100 Campaigns that Changed the World
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100 Campaigns that Changed the World
A podcast showcasing the best advocacy campaigns from past and present. Learning the lessons from social and political campaigns that have made an impact. A tool for campaigners and those that are interested in how change happens. Visit us at https://www.100campaigns.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast...
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3 Hijabis
The guest on this episode is Shaista Aziz, one of The Three Hijabis—a powerful anti-racism campaign that began with a viral tweet in 2021. What starte...
Making Football Safer
The guest on this episode is Dawn Astle. Dawn is the daughter of Jeff Astle, who played football for West Bromwich Albion in the 60’s and 70’s. At the...
Duncan Green
In this opening episode of Season 3 of 100 Campaigns that Changed the World, I speak with Duncan Green – one of the most respected thinkers and practi...
Live: Trust and Truth, Campaigning in the Disinformation Age
An expert panel of seasoned campaigners who have dealt with disinformation and falsehoods, our first live panel event sheds light on how campaigners c...
Kush Kanodia
Dr. Kush Kanodia is a multi-award-winning campaigner on disability rights and is Sheila Mackechnie Foundation’s Campaigner of the year. His own disabi...
Berlin Housing Campaign
The Deutsche Wohnen & Co. Enteignen movement wants the city of Berlin to transfer real estate into public ownership, expropriating the city’s large co...
The Corn Laws
The Corn Laws were a series of trade restrictions and tariffs on imported grain (wheat, oats, barley and rye – not corn) that were in effect in the UK...
Stop taxing periods. Period.
The guest on this episode is Laura Coryton, a British campaigner, feminist activist and author who started the "Stop taxing periods, period" campaign...
Dumb Animals
Lynx began their anti-fur campaign back in the mid 1980’s. By using innovative advertising and media campaigns such as the famous David Bailey ‘Dumb A...
Climate Change: Senior Swiss women vs the Government
In a really fascinating example of litigation-led campaigning, a group of senior women in Switzerland argue that - because they suffer more from frequ...
Stop Funding Hate
Stop Funding Hate is a pressure group which asks companies to stop advertising in, and therefore stop providing funds for, certain British newspapers...
Uber drivers: Yaseen Aslam
Yaseen Aslam is a great example of a 'lived experience' campaigner. He started working as a private taxi or ‘minicab’ driver in London in 2006 and mov...
WASPI Campaign
This spisode features an interview with Angela Madden, the Financer Director and Chair of WASPI - the Women Against State Pension Inequality Campaign....
Marcus Rashford Free School Meals
Marcus Rashford is a professional footballer who plays for Premier League club Manchester United and England. He has launched and been involved with q...
Infected Blood Campaign
In the 1970s and 80s, 4,689 British haemophiliacs were treated with blood products contaminated with HIV and Hepatitis C. More than half of them have...
Anti-Apartheid Movement
The British Anti-Apartheid Movement was at the centre of the international movement opposing the South African racial segregation system, Apartheid ....
Freedom Rides
Emilye Crosby, professor of history and the coordinator of Black Studies at SUNY Geneseo, and Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Associate Professor for the Histor...
Mum's for Lungs
Tackling air pollution in a city like London is a big and important job. Mum's for Lungs founder Jemima Hartshorn explains how setting up and running...
Jubilee 2000 Debt Campaign
Jubilee 2000 was an international coalition movement in over 40 countries that called for cancellation of poor country debt by the year 2000. The camp...
Together for Yes: Abortion in Ireland
Together for Yes is an abortion rights campaign group in Ireland. It campaigned successfully for a Yes vote in the 2018 referendum to remove the Eight...
Equal Marraige Campaign
This episode is on the campaign for equal marriage in the uk, sometimes referred to as gay marriage. The interviewee is Andrew Copson, Chief Executive...
Looking back and learning lessons
In this episode, long-time friend and collaborator Chris Stalker and I look back at some of the previous campaigns that the podcast has covered and tr...
End Our Cladding Scandal
The start of season 2!
I speak with Paul Afshar who is spokesperson for the campaign end our cladding scandal. The scandal in the UK started to...
Covid-19 Bereaved Familes for Justice
Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice is a campaign that has called for accountability for the UK Government Response to Covid and for the lessons to...
Better Together Campaign: Scottish IndyRef
Blair McDougall explains the success of - and the stories around - the Better Together Campaign which set out the case for staying in the UK during th...
Surfers Against Sewage
I speak to Hugo Tagholm from Surfers Against Sewage who have been campaiging UK government and water companies to end sewage pollution in rivers and t...
Stop the European Super League
Joe Blott talks about the campaign to stop the European Super League proposal, which included some of Europe's biggest clubs and collapsed within 72 h...
The Suffragettes
My guest is Helen Pankhurst, women's rights activist and great grandaughter of Emily Pankhurst, and togther we examine the Suffragette's role in the c...
Peter Tatchell
Peter has been campaigning since the 60s on issues of human rights, democracy, LGBT freedom, and global justice. From the late 70s onwards, he propose...
Windrush Campaign
The Windrush scandal erupted in 2018 when it emerged that many British people who arrived from the Carribean before 1973 were being wrongly detained,...
Close Guantánamo Bay
Clive Stafford Smith is the founder of Reprieve and the Louisiana Crisis Assistance Center and in this episode we talk about his role in the long runn...
Spycops
In November 2015 London's Metropolitan Police was forced to apologise to seven women "tricked into relationships" over a period of 25 years by officer...
The Campaign to Abolish the Slave Trade
This podcast features back to back interviews with two experts on the slave trade and the British campaign to end it: Dr Richard Huzzey, Associate Pro...
HIV Campaigning in the 2000s
in the 2000s AIDS campaigners took the issue of access to free drugs for HIV and AIDS global ... and won. With Kirsty McNeill and Simon Wright from Sa...
Kumi Naidoo
Episode 5 contains an interview with Kumi Naidoo, the South African Secretary General of Amnesty International, and well known campaigner on global po...
Ozone Layer Campaign
This interview is with Fiona Weir who is talking to me today about the Ozone layer campaign which led to phase out of most products that deplete the o...
Hillsborough Justice Campaign
This episode features Margaret Aspinall, chair of the Hillsborough Family Support Group. The Hillsborough disaster led to the campaign for justice for...
Tax Justice
The Tax Justice Network is an independent international network launched in 2003. Their mission is to ‘change the weather’ on a wide range of issues r...
Robin Hood Tax
In this pilot episode recorded last year I talk to David Hillman, who cut his campaigning teeth on the anti-Apartheid campaign before going on to work...