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DESCRIPTION:\nInformation, discussion & community! Monday Night Forum!!\nOccupy Forum 
 is an opportunity for open and respectful dialogue\non all sides of these 
 critically important issues!\n\nOccupy Forum presents\n\nStrike Debt Bay 
 Area:\n\nHow The Other Half Isn't Allowed to Bank\n\nStrike Debt Bay Area 
 (SDBA) is dedicated to fighting unjust debt.\nOur latest project: Human 
 Interest Lending\n\n\nRight now there are more predatory payday lenders in 
 the US than McDonald's and Starbucks combined. And new ones keep popping 
 up! In fact, payday lenders are often owned by the same banks that won't 
 provide accounts or loans to poor customers. Most progressives are so 
 opposed to predatory lending that they want to shut payday lending down 
 altogether ... without providing an alternative for people who are 
 cash-strapped and in need. \nStrike Debt Bay Area, an offshoot of Occupy 
 Oakland, has found an answer in our hometown of Oakland.\n\nCommunity Check 
 Cashing (CCC) is a non-profit, providing the same services that for-profit 
 payday lenders do -- at a third to a half of what they charge.  CCC 
 estimates that it has saved its customer base over $1,200,000 in the six 
 years it has been open.\n\nAs activists, we've been exploring ways CCC can 
 be strengthened and its model can be expanded -- with the ultimate goal of 
 taking out the for-profit payday lenders. We call this project Human 
 Interest Lending. We'll provide some history of the banks and the social 
 contract, and talk about where we want to go. We'll also update attendees 
 on some of Strike Debt Bay Area’s other projects, including ending 
 Student Debt and saving the Berkeley Post Office.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/10/24/18779229.php
SUMMARY:Occupy Forum: How the Other Half Isn't Allowed to Bank.
LOCATION:Global Exchange, 2nd floor\n2017 Mission St\nSan Francisco, CA 94110
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/10/24/18779229.php
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