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Sad Francisco

Sad Francisco

By: Toshio Meronek Tofu Estolas
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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. Political Science Politics & Government Social Sciences
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  • Stream of Consciousness with Toshio and Tofu
    Jul 14 2025

    Seasons change, fascists remain. Another one where Toshio and Tofu have a semi-incoherent discussion about things in the works at Sad Francisco HQ.

    The protests that corporate media is mostly ignoring

    (Erica Chenoweth, Jeremy Pressman, and Soha Hammam, Waging Nonviolence)

    https://wagingnonviolence.org/2025/03/resistance-alive-well-us/

    Citations Needed

    https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/

    Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting

    https://fair.org/

    Support us and find links to our past episodes: patreon.com/sadfrancisco

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    43 mins
  • Blocking the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges
    Jul 7 2025

    In 1989, the Golden Gate Bridge was blockaded for the first time by a group of protesters going by the name Stop AIDS Now…or Else! They were sick of their friends dying in a government-facilitated genocide of queer people (the medical industrial complex and corporate media were complicit, too).

    It wasn't till 2016 that another group of protesters (black.seed) blockaded the Bay Bridge, this time propelled by the Ferguson uprisings and the crisis of Black people dying, especially at the hands of police.

    And then in 2023 and 2024 the Bay Bridge 78 and Golden Gate 26 blockaded for Gaza; some still face charges.

    Actions to take for the Golden Gate 26: linktr.ee/gg26solidarity

    Event hosted with Gay Shame (gayshame.net), HALA Collective (thehalacollective.com), and Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism! (quitpalestine.org)

    Emceed by Lavelle Ridley and Stab and featuring:

    Deeg, Stop AIDS Now…or Else!, Gay Shame and Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism!

    Jemma and Ralowe, black.seed and Gay Shame

    Golzar and Turner, Bay Bridge 78

    (Follow Golzar for COVID-safer events: instagram.com/cutiecraftyparty/)

    Jordan and Mannan, Golden Gate 26

    linktr.ee/gg26solidarity

    Recorded at Counterpulse on June 24, 2025.

    Thanks to Ach and Eddie at Counterpulse, and Healthcare Workers for Palestine (linktr.ee/hcw4pal).

    Related episodes:

    Deeg on the boycott of Manny's

    https://episodes.fm/1653309103/episode/OTExOGQwNDctNDFkOS00MzE3LTk2ZGQtNjk4NTVkMmFlZDQz

    Deeg on queer Bay direct action group LAGAI-Queer Insurrection!

    https://episodes.fm/1653309103/episode/OTIxNTJmOWUtMDAxZi00YjgxLWExZGMtZDJlMzBjN2M0OWMx

    Jemma and Ralowe on hating Signal

    https://episodes.fm/1653309103/episode/ZjhjYTc4MDktNzAyNS00NzYyLWIyZWYtNTM0MGUzNjEzOTAw

    Jemma, Lavelle and Mama Ganuush: Trans Black-Palestinian Solidarities

    https://episodes.fm/1653309103/episode/NmYwYTkxYmEtYmYxNS00ZTQxLTk1OWItMzZjNDY3YWMwZDRm

    Support us and find links to our past episodes: patreon.com/sadfrancisco

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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Radiation Disaster at Hunter's Point with Chris Roberts
    Jun 30 2025

    Chris Roberts is who you call to learn how the Navy’s atomic weapons tests made parts of SF toxic, and the government’s radiation experiments on people incarcerated at San Quentin, military officers stationed at Pittsburg, and the 49ers.

    Read Chris’s reporting and listen to Rebecca Bowe’s companion podcast:

    Exposed: The Human Radiation Experiments at Hunter's Point
    sfpublicpress.org/exposed

    "The Naval Scientist Who Wanted To Know How Football Players Would Survive Nuclear War" (Chris for Defector)
    defector.com/the-naval-scientist-who-wanted-to-know-how-football-players-would-survive-nuclear-war

    See Chris on July 12, 2PM at the Shipyard Gallery, Building 101, 451 Galvez Ave.
    Hunter's Point Shipyard Artists' "Decommissioned" is open Saturdays through August 2
    shipyardartists.com/decommissioned

    Support us and find links to our past episodes: patreon.com/sadfrancisco

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    45 mins

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