Making Revolution Irresistible with Maddy Clifford Debt Collective 2025-10-20 | Welcome to Jubilee School! From political repression to crushing debt, our right to learn is under attack! So we at Debt Collective are - once again - taking learning into our own hands. Join us!In this particular session, Maddy Clifford talks story telling, narrative change under authoritarianism and strategies for incorporating the arts into your organizing process. What stuck out to you? Was anything surprising? How are you embracing creativity in your organizing spaces?Register to engage with the next sessions and to ask questions of facilitators LIVE: BIT.LY/JUBILEESCHOOL2025#DebtCollective #Jubilee #arts
Abolish Corporate Landlords! Build Tenant Power! Debt Collective 2025-10-02 | Welcome to Debt Collective's historic rent debt STRIKE LAUNCH!Corporate landlords across the country are piling on junk fees, evicting Black tenants at disproportionate rates, and saddling tenants with back rent debt - all to extract record profits from their shareholders. Tenants and debtors have had ENOUGH! Watch our launch and learn more by visiting REPORTMYLANDLORD.ORG.#debtcollective #housingcrisis #corporatelandlords
Back to School Finance Training Debt Collective 2025-09-10 | So many educational justice problems come down to money. Why is the district closing schools? Firing teachers and paras and staff? Shuttering programs? Budget shortfalls, fiscal crises, and sky-is-falling updates from the board, superintendent, and business office. But how do we know what’s really going on? There are always hidden stories and possibilities buried in the numbers. From debt service to reserve funds to pension contributions, the truth about the money is there in public documents but the public rarely gets an opportunity to figure out what it all means.That’s what this training is all about: how to find and interpret the documents communities, movements, and unions need to understand the real financial situation of their schools and craft campaigns to change those situations. We invite parents, students, teachers, staff, organizers, community members, taxpayers, and even administrative officials curious about how to transform seemingly unchangeable fiscal realities. We’ll provide concrete tools to access and make meaning of audited financial statements, bond statements, and more. We’ll also present a framework for thinking about healthy school finance in the face of toxic financial practices used today.Facilitated by: David Backer & Jason WozniakRecorded September 5th, 2025More Info on our political education project Jubilee School: debtcollective.org/what-we-do/jubilee-schoolSign up for upcoming courses here: debtcollective.org/what-we-do/jubilee-school/courses
Defend the University: Lessons from Brazil & Argentina on Resisting Fascist Attacks on Higher Ed Debt Collective 2025-06-03 | Universities in the United States are under conservative and neoliberal attack. The Trump administration has promised to intensify the assault on higher education. In this Jubilee School discussion, leading Argentine and Brazilian scholar-activists that have fought to defend their public universities from the Milei and Bolsonaro regimes will share lessons on how to defend higher education against fascist attacks.Speakers:Lucí Cavallero: Dr. Social Sciences/University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Militant FeministJane Barros Almeida: Sociologist/Professor Social Sciences and Education Department, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Anti-racist and Socialist Activist#jubileeschool #debtcollective #highereducation
Care Not Criminalization Debt Collective 2025-04-16 | As ICE raids tear families apart and we face an escalating, carceral state criminalizing the most marginalized people in our country, we must increasingly champion the abolitionist principles brought to the national stage by the Black Lives Matter movement and stand in solidarity with those at highest risk of being criminalized. This is of particular importance in healthcare settings, where clinicians have taken an oath to do no harm to their patients, yet are forced to interface with police and increasingly ICE in their day-to-day work. How can healthcare workers uphold their oath to do no harm in this increasingly hostile environment? How can healthcare workers themselves stay safe as medical procedures and disciplines are being criminalized? Is the law the moral code we think it is or do we have values and principles to uphold that extend beyond the limits of the law?On Wednesday, April 9th at 8pm ET/ 5pm PT we came together for the teach-in, Care, not Criminalization. We heard from our very own Debt Collective organizer on the carceral system and carceral debt, a lawyer from the Immigrant Legal Resource Center on our legal rights and her work in Texas, an inpatient psychiatrist on her perspectives of the daily challenges in frontline clinical care, and an Interrupting Criminalization fellow on frameworks and resources available to support healthcare workers as they navigate this difficult terrain.We programed this event with the hope of supporting both patients and clinicians in fighting for a world where providing and accessing healthcare is just that – the simple act of giving and receiving care, unencumbered by carceral, racist, and commercial forces.
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Biden: Eliminate Student Debt for Defrauded Borrowers Debt Collective 2024-12-05 | Turn your videos into live streams with restream.io
Jubilee School: Fund Healthcare, Not Genocide with Healthcare Workers for Palestine Debt Collective 2024-11-27 | Our healthcare system is killing us. Millions in the U.S. are in medical debt and thousands die each year from lack of access to healthcare, insured or not. The financialization and bloated admin costs of the medical industrial complex mean we all pay more while the quality of care declines and healthcare working conditions worsen. Yet nothing seems to change.Meanwhile, the U.S. sends billions of dollars a year to Israel for tools of death and destruction. And for over a year now, we have watched as those weapons have been used to carry out a genocide on the Palestinian people and an all-out attack on the healthcare system in Gaza and the Occupied Territories.These things are all interconnected.This Jubilee School event with Healthcare Workers For Palestine was recorded on November 20, 2024, with discussion about the state of the health systems here and in Palestine, healthcare workers’ personal experiences, and the ways that these systems are tied to each other and how we can fight for liberation from the powers that facilitate violence both at home and abroad.More Info on our political education project Jubilee School: debtcollective.org/what-we-do/jubilee-schoolSign up for upcoming courses here: debtcollective.org/what-we-do/jubilee-school/courses
Last 50 Days Debt Collective 2024-11-21 | Debt Collective Launches Its "Last 50 Days" Campaign Pressuring the Biden-Harris Administration to Cancel Student Debt for Older Student Debtors.
ST. PAUL Student Loan Borrowers Press Conference Debt Collective 2024-10-25 | ST. PAUL Student Loan Borrowers Press Conference
Discharge Our Debts Before We Die Debt Collective 2024-09-13 | Turn your videos into live streams with Restream https://restre.am/ANImWe're live outside the White House calling for action to discharge debt for older Americans
Debt Collective 50 Over 50 Debtors Announce First Older Debtors Action in Washington, D.C. Debt Collective 2024-09-09 | The Debt Collective is the nation's first union of debtors.
Cliffs and Crises: Jubilee School on How to Understand and Fight Post-Covid School Budget Struggles Debt Collective 2024-08-08 | Around the country, school districts are facing budget crises. As K-12 Covid funding runs out, teachers, students, and communities find their district leadership cutting programs, firing them or their colleagues, and even closing schools. Local journalists, if they cover these stories, merely take notes on what district leadership says, taking it as the simple truth. But is it? What’s really going on in our school districts across the country? When we view these crises from the perspective of public schools’ debt—bond debt, pension debt, or what happens when federal relief funds disappear for example—we get a very different picture, one that can become a counter-narrative to district leaders’ positions. Austerity narratives rule the day and are imposed as the only way to see the situation. Teachers and staff and community members, students and parents, end up feeling angry, afraid, and confused. But it doesn’t have to be that way. In this workshop, Debt Collective organizers and writer Nora de La Cour (Jacobin) will provide analysis, resources, and tools to (1) understand the current landscape of crisis in United States school districts and then (2) organize to not only protect our public schools, but make them even more public. We will look at specific districts, invite participants to analyze their own districts, craft their own counter-narratives, and think about organizing possibilities.Guest Speakers: Nora de la Cour, writes on education for Jacobin and has worked in public schools in various roles.David I Backer, is a Professor at West Chester University and author of the forthcoming, As Public as Possible: Radical Finance for America’s Schools(The New Press).Jason Thomas Wozniak, is a Professor at West Chester University, organizer with Debt Collective, and co-author of the forthcoming, Lend and Rule: Fighting the Shadow Financialization of Public Universities (Common Notions Press)
Breaking the Chains of Debt and Contingent Labor 7/31/2024 Debt Collective 2024-08-07 | On July 31 we hosted a deep dive discussion into two related crises facing higher ed workers and students alike: debt and labor contingency. Often presented as both institutionally inevitable and as individually shameful, spiraling debt and rising labor precarity are in fact insidious products of policy decisions, and together they are eroding the conditions that make genuine higher education possible. Yet these widely shared and intersecting chains of debt and labor contingency also have the potential to bring us together: as faculty, students, and workers, in new ways.How can we grasp the systems of debt and labor precarity that bind today’s academy in a way that can allow us to unleash potential for liberatory education, in the classroom and beyond? And how can our unions and pedagogical strategies help create alliances between students, faculty, and other campus workers—not by shamefully avoiding talk of our “delinquent” debt or “adjunct” status, but by placing them front and center?”Speakers: Joe Ramsey, Chair of Contingency Task Force, Higher Education Labor United and Faculty at UMASS, Boston; Jeri O’Bryan-Losee, United University Professions (SUNY)Facilitated by Jason Wozniak, Debt CollectiveCo-Sponsored by Higher Education Labor United
What does University of the Arts Owe and to Whom? 6/10/2024 Debt Collective 2024-06-11 | A teach-in on the financial, moral, and educational obligations of a shuttered universityDuring this teach-in members of Debt Collective and authors of Lend and Rule will examine the debt realities of University of the Arts (Philadelphia), and engage in dialogue with participants about what the university owes, or doesn’t, to students, faculty, staff, community members, and creditors.This Jubilee School is Co-Sponsored by Higher Education Labor UnitedRecorded June 10th, 2024More Info on our political education project Jubilee School: debtcollective.org/what-we-do/jubilee-schoolSign up for upcoming courses here: debtcollective.org/what-we-do/jubilee-school/courses
The Debt Collective disrupts the Student Loan Servicer Alliance Debt Collective 2024-05-24 | #FireMOHELA
Fund Education NOT Genocide - National Action Debt Collective 2024-05-23 | Turn your videos into live streams with Restream https://restre.am/ANImWe're live at the US Department of Education calling on the Biden administration to fund education, NOT genocide!
Fire MOHELA Press Conference Debt Collective 2024-05-23 | Turn your videos into live streams with Restream https://restre.am/ANImMembers of Congress Join Debt Collective Calling for the Department of Education to Fire MOHELA
Fire MOHELA Press Conference Debt Collective 2024-05-22 | Turn your videos into live streams with Restream https://restre.am/ANImMembers of Congress and Higher Education Advocacy Organizations Join Debt Collective, Call on Biden Administration to Fire MOHELA
Debt and the Future of Workers with Giorgos Gouzoulis - 11/30/23 Debt Collective 2023-12-05 | Presented by Giorgos Gouzoulis, this talk will present a general framework for the financialization-worker militancy nexus and empirical evidence on how private debt and financial markets have eroded labor power over the last decades. The discussion will analyze how the rising financial obligations of non-financial firms and workers have induced the intensification of attacks on unions and the right to strike, which is the driving force behind the deterioration of labor rights. In this context, the talk will challenge the relevance of conceptual frameworks that focus on the ‘Future of Work’, and argue that scholars, activists, and practitioners must center on the ‘Future of Workers’ instead. Particular emphasis will be put on the disciplinary effects of personal indebtedness that reflects broader systemic failures related to welfare state retrenchment (including the decline of free education, universal healthcare, and public transport, among others).Relevant reading material: jacobin.com/2023/02/wage-earner-household-debt-strike-union-declineMore Info on our political education project Jubilee School: debtcollective.org/what-we-do/jubilee-schoolSign up for upcoming courses here: debtcollective.org/what-we-do/jubilee-school/courses
Jubilee School Workshop: Design for good – visual communications as a tool for social change Debt Collective 2023-11-19 | Learn about art and design as a political education tool with the Debt Collective’s Art and Design Workgroup. Learn about how design and visual communications can be used as tools for social change. Create your own zine with our design crew and also learn how the Debt Collective uses their own digital zine and creative projects to inform, educate and activate their union and local communities.Recorded on Nov 16th 2023
Debt Collective Cancels $10M of Morehouse College Debt - MSNBC With Jonathan Capehart Debt Collective 2023-11-07 | ...
PICK UP THE PEN, JOE April 4th Day of Action for Student Debt Cancellation Debt Collective 2023-10-13 | ...
Winning the Fair Share Amendment: Taxing the Rich to Fight Austerity and Debt 9/26/23 Debt Collective 2023-09-29 | featuring:Max Page, President of the Massachusetts Teachers Association,Shanique Spalding, Executive Director of MA Voter Table, statewide BIPOC communities coordinator for the Fair Share Amendment campaignJenn Kauffman, Chief of Staff, State Revenue AllianceIan Rhodewalt, Field Organizer for the Western Mass Area Labor Federation, Western Massachusetts Regional Organizer for the Fair Share Amendment campaignJoin us to learn how the historic victory of the Fair Share Amendment was won in Massachusetts last November. How did unions, community organizations, and faith based groups come together to win an amendment to the state constitution that increases the annual income tax on any income over the first million dollars a year by a modest four percent? Now that we have the first billion dollars from the Fair Share Amendment in the state budget (paid for by an increased tax on just 20,000 households), what lessons can we share with other union led tax justice movements across the country? What are the next steps for the Fair Share Amendment and the coalition that won it?More Info on our political education project Jubilee School: debtcollective.org/what-we-do/jubilee-schoolSign up for upcoming courses here: debtcollective.org/what-we-do/jubilee-school/courses
Chuck Schumer bragging that more Democrats than Republicans voted to restart student loan payments Debt Collective 2023-09-01 | ...
On the University of Puerto Rico Debt Struggles & Resistance w Maria del Mar Rosa Rodriguez 7/26/23 Debt Collective 2023-08-30 | 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 SeriesIn 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-schoolSign up for upcoming courses here: debtcollective.org/what-we-do/jubilee-school/courses
American Militarism and the Debt Trap with Nazia Kazi 7/24/2023 Debt Collective 2023-08-30 | The refusal of the US state to provide Americans with much-needed student debt relief stands in stark contrast to the eagerness with which it spends on militarism. In this talk, Professor Nazia Kazi (anthropologist and author of Islamophobia, Race, and Global Politics) shares her thoughts on the relationship between militarism, education, and debt.More Info on our political education project Jubilee School: debtcollective.org/what-we-do/jubilee-schoolSign up for upcoming courses here: debtcollective.org/what-we-do/jubilee-school/courses
Reparative Universities – a Collective Unraveling Session with Ariana Gonzalez Stokas 6/28/23 Debt Collective 2023-07-26 | Presented by Ariana Gonzalez Stokas on 6/28/23 for Debt Collective's Jubilee School, part of our Rethinking and Reinventing Higher Education SeriesAs diversity, equity and inclusion efforts play a central and increasingly embattled role in the strategy and resources of higher education, reparation is rarely offered as a pathway for transforming higher education. Together, through engaging with the text Reparative Universities, we will work together to come to terms with diversity and what its failures tell us about the colonial logics of higher education and think together about how reparative actions may intervene to unsettle entrenched ways of knowing and being within universities.More Info on our political education project Jubilee School: debtcollective.org/what-we-do/jubilee-schoolSign up for upcoming courses here: debtcollective.org/what-we-do/jubilee-school/courses
Ukraine: Bought & Sold International Finance and War with Jacques Laroche 6/22/2023 Debt Collective 2023-07-26 | Presented by Jacques Laroche on 6/22/2023 for Debt Collective's Jubilee School, part of our War and Debt SeriesThis talk delves into Ukraine’s debt and its impact on the country’s citizens while also examining the debt burden that US and EU citizens bear in fueling this ongoing proxy-war. The discussion covers financial aid packages, their conditions, and the priorities of involved parties, ultimately questioning the allocation of funds that instead should have been directed towards social and infrastructure programs as opposed to perpetuating conflict.More Info on our political education project Jubilee School: debtcollective.org/what-we-do/jubilee-schoolSign up for upcoming courses here: debtcollective.org/what-we-do/jubilee-school/courses
New York Liberation School – a community study session with Conor Tomas Reed 6/26/23 Debt Collective 2023-07-26 | Presented by Conor Tomas Reed on 6/26/2023 for Debt Collective's Jubilee School, part of our Rethinking and Reinventing Higher Education SeriesNew York Liberation School documents how a public university and city were transformed by such writers and organizers as Toni Cade Bambara, Samuel Delany, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, and Assata Shakur. Through archives, interviews, publications, and movement waves, we chronicle what occurs when people commit to radically reconfiguring an urban learning institution instead of abandoning it as a lost cause. This dialogue will invite NYLS readers to discuss the book’s themes and proposals for revolutionary change in our lifetime.More Info on our political education project Jubilee School: debtcollective.org/what-we-do/jubilee-schoolSign up for upcoming courses here: debtcollective.org/what-we-do/jubilee-school/courses
Green Card Soldiers, Empire, and Debt with Sofya Aptekar 7/6/2023 Debt Collective 2023-07-26 | Presented by Sofya Aptekar on 7/6/2023 for Debt Collective's Jubilee School, part of our War and Debt SeriesImmigrants have long worked in the US military. In this talk, Sofya Aptekar (sociologist and author of Green Card Soldier) shares her research on the immigrant experience of military labor, situating it within a global system of wealth extraction and imperialism, and highlighting the role of different types of debt in channeling immigrants into the US military.More Info on our political education project Jubilee School: debtcollective.org/what-we-do/jubilee-schoolSign up for upcoming courses here: debtcollective.org/what-we-do/jubilee-school/courses
The Alternative University: Lessons from Bolivarian Venezuela with Mariya P Ivancheva 7/10/2023 Debt Collective 2023-07-26 | Presented by Mariya P Ivancheva on 7/10/23 for Debt Collective's Jubilee School, part of our Rethinking and Reinventing Higher Education SeriesBased on extensive fieldwork in Venezuela, The Alternative University outlines the origins and day-to-day functioning of the colossal effort of late President Hugo Chávez’s government to create a university that challenged national and global higher education norms. The session will commence with reading from the book and outlining some of its main themes. It will then open a dialogue with participants about some of the lessons that the book carries and challenges that the Venezuelan experiment poses to the possibility of revolutionary change in higher education.More info on our political education project Jubilee School: debtcollective.org/what-we-do/jubilee-schoolSign up for upcoming courses here: debtcollective.org/what-we-do/jubilee-school/courses
The Whole Bank - Linqua Franqa Debt Collective 2023-02-28 | Music by Linqua FranqaDirector and Executive Producer: Nolan Huber-RhoadesVideo Producer: Haseena PeeraChoreographer: Paige WhiteSound Engineer: Joel HatstatBeat: “Eclipse” by ears youtu.be/8D9yV8x8-wY @earsbeats
