Events Archive
Fifty Over Fifty Debt Story Workshop: Final Prep – Sept 5th
Fifty Over Fifty Debt Story Workshop: Part II, Story Sharing – Aug 29
Debt & Policing: A Talk On How to Lose the Hounds
Join 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 […]
Part of ourFire MOHELA working group meeting
Fifty Over Fifty Debt Story Workshop: Part I, Script Writing – Aug 22
State of the Debtors’ Union
Rage Against Medical Debt: Public Comment Happy Hour
Breaking the Chains of Debt and Contingent Labor
Join us on July 31 as we host a deep dive discussion into two related crises facing higher ed workers and students alike: debt and labor contingency. Often presented as both institutionally inevitable and as individually shameful, spiraling debt and rising labor precarity are in fact insidious products of policy decisions, and together they are […]
Part of ourRage Against Medical Debt: Public Comment Happy Hour
50 Over 50 Debtors Call
Cliffs and Crises: Jubilee School on How to Understand and Fight Post-Covid School District Budget Struggles
Around the country, school districts are facing budget crises. As K-12 Covid funding runs out, teachers, students, and communities find their district leadership cutting programs, firing them or their colleagues, and even closing schools. Local journalists, if they cover these stories, merely take notes on what district leadership says, taking it as the simple truth. […]
Part of ourHigher Education National Strategy Call
Massachusetts Debtors Meeting
Tell the Feds: Rage Against Medical Debt
Last month, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released proposed regulations to ban medical debt from credit reports. This is BIG NEWS – it’s the result of years of organizing and public pressure, and it’s a move that would help millions of debtors across the country. But it’s not a done deal yet. Join the Debt […]
Part of ourDebt & Disability: Solidarity Space
New Member Call
Fifty Over Fifty Planning Committee Meeting
Fifty Over Fifty
40 Acres and a Lie: Past & Present
Higher Education National Strategy Call
The True Costs of Crowdfunding Healthcare
SPEAKER: Nora Kenworthy
Join us for an event with Nora Kenworthy, author of Crowded Out: The True Costs of Crowdfunding Healthcare, to learn how crowdfunding for health is fueled by—and further reinforces—financial and moral “toxicities” in market-based healthcare systems. Over the past decade, charitable crowdfunding has exploded in popularity across the globe. Sites such as GoFundMe, which now […]
Part of ourDebt & Disability Cohort Call
What does University of the Arts Owe and to Whom:
A teach-in on the financial, moral, and educational obligations of a shuttered university During this teach-in members of Debt Collective and authors of Lend and Rule will examine the debt realities of University of the Arts (Philadelphia), and engage in dialogue with participants about what the university owes, or doesn’t, to students, faculty, staff, community […]
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