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DESCRIPTION:On Saturday, February 2nd, Strike Debt Bay Area will host Oakland’s first 
 Debtors’ Assembly.\n\nAs individuals, families, and communities, most of 
 us are drowning in debt for the basic things we need to live, including 
 housing, education, and health care. Even those of us who do not have 
 personal debt are affected by predatory lending. Our essential public 
 services are cut because our cities and towns are held hostage by the same 
 big banks that have been bailed out by our government. All of us are 
 outraged that big banks don’t have to pay their debts, but we do.\n\nDebt 
 keeps us isolated, ashamed, and afraid—of becoming homeless, of going 
 hungry, of being crippled or killed by treatable illness, or of being 
 trapped in poverty-level jobs. Those facing foreclosure, medical debt, 
 student debt, or credit card debt feel alone, hounded by debt collectors, 
 and forced into unrewarding work to keep up with payments. \n\nStrike Debt 
 is building a movement to challenge this system while creating alternatives 
 and supporting each other. At the Debtors’ Assembly we will come together 
 as a community and begin to rethink debt, not as an issue of individual 
 shame, but as a political platform for collective resistance and action. 
 Come to the Assembly to learn about tools for escaping the closing walls of 
 debt, to share resources and skills, and to magnify our assembled energy.  
 As we share our experiences we can begin to take back from the financiers 
 what they have taken from us: our freedom and our future.\n\nDebt 
 resistance is just the beginning. Join us as we imagine and create a new 
 world based on the common good, not Wall Street profits.\n\nORGANIZATION 
 INFO: Strike Debt Bay Area is the local chapter of Strike Debt, an 
 international movement of groups working to build popular resistance to all 
 forms of unjust debt. Strike Debt has organized the Rolling Jubilee, the 
 Debt Resistors Operations Manual, and local debtors’ assemblies. Strike 
 Debt supports the creation of just and sustainable economies, based on 
 mutual aid, common goods, and public affluence.  We owe the financial 
 institutions nothing.  It is to our friends, families and community that we 
 owe everything.\n\nStrike Debt Bay Area Web Page\nStrike Debt Bay Area 
 Facebook\nStrike Debt Web Page.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/01/10/18729867.php
SUMMARY:Strike Debt Bay Area Announces Oakland’s First Debtors’ Assembly
LOCATION:Eastside Arts Alliance\n2277 International Boulevard\nOakland,CA 94606\nUSA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/01/10/18729867.php
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