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Toshio Meronek
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Toshio Meronek
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P*dcast episodes.fm/1653309103 | 'Miss Major Speaks' out now: massivebookshop.com/products/97818… | ✍️ Al Jazeera, The Nation, Truthout…
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    Toshio Meronek
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    Dec 23, 2025
    xo toshio
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    SAD FRANCISCO
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    Dec 23, 2025
    love to everyone who supported Sad Francisco during 2025.
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    Toshio Meronek
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    Mar 16, 2024
    Since 2020 the 109 luxury condos at 1554 Market Street have sat empty. Thank you YIMBY movement
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    The building has been empty because the original property owner has been embroiled in a corruption scandal. The new owner of the property recently announced plans to move forward with offering the units as rental apartments. hoodline.com/2023/12/abando…
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    Toshio Meronek
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    Mar 29, 2020
    I deliver for Instacart. #InstacartStrike on Monday. Instacart's attempting to strike-break by offering bonuses of $25. No. vice.com/en_us/article/…
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    Toshio Meronek
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    Sep 16, 2021
    A lawyer who holds “eviction boot camps” for landlords explains
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    Toshio Meronek
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    Jan 13, 2022
    HUGE RENT STRIKE against SF's biggest landlord, Veritas Investments, Inc., has barely gotten media attention. (Tho mainstream press always has space for stories on "the plight" of mythical "mom 'n pop" landlords.)
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    Rebuffed Tenant Group Weighs Whether to Continue ‘Debt Strike’
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    Toshio Meronek
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    Dec 31, 2022
    Co-written with @Eric_A_Stanley, author of Atmospheres of Violence—a must-read book!
    Mourners gather in honor of Club Q victims. One person wears a rainbow sweatband and raises a pink-gloved fist in the air.
    In a Violent Year for LGBTQ People, These Are the Ways We Coped and Fought Back
    From truthout.org
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    Toshio Meronek
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    Feb 14, 2024
    The Palestine solidarity protests stay massive in sf
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    Toshio Meronek
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    Feb 5, 2024
    lol cops want people to vote yes on Prop E so they're not liable for the destruction caused by high-speed chases
    SFPD SUV crash into former Lucca's Italian Grocery space in San Francisco.
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    Toshio Meronek
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    May 5, 2022
    The AIDS quilt shows in SF in June. I cried seeing it at UCI in 1995; this passage from Atmospheres of Violence is so good at reminding us of the dead and living who would never want a weepy memorial w/o action. They demand(ed) their deaths be politicized. c/o @Eric_A_Stanley
    Captured Value 

One response to the violence of stolen labor might be to reenter one's own la­bor power (HIV replication) into the commodity chains and demand wages for cell work. Another might be, at least at the level of the rhetorical, to collec­tivize laboring commodities toward a proletarianization of blood. Yet taking control of the means of production, not unlike lifting the blood ban, might do little if the meaning of blood, as among the motors of exploitation, is not, too, confronted. Faced with the enormity of history and that history's repetition, prescription feels already failed. Yet the ongoing legacies of those whose blood lives beyond them gives us a way of thinking with, if not yet forging a shared struggle against necrocapitalism's inevitability. 

TEXT FROM 'ATMOSPHERES OF VIOLENCE' pp. 63-65 (via Duke Univ. Press / your local library)
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    Toshio Meronek
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    Apr 26, 2024
    Husband and wife team Jay/Jesse and Kanishka Cheng wanna run SF politics via TogetherSF, Neighbors for a Better SF. Will they succeed?
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    Toshio Meronek
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    Mar 18, 2021
    The answer to anti-Asian violence is not more police or diversifying the police
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    Toshio Meronek
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    Sep 22, 2022
    Cops were doing this anyway but politicians approved surveillance expansion to allow SFPD access to private cameras.
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    Supes approve police spy cameras after debate that reflects national political instability - 48...
    When there is a real threat of fascism on the national level, what should SF do about the local police?
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    Toshio Meronek
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    Apr 22, 2024
    Northern CA Cherry Blossom Festival parade 4/21/24 - Scott Wiener disruption for Palestine. @nikkeiresisters
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    Toshio Meronek
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    Apr 27, 2024
    Spanish translation of MISS MAJOR SPEAKS fresh off!
    Cover of Miss Major Speaks. Miss Major’s depicted with fangs.
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