In 2021, Lakeside Investment Company bought the Redstone Labor Temple in the Mission. tiny gray-garcia from Poor Magazine, and Rick Gerharter, a movement photographer who's had an office in the Redstone for decades, talk about the significance of the building as the new landlord drops a gentrification bomb in the form of massive rent increases.
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Gay Liberation, Not US Invasion f/ Charlie Hinton
BAGL (Bay Area Gay Liberation) was a major force in 1970s San Francisco labor activism on many fronts, supporting farm workers and gay teachers, and thwarting the Coors beer dynasty's polygraph tests to weed out gays. The group gave BAGL member Charlie Hinton purpose; he describes its ascent and eventual dissolution that resulted over plans to host a gay air force officer.
Read more about queer history from 1970s SF in Christina Hanhardt's 'Safe Space' and Emily Hobson's 'Lavender and Red'.
Edited by Tofu Estolas (IG: @terabyte_tofu).
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Offensively bland art results from the tyranny of homeowners with too much time on their hands. Two recent cases where Nextdoor.com creeps and gentrifiers at community benefits district meetings made decisions that censored murals and the like, discussed with Christen Cioffi.
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Offensively bland art results from the tyrrany of homeowners with too much time on their hands. Two recent cases where Nextdoor.com creeps and gentrifiers at community benefits district meetings made decisions that censored murals and the like, discussed with . Support Sad Francisco and find links to our past episodes on .
Politicians always warn that there’s never enough funding to pay for the basic things people need to live, and yet there seems to always be money for police; from Fayetteville, AR, Gracie Fuhrman (Arkansas Justice Reform Coalition) and (Sad Francisco editor) Caitlin Wood describe how politicians wasted federal COVID relief on jails. Links to subscribe at: sadfrancis.co
In this episode of Sad Francisco: a discussion of how censorship works on & off college campuses, w/
Loubna Qutami, co-founder of Palestinian Feminist Collective & Palestinian Youth Movement & assistant prof in Asian American Studies, UCLA
Dylan Rodriguez, co-founder Critical Resistance & the Critical Ethnic Studies Association, prof of Media & Cultural Studies, UC Riverside
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Listen to this episode from Sad Francisco on Spotify. Gaslighting and double-standards are all over the media and at schools, where Zionists often get put on pedestals, while pro-Palestinian voices get silenced. A discussion of how censorship works on and off college campuses, featuring: Dylan Rodriguez, co-founder of Critical Resistance and the Critical Ethnic Studies Association, and professor of Media and Cultural Studies at UC Riverside Loubna Qutami, co-founder of the Palestinian Feminist Collective and the Palestinian Youth Movement, and assistant professor in Asian American Studies at UCLA Shownotes: Palestine Legal: 'Distorted Definition: Redefining Antisemitism to Silence Advocacy for Palestinian Rights' 'Professor 'un-hiring' fuels battle for academic freedom' (Toshio Meronek, Waging Nonviolence) 'Students fight smears as universities back Israel’s genocidal attacks' (Nora Barrows-Friedman, Electronic Intifada) A Communique on Sabotaging Zionist Infrastructure: Shutting Down Friends of the IDF (IndyBay) 'The Lobby' (Al Jazeera documentary on the Israel lobby, featuring UC Davis) Dylan on Instagram | Twitter | YouTube Loubna on Academia.edu | Twitter Past episodes on Palestine: Queers for a Free Palestine with Kate Raphael; the Antizionist Boycott of Manny's with Deeg Support Sad Francisco and find links to our past episodes on Patreon. If you are in the Bay this weekend: THIS SATURDAY, 12/2/23 Palestine solidarity action c/o QUIT! and Gay Shame, 1 p.m. at Market and Castro THIS SUNDAY, 12/3/23 Howard Zinn Book Fair
