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DESCRIPTION:Andrew Ross comes to UC Berkeley to discuss his new book Creditocracy and 
 the Case for Debt Refusal. Andrew is Professor of Social and Cultural 
 Analysis at NYU, and an activist with Strike Debt, the Rolling Jubilee, and 
 the Occupy Student Debt Campaign. He is the author of many books, including 
 Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World’s Least Sustainable City, and Nice 
 Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times. His new book 
 explores contemporary life in the cruel grip of a creditocracy—where the 
 finance industry commandeers our elected governments and where the 
 citizenry have to take out loans to meet their basic needs. The 
 implications of mass indebtedness for any democracy are profound, and the 
 historical record shows that whenever a creditor class becomes as powerful 
 as Wall Street, the result has been debt bondage. Following in the ancient 
 tradition of the jubilee, activists have had some success in repudiating 
 the debts of developing countries. The time is ripe for a debtors movement 
 to use the same kinds of moral and legal arguments to bring relief to 
 household debtors in the North, and to create an alternative economy, 
 independent of the debt-money system, \n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/01/15/18749246.php
SUMMARY:The Case for Debt Refusal - NYU's Andrew Ross on Debt Resistance
LOCATION:UC Berkeley Campus\nWheeler Hall, Room 300
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/01/15/18749246.php
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