Showing posts with label Student Debtors Union. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Student Debtors Union. Show all posts
July 9, 2012
June 25, 2012
How many ______ could your debt buy? Student Debt in Perspective
This is an amazing visualization tool from The Young Invincibles.
h/t to my dear friend Ingrid.
click it
h/t to my dear friend Ingrid.
June 22, 2012
Sandra Nurse's Interview (Part II) on Occupy Theory Radio
WBAI hosts the interview here:http://archive.wbai.org/files/mp3/wbai_120620_183216owsr.mp3
This is a short blog post, but an AMAZING interview. I can't actually host the player on my blog here, so just click the image of the player above, and it will take you to WBAI's website.
This is a short blog post, but an AMAZING interview. I can't actually host the player on my blog here, so just click the image of the player above, and it will take you to WBAI's website.
May 25, 2012
May 8, 2012
May 4, 2012
ART RESISTANCE - I need financial backers
UPDATE: Thanks to two very generous donors, we should have more than enough money to do this right. If you'd like to still donate money for future art resistance actions, we'll gladly take it, but at this point, we don't need it.
Stay tuned for more here: WearYourDebt.tumblr.com
I know that many of you already donate as sustaining donors. You help me keep food on my plate and me making videos.
I normally don't beg so blatently for money, and I always feel weird about doing so, but there's some upcoming art resistance actions that I'd like to do, and I really need about $200 to make it happen. Can you give like $10?
One art resistance action is planned to be during Senator Olympia Snowe's speech to my graduating class at USM, and I need funds to do them. Think posters, giant banners.
That shit costs money- canvass, paint, etc. And I need it quick. Like before May 8th. I will have video for you, for sure, it will be fucking awesome, and there will probably be national news coverage as well. And you can be sitting at home watching it on your computer, or on your tv, and say to yourself, "HEY! I helped make that happen!"
Olympia Snowe's husband, by the way, is currently under investigation for financial fraud. What for? Bilking college students, that's what.
From Truthout:
And She's our commencement speaker. It's audacious that she is speaking to a crowd of graduating seniors at USM.
Anyways, please donate so that me and my crew of awesome people can call her out for her bullshit:
Thank you!
Stay tuned for more here: WearYourDebt.tumblr.com
I know that many of you already donate as sustaining donors. You help me keep food on my plate and me making videos.
I normally don't beg so blatently for money, and I always feel weird about doing so, but there's some upcoming art resistance actions that I'd like to do, and I really need about $200 to make it happen. Can you give like $10?
One art resistance action is planned to be during Senator Olympia Snowe's speech to my graduating class at USM, and I need funds to do them. Think posters, giant banners.
That shit costs money- canvass, paint, etc. And I need it quick. Like before May 8th. I will have video for you, for sure, it will be fucking awesome, and there will probably be national news coverage as well. And you can be sitting at home watching it on your computer, or on your tv, and say to yourself, "HEY! I helped make that happen!"
Olympia Snowe's husband, by the way, is currently under investigation for financial fraud. What for? Bilking college students, that's what.
From Truthout:
In November 2011, after three years of study, Washington was provided notice by the "college" that she had reached the federal loan/grant aggregate limit of $52,340 and that it would cost $37,000 to complete the degree. Washington dropped out with $52,160 in debt. Because The Art Institute's credits are not transferable, Washington has been swindled out of $52,000 and three years of her life.
The only way to describe $89,000 for a four-year degree with non-transferable credits from a non-academic college is as a fraud and a swindle, and that characterization possibly fails to convey the frustration and downright victimization students like Washington must feel.
Like subprime mortgages, for-profit colleges are a scam driven by payment of commissions to sales staff known as recruiters. The payment of commissions to high-pressure salespeople is so central to the scam that the umbrella trade group for for-profits, the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities (APSCU), has sued the federal government to overturn its ban on incentive pay.
And She's our commencement speaker. It's audacious that she is speaking to a crowd of graduating seniors at USM.
Anyways, please donate so that me and my crew of awesome people can call her out for her bullshit:
Thank you!
March 3, 2012
January 25, 2012
December 18, 2011
Ron Paul talks about Student Debt
via Occupy Student Debt:
I would like to add that Ron Paul's idea of taking away access to loans and letting the free market sort things out is koo koo bananas.
The reason why people who work would want their taxes to pay for the college of somebody else, is because that somebody else might end up being the heart surgeon who saves their life later-- if they get to go to college.
A well educated society benefits everybody. College should be free for those who want to go. College students have become the new sub-prime mortgages. We absolutely should "bail out" student debt: That's the transition to a society in which education is free for those who want to pursue it.
"This is not an endorsement for or against Ron Paul. He is just discussing some important issues about our plight, and it is well worth watching and considering. He is the only candidate from either party to really take this subject head-on in an open and honest way."
I would like to add that Ron Paul's idea of taking away access to loans and letting the free market sort things out is koo koo bananas.
The reason why people who work would want their taxes to pay for the college of somebody else, is because that somebody else might end up being the heart surgeon who saves their life later-- if they get to go to college.
A well educated society benefits everybody. College should be free for those who want to go. College students have become the new sub-prime mortgages. We absolutely should "bail out" student debt: That's the transition to a society in which education is free for those who want to pursue it.
November 14, 2011
Walk Away From Student Debt: STUDENT DEBTORS UNION
FUCK THE BANKS-- DEFAULT EN MASSE TOGETHER -- TANK THE ECONOMY!
Excessive student debt is your problem right now. But it's not something you should have to deal with. So make it their problem again. Default. On purpose.
MORE INFO on the EDU HERE : http://edudebtorsunion.org
Here's a homework assignment I called for on this same subject back in March of this year:
Responses so far, by viewers --though no economic professors yet:
From YouTube user zigzigerblat:
From Libertarian Alex Merced:
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