Student Debt Strike

Education is a human right. Student loans are unjust. Join us in solidarity fighting against a corrupt lending system. DMs open.

[Student Debt Strike @StudentDebtX]

Since 1978, two years after student loan debt became non-dischargeable through bankruptcy, college tuition increased by 1,120%. The system is rigged.

[The Debt Collective 🟥 @StrikeDebt]

It’s been six weeks since President Biden said he would make an announcement on canceling student debt “in a few weeks.”

[The Debt Collective 🟥 @StrikeDebt]

15 students formed a debtors union started a debt strike, now 560,000 will be getting 100% of their federal student loans cancelled

You deserve a union too. If we all strike together, we can cancel $1.7T for 45 million people. Debtors have power.
https://t.co/WVvg5SQNFT

[🇰🇵단일성 Commie on the Rez 단일성 🇰🇵 @patriach2051]

The Boomers were the last generation to get affordable schooling

[john brown’s buddy @_gothlorien]

So it wasn't just the $52,674 PPP loan that was forgiven. She also had her $73,075 student loan forgiven.

In other words, the person telling you to shut up and be happy with $10K student loan debt forgiveness accepted about $126K in debt forgiveness.

[@[email protected] @Imani_Barbarin]

This thread seems to be a lot of Democrats patting themselves on the back, but let me tell you why it’s insulting to marginalized people:

Thread:

[austerity is theft @wideofthepost]

I kid you not, she also had all of her $73k in student loan debt forgiven by the Biden admin. How could you write a thread that crass and exploitative of trans folks, mass shooting & rape victims, lecturing people to be grateful for any amount when you yourself got $125k excused?

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

Gonna not vote for Biden harder bc of this thread.

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

Huh

[✨🎶Kristennnn🍉✨ @singingsox]

$10k in cancellation would mean I’d go from mathematically not being able to pay my loans off to also mathematically not being able to my loans off

[Akilah Hughes @AkilahObviously]

It’s time to general strike. People are dying. Everything is overpriced. No one is valued. They’ve intentionally broken up our communities so we don’t think we can make it without continuing to make (them) money. We need a general strike or things will stay the same.

[🇵🇸#FreeThemAll @notshathaa]

electoralism is utilized by the ruling class to place the blame of structural and institutional violence on the individual choice of voters so you don’t hold them accountable. this is not red state vs blue state, wake up. you can’t vote this out.

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

I can't get over how cops confronted the shooter at the door, let him get by them, then made up a story about body armor. While a teacher gave her life trying to defend her kids. The difference could not be clearer.

[Friendly Neighborhood Comrade @SpiritofLenin]

Obama ordered a drone strike which ki!!ed 16 year-old American citizen Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, his teenage cousin, and 5 other civilians as they were eating at an outdoor cafe in Southern Yemen.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

The problem isn’t just gun control, it’s the normalization of violence.

When you’re the largest global military spender, the number one arms dealer, have a militarized police that kill 3 Americans per day & the largest prison pop in the world, violence is woven into the society.

[Big Nasty ☭ @keepaustinnasty]

Random gun violence in the USA is a *symptom* of the disease. Our nation was founded on genocide and racial violence. We are aggressively patriarchal and deeply individualistic. We glorify billionaires and look down on the poor. 🧵1/

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

I do wish teachers unions would decide to shut the country down. It wouldn’t stop the shootings but it would show people their power. And that’s invaluable.

[Student Debt Strike @StudentDebtX]

Today is another example of the kind of "exceptionalism" that America brings. Over 40 mass shootings in a single month.

[Billy (Official Silly Guy) @Your_Pal_Billy]

It absolutely never fails.

[All Valley Everything @allvalleypod]

Time to bust another police myth! Cops constantly talk up the dangers of the job (the thin blue line & putting their lives on the line from a “dangerous criminal element”). Truth is that being a cop is NOT EVEN in the top 8 most dangerous jobs. Let’s highlight the ones that are:

[📚pedagogy in black✊🏾 @RenyTure]

I thought folks would see it; I thought the contradictions would be self evident. But during the pandemic, your government said fuck you. Millions of people died and millions more have chronic illnesses for life. Rent is high, gas is damn near higher. & you have no healthcare.