Campaign Study Materials
Why are we in so much debt?
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Watch Jason Wozniak’s talk about the structural causes of the student debt crisis (his slideshow can be found here)
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Read “Student Loans are a Labor Issue,” by Jalil Bishop
How does student debt affect women and black borrowers?
- Watch Jalil Bishop’s talk about the history of debt being used as a system of control against the black community
- Read “How Student Debt is Worsening Gender and Racial Injustice,” by Sparky Abraham
Why full student debt cancellation? Why college for all?
- Watch Hannah Appel’s talk about the #CancelStudentDebt and #CollegeForAll campaign (find her slideshow here)
- Read “Cancel All the Student Debt: It’s About Economic and Racial Justice,” by Naomi Zewde & Darrick Hamilton
- Read “Cancelling student debt was always the right thing to do. Now it’s imperative” by Astra Taylor
- Read “Inside the Progressive Debate Over the Student Debt Crisis”, a good overview of some debates over student debt cancellation among progressives
What is the strategy to win? How do we organize?
- Watch Thomas Gokey’s talk about the mechanism of “compromise and settlement”
- Read “Debtors of the World, Unite” by Hannah Appel
- Watch this video about the first student debt strike in U.S. history
- Watch “Engaging Those Not Talking with Us” and “On Organizing”, videos by Jane McAlevey: https://janemcalevey.com/video-shorts/
Want to start a Debt Collective chapter & lead student debt protests?
- Read our Debt Collective Chapter Guidebook
- Fill out our Chapter Form
(shout out: @student_debt members )
