Sad Francisco

Mar 10 2025 98 ep. 40 mins 8
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Covering the end of capitalism.

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Histories of Hupa Resistance with Stephanie Lumsden

Mar 10 2025 23 mins  
Stephanie Lumsden is a scholar in Feminist and Native American Studies, currently teaching at UC Davis. She tells the story of a gang of Hupa tribe resistance fighters in 1860s California that included Curly-Headed Tom, who wreaked havoc on the area's settlers. Elsewhere in the conversation: the 'bad' vs. 'good Indian' dichotomy, and the concept of 'revenge' as anti-colonial resist

Against Signal Culture with Jemma and Ralowe

Mar 03 2025 73 mins  
Signal (the phone app) has become an obligatory download for every organizer on the Left in the US. But it was funded through one of the American government's propaganda agencies, and the atmosphere it creates is one of a neverending meeting permeated by paranoia. Epic conversation, care of Jemma DeCristo and Ralowe Ampu. LAGAI—Queer Insurrection! [https://episodes.fm/1653309103

Falun Gong and the Chinese Right's Anti-Trans, Anti-Communist Moral Panics with Chris Lee

Feb 24 2025 39 mins  
Chris Lee studies the emergent Asian and Asian American rightwing in the US, including forces like the Falun Gong cult. We discuss the FLG and its flagship soft power campaigns that include the Shen Yun dance company and the Epoch Times newspaper—and how it’s part of a larger effort to sow anti-communist, anti-trans sentiment in the US. Support us and find links to our past

Radical Demands Only On Anarchism with Margaret Killjoy

Feb 17 2025 38 mins  
Margaret Killjoy on coming out as an anarchist, why anarchist history is so hidden, and the importance of deescalating conflict that isn't with the enemy (and more). Margaret's Substack [https://substack.com/@margaretkilljoy] has her essay "The Sky is Falling; We've Got This" [https://margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/the-sky-is-falling-weve-got-this] Marget on BlueSky [https://bsky.a

Ruth Wilson and Craig Gilmore on Prisons and Neoliberalism

Feb 10 2025 48 mins  
Two founders of the prison abolition movement—renowned thinkers and doers Craig and Ruth Wilson Gilmore—speak on the prison industrial complex's California roots. Also discussed: Why focusing on closing private prisons is too narrow a vision, and Gavin Newsom's campaign to put a kinder, gentler face on mass incarceration via the medicalization of imprisonment (eg. increasing co

Zionist Repression at San Jose State and GLIDE Church with Sang Hea Kil and G

Feb 03 2025 75 mins  
It started when San Jose State University's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion office sponsored a visit from CSU's premier Zionist. Sang Hea Kil describes the repression she experienced as the only faculty member who joined an encampment of Muslim students in solidarity with Palestine last year at the school. Later in the episode, G, a former worker at GLIDE Church (a San Francisco n

Waymos Aren't Asian with Jasmine Lee Ehrhardt

Jan 27 2025 48 mins  
A crowd of people set fire to a robotaxi last Lunar New Year in San Francisco's Chinatown. Jasmine explains how Asian American influencers and corporate media outlets used the "death" of a Waymo "self-driving" vehicle to stoke fear about anti-Asian violence. Fundraiser for Yazan in Gaza [https://chuffed.org/project/115145-yazan] Write to Casey Goonan [https://www.abcf.net/blog/upda

The Anti-Sex Trafficking Industrial Complex f/ Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam

Jan 20 2025 46 mins  
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 Resc

"Abolish Rent" with Leonardo Vilchis and Tracy Rosenthal

Jan 13 2025 55 mins  
"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 "hous

Japan-Palestine Solidarity f/ Hanin Siam, Mai, and Nadina O

Jan 06 2025 87 mins  
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 o