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DESCRIPTION:Strike Debt In Action with Student Debtors\nWe invite you to join us at the 
 Department of Education Public Hearing to support current and former 
 Corinthian (Everest, Heald, and Wyotech) students who will be speak 
 directly to DOE officials to tell their stories and demand debt 
 cancellation.\n\nJoin online at: Corinthian.debt.is The Debt Collective 
 tech team created this page so that those of us who can't be in Anaheim in 
 person can be there virtually. This website will go live an hour before the 
 hearing with a livestream, chat, social media links, DoE twitter bomb and 
 other virtual actions. Everyone who wants to support Corinthian students as 
 they demand debt cancellation, meet here on Nov 
 4th: http://corinthian.debt.is\n\nWhat's the Background?\n\nOn September 
 17th, Strike Debt launched The Debt Collective, where we are developing a 
 new platform for organization, advocacy, and resistance. We aim to build 
 power to bargain with creditors or even to threaten a debt strike. As we 
 build membership, debtors can join together based on region, type of debt, 
 or lender.\n\nAlone our debts are a burden; together they make us 
 powerful.\n\nPeople already get it.  Denny in South Dakota emailed us to 
 ask, "Is it possible there are others who have some of my issues in common? 
 Is there an opportunity to collectivize this issue?"\n\nPhil in California 
 asked a similar question, "Do you have a collective group of Bank of 
 America Mortgage debtors?" Denny and Phil's questions show that people 
 already understand what the debt collective can do.\n\nPeople are ready to 
 organize and begin demanding fair terms: fair interest rates, fair 
 principal amounts, even the abolition of unjust debts.\n\nWhy Start With a 
 For-Profit College?\n\nThe Debt Collective's pilot project is with current 
 and former students from for-profit Everest college. Everest, like other 
 for-profit schools, targets students from low-income households, 
 disproportionately from minority backgrounds. As Everest's parent company, 
 Corinthian, falls apart and its predatory activities are revealed, students 
 are still expected to pay back their loans.\n\nIf Everest students join 
 together, we believe they can win a full debt discharge. Their victory will 
 help us demonstrate debtors' collective power and other groups can be 
 formed to follow their example.\n\nWhat Will Happen at the Hearing?\n\nOn 
 November 4th, we have a unique opportunity to demonstrate the power of 
 debtors acting collectively at the Department of Education public 
 hearing.\n\nIf you live in the Los Angeles area, we invite you to join us 
 at the event.\n\nIf you don't live in southern California but still want to 
 support students, go here, starting at 12p PST, to help share students' 
 messages, see video clips, and watch the livestream of the 
 hearing.\n\nPlease follow the Debt Collective on Facebook and 
 Twitter.\n\nFacebook event & RSVP\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/11/03/18763727.php
SUMMARY:Strike Debt In Action with Student Debtors: OCCUPY THE DoE’s AGENDA!
LOCATION:Department of Education Public Hearing, Grand Ballroom E\n700 West 
 Convention Way\nAnaheim,CA 92802\n\nAND ONLINE
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/11/03/18763727.php
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