A group calling itself Strike Debt has a new initiative called the Rolling Jubilee. The basic idea is to purchase distressed debt for pennies on the dollar — as collection agencies regularly do — and then cancel the debt. Through this strategy they estimate that they can cancel $20 of debt for every $1 that… Continue reading Rolling Jubilee round up
Author: Matt Bruenig
Class and college
I come down hard some time on student issue activism. I find it very uninteresting, generally misguided, and I worry that it consumes way too much activist time and energy. Don’t get me wrong: I like student activism, just not inward-focused student activism. Students are uniquely situated to do a great deal of organizing work… Continue reading Class and college
One of these things still not like the others
From Sarah Jaffe’s new website: And Elizabeth Warren knows a few things about class war too—she knows that it’s bailouts and bankruptcy law, foreclosures and student loans. If student loans are class war, who is losing? The highest-earning 10 percent of households have the highest mean student debt, followed by the next highest-earning 30 percent… Continue reading One of these things still not like the others
How much do Latinos even care about immigration?
After the thorough thumping the GOP received last Tuesday, GOP leaders started moving to the left on immigration. Hannity, Murdoch, and Boehner all came out in support of immigration reform. The conventional wisdom is that the Republicans have realized that they have walked themselves into a demographic dead end, and are trying to appeal to… Continue reading How much do Latinos even care about immigration?
One of these things is not like the others
One of the interesting consequences of the identitarian revolution is a migration — among a substantial number of people — away from all-encompassing frameworks of political justice and towards ever-expanding lists of discrete, identity-based claims of justice (and even topic-based claims of justice). So for instance, it is not uncommon to see someone articulate their… Continue reading One of these things is not like the others