Sad Francisco

Dec 02 2024 86 ep. 39 mins 5
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A Bay Area based podcast telling stories that aren’t normally covered in traditional media. Featuring community organizers, resistance leaders & underrepresented voices. Working towards the liberation for all, one episode at a time.

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Mama Ganuush on Gaza Family, Hunger Striking and Post-Election Reflections

Dec 02 2024 54 mins  
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 M

Solidarity in Times of Repression f/ Dean Spade

Nov 14 2024 45 mins  
[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 autho

Cops Take All the Money f/ Cynthia Fong and Jenica Garcia (Lavender Phoenix) and Anya W. (People's Budget Coalition)*

Nov 04 2024 44 mins  
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 Coaliti

Surviving US-Backed Death Squads in the Philippines f/ Brandon Lee

Oct 28 2024 29 mins  
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: Justice4BrandonL

TogetherSF Wants Elite Control f/ Jeremy Mack (The Phoenix Project)

Oct 21 2024 63 mins  
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://

How Cash Runs Local Politics (Live Salon HALA Show at Brava Theater) f/ Jeremy Mack, Keane Chukwuneta, Mama Ganuush, and Pup Zembla

Oct 14 2024 47 mins  
Mama Ganuush hosts a discussion on whether people in the US actually stand a chance under American democracy, when money rules everything around us. Guests from The Phoenix Project (exposing dark money in Bay Area politics) and Pups for Palestine (what it says :) ). Salon HALA will return in 2025. Salon HALA on Instagram The Phoenix Project Zinedogs | Instagram @zinedogssf Supp

Can't Hide a Genocide f/ Dylan Rodriguez and Loubna Qutami

Oct 08 2024 53 mins  
It's one year since the start of the most recent wave of Israel's US-backed genocide of Palestinians. This episode was recorded last fall with Loubna Qutami (co-founder of the Palestinian Youth Movement and a member of the Palestinian Feminist Collective), and one of her mentors, and ours, Dylan Rodriguez (co-founder of Critical Resistance and the Critical Ethnic Studies Associatio

Abstinence-Obsessed, Rightwing Recovery Influencers f/ Lea McGeever

Sep 30 2024 72 mins  
"Brothers in recovery" Matt Dorsey (an ex-SFPD staffer turned politician) and Tom Wolf (the rightwing influencer who said the impending closure of a Macy's store was "San Francisco's 9/11") are examples of how conservatives are using their drug rehab journeys to prop up the war on drug users. With enemies like Tom Wolf, rightwing lobbyist Christopher Rufo, and conservative misinfor

Project 2025 Came Early in San Francisco f/ Alison Collins

Sep 23 2024 49 mins  
Project 2025 soft launched in San Francisco years ago, with successful attempts to replace politicians with people who are obedient to the rightwing. Because it’s the Bay, these replacements are registered as Democrats and they virtue signal about diversity, but make no mistake, they are deeply aligned with rightwing forces like the Heritage Foundation. This episode’s guest Al

Bay2Gaza Mutual Aid f/ Brooke Lober, Lauren Gutierrez and Mama Ganuush

Sep 16 2024 60 mins  
Mutual aid and relationships with people we trust are gonna be key to surviving the political and climate apocalypses ahead. Brooke, Lauren and Mama Ganuush on Bay2Gaza Mutual Aid, and how to sustain connections with people living through the genocide in Palestine, as the US and Israel do everything they can to repress signals of solidarity. Bay2Gaza Benefit is 9/20 at Oakland Secr