110 episodes
PUSHBACK Talks WG Film
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4.9 • 18 Ratings
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Cities are becoming increasingly unliveable for most people. Costs are rising but incomes are not. Sky-high rents, evictions, homelessness, and substandard housing are common realities for urban dwellers across the planet. There is a global housing crisis. How did this basic human right get so lost? Who is pushing people out of their homes and cities, and what’s being done to pushback?
On the heels of the release of the award-winning documentary, PUSH, filmmaker, Fredrik Gertten and Leilani Farha, the former UN Special Rapporteur on the right to housing, have reconvened. Join the filmmaker and the advocate as they reflect on their experiences making PUSH and exchange ideas and stories about the film's central issue: the financialization of housing and its fall-out.
For more about PUSH and to view it: www.pushthefilm.com
For more about Fredrik Gertten and his other films: www.wgfilm.com
For more about Leilani Farha in her new role, Global Director of The Shift: www.make-the-shift.org
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Cruel Summer: Housing, Inequality, & Injustice
Send us a Text Message.Welcome to Season 7 of Pushback Talks! It's been an eventful summer, as nations worldwide grappled with the housing and climate crises, and people took to the streets to protest wealth inequality and the rapidly rising cost of living. In this highly anticipated season premiere, we join Fredrik and Leilani for a one-on-one conversation about their work to push back against the injustices of our time and how their mission adapts as the situation develops.In this premiere ...
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Chris Smalls is Living Rent Free in Jeff Bezos' Head
Send us a Text Message.What is it that makes a worker essential? This is the question that Chris Smalls and hundreds of thousands of Amazon workers had to ask as they found themselves working long hours in unsafe conditions at the height of the pandemic, having been deemed 'essential.' But when Chris, who was responsible for training thousands of other employees and upper management, organized a protest for better work conditions he was immediately terminated and told he wasn't articulate eno...
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Collective Courage: Madrid Tenants Demand Their Rights
Send us a Text Message.Ever wondered what it takes to build a thriving community of empowered tenants? In this illuminating episode of Pushback Talks, we speak with Valeria Raçu and Alba Jiménez of the Madrid Tenant's Union (also known as Sindicato de Inquilinas e Inquilinos de Madrid) about building meaningful movements.Join Fredrik and Leilani as they sit down with Valeria and Alba to look closer at the extraordinary impact of collective action in of tenants' rights. In a world where global...
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Radical Nerds: A Conversation with Rutger Bregman
Send us a Text Message.Embark on a transformative journey this week with the Filmmaker and the Advocate as they engage in conversation with Rutger Bregman, esteemed historian and author of Humankind and Utopia for Realists. Join the trio as they navigate the heart of societal transformation, unraveling Bregman's impactful contributions to Fredrik's film "Breaking Social." Dive deep into pressing questions like 'How does anger fuel social change?' and 'What defines true philanthropy?' Explore ...
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Mass Protests and the Missing Revolution - a conversation with author Vincent Bevins
Send us a Text Message."From 2010 to 2020, more people participated in protests than at any other point in human history. " Yet we are not living in more just and democratic societies as a result...How did so many mass protests lead to the opposite of what they asked for?"Take a look behind the scenes of global uprisings and their unfulfilled aims as Pushback Talks welcomes acclaimed author of "If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution," Vincent Bevins. In his compelling ...
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Law and resistance - the South Africa-Palestine Connection, with Sylvia Vollenhoven
Send us a Text Message.In this week's episode of Pushback Talks, we delve into the intricate dynamics of historical narratives and their profound influence on contemporary events. Award-winning South African journalist, filmmaker, and writer Sylvia Vollenhoven joins Fredrik and Leilani to explore the enduring power of empathy amidst longstanding conflicts and resistance movements. Drawing parallels between past and present, the trio examines South Africa's struggle against apartheid and its r...
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Pushback Talks
Pushback Talks educates us on the root causes of the global housing crisis. The hosts are experts on this subject and they feature some excellent guest experts from all over the world. If you want to understand why encampments of unhoused neighbors are growing despite the endless construction of vast seas of condos and apartments, listen to Pushback Talks.
One in a Million!
There are now more than one millionpodcast shows on Apple Podcasts, according to Apple (2020).
Let me reiterate: I don't mean episodes. I’m talking more than one million individual podcast shows: As in the shows which then release their episodes.
Pushback Talks is the ONLY podcast that advocates for the human rights of accessible, affordable housing to listeners in 114 countries!
That’s why I feel Pushback Talks is a one in a million podcast!