Letters and Politics

The Burden of Student Loans in America & the Debt Cancellation

Guests:

Dr. Richelle Brooks is a Black Momma, Educator, the founder of ReTHINK It, an organization dedicated to addressing antiblackness through education and mutual aid, and a Grassroots Organizer and Biden Jubilee 100 Striker.  She is the co-founder of Los Angeles chapter of the Debt Collective and wrote the piece Why I Joined the Jubilee 100 Student Debt Strike.

Astra Taylor is a documentary filmmaker, author, and political organizer. She is the director, most recently, of What Is Democracy? and the author of Democracy May Not Exist, but We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone and the American Book Award winning The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age. She is co-founder of the Debt Collective, a union for debtors, and contributed the foreword to the group’s new book, Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition.