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life changing. What an incredible couple of days with #DebtCollective, I freakin love you all so much.
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Organizers’ Meeting, Saturday, March 19
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. at Oscar Grant Plaza (formally Frank Ogawa Plaza) in front of Oakland City Hall, 14th and Broadway, Oakland, CA
If you want to come early and meet one or two of us before the formal meeting starts, email us at [email protected] .
We are building a debt resistance movement. We believe that most individual debt is illegitimate and unjust. Most of us fall into debt because we are increasingly deprived of the means to acquire the basic necessities of life: health care, education, and housing. Because we are forced to go into debt simply in order to live, we think it is right and moral to resist it. Come get connected with SDBA’s many projects!
student debt resistance, working with the Debt Collective
helping out America’s only non-profit check-cashing organization and fighting against usurious for-profit pay-day lenders and their ilk
exploring and fighting for basic income
Working on debarring US banks that have been convicted of felonies from municipal contracts with the City of Oakland and elsewhere
Fighting JP Morgan Chase, banker for the City of Oakland, to make it keep its promises to the city
organizing for public banking and postal banking
fighting modern day debtors’ prisons and exploitive ticketing and fining schemes
and much more! Bring your own debt-related project!
Upcoming Events!
Berkeley Post Office Defenders General Assembly
Monday, May 18
6:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Downtown Berkeley Post Office steps 2000 Allston Way Berkeley, CA 94704 USA
Come learn about continuing developments in the battle save the Berkeley Post Office and the Postal Service from privatization, support our Occupiers and help us plan our next steps in opposition to the theft of our public commons.
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Strike Debt Bay Area Organizers Meeting
Saturday, June 13
4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Oscar Grant Plaza (formally Frank Ogawa Plaza)
14th and Broadway, Oakland, CA (in front of City Hall)
Come and help us draw awareness to and fight unjust debt! Come get connected with SDBA’s many projects!
student debt resistance
organizing for public banking.
advocating for Postal banking.
ongoing study group
helping out America’s only non-profit check-cashing organization and fighting against usurious for-profit pay-day lenders and their ilk
our famous Strike Debt radio program
reviewing our recent Debtors’ Assembly and preparing for the next one at the US Social Forum in San Jose
Our presentation on money and debt at the US Social Forum
saving the Berkeley Post Office and stopping the Staples non-union takeover of good Post Office jobs
and much more!
Also check out our twitter feed and our Facebook page.
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TIL: There's a company that takes donations to purchase student loans at pennies on the dollar just to wipe them out and has wiped $32m to date.
We have always said that Rolling Jubilee is not a solution to the debt crisis. We will continue using the funds collected by Rolling Jubilee to conduct debt purchases that highlight different aspects of the debt system. But as of December 31st, 2013, we have...
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The Corinthian 15 Are On Strike!
To the Department of Education,
To the Genesis Lending Company, To Corinthian and ECMC,
We have one thing to say
WE OWE YOU NOTHING
Corinthian College, a for-profit degree mill, went bankrupt, leaving its students high and dry, but with lots of student debt! And students can't go bankrupt to get out of their debt. So our allies at
The Debt Collective are supporting 15 students who refuse to pay. And so are we. The response has been amazing: positive press reports have appeared everywhere from The New Yorker to Newsweek. The country is ready to say no to unjust debt.
If you owe the bank a thousand dollars, the bank owns you.
If you owe the bank a trillion dollars, you own the bank.
Together, we own the bank.
Ideas Into Action: Strike Debt Bay Area meeting, 3/7/15, 4pm
Note: If you initially saw the 3/8/15 date, that was an error. Saturday, March 7, is the correct date. Thanks for your patience!
On the steps of the Oakland City Hall, 14th and Broadway, west side of Oscar Grant Plaza.
The fight to draw awareness to, and to resist, unjust debt has gotten a lot more exciting now that our allies at <a href=debtcollective.org>The Debt Collective</a> have launched a student debt strike against bankrupt Everest College.
So this is a great time to join one of our many active projects:
continuing to halt the sale of the Berkeley Post Office, which we have now successfully delayed for well over a year
supporting the Everest/Corinthian debt strike, and encouraging more debt strikes around the country
expanding non-profit check-cashing from a single location in Oakland
connecting the dots between economic oppression and the murder of young black people by the police
organizing for public banking in Oakland, and for postal banking nationwide
ongoing study group
exploring worker-patient cooperative efforts to save Doctors Hospital in Pinole
and much more!
#debtcollective
The Debt Collective
Strike Debt, a movement born out of Occupy Wall Street, has cancelled $15,000,000 in medical debt and nearly $4,000,000 in student debt. These debts can be bought up for pennies on the dollar (the real value of the debt). But this is just the beginning.
"It would cost less to make public universities and community colleges tuition-free than it does to finance the current debt-financed system of higher education."
For more information and to help go to:
https://debtcollective.org/