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DESCRIPTION:On Saturday, May 18th, Strike Debt Bay Area will host the Bay Area's Second 
 Debtors’ Assembly. (The first one was held in February. The beautiful 
 poster for it created by SDBA organizer Sandy Sanders is shown 
 below.)\n\n\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\n\nStrike Debt Bay Area 
 Facebook\n\nStrike Debt Web Page.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/04/18/18735430.php
SUMMARY:Strike Debt Bay Area Announces Bay Area's Second Debtors' Assembly
LOCATION:Unite Here, Local 2, near Civic Center BART\n209 Golden Gate Avenue\nSan 
 Francisco,CA 94102\nUSA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/04/18/18735430.php
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