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.
Latest episode
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Mama Ganuush on Gaza Family, Hunger Striking and Post-Election Reflections
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... -
Solidarity in Times of Repression f/ Dean Spade
[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 from CEOs, cops, landlords, politicians, and Zionists, Dean Spade and... -
Cops Take All the Money f/ Cynthia Fong and Jenica Garcia (Lavender Phoenix) and Anya W. (People's Budget Coalition)
Lavender Phoenix SF People's Budget: #JusticeForAkaiGurley: AAPI response to people supporting Peter Liang, the NYPD officer who killed Akai Gurley. Support us and find links to our past episodes: -
Surviving US-Backed Death Squads in the Philippines f/ Brandon Lee
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... -
TogetherSF Wants Elite Control f/ Jeremy Mack (The Phoenix Project)
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'… -
How Cash Runs Local Politics (Live Salon HALA Show at Brava Theater) f/ Jeremy Mack, Keane Chukwuneta, Mama Ganuush, and Pup Zembla
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), Jobs With Justice SF... -
Can't Hide a Genocide f/ Dylan Rodriguez and Loubna Qutami
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... -
Abstinence-Obsessed, Rightwing Recovery Influencers f/ Lea McGeever
"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… -
Project 2025 Came Early in San Francisco f/ Alison Collins
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... -
Bay2Gaza Mutual Aid f/ Brooke Lober, Lauren Gutierrez and Mama Ganuush
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...
