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Full text of the debt resistors operations manual internet archive. Strike debt will release the second edition of its debt resistors operations manual drom. The debt resistors operations manual is an attempt to assist this invisible army and all other debt resistors in this struggle. These initiatives include publishing the debt resistors operations manual. Nov 22, 20 last year, strike debt a small collective of new yorkbased academics, filmmakers, and business types published a short book called the debt resistors operations manual pdf, which alternated between dispensing advice on how to clean up credit scores and chronicling the recent history of the finance industry. But dont let that menacingsounding acronym fool you. The power of debt institute on inequality and democracy.
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Rolling jubilee organizer astra taylor said the campaign is part of strike debt, a broader movement that grew out of occupy wall street. For debtors everywhere who want to understand how the system really works, this handbook provides practical tools for fighting debt in its most exploitative forms. It is the new debt resisters movements opening challenge to wall street that is making the bankers anxious. Debt resistors operations manual addeddate 20190222 03. Theres a strike debtoccupy wall street group, and they have put out a debt resistors operations manual, which is embedded here at the end of this post and available at that link as a pdf. We also take stock of the clientbased tools generated by safety pin box, an enterprise by black liberationists marissa johnson and leslie mac. In the debt resistors operations manual, strike debt has collectively responded to this critique, asserting that d is a calculated attack on the. As we will see, one function forums perform is as an everchanging living archive of debtors own responses to the challenges they routinely face. Here at home it means endlessly making up new rules designed to put us all in debt, with the entire apparatus of government, police and prisons pro. The release of the the debt resistors manual suggests something very different. First, the committee has released the debt resistors operations manual, a freetodownload pdf that offers background information on the financial industry in the united states, how to properly. Laws surrounding debt lending, collection and buying are notably complex ix debt collection.
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