basic human need of shelter. They discuss tactics from successful rent strikes, how California's COVID-19 eviction moratorium was both a success and failure of tenant activism, and the attempt by landlords to rebrand as "housing providers."

Buy Abolish Rent [https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2443-abolish-rent]

"Privatizing Public Housing: 'The Genocide of Poor People'" (Toshio in Truthout) [https://truthout.org/articles/privatizing-public-housing-the-genocide-of-poor-people/]

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

Hanin, Mai and Nadina met and became friends through the Palestine solidarity movement in Tokyo a little over a year ago.

We cover some of the recent successes of the movement, including Israeli defense company Elbit Systems losing contracts, and Israel being disinvited from the yearly event in Nagasaki that memorializes the day the US dropped an atomic bomb.

They speak to some of the particularities of organizing against imperialism from inside Japan, and ways to sustain the organizing as the latest wave of genocide in Gaza continues.

Palestinians of Japan (Instagram) https://www.instagram.com/palestinejapan

Mai's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/yudetamai

Nadina's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/nadina.mp4

Nam Nam Space (Koenji, Tokyo) https://www.instagram.com/namnam_space

Support Simo in Palestine https://www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-relief-for-salamas-family-in-gaza

Mama Ganuush and Toshio bring you AIPAC Zombies: people in American culture who have been possessed by the worst Zionist brainrot.

Our first episode: California politician Scott Wiener.

More:

"Scott Wiener's Appalling Legacy as San Francisco Supervisor" (Patrick Range McDonald, Housing is a Human Right) [https://www.housingisahumanright.org/scott-wiener-appalling-legacy-san-francisco-supervisor/]

"Gay Neoliberal Candidate in San Francisco Disproves Myths About LGBT Values" (Toshio, Truthout) [https://truthout.org/articles/gay-neoliberal-candidate-in-san-francisco-disproves-myths-about-lgbt-values/]

Join Tofu and Toshio on an end of the year, stream-of-consciousness check-in.

New episode of Sad Francisco on January 3. AIPAC Zombies with Mama Ganuush premieres January 1.

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

A check-in with Mama Ganuush where we hear about their recent hunger strike, their visit with family who evacuated Gaza for Egypt, and discuss how US elections are bought and sold by AIPAC.

SF Drag Artist Leads Hunger Strike Against US Funding of Israel (Nastia Voynovskaya, KQED)

https://www.kqed.org/arts/13967427/sf-drag-artist-leads-hunger-strike-against-us-funding-of-israel

Mama Ganuush on Instagram

HALA Collective

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

[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

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

*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

-

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

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/

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