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PUSHBACK Talks — 169 episodes

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Word Food: Industry & Solar

2

Word Food: Wealth Tax & Waterfalls

3

Word Food: Occupied & Dandelion

4

Word Food: Yoghurt & Moonlight

5

Word Food: Big Tech & Resilience

6

Word Food: Profit & Spring

7

Word Food: Greta & Empathy

8

Word Food: Revolution & The Flood

9

Word Food: Puerto Rico & Universal

10

Word Food: Upside Down & Soft Power

11

Word Food: Wall Street & Safety

12

Word Food: Women, Life, Freedom & Alabama

13

Word Food: Doughnuts & Polar

14

Word Food: Slavery & NGO-ish

15

Word Food: Activist burnout & Patience

16

Word Food: Bubblegum & To be a Musk

17

Word Food: Airbnb & Winter

18

Word Food: Bumblebee & Nelson

19

Word Food: Ceasefire & Madeleine

20

Word Food: It's Possible & Black and White

21

Word Food: Lucky & F**k Corruption

22

Language Matters: a Playful Stream of Consciousness, pt2

23

Language Matters: a Playful Stream of Consciousness, pt1

24

Summer Word Food: Pushback & Money

25

Summer Word Food: Democracy & Flowers

26

Summer Word Food: Remake & Sleep

27

Summer Word Food: Dancing & Supply Chains

28

Summer Word Food: No Words & Water

29

Summer Word Food: Growth & Summer

30

Summer Word Food: Social Contract & Media

31

Summer Word Food: Frankenstein & Wine

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Summer Word Food: ROI & Saviour

33

Summer Word Food: Human & Walk the Dog

34

Summer Word Food: Hope & Bananas

35

Fighting the Georgian Dream: The 180+ Day Protest

36

Architects of Change: Mexico's Women Leaders Take on the Housing Crisis

37

Rights are Never Wrong, Colonialism is

38

Displacement by Design: A Veteran Advocate's Enduring Fight for Palestine

39

Staying Sane in a World of Chaos - with NYT Correspondent Peter S. Goodman

40

To the UN! Advocates Hold UK Accountable

41

Sweden vs Tesla: The Longest Labor Strike in History

42

Canada Fights for What's Right - a conversation with MP Leah Gazan

43

Ending Homelessness the Finnish Way - with Juha Kahila

44

Australia's Housing Disaster with Justice Kevin Bell

45

The Singapore Solution - Housing for All

46

Bikes vs Cars: The Transformation of Paris - With Paris deputy Mayor Christophe Najdovski

47

The Legend of the Vagabond Queen: Resisting Displacement in Lagos

48

Keep Your Coins We Want Change: The Shift Directives Part 4

49

Those Who Caused the Problem Can’t Solve the Problem: The Shift Directives Part 3

50

Get Your Hands Off My Asset! The Shift Directives Part 2

51

The Great Housing Reset: The Shift Directives Part 1

52

Radically Legal: Berlin Takes Back the Law - with Joanna Kusiak

53

How the World Ran Out of Everything, with Peter S. Goodman

54

Summer Series: Nomad Nation: How the Remote Work Revolution is Changing the World

55

Summer Series: Law & Resistance – the South African -Palestine Connection, with Sylvia Vollenhoven

56

Summer Series: Mass Protests and the Missing Revolution – a conversation with author Vincent Bevins

57

Summer Series: Radical Nerds: A Conversation with Rutger Bregman

58

Summer Series: Chris Smalls is Living Rent Free in Jeff Bezos' Head

59

Human Rights When There Are None: with Volker Türk, UN

60

From Shadows to Shouts: The Global Student Uprising for Palestine

61

The Rent is Too Damn High: Making the Case Against Landlords

62

On the Brighter Side - Getting Inspirational with World Habitat

63

Nomad Nation: How the Remote Work Revolution is Changing the World

64

Suffering Like Hell: Argentina's Milei Mayhem

65

The Tenant Class - a conversation with author Ricardo Tranjan

66

Law and resistance - the South Africa-Palestine Connection, with Sylvia Vollenhoven

67

Mass Protests and the Missing Revolution - a conversation with author Vincent Bevins

68

Radical Nerds: A Conversation with Rutger Bregman

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Collective Courage: Madrid Tenants Demand Their Rights

70

Chris Smalls is Living Rent Free in Jeff Bezos' Head

71

Cruel Summer: Housing, Inequality, & Injustice

72

Summer Series: The Vulture Ate My Student Housing

73

Summer Series: Wake Up! How Vulture Capitalists Demolished the American Dream

74

Summer Series: Taking on Blackstone – Denmark’s Housing Minister Lays Down the Law

75

Summer Series: 6AM Bulldozer – Live and Direct from Nigeria with Chicoco Radio

76

Summer Series: The Art of Persuasion – Changing Hearts and Minds with Anand Giridharadas

77

Summer Series: Money, Money, Money – Living in an Era of Corruption + Kleptocratic Networks, A Conversation with Sarah Chayes

78

The Bologna Blueprint: An Inspirational Housing Strategy

79

The Automated Landlord: How Big Tech & Finance Reshape Cities

80

The Trickle Up Economy, with Oxfam America's Policy Lead on Economic Justice

81

Bulldozed Out: The People's Fight for Land and Homes in Kenya

82

Journalists at Risk: Revealing the Corruption of the SuperRich with Matthew Caruana Galizia

83

Breaking Social: Building a Path from Anger to Hope

84

EARTHQUAKE in Turkiye & the Cost of Corruption

85

Bad to Worse: The Ukraine War & Serbia's Housing Crisis

86

London vs. 10 Downing Street: the Battle for the Right to Housing w/ London's Deputy Mayor for Housing

87

Architects for Public Good

88

The Art of Persuasion – Changing Hearts and Minds with Anand Giridharadas

89

The Vultures' Feast: Billionaires Devouring Mobile Homes

90

Defending Exarcheia: Athens Neighborhood Takes on the Big Guns

91

Extreme Vengeance Against the Poor

92

The First Step: Chile's Journey to a New Constitution

93

Summer Series — My Home is an Asset Class - w/ Kim Van Sparrentak, Member of European Parliament

94

Summer Series — 'Davos Man'- The Billionaires Who Own the World - with NYT correspondent Peter S. Goodman

95

Summer Series — Read Between the Lines - The Pandora Papers, with Anna Minton

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Summer Series — Evergrande - Can China's Communist Party Save Capitalism?

97

Summer Series — Rage & Optimism: Staying Motivated in the Climate Crisis

98

The Shift Directives - Taming the Monster with Human Rights

99

Voice of the Voiceless - Revisiting Grenfell w/ Lowkey

100

Berlin - A Revolution by Law with Joanna Kusiak

101

Palestine and the Heartache of an Advocate

102

My Home is an Asset Class - w/ Kim Van Sparrentak, Member of European Parliament

103

Housing Crisis & Voices of Resistance

104

Why is PUSH Relevant in Mexico? 4 Housing Experts from Mexico Weigh In

105

Looking for the Light - Sustainable Housing in Europe

106

The Pandemic Cash Cow - Peter S. Goodman Part 2

107

'Davos Man' - The Billionaires Who Own the World - with NYT correspondent Peter S. Goodman

108

Evergrande - Can China's Communist Party Save Capitalism?

109

Rage & Optimism: Staying Motivated in the Climate Crisis

110

Blackstone, Oatly, & Spanx: The Art of Selling Human Rights Violations (Twitter Spaces)

111

People, Not Rubbish: Fighting Land Corruption in Zimbabwe

112

Marching for Housing - Rotterdam Reclaims their Rights

113

Read Between the Lines - The Pandora Papers, with Anna Minton

114

Sleeping on the Steps – Turkey’s Students Demand Their Rights

115

Berlin PUSHED back - How a Grassroots Movement Took On the Corporate Landlords

116

Election Fever – The Politics of Housing

117

Summer Series – How Vulture Capitalists Demolished the American Dream

118

Summer Series – Danish Housing Minister Takes on Blackstone

119

Summer Series – Can Our Savings Protect Human Rights and the Planet?

120

Summer Series – Corruption and Kleptocratic Networks, a Conversation with Sarah Chayes

121

Summer Series – Reflections and Corrections on the Housing Crisis with Frans Timmermans, EU Executive Vice-President

122

Toronto Tension - High Finance and Homelessness

123

Platform Capitalism – Air BnB’s Takeover + the Cities that Resist

124

Shame on Spain Making Solidarity a Crime - Putting Activists who Fight Evictions Behind Bars

125

The New Zealand Housing Obsession-The Speculative Market That No One Can Afford

126

Sweden in Political Turmoil - Tenant Protections Under Threat

127

The Monster’s Grip – Amsterdam Under Siege

128

The Pandemic is the Cure, If You Want It - with Raquel Rolnik, Brazil

129

Vive La France — The Land Trusts, The Movements & The Housing Police

130

Skid Row Pushing Back - The Dirty Divide in Los Angeles

131

Not Your Opportunity Zone – Fighting Disaster Capitalism in Puerto Rico

132

Post Crises Croatia - Curbing Touristification and Investor Domination

133

Winning Back Beirut - Fighting Corruption + Commodification

134

Greece Without the Greeks - When the Vultures Grabbed Athens

135

The Battle of Berlin - People, Courts and a Bunch of Billionaires

136

A Clubhouse Meet Up — The Shift & Friends

137

Money, Money, Money – Living in an Era of Corruption + Kleptocratic Networks, A Conversation with Sarah Chayes

138

The Mistakes We Made - Reflections and Corrections on the Housing Crisis with Frans Timmermans, EU Executive Vice President.

139

Build Homes on Golf Courses! Mobilizing for the Right to Live in Cape Town, South Africa

140

Taking on Blackstone – Denmark’s Housing Minister Lays Down the Law

141

Raw Capitalism or Fair Finance - Can Our Savings Protect Human Rights and the Planet?

142

Cheap debt! Low Taxes! Ireland for Sale

143

What’s Cooking? Oatly, Blackstone, Akelius and the People Pushing Back

144

The Perfect Storm for Change - A filmmaker, an advocate and a whole lot more

145

Beyond Belief - Nicholas Burton's Testimony Just After Surviving the Grenfell Fire

146

Living In The Richest Borough In The World - Surviving Grenfell and Fighting to Stay!

147

Young and Restless: Making Change in Argentina and the World - A conversation with Julieta Perucca, Deputy Director of The Shift.

148

6AM Bulldozer – Live and Direct from Nigeria with Chicoco Radio

149

Berlin’s Housing Activists Changing the Rules, a chat with Florian Schmidt

150

The Spanish Tenants Movement – From Resistance to Rewriting the Law - A conversation with Jaime Palomera Zaidel

151

London Calling. The New Hunger & Poverty in the UK - A Conversation with The Guardian’s Patrick Butler

152

Get Your Housing Right – A Listener’s Guide to the Right to Housing

153

Conspiracy Theories, Fake News and Facts – PUSHBACK Talks in the Post-Truth Era

154

Exiting the Domain of Money - A Conversation with Saskia Sassen

155

Fighting the Financial Lingo - A Pushback Dictionary

156

California's Rent Control Battle: Big Capital vs Tenants

157

Wake Up! How Vulture Capitalists Demolished the American Dream

158

Shift the Focus, Shoot the Messenger, Kill the Message

159

The Vulture Ate My Student Housing

160

The Golden Ticket — Citizenship for Sale

161

Gentrification – Don’t Touch My Cortado!

162

Home Sweet …. EVICTION

163

The Making of PUSH - The Filmmaker in the Hot Seat

164

Corruption: The New Normal

165

The Housing Advocate's Pandemic Prescription

166

Blackstone & Oatly: Can you sell your soul and still keep it?

167

Airbnb: Friend or Foe?

168

Why are People so Angry?

169

The Monster (in your home!)