Sad Francisco Toshio Meronek, Tofu Estolas

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 Filipino anti-imperialist group BAYAN USA NorCal, which is joining Hawaiians to call for an end to RIMPAC forever.
 "SF Against APEC" episode with Anakbayan CCSF
BAYAN USA NorCal (Instagram)
Anakbayan USA 
Gabriela USA 
SF Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines

Toshio Meronek and Tofu Estolas make Sad Francisco. 
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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 hasbara campaign. 
Recorded June 27, 2024 at the Queer & Trans Artists for a Free Palestine closing at SOMArts, hosted by the BLOOM Collective.
Palestinian queer group alQaws: “Reflecting on Queerness in Times of Genocide”
Mama Ganuush on queers for Palestine, and Trans Black Palestinian Solidarities
Deeg on the Manny’s in the Mission boycott, and LAGAI - Queer Insurrection
Brooke Lober on Urban Alchemy
Toshio’s reporting on pinkwashing at Truthout, Waging Nonviolence, and Bitch magazine
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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.
"Crime is Down in the Bay Area, Why Are People Pretending It's Not?" at Broke-Ass Stuart
Abe Woodliff on Substack | Instagram | Twitter | Abe's Book
@realbayareamemes on Instagram | Facebook

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 artwashing and more. Vallejo-based Anna Kirsch of Artists Against Billionaires is part of the resistance.


Artists Against Billionaires on Instagram
Anna Kirsch (@girlonbus) on Instagram

Kevin L. Jones 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 Dispatch is on all the podcast platforms, plus Twitter and Instagram.
Toshio Meronek and Tofu Estolas are Sad Francisco. Support us and find links to our past episodes: patreon.com/sadfrancisco
 

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.
HALA Collective 
BAD (Bay Area Drag) Fund 
"Progressive coalition boycotts ‘woke-washing’ of San Francisco event space" (Toshio at Waging Nonviolence)
"What boycott of Manny's in the Mission is about" (Margot Goldstein and Rachel Lederman at SF Chronicle)