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Subvrt Podcast

Interviews with people who confront power, and tactics to make change happen. I only publish an episode when I have something good. Subscribe on iTunes, Google, Spotify or RSS.

e07: Hope in the dark

e07: Hope in the dark

I speak to Miguel Duarte, the migrants rights activist who helped save 14,000 people... and faced 20 years in prison for it.

e06: Disruptive protest

e06: Disruptive protest

Miriam Meyer is a young activist who gets arrested regularly, for blocking roads with the climate action group Last Generation. In this candid interview, I speak to her about the fine line between pushing your proposals, and turning the public against you.

e05: Taking the power back

e05: Taking the power back

An interview with Chris Smalls, the leader of the first successful union drive in Amazon's history. From May 2020, and very relevant today.

e04: The grassroots battle to eliminate COVID

e04: The grassroots battle to eliminate COVID

A dive into how grassroots groups are changing how we tackle COVID, with Vicky van der Togt, founder of the Zero Covid Alliance.

e03: Creative protest and how to build a movement

e03: Creative protest and how to build a movement

An inspiring, hands-on interview with the activist Radomir Lazovic, one of the founders of Don’t Let Belgrade Drown, a political movement that’s making big waves (!) in Serbia.

e02: Exposing the far-right

e02: Exposing the far-right

What do you do, when your country is holding the biggest trial of a Nazi party since Nuremberg, and the media can’t be trusted to cover it properly? I speak to Antonis Bougias of the Golden Dawn Watch grassroots journalism project in Greece, to find out.

e01: The state of digital activism

e01: The state of digital activism

A debate with news curator Asteris Masouras on what online activism today is getting right – and how it could improve.

I’m Mehran Khalili, a political consultant and photographer based in Athens. Get Subvrt — strategy and tactics for movements.