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Braxton Brewington is the Press Secretary of the Debt Collective. We discuss the origins of the Debt Collective in the Rolling Jubilee and its history in canceling student debt. Their example is a powerful model for canceling student debt, which continues to be important for all Americans in this election cycle and beyond.Education is a public good, yet the cost of college over the past couple of decades has risen eight times faster than the average wages. The average student debt is $30,000-$35,000. Two thirds of student debt is owed by women, and a large number of student loan borrowers don't have a college degree. This means that they are paying down student debt on non-college degree wages. The Debt Collective started out as the Rolling Jubilee, which canceled tens of millions of dollars of debt and gave instant relief to borrowers. Canceling student debt creates millions of jobs, boosts the economy, and advances racial and gender justice. Although the Biden administration has canceled billions in student debt, it is only making a small dent in over $1.7 trillion worth of student loans. Follow Ken on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Team_HarbaughFollow Mila on Twitter: https://twitter.com/milaatmosAdditional InformationThe Democracy Group listener surveyFuture Hindsight PodcastMore shows from The Democracy Group

Braxton Brewington is the Press Secretary of the Debt Collective. We discuss the origins of the Debt Collective in the Rolling Jubilee and its history in canceling student debt. Their example is a powerful model for canceling student debt, which continues to be important for all Americans in this election cycle and beyond.   Education is a public good, yet the cost of college over the past couple of decades has risen eight times faster than the average wages. The average student debt is $30,000-$35,000. Two thirds of student debt is owed by women, and a large number of student loan borrowers don't have a college degree. This means that they are paying down student debt on non-college degree wages. The Debt Collective started out as the Rolling Jubilee, which canceled tens of millions of dollars of debt and gave instant relief to borrowers. Canceling student debt creates millions of jobs, boosts the economy, and advances racial and gender justice. Although the Biden administration has canceled billions in student debt, it is only making a small dent in over $1.7 trillion worth of student loans.    Follow Braxton on Twitter:  https://twitter.com/braxtonbrew96    Follow Mila on Twitter:  https://twitter.com/milaatmos    Follow Future Hindsight on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/futurehindsightpod/   Sponsor:  Thanks to Shopify for supporting Future Hindsight! Sign up for a $1/month trial at shopify.com/hopeful.   Love Future Hindsight? Take our Listener Survey!  http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=6tI0Zi1e78vq&ver=standard    Take the Democracy Group's Listener Survey! https://www.democracygroup.org/survey   Want to support the show and get it early?  https://patreon.com/futurehindsight    Check out the Future Hindsight website!  www.futurehindsight.com   Read the transcript here:   https://www.futurehindsight.com/episodes/cancel-student-debt-braxton-brewington      Credits:  Host: Mila Atmos  Guests: Braxton Brewington Executive Producer: Mila Atmos Producer: Zack Travis

Shanna speaks with Debt Collective members Thomas Gokey (Debt Collective Co-Founder), Dr. Shamell Bell (Harvard lecturer) and Braxton Brewington (Debt Collective Press Secretary) about their foundational belief in the Rolling Jubilee. The group shares their work with Bennett College to abolish $1.7M in student debt.  References Rolling Jubilee Is a Spark—Not the Solution Why income caps for student loan forgiveness would be a disaster Braxton Brewington on Twitter Braxton Brewington on LinkedIn Dr. Shamell Bell on Instagram Dr. Shamell Bell, Dartmouth Lecturer

Astra Taylor is an artist, activist, and founder of the Rolling Jubilee and the Debt Collective. Her latest book is Remake the World: Essays, Reflections, Rebellions.

Cold open: What is Democracy? Outro: Jeff Mangum and Guy Picciotto at the Rolling Jubilee telethon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztyj7kE9tNc Extremely excited to be joined by Astra Taylor – acclaimed author, activist, filmmaker, and dream TMK guest – for a wide-ranging discussion about engaging with big important things like democracy, debt, and technology, about putting politics into practice to improve people’s lives, about paying close attention to not just the operators of the machine, but those who are thrown into its gears, and about so much! Grab Astra’s latest book: haymarketbooks.org/books/1635-remake-the-world Follow Astra: twitter.com/astradisastra Subscribe to hear more analysis and commentary in our premium episodes every week! patreon.com/thismachinekills TMK shirts are now available: bonfire.com/store/this-machine-kills-podcast/ Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (twitter.com/jathansadowski) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (twitter.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (twitter.com/braunestahl)

We’re especially excited to be sharing our conversation with Professor Andrew Ross. Specialising in Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, Ross wrote the movement literature text ‘Creditocracy: and the Case for Debt Refusal’ which provided the main inspiration behind our feature length documentary, ‘Bank Job’ (currently in production). As a university professor, Ross was unsettled by the reality that the vast majority of students were reliant on credit to access higher education. This sparked his involvement as one of the founding members of Occupy Student Debt, the Strike Debt movement and the Rolling Jubilee campaign. The fundamental goal behind these educational movements (and this interview!) is to alter the psychology of the debtor; undoing the guilt and shame that surrounds indebtedness by elucidating the workings of the debt industries. SUBSCRIBE for more conversations with leading thinkers striving for economic change. For a more thorough insight into Ross’ instrumental ideas, here’s a link to ‘Creditocracy’: https://amzn.to/2PR4GIy And here’s the FREE Strike Debt’s Debtors’ Resistance Manual: https://strikedebt.org/The-Debt-Resistors-Operations-Manual.pdf  

Hello! Households in the UK have a combined £1.6 trillion of personal debt and this is growing. What impact does this debt have and what we should we do about it? We talk to filmmaker Dan Edelstyn, creator of the ‘Bank Job’ - a film/art project to write off local community debt in Walthamstow. Laura Hanna explains the ‘Rolling Jubilee’ campaign in the US and what they’re now doing to mobilise those in debt. Then Johnna Montgomerie, author of ‘Should We Abolish Household Debt?’, discusses her ambitious proposal for government to cancel and write down billions of pounds of harmful debt. AND Comedian and Children's Author Olaf Falafel retrains annoying animals, demands free biscuits, feeds his neighbours and votes in a Child PM See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Everyone thought it was the pits that banks were bailed out by taxpayers in 2008 while those same people weren't given any relief by the banks. So some Occupy Wall Street members did something about it. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

Everyone thought it was the pits that banks were bailed out by taxpayers in 2008 while those same people weren't given any relief by the banks. So some Occupy Wall Street members did something about it. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

This week, a special holiday episode featuring conversations with Astra Taylor and Thomas Gokey of the Debt Collective plus worker cooperative organizer Esteban Kelly. We launched Team Human a little less than a year ago with little fanfare or promotion. Steadily we’ve assembled a formidable team of listeners via word of mouth, retweets, and person-to-person conversation. We’d like to take this week to introduce our more recent listeners to two conversations that set the tone for Team Human. Today’s show begins by going all the way back to very first Team Human interview with Astra Taylor and Thomas Gokey, co-founders of Strike Debt, Rolling Jubilee and most recently the Debt Collective. The Debt Collective is a direct action campaign that leverages the collective power of debtors, united together, against exploitative for-profit education and lending institutions in the US. Astra and Thomas give Team Human listeners a template for hacking real world systems and tapping into the power of solidarity. Join the collective at debtcollective.org. In the second half of today’s show, we revisit a conversation with executive director of the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives, Esteban Kelly. Kelly offers Team Human a unique vision of solidarity that begins in the place where we spend 40 (or more) hours a week… the workplace. We’ll learn how democratic workplaces and cooperative ownership foster the conditions for openness, inclusion, and ultimately, economic justice. Learn more about our first episode with Astra and Thomas here and episode #4 with Esteban here. Music in this episode: Fugazi : Foreman's Dog Mike Watt: beak-holding-letter-man , R.U. Sirius: President Mussolini Makes The Planes Run On Time, plus a Team Human original in the outro. Team Human is entirely supported by listeners. Click Support to donate. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, we're hosting an Occupy Anniversary Special, bringing on guests Lee Camp of Redacted Tonight, Jerry Ashton of Rolling Jubilee and RIP Medical Debt, and Sue Sierralupe of Occupy Medical to discuss what has happened "because of Occupy". Joining us for the conversation is Occupy Radio cohost David Geitgey Sierralupe. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guests: Comedian and commentator Lee Camp is the host of Redacted Tonight, which airs weekly on RT America. His stand-up comedy has been featured on Comedy Central, ABC’s Good Morning America, MTV, and has headlined more than 500 college and university shows. He was asked, before Occupy, to send out a message calling people to protest and rise up against inequality, and continues to do so to this day. http://leecamp.net/about/ Debt Collector Jerry Ashton is the executive vice president and cofounder of RIP Medical Debt and a participant in the Rolling Jubilee working group during Occupy Wall St. He is the co-author of "The Patient, The Doctor and The Bill Collector", and has been blogging about debt, inequality, and the Occupy movement on Huffington Post and debt industry journals. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/jerry-ashton Sue Sierralupe is the cofounder and clinic manager of Occupy Medical in Eugene, an on-going free weekly medical clinic providing direct experience of the single-payer universal healthcare model in the streets. She is the author of ten books, and the cohost of Real Herbalism Radio show. She blogs at ThePracticalHerbalist.com http://www.thepracticalherbalist.com/ Guest Host David Geitgey Sierralupe is the cofounder of Occupy Radio, which he previously hosted along with Rivera Sun. He is a media activist, a father, and the husband of Sue Sierralupe. His next project, Irresistible Fiction, is in development and soon to launch. Related Links: S17 Occupy 5th Anniversary Commemoration http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/occupy-wall-streets-fifth-anniversary/ Lee Camp http://leecamp.net Redacted Tonight https://www.youtube.com/user/redactedtonight Oligarchy Study https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf Rich People Rule: Struggle Lies Ahead by Rivera Sun (article about Oligarchy Study) http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/23473-rich-people-rule-struggle-lies-ahead Clean Money Candidates http://www.cleanmoneycandidates.org/ RIP Medical Debt https://www.ripmedicaldebt.org/ Rolling Jubilee http://rollingjubilee.org/ Strike Debt http://strikedebt.org/ Debt Collective https://debtcollective.org/ The Patient, The Doctor, and the Bill Collector by Jerry Ashton and Robert E. Goff http://nomoremedicaldebt.com/ Occupy Medical http://occupy-medical.org/ The Practical Herbalist http://www.thepracticalherbalist.com/ Real Herbalism Radio http://www.thepracticalherbalist.com/podcasts/ Occupy Love by Filmmaker Velcrow Ripper http://occupylove.org/ Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radio and this week's featured music is "Shall We Rise - Occupy!" by Diane Patterson on her Build a Bridge CD. www.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit: https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance. http://www.riverasun.com/

Joining team human are debt resisters Astra Taylor and Thomas Gokey. Astra Taylor is a filmmaker, writer, activist, and musician. Her films include the documentaries Zizek! and the Examined Life. Taylor’s recent book The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age takes a hard look at the persisting and embedded inequalities in today’s digital media landscape. Thomas Gokey is a visual artist, adjunct professor at Syracuse University, and activist. Gokey’s piece entitled, Total Amount of Money Rendered in Exchange for a Masters of Fine Arts Degree to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Pulped into Four Sheets of Paper reimagined his own student debt as art. Both Thomas Gokey and Astra Taylor seized the momentum of Occupy Wall Street to help launch a direct action campaign of debt resistance. Working through the collective force of Strike Debt, Rolling Jubilee, and the Debt Collective, Gokey and Taylor are fighting back against the economic injustice of debt in America.Visit our resources page to learn more about debt, to connect with a network of support, and learn ways to resist the oppressive systems of debt in our society. Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Joining team human are debt resisters Astra Taylor and Thomas Gokey. Astra Taylor is a filmmaker, writer, activist, and musician. Her films include the documentaries Zizek! and the Examined Life. Taylor’s recent book The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age takes a hard look at the persisting and embedded inequalities in today’s digital media landscape. Thomas Gokey is a visual artist, adjunct professor at Syracuse University, and activist. Gokey’s piece entitled, Total Amount of Money Rendered in Exchange for a Masters of Fine Arts Degree to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Pulped into Four Sheets of Paper reimagined his own student debt as art. Both Thomas Gokey and Astra Taylor seized the momentum of Occupy Wall Street to help launch a direct action campaign of debt resistance. Working through the collective force of Strike Debt, Rolling Jubilee, and the Debt Collective, Gokey and Taylor are fighting back against the economic injustice of debt in America.Visit our resources page to learn more about debt, to connect with a network of support, and learn ways to resist the oppressive systems of debt in our society. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Occupy Radio: Remembering Our Favorite Guests This is the end of a nearly four year run of Occupy Radio, Occupiers, and this week, Rivera and I are looking back at some of the best shows from our two years of sharing the mic. Oligarchy, wealth, and debt, Basic Income, and constructive programme. A residents bill of rights, our favorite Marxist, Richard Wolff, and some fun with one half of the Yes Men. You should find something to spark your interest on this week’s Occupy Radio. Music: Calliope Dreams Oligarchy: Jeffrey Winters Dr. Jeffrey Winters, NorthWestern University Professor (also Director, Equality Development and Globalization Studies [EDGS] Program) Democracy and Oilgarchy Supreme Court protects wealth The Wealth primary removes the vote from people without wealth America’s Wealth Power Index Dr. Jeffrey Winters, Northwestern University http://www.polisci.northwestern.edu/people/core-faculty/jeffrey-winters.html Excellent article describing America's dual democracy/oligarchy http://www.the-american-interest.com/articles/2011/09/28/oligarchy-and-democracy/ Oligarchy, textbook written by Jeffrey Winters http://www.amazon.com/Oligarchy-Jeffrey-A-Winters/dp/0521182980   Santa Fe Residents’ Bill of Rights w/ Tomas Rivera of the Chainbreaker Collective Chainbreaker Collective: http://chainbreaker.org/rbor/ https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1503657019886219.1073741829.1503649673220287& http://chainbreaker.org/chainbreaker-members-launch-residents-bill-of-rights-campaign/ http://chainbreaker.org/city-council-to-vote-on-bill-of-rights-resolution-this-wednesday/ City of Santa Fe Residents Bill of Rights (pdf) http://www.santafenm.gov/media/archive_center/2r___207.pdf Santa Fe Resident's Bill of Rights Launch (facebook photo album) https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1503657019886219.1073741829.1503649673220287&   Constructive Program w/ Michael Nagler and Stephanie Van Hook of the Metta Center for Nonviolence. The Metta Center for Nonviolence http://mettacenter.org/   Strike Debt Filmmaker, organizer with the debt collective Debt Collective Collective Strategy Free education is not a utopian concept, the US is relatively unusual for not having it How Far to free How to join the debt collective Corinthian Case Aggressive tactics Hollie Chaffee: One of the original Corinthian Fifteen Rolling Jubilee:  http://rollingjubilee.org/ https://debtcollective.org/ Strike Debt:  http://strikedebt.org/ Hidden Driver, Laura Hanna's site:  http://www.hiddendriver.com/ Project on Student Debt: http://projectonstudentdebt.org/  State by State Data:  http://projectonstudentdebt.org/state_by_state-data.php   Chuck Collins Chuck Collins is a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) and directs IPS's Program on Inequality and the Common Good. He is the author of 99 to 1, and numerous other books and essays. Billionaire Bonanza: The Forbes 400 and the Rest of Us http://www.ips-dc.org/billionaire-bonanza/ Chuck Collins: Have we hit peak wealth inequality? http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/12/02/have-we-hit-peak-wealth-inequality Chuck Collins at Institute for Policy Studies http://www.ips-dc.org/authors/chuck-collins/ Music: Beirut Surveillance Scott Santens Writer, Basic Income advocate Moderator Basic income Subreddit Defining Universal Basic Income How to Pay for UBI This is a breakdown of UBI vs NIT. http://www.scottsantens.com/negative-income-tax-nit-and-unconditional-basic-income-ubi-what-makes-them-the-same-and-what-makes-them-different   Richard Wolff Host of the radio podcast, Economic Update http://rdwolff.com/ Democracy at Work http://www.democracyatwork.info/ Richard's Radio show: Economic Update http://www.democracyatwork.info/radio/ Economic Update's youtube channel:   https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgaRiRDqE4wSolPkQ7k4FgQ "Socialism and Workers' Self-Directed Enterprises"http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2014/wolff140914.html   Uberally Mike Bonanno of the Yes! Men. The Yes Men: http://theyesmen.org/ The Yes Men's latest hijinks: http://theyesmen.org/hijinks The Action Switchboard: https://actionswitchboard.net/   Music: Turtle Neck Tea Party  

In this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin reports on how LAPD officers charged with guarding schools are being outfitted with military-grade equipment including grenade launchers, automatic weapons and armored vehicles. Abby also talks about the 3rd anniversary of Occupy Wall St., speaking with Dennis Trainor Jr. producer and host of AcronymTV.com about the many projects and offshoot groups that sprouted from the original movement in New York. Abby then goes over the success that Occupy Wall Street debt relief initiatives like the ‘Rolling Jubilee’ and ‘Strike Debt’ have had in abolishing millions of dollars’ worth of medical and student loan debt for thousands of Americans. Abby reports on the case of Mohammed Abu Kheidr, who was burned alive by a group of Israeli settlers in a revenge killing for the deaths of three Israeli teenagers, speaking with family members of the victim including his 15 year old cousin, Tarek Abu Kheidr, who was arrested and beaten by Israeli police after attending a protest seeking justice for the death of his cousin.  Breaking The Set 9-19-2014Get Breaking The Set Delivered to Your Email!Enter your email address:Delivered by FeedBurnerThis content was provided by http://rt.com/shows/breaking-the-set/LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSetFOLLOW Manuel Rapalo @ http://twitter.com/Manuel_RapaloFOLLOW Abby Martin @ http://twitter.com/AbbyMartin

In this episode, Mark talks with Thomas Gokey. Thomas, a Syracuse University art professor, is a part of Strike Debt. Strike Debt is a nationwide movement of debt resistors fighting for economic justice and democratic freedom. A little over a year ago, Strike Debt announced Rolling Jubilee. Rolling Jubilee is a Strike Debt project that buys debt for pennies on the dollar, but instead of collecting it, abolishes it. They are trying to spark a movement that imagines and creates a new world based on the common good, not Wall Street profits.

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UP 1. Eureka Season 5 debuts on Netflix. Lululemon has a "Sheerness Issue". Is the USPS discriminating against Atheist packaging? Senator Sanders proposes breaking up the big Banks. "Under The Dome" coming to CBS. Apple rumors and patent filings. Flipboard 2.0, pro and con. And...Occupy Wall Street offshoot, Strike Debt, has abolished $1.1 million in medical debt for more than 1,000 people through their Rolling Jubilee project. The protest group did this by buying emergency room debts for pennies on the dollar and then simply forgiving them rather than trying to collect the money.

The Occupy movement in NYC has two fascinating off shoots that we take a look at today.  The first is Rolling Jubilee and The Debt Resistors Operation Manual.  Actual financial help for those in need!  The second is the OWS response to Superstorm Sandy, Occupy Sandy, and how organizers are being more effective in their own neighborhood than the Red Cross could ever hope to be.  The show ends with an audio clip from Naomi Klein discussing how Occupy Sandy relates to her ideas on disaster capitalism. [Click to Listen]

Guest speaker: Charles Shaw Watch a video of this talk PROGRAM NOTES: [NOTE: All quotations are by Charles Shaw.] “Having a felony conviction, and having a drug conviction, essentially makes you a second class citizen.” “For the lower classes, the poorer classes, which generally in this country are people of color, drug laws have always been used as a way to control them.” “And if you take away the distinction between tobacco and alcohol and cannabis and cocaine or alkaloids or whatever, what you've got is a war against altering consciousness.” “But what they're trying to stop more than anything is ideas. Because what it is is a war of ideas. And it is a war of control, a breaking away from an external control factor, like a government, or a religion, or an ideology, or an economy that enslaves you, and thinking outside the box in revolutionary terms to try to solve it.” “It's no secret that psychedelics change consciousness. It's no secret that they're revolutionary. I mean, we've known this for a while. What is absolutely fascinating to me is how easily that culture was dismissed.” “The true revolutionary leaders, I think, are going to be the ones who figure out how to not go in the street and how to disseminate the revolution by other means.” “I also think that the real revolution is going to come from women, personally. I think enough guys have tried to lead the revolution, and it's always the same thing because men have the same intentions, we always enter into a war paradigm. And we've gotta stop that war paradigm, and at least the feminine will allow us to get out of that war paradigm and get into something that is a collaborative negotiation of disputes and grievances. But I don't know what's that going to look like.” Download MP3 PCs – Right click, select option Macs – Ctrl-Click, select option Charles Shaw "Living in the Exile Nation" - Burning Man 2012 from Palenque Norte on Vimeo. Charles Shaw's Exile Nation Project "Exile Nation: Drugs, Prisons, Politics, and Spirituality" by Charles Shaw "The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade" by Alfred W. McCoy Rolling Jubilee Banks sell debt for pennies on the dollar on a shadowy speculative market of debt buyers who then turn around and try to collect the full amount from debtors. The Rolling Jubilee intervenes by buying debt, keeping it out of the hands of collectors, and then abolishing it. We're going into this market not to make a profit but to help each other out and highlight how the predatory debt system affects our families and communities. Think of it as a bailout of the 99% by the 99%.