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URL:https://debtcollective.org/event/fund-education-not-genocide/
SUMMARY:Fund Education\, Not Genocide
DESCRIPTION:\nJoin us in Washington D.C. on May 22nd\n\n\n\nWe are calling 
 on the President to use his executive powers to liberate student debtors\,
  not accelerate war.&nbsp\;\n\n\n\nThe President of the United States hold
 s great power. Pres. Biden has used his authority to send billions of doll
 ars of weapons to Israel\, a nation that international courts have charged
  with waging a genocide against Palestinians. Israel’s military offensiv
 e has cost at least 34\,000 lives in less than a year.\n\n\n\nAnd yet\, wh
 en it comes to relieving 45 million Americans of crushing student debt—a
 n action that would not cost the federal government a dime but would actua
 lly boost the economy for everyone—President Biden has held back. Althou
 gh has used his executive authority swiftly and with conviction to approve
  millions of dollars emergency weapons sales to Israel\, he refused to tak
 e bold\, urgent action to cancel ALL student debt.&nbsp\;\n\n\n\nInstead\,
  Biden has slow-walked student debt cancellation through bureaucratic rule
  making processes\, scattering drops of relief here and there along the wa
 y. One in ten debtors have had their debts canceled\; nine in ten are stil
 l waiting.&nbsp\;\n\n\n\nWith a flick of a pen\, President Biden could can
 cel ALL student debt. Why the delay?&nbsp\;\n\n\n\nWe are – once again 
 – calling on President Biden to use his powers to liberate millions of A
 mericans from ballooning student debt and to put us on a pathway toward fr
 ee\, reparative public higher education for all. We need universities that
  liberate students\, not institutions that chain them in debt or arrest th
 em for engaging in democratic protest.\n\n\n\nWe demand the President to u
 se his executive powers to cancel ALL student debt\, and to do so with int
 ensity\, speed\, and moral conviction –&nbsp\;&nbsp\;not&nbsp\;to use th
 ose powers to authorize Israel’s destruction of Palestine.&nbsp\;\n\n\n\
 nInvest in education\, divest from genocide.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNational Actio
 n Co-Sponsors Include:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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