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. […]
Part of ourJoin us in conversation with sociologist, writer, educator, and editor, Tamara K. Nopper to discuss her groundbreaking Data & Society report on the alarming risks of financial wellness. Financial wellness is a particular rebranding of financial literacy that incorporates medicalized frameworks and practices appropriated from public health and medicine and couples it with a purported concern about […]
Part of ourJoin us for a a teach-in introducing the Debt Collective – the nation’s first union of debtors – with authors from our recent issue of In These Times magazine. Learn how debtor unions are organizing alongside labor unions and tenant unions to combat the financialization of our most basic needs like housing, education and healthcare. […]
Part of ourJoin us for a conversation with Celeste Winston as we explore her book, “How to Lose the Hounds: Maroon Geographies and a World beyond Policing.” This thought-provoking event centers police abolition and connects slavery-era Black freedom struggles with contemporary efforts to envision a world without policing. Amid rising calls for abolition, her work delves into […]
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