Debt Rebellion! | Economic Update w/Richard Wolff
15:00 – Debt Rebellion! The Debt Collective offers strategies for debt relief actions; economic disobedience & debt abolition, in terms of economic activism. Two key points; 1) debt rebellion actions can have the same mobilizing effect as labor struggle actions & 2) recent debt rebellion actions have been more successful at movement generation than the critics expected them to be because our debts are somebody else’s assets that can become a source of power when we come together in solidarity. Wolff interviews Astra Taylor, filmmaker and debt rebellion activist. Astra Taylor is a writer, filmmaker, and co-founder of the Debt Collective, a union for debtors. Her new book is Remake the World: Essays, Reflections, Rebellions. Social Media: Twitter: @astradisastra.
Professor Richard Wolff is an American Economist, known for his work on economic methodology and class analysis. He is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University in New York. Wolff has also taught economics at Yale University, City University of New York, University of Utah, University of Paris I (Sorbonne), and The Brecht Forum in New York City.
