Organizing to win College for All in Colorado

This action is for everyone who lives in Colorado. We want to organize people to put pressure on members of Congress (or people who are running to become members of Congress) to cancel all student debt and make public universities completely free. This can take many forms. Reach out to each other, start talking and making plans. Here is some information that you might find helpful.

Senate
Senators Michael Bennet (Democrat) and Cory Gardner (Republican) have not yet taken a position on S. 1947 College for All Act of 2019. Can you convince them to support it?

Use the comments below to plan and coordinate with each other on a state-wide level.

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The Indivisible Guide provides good advice about how to set up a meeting with your members of congress (or the people currently campaigning for office), how to show up at town halls, how to write letters to the editor, etc. We can do all of that and more. Feel free to get creative and come up with your own plans in addition to these tried and true methods.

Use this data sheet about student debt in Colorado: StudentDebt_CO.pdf (1.1 MB)

Use this study by economists at the Levi Institute which outlines several positive effects of canceling all student debt.

The Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA) have a great resources about organizing for College for All. If there is a YDSA chapter near you please reach out and coordinate with them.

House
Colorado has seven congressional districts. Click on your district below to plan and coordinate with others who live in the same congressional district. Don’t know which district you live in? You can look that up here.

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Hi @Kptln46577777, what is going on? I’m not sure if we can help, but if we can we certainly will. At the very least we can listen and help identify your options.

Sending love to you wherever you are and whatever you are going through right now.

-Thomas

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Hi @Kptln46577777, do you happen to know if your loans are direct loans? You can find out by logging into the National Student Loan Data System. https://studentaid.gov/

If your loans are direct loans, or if they are federally held FFEL loans, then the wage garnishments and the tax offsets should be paused for the next six months.

If you have commercially held FFEL loans, then that might not be the case, but perhaps we can still put pressure on them to stop given COVID-19.