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10/20/2021 Wednesday ActionGood Morning-
Our film was reported on yesterday at Fox Business News. Lot's of "hater" comments there. By all means, respond to them. See my comments to get an idea for what to say. This is the battle...the front line... Our Bankruptcy Legislation getting closer this week: Our bankruptcy bill is being marked up this week. It would be exceptionally helpful if you could retweet this to Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham, and also call a few republican senators, and tell them to cosponsor S.2598. We're getting close, folks. Getting bankruptcy back is the surest path to ultimate loan cancellation. Retweeting this to Virginia Foxx would also help! Pumpkin Contest: Our A/V Club is doing a scary pumpkin contest for Halloween! See the flyer below. There is a $50 gift card prize for 1st place...should be fun! We're also doing a scary video contest with the same theme. Send them to [email protected]. Fund Raising Request: Folks: We need to raise $800 by the end of the month. This will be tough for us. If 16 people donated $50, that would get us there. If 32 people donated $25, that would also work. We have a $50 donation challenge out from an anonymous donor in California. Will you please pitch in to whatever extent that you can? http://www.studentloanjustice.org/donate.html Please help. Please let's make this a strong week, folks. We're getting close- can you tell?! -Alan
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10/19/2021 Monday Action: Important.Hey All-
This is a big week for our legislation. Today, we're asking everyone to simply retweet this to a republican senator. If you have a few extra minutes, do the past couple of weeks worth of daily actions. This is the your fight. This is your battle. With over a million people on this petition, we can easily crush this...but that will only happen when you do your part. Let's make this a strong week. Regards, Alan ps. Episode I of the documentary series is available (free) for a limited time here. pps. Will you please donate something at this time? We're asking everyone to chip-in $10-$20 so that we can survive to fight and win this battle. We can do what we do for very little funding, but we cannot do it on nothing. I hope that you appreciate all we have done, all we are doing, and all we are poised to get done, and will help- 10/17/2021 Quick Sunday ActionGood Sunday All-
This petition needs a bit more than just your signature to succeed. We have a big week ahead in Congress with our bankruptcy legislation, which is vital for getting these loans ultimately cancelled. Will you please do these quick, easy actions?
Best Regards, Alan Collinge ps. Will you please donate something at this time? We're asking everyone to chip-in $10-$20 so that we can survive to fight and win this battle. We can do what we do for very little funding, but we cannot do it on nothing. I hope that you appreciate all we have done, all we are doing, and all we are poised to get done, and will help- 10/11/2021 Hard Push Today: Cancel Student LoansHey All-
Hard push today. Please retweet these: Interview with homeless guy Governor Mike Dewine Retweet this to conservatives Senator Pat Toomey Please do a month worth of our daily actions also...it won't take long, and it will help a lot. We need you right now. These are your loans. Let's make this THE week! -Alan ps. Sign up for our film screening on Thursday at the USC Film School. It's free. Hey All-
Lot's going on right now. See yesterday's live stream to catch up. Today's actions are quick. Retweet these to the Georgia and Ohio Governors, and various legislators: Brian Kemp, Georgia Governor Mike Dewine, Ohio Governor Rep Clyde (Georgia) If you want to go above and beyond, do the past month worth of daily actions. They are really quick. You can get them done in less than 20 minutes. We need you to! This is your fight. Our battle. -Alan ps. Join your state chapter group. pps. Congrats to Derek in NC for getting this published. You should do something similar. 10/5/2021 ResistBot...Hey Everyone-
60 Minutes did a strong segment on the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program on Sunday. However, they need to revisit the entire lending system. Our first action today is towards that end. Please...do ALL of these things:
Also, do the past 2 week's worth of daily actions. It will help. Things are happening fast right now, folks. Both behind the scenes and in public. We are the largest group of student loan borrowers in the country, and have a HUGE muscle to flex when we choose to do so. Do you not see the value in putting some time into this fight at this time? It is time and effort very well spent. Alan ps. Join your state chapter group! 10/4/2021 60 Minutes, ResistBot...Hey All-
Many of you probably aren't aware that when we first started StudentLoanJustice.Org many years ago, we were the featured interview in a Top Story on 60 Minutes. This story, and the senate/AG/other investigations that it spawned culminated in the largest scandal ever to hit higher education in this country. It also launched the political career of Elizabeth Warren. Last night, 60 Minutes revisited the topic of student loans in a piece about the vanishingly few successes in of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (particularly as it relates to veterans). We predicted this from the outset of the program in 2007, and have been shouting about it from the rooftops over the past 6-7 years. It's good to see 60 Minutes revisiting the student loan issue, but the incredibly narrow scope of this story is very disappointing. The problem has become orders of magnitude worse than it was in 2006, and extends far, far beyond the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. A news organization like 60 Minutes should be taking a much larger view on the student loan problem today, which- by all rational metrics- is now in catastrophic failure on all levels. I hope you agree, and will do today's quick actions:
I strongly suggest that if you want this problem solved- if you want these loans actually gone, you will do these daily actions. We owe it to ourselves, to the country, and to the tens-or hundreds of millions of people who will follow in our footsteps. Regards, Alan ps. Will you please donate something at this time? Happy Friday Everyone-
We need to hit Mitch McConnell hard. He is in with the student loan swamp, and has said some particularly terrible things lately. Will you please retweet this, and this? Also forward these tweets to Kentucky news organizations. We need to light this guy up, frankly...See the letter from his office contained in the tweets. Terrible. ResistBot! We're trying something new today...ResistBot! It's very simple: Go to the link, or just text " SIGN PSQVFQ " to 50409 (without the quotes). We have a million people. We could overload the inboxes of every Congressional office in Washington DC if everyone does this! PLEASE DO IT! I hope you all are getting VERY ENCOURAGED by all that is happening right now, all we are getting done, and all that we are poised to get done. We need you helping more than ever right now. We are the largest group of student loan borrowers in the country now, but that only matters when you do your part. Let's Make This Weekend COUNT! Alan ps. Join your state chapter group. They Need You! 9/29/2021 Breaking News: Navient is Out!Hey Everyone- A pretty big-shoe dropped yesterday: Navient (which was spawned out of Sallie Mae) is pulling out of the federal student loan servicing business. PHEAA/Fed Loans announced they were pulling out a couple of months ago, and this is now the third servicer (of 8) to quit the business. This is pretty strong evidence that the federal student loan system is crashing (as we have been saying for the past two+ years). This is not a victory. This is no time to be popping any champagne corks. Bankruptcy remains gone from the loans. Statutes of limitations remain gone from the loans. See the livestream I did last night about this. The disarray may get the Administration thinking about doing big things (like loan cancellation), but there is a lot of risk with that. For example, there has been a behind-the-scenes move within certain sectors of the student loan swamp to sell off the entire federal loan portfolio to Wall Street, and something dramatic like that becomes more likely now that the two largest servicers are out of the game. So now more than ever, getting bankruptcy rights back quickly becomes even more important. A sell-off to Wall Street with bankruptcy protections returned would be one thing, for example. Without it would be quite another, and a truly terrible thing for us all. . I hope this is not lost on you. I hope that you will start doing our daily actions, and even go back a few weeks and get caught up. We need you more than ever, and you need everyone to be helping in exactly the same way. We're getting closer! -Alan 9/27/2021 Monday Action...Hey All!
Today, we have three easy actions:
If you want to go above and beyond, by all means check out our daily updates/actions. Go back a week or more, and do those actions. They tend to be really quick and easy...and they help tremendously. This is your battle, our struggle, and a fight worth fighting... All together now! -Alan ps. Please give the petition a boost. This helps! |