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DESCRIPTION: \nDescription:\n\nAt The Green Arcade on Thursday March 20th, join George 
 Caffentzis and Strike Debt Bay Area for a discussion about radical and 
 practical responses to debt and capitalism.\n\nGeorge Caffentzis is 
 contributor to the newly released The Debt Resisters' Operations Manual and 
 author of the recent In Letters of Blood and Fire: Work, Machines, and the 
 Crisis of Capitalism.\n\nAbout In Letters of Blood and Fire: Work, 
 Machines, and the Crisis of Capitalism: Karl Marx remarked that the only 
 way to write about the origins of capitalism is in the letters of blood and 
 fire used to drive workers from the common lands, forests, and waters in 
 the sixteenth century. In this collection of essays, George Caffentzis 
 argues that the same is true for the annals of twenty-first-century 
 capitalism. Information technology, immaterial production, 
 financialization, and globalization have been trumpeted as inaugurating a 
 new phase of capitalism that puts it beyond its violent origins. Instead of 
 being a period of major social and economic novelty, however, the course of 
 recent decades has been a return to the fire and blood of struggles at the 
 advent of capitalism.\n\nAbout The Debt Resisters' Operations Manual: A 
 handbook for debtors everywhere to understand how this system really works, 
 while providing practical tools for fighting debt in its most exploitative 
 forms. Inside, you'll find detailed strategies, resources, and insider tips 
 for dealing with some of the most common kinds of debt, including credit 
 card debt, medical debt, student debt, and housing debt. The book also 
 contains tactics for navigating the pitfalls of personal bankruptcy, and 
 information to help protect yourself from credit reporting agencies, debt 
 collectors, payday lenders, check cashing outlets, rent-to-own stores, and 
 more.\n\nStrike Debt Bay Area "is building a debt resistance movement. We 
 believe that most individual debt is illegitimate and unjust. Most of us 
 fall into debt because we are increasingly deprived of the means to acquire 
 the basic necessities of life: health care, education, and housing. Because 
 we are forced to go into debt simply in order to live, we think it is right 
 and moral to resist it."\n\nOver the last thirty years, average household 
 debt has more than doubled, and we are forced to take on debt to meet our 
 basic needs, which has wrecked lives and devastated communities. This 
 reveals an economic system that enriches the few at the expense of the 
 many. How does the debt system really work? What does a radical response to 
 the debt system look like? What is the relationship between debt and 
 climate? And, how do we develop practical tools, and a mass debt resistance 
 movement? In this interactive discussion, George Caffentzis and Strike Debt 
 Bay Area will help answer these questions, propose strategies, and much 
 more.\n\n(See event web page)\n\nAlso check out the Launch Party for the 
 Debt Resisters' Operations Manual in the East Bay on March 23rd.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/03/10/18752371.php
SUMMARY:George Caffentzis and Strike Debt Bay Area @ The Green Arcade in SF
LOCATION:The Green Arcade\n1680 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94102, USA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/03/10/18752371.php
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