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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

All Education Matters: Debtors Strike

All Education Matters: Debtors Strike:

Debtors Strike

Let's stop using these terrible, rotten terms, like loan forgiveness and such. It only serves to undermine our efforts and our voices. We're not sinners. We did nothing wrong. That's why I have never liked the term, and haven't used it for a long time. There are better, more clever ways to accomplish what we need to accomplish. For instance, debt jubilee makes a lot more sense, and does not imply that we're coming on our knees, begging for something. We don't need to beg, and the term loan forgiveness is provocative in a bad way - it won't attract good press. It's being