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.

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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

Julie Pitta and Jeremy Mack are part of the Phoenix Project, which is tracking the wealthy wannabe overlords of the Bay. They run down dossiers of five extremely rich dudes who want to run local politics: Michael Moritz, William Oberndorf, Chris Larsen, John Kilroy, Jr., and Garry Tan.

Phoenix Project - request the Phoenix Papers: Volume 2

Episodes mentioned:

"VCs vs. SF" f/ Julie Pitta

"Michael Shellenberger Thinks He Knows Your Gender" f/ Soleil Ho

"Stop Garry Tan to Stop Asian Hate" f/ Emily Mills

Part 2 of the conversation with Deeg, with more on LAGAI-Queer Insurrection (formerly Lesbians And Gays Against Intervention), the Bay Area collective that started organizing in 1983 in response to the US war machine meddling overseas.

UltraViolet (LAGAI's zine)

"How a queer liberation collective has stayed radical for almost 40 years" (Toshio in Waging Nonviolence)

Episode with Deeg on the Boycott of Manny's in the Mission

Episode with LAGAI member Kate Raphael: Queers for a Free Palestine

Deeg is back for some oral history lessons about LAGAI-Queer Insurrection (formerly Lesbians And Gays Against Intervention), a radical collective that started organizing in 1983 in response to the US war machine meddling overseas.

Some of the same members from forty years ago continue to meet, plan direct actions, and send thousands of copies of their zine UltraViolet into prisons for free, with no 501(c)3 and next to no funding. We talk: avoiding burnout and cooptation, how to measure movement successes (and why sometimes you can't), and more.

This is Part 1 of a two-part episode.

• UltraViolet (LAGAI's zine)
• "How a queer liberation collective has stayed radical for almost 40 years" (Toshio in Waging Nonviolence)
• Episode with Deeg on the Boycott of Manny's in the Mission
• Episode with LAGAI member Kate Raphael: Queers for a Free Palestine

*This episode was recorded in March. Subscribers to our Patreon got this episode early. Help support the show there.

• Red Lines: Retaliation in the media industry during the war on Gaza
• National Writers' Union Freelance Solidarity Project

• Writers Against the War on Gaza
• Media Against Apartheid & Displacement
• International Federation of Journalists, War in Gaza death count

Sad Francisco is produced by Toshio Meronek and edited by Tofu Estolas.