Uploaded August 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Presented by Maria del Mar Rosa Rodriguez on 7/26/23 for Debt Collective's Jubilee School, part of our Rethinking and Reinventing Higher Education Series
In 2016, PROMESA law was signed by President Obama to restructure Puerto Rico’s debt. A Federal Oversight Management Board (FOMB) of unelected Wall Street bankers was imposed to control all finances on the islands and renegotiate the debt. Austerity, privatization, hurricanes, earthquakes and a pandemic added to the Puerto Rican crisis. The University of Puerto Rico, as a social project and also as a site of political resistance, has been one of the main targets of the FOMB who has insisted on dismantling it and cutting its budget in half. We will explore the intersectionality between colonialism, debt and the neoliberal education agenda in Puerto Rico and the strategies of resistance from within and beyond the University of Puerto Rico.
More Info on our political education project Jubilee School: debtcollective.org/what-we-do/jubilee-school
Sign up for upcoming courses here: debtcollective.org/what-we-do/jubilee-school/courses
Presented by Maria del Mar Rosa Rodriguez on 7/26/23 for Debt Collective's Jubilee School, part of our Rethinking and Reinventing Higher Education Series
In 2016, PROMESA law was signed by President Obama to restructure Puerto Rico’s debt. A Federal Oversight Management Board (FOMB) of unelected Wall Street bankers was imposed to control all finances on the islands and renegotiate the debt. Austerity, privatization, hurricanes, earthquakes and a pandemic added to the Puerto Rican crisis. The University of Puerto Rico, as a social project and also as a site of political resistance, has been one of the main targets of the FOMB who has insisted on dismantling it and cutting its budget in half. We will explore the intersectionality between colonialism, debt and the neoliberal education agenda in Puerto Rico and the strategies of resistance from within and beyond the University of Puerto Rico.
More Info on our political education project Jubilee School: debtcollective.org/what-we-do/jubilee-school
Sign up for upcoming courses here: debtcollective.org/what-we-do/jubilee-school/courses
