Keywords: Debtors Solidarity, Socioeconomic Warfare, Unionization
The Debt Collective is a membership-based union for debtors and our allies. Our current economic system forces us into debt in various different areas of our lives: student debt for education; a mortgage to buy a home; debts for utility bills or phone bills, medical care, or even incarceration. No one should have to go into debt to meet their basic needs! These debts are illegitimate and the system needs to change, and we are united to win that change. How? Through the power of our union.
Author: Debt Collective
This guidebook promotes:
– Building economic power through campaigns aimed at winning mass debt cancellation and passing policies that advance economic and racial justice.
– Building multiracial, working-class power through a membership-based debtors’ union.
– Building coalitions to create alternative economic systems.