PUSHBACK Talks
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
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 41 minutes
- Episodes
- 147
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Platform Capitalism – Air BnB’s Takeover + the Cities that Resist
Summer! Time to kick-back and get away. With holidays on the agenda, The Filmmaker and the Advocate take a deeper dive into Air BnB and the short-term rental world. Joined by Professor of Urban Studi…
Shame on Spain Making Solidarity a Crime - Putting Activists who Fight Evictions Behind Bars
On 28 June 2021, Jaime Palomera, a tenants union leader in Barcelona and two tenants were brought to trial by the Public Prosecutor and now face three years imprisonment. Their crime? Peacefully an…
The New Zealand Housing Obsession-The Speculative Market That No One Can Afford
The Filmmaker and the Advocate continue their season two Zoom tour around the world. After a brief discussion on encampment evictions carried out across the City of Toronto, the two make a stop in Ne…
Sweden in Political Turmoil - Tenant Protections Under Threat
What is wrong with Sweden? the Advocate asks the Filmmaker. The country is in political turmoil - in a fight about market rents that brought the government down this week.
The final straw that cause…
The Monster’s Grip – Amsterdam Under Siege
This week, the Filmmaker and the Advocate are in conversation with Gert Jan Bakker of WOON. Amsterdam used to have strong rent control policies that protected tenants. But a neo-liberal government c…
The Pandemic is the Cure, If You Want It - with Raquel Rolnik, Brazil
The Filmmaker & the Advocate call on an old friend in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Raquel Rolnik is a world-leading writer, academic, and head of the Design & Planning program at the University of Sao Paulo. R…
Vive La France — The Land Trusts, The Movements & The Housing Police
The Filmmaker and the Advocate are taken on a tour of exciting developments in France — community land trusts, new social housing and a newly minted housing Brigaid taking on Airbnb and landlords who…
Skid Row Pushing Back - The Dirty Divide in Los Angeles
California–known to the world as the home of Hollywood stars, relaxed beach vibes, and…the location of 25% of the homeless population in the US.
After an emotional introduction about the conflict betw…
Not Your Opportunity Zone – Fighting Disaster Capitalism in Puerto Rico
This week, Puerto Rico’s Ariadna Godreau Aubert – founder & executive director of Ayuda Legal Puerto Rico, human rights lawyer, and activist – joins the Filmmaker and the Advocate to discuss the ways…
Post Crises Croatia - Curbing Touristification and Investor Domination
A year later than originally planned, Fredrik is finally in Zagreb to screen Push the film across the country! The Filmmaker and the Advocate seize the opportunity to take the podcast on the road. In…
Winning Back Beirut - Fighting Corruption + Commodification
In the wake of the Lebanese civil war, post-war reconstruction was built around the idea that the market would fix everything. But as investors flocked into Beirut the cost of housing skyrocketed, pu…
Greece Without the Greeks - When the Vultures Grabbed Athens
After more than a decade of austerity measures, recession, and unemployment, Athens has seen a big shift in the makeup of homeownership, a shift that comes at the expense of residents and that benefi…
The Battle of Berlin - People, Courts and a Bunch of Billionaires
It was a radical experiment – impose a rent cap on apartments in Berlin so that tenants wouldn’t be priced out of the city by the big money actors moving in. It was challenged in the courts by Member…
A Clubhouse Meet Up — The Shift & Friends
It’s a family affair this week as the Filmmaker and the Advocate are joined by The Shift team and PUSHBACK Talk supporters to try out the popular new app Clubhouse. The episode exposes what it takes …
Money, Money, Money – Living in an Era of Corruption + Kleptocratic Networks, A Conversation with Sarah Chayes
The Filmmaker and the Advocate take listeners of this episode of PUSHBACK Talks into the real world – one where $$ money $$ is the principle value and corruption and kleptocracy the means of acquisit…
The Mistakes We Made - Reflections and Corrections on the Housing Crisis with Frans Timmermans, EU Executive Vice President.
Executive Vice President of the European Commission, Frans Timmermans, joins the Filmmaker and the Advocate in a frank discussion of the current housing crisis in the EU that is often overlooked and …
Build Homes on Golf Courses! Mobilizing for the Right to Live in Cape Town, South Africa
PUSH-The Film exposed the global pattern: cities have become the domain of the wealthy or at least a deposit box for their wealth – and everyday people are being pushed out. Nowhere is this more true…
Taking on Blackstone – Denmark’s Housing Minister Lays Down the Law
The Filmmaker and the Advocate bring you an exclusive conversation with Denmark’s Housing Minister – Kaare Dybvad Bek – one of the few politicians in the world to have had the courage to take on Blac…
Raw Capitalism or Fair Finance - Can Our Savings Protect Human Rights and the Planet?
Most of us put our savings in a bank. But what does the bank do with our money? What if you learned that your life savings were being invested in companies that are burning down the Amazon forest or …
Cheap debt! Low Taxes! Ireland for Sale
This week, Dublin’s Rory Hearne – author, podcaster, housing campaigner and university lecturer – joins the Filmmaker and The Advocate to explore how big capital came to dominate such a small natio…