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URL:https://debtcollective.org/event/how-we-fought-for-a-payment-pause-and
 -won/
SUMMARY:Jubilee School: How we fought for a payment pause — and won
DESCRIPTION:Our campaign to demand a pause on all federal student loans and
  interest didn’t come from nowhere. The precedent for this type of sweep
 ing federal action was set by the first Trump administration in 2020 durin
 g the COVID-19 pandemic\, when student loan payments were paused for more 
 than three years. Join Debt Collective organizers Thomas Gokey\, Dr. Riche
 lle Brooks and Dr. Shamell Bell to trace the history of our fight for stud
 ent loan debt cancellation\, how it led to a national payment pause and ca
 ncellation for millions of student debtors\, and how this history connects
  to our current fight to demand a payment pause. \nThomas Gokey is a co-fo
 under of Debt Collective\, an organizer of Rolling Jubilee\, and a member 
 of Debt Collective’s higher education team\, where he leads research aro
 und legal and policy strategies for winning debt cancellation and free col
 lege.\n\nDr. Richelle Brooks is an educator\, activist\, mother\, and Mana
 ging Director at Debt Collective. Born and raised in Los Angeles\, Dr. Bro
 oks has long been committed to racial restorative justice in her local com
 munities as well as nationally. \n\nDr. Shamell Bell is Debt Collective’
 s Visionary Escalator\, a strategist of imaginative protest rooted in heal
 ing and somatic justice. She is also the founder of Street Dance Activism\
 , a global movement that uses dance as a tool for collective healing and l
 iberation. She formerly served as a full-time Lecturer of Somatic Practice
 s and Global Performance at Harvard University and has also taught at Dart
 mouth College and Berea College. Her work bridges embodied practice\, poli
 tical education\, and visionary organizing\, using joyful interventions to
  nurture both collective and self-care.
CATEGORIES:Call
LOCATION:https://act.debtcollective.org/how-we-fought-for-a-payment-pause-a
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