#debtresistance

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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.

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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!