Sad Francisco
By Toshio Meronek, Tofu Estolas
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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Imperial War Games of RIMPAC f/ Abbey Irodistan from BAYAN USA NorCal
For RIMPAC, 29 countries and so-called Israel are in Hawaii to explode some old naval ships, waste a ton of money, kill some birds and dolphins, and make local kids feel like they're under a perpetual state of siege. Abbey Irodistan is with the... -
Pinkwashing Genocide f/ Brooke Lober, Deeg, and Mama Ganuush
Sad Francisco fam Brooke Lober (Jewish Voice for Peace Bay Area), Deeg (Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism), and Mama Ganuush on why Zionists started putting rainbow flags on tanks destroying Gaza, and the Bay Area roots of Brand Israel’s gay... -
Clocking Copaganda f/ Abe Woodliff (@realbayareamemes)
Abe Woodliff on how it's impossible to actually predict when a meme will hit, writing, and the shocking lack of negatives there are to existing authentically. Plus his recent piece on who wins and loses from fake narratives around crime rates. Abe..… -
Planning the Technofascist City w/ Anna Kirsch (Artists Against Billionaires)
YIMBY billionaires are buying up thousands of acres northeast of the Bay, to build a planned community of rich tech types. To sell their East Solano Plan (f.k.a. “California Forever”) to locals, its founders launched a PR campaign complete with... -
Death & Life of Bay Area Media
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. Doomloop... -
The Anti-Zionist Boycott of Manny's f/ Deeg
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. -
Trans Black Palestinian Solidarities f/ Jemma DeCristo, LaVelle Ridley and Mama Ganuush (May Live Show)
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... -
How South African Solidarity Encampments Worked f/ Matt Ray and Matt Wranovics (Left in the Bay)
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 covering the Bay's protests in the 1980s against South African apartheid,... -
5 Rich Guys Trying to Buy the Bay f/ Julie Pitta and Jeremy Mack
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... -
LAGAI-Queer Insurrection! w/ Deeg (Part 2)
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.
