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PUSHBACK Talks

WG Film

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

Episodes
Summer Series: The Vulture Ate My Student HousingAugust 16, 2023
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Summer Series: Wake Up! How Vulture Capitalists Demolished the American DreamAugust 09, 2023
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Summer Series: Taking on Blackstone – Denmark’s Housing Minister Lays Down the LawAugust 02, 2023
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Summer Series: 6AM Bulldozer – Live and Direct from Nigeria with Chicoco RadioJuly 26, 2023
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Summer Series: The Art of Persuasion – Changing Hearts and Minds with Anand GiridharadasJuly 19, 2023
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Summer Series: Money, Money, Money – Living in an Era of Corruption + Kleptocratic Networks, A Conversation with Sarah ChayesJuly 12, 2023
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The Bologna Blueprint: An Inspirational Housing StrategyJuly 06, 2023
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The Automated Landlord: How Big Tech & Finance Reshape CitiesJune 21, 2023
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The Trickle Up Economy, with Oxfam America's Policy Lead on Economic JusticeMay 31, 2023
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Bulldozed Out: The People's Fight for Land and Homes in KenyaApril 21, 2023
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Journalists at Risk: Revealing the Corruption of the SuperRich with Matthew Caruana GaliziaApril 05, 2023
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Breaking Social: Building a Path from Anger to HopeMarch 21, 2023
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EARTHQUAKE in Turkiye & the Cost of CorruptionMarch 10, 2023
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Bad to Worse: The Ukraine War & Serbia's Housing CrisisFebruary 06, 2023
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London vs. 10 Downing Street: the Battle for the Right to Housing w/ London's Deputy Mayor for HousingJanuary 26, 2023
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Architects for Public GoodDecember 08, 2022
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The Art of Persuasion – Changing Hearts and Minds with Anand GiridharadasNovember 17, 2022
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The Vultures' Feast: Billionaires Devouring Mobile HomesOctober 27, 2022
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Defending Exarcheia: Athens Neighborhood Takes on the Big GunsOctober 13, 2022
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Extreme Vengeance Against the PoorSeptember 22, 2022
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The First Step: Chile's Journey to a New ConstitutionSeptember 08, 2022
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Summer Series — My Home is an Asset Class - w/ Kim Van Sparrentak, Member of European ParliamentAugust 10, 2022
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Summer Series — 'Davos Man'- The Billionaires Who Own the World - with NYT correspondent Peter S. GoodmanJuly 27, 2022
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Summer Series — Read Between the Lines - The Pandora Papers, with Anna MintonJuly 13, 2022
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Summer Series — Evergrande - Can China's Communist Party Save Capitalism?June 29, 2022
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