I was scheduled to give a talk at Columbia week after next. Just withdrew.

Academics everywhere need to stand in solidarity with these courageous and principled students. Shame on Columbia. Shame on Shafik. Shame on all who remain silent.

Are your federal student loans from before 2010? You might have FFEL loans. 🚨 If you do there is an important deadline April 30.🚨

Everyone with FFEL loans needs to consolidate in order to qualify for potential cancelation studentaid.gov/loan-consolida…

There’s a solid chance that whether or not you get your student debt canceled this year is dependent on whether the guy on the left fires the guy on the right or not.

Will keep repeating this: Activists buy and cancel medical debt (for pennies on the dollar) to politicize a broken system and as an act of abolitionist mutual aid. We don't need the state—which has more tools at its disposal—to merely mimic our tactics. We need free healthcare.

You know how we'd know that student debt cancellation was actually a subsidy to the affluent? You'd be for it.

Today, Debt Collective union members + allies showed up to the MOHELA Senate hearing to demand the Biden administration terminate contracts with MOHELA, the student loan servicer that mishandles accounts for financial gain.

SCOTUS struck down debt relief because of MOHELA.

🚨 Student debt cancelation deadline April 30! 🚨

If you have older federal student loans from before 2010 called FFEL loans you need to consolidate your loans into federal direct loans before April 30!

Consolidate directly through the Dept of Ed here: studentaid.gov/loan-consolida…

My student loans have officially been forgiven ❤️ years of anxiety over them finally over The Debt Collective 🟥

This is what we mean when we say the Department of Education, Secretary Miguel Cardona and James Kvaal aren’t doing their job. The slim number of borrowers who are actually getting relief… aren’t getting it.

AND...I'm gonna leave this here.

With more release possibly coming, please take a moment to fill this out -- it truly doesn't take long.

Also, if people in power had listened to leftists earlier or heeded our implementation advice we'd be in a better place today. Our case for full cancellation was maximalist, yes, and also realist. Radical and pragmatic are actually not actually antonyms.

Warren and Schumer: Biden needs to cancel even more student loan debt.

'We urge him to use the full extent of his authority to cancel more student debt. He should provide relief for as many people as possible and make that relief easy to access.'
bostonglobe.com/2024/02/17/opi…

We're looking for ~25 Black folks w/ household debt (student/medical/housing/credit card/criminal legal) to join us for a 4-week pilot project to further investigate the relationship between Blackness and indebtedness.

Join us on Feb 22, 2024 at 8PM EST
debtcollective.org/event/hold-bla…

Our co-founder Astra Taylor will talk all things Debt Collective—and the etymological roots of “Solidarity” as a debt held in common. 🔽

Good—this is what 70+ orgs called on the Biden admin to do. Now the Ed Dept. must agree to a definition of 'hardship' that is as expansive as possible. Remember, the loan itself is proof of 'hardship.' It means you couldn't afford the cost college upfront or keep up w/ interest.

Have medical, housing, student or other household debt? Want to know how to join organizing efforts to get it cancelled and build free public goods?

Join our New Member call tonight at 5PM PT/8PM ET.
debtcollective.org/event/new-memb…