[act-ma] Today @ 1:00 Eastern - Student Debt Abolition Now! Astra Taylor & friends, Saturday (6/25/22)

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Astra Taylor, Jason Wozniak & Jeffrey Williams on the struggle to abolish
student debt

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Student Debt Abolition Now!
Astra Taylor, Jason Wozniak & Jeffrey Williams
Saturday, June 25, 1:00 p.m. (EDT) Click here to join the event on Zoom
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Join us for an afternoon discussion with leading scholars and activists in
the struggle to grasp–and abolish–the chains of student debt. We will be
joined by co-organizers of the Debt Collective, Astra Taylor and Jason
Wozniak, as well as long-time scholar and critic of student debt and the
neoliberal university, Jeffrey J. Williams. This show will be co-hosted by
contingent faculty organizer Joseph G. Ramsey and UMass Boston labor
studies student Lena Durkin.

*Astra Taylor *is an author, filmmaker, and co-founder of the Debt
Collective
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- the country’s first union for debtors. “We build power among debtors and
their allies to turn individual financial burdens into a source of
collective leverage—leverage that can be wielded to push for political and
economic transformation.”

*Jason Thomas Wozniak *is an Assistant Professor in the Educational
Foundations and Policy Studies Department at West Chester University where
he teaches education philosophy and history. Jason co-directs the Latin
American Philosophy of Education Society
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(LAPES), and organizes with the Debt Collective nationally and in
Philadelphia where he lives.

*Jeffrey J. Williams *has spoken about, written on, and worked against the
debacle of student debt since the 1990s. He has published a series of
essays on it, including "Debt Education: Bad for the Young, Bad for America
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(2006), “Student Debt and the Spirit of Indenture
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(2008), “The Debt Experience” (in *The Debt Age*
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2018), and “Who’s Responsible for Student Debt?
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(2021), in journals academic and mainstream. (Some are collected in his
book, *How to Be an Intellectual: Essays on Criticism, Culture*
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In academic precincts, he has helped build the new field of Critical
University Studies, which turns theory to problems under our feet,
criticizing the pernicious practices of the neoliberal university,
degrading labor, enforcing corporate and financial protocols, reinforcing
racism, and escalating massive debt, and he co-edits the book series
Critical University Studies from Johns Hopkins University Press. He is a
professor of literary and cultural studies at Carnegie Mellon University.
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