Organizing Against Student Debt

This workshop will mobilize participants to join a network of militant research around debt-abolition, particularly student debt. We will work toward organizing a debt-abolition network and a global day of action against student debt.
We are everyday involved in struggles and movements all around the world against the privatization of the university, the precaritization of work, the new enclosures of our knowledge(s), and for the reappropriation of our commonwealth.

We choose debt as the center of our organizing because, it is becoming the main instrument of enclosure of our social wealth: education, knowledge, access to healthy food, housing and healthcare. The recent financial crisis has only accelerated this process. Debt illegitimately reduces our livelihoods. Across the world, the predatory lending strategies targeted at student populations have created a generation of students whose futures are indentured to the banks. We reject a system that produces the windfall profits for the financial industry at the expense of our education and our lives.