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Everyone:
Today's action is very quick:
4th of July Challenge: We’re asking people to make a short video (30 seconds or less), of you destroying your student loans for the Fourth of July. Send us the video (or a link to it). Collectively, these will send a strong, much needed message! Finally: We need 80 people to donate $10 or more this week, including $300 for currently overdue expenses. Will you please help? We have a $50 donation challenge out from a senior-citizen supporter on a fixed income. I hope you will step up to match them, and make this fundraising a bit easier on us- Regards, Alan
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7/2/2023 Sunday. Fox News Interview...Everyone-
While the dust settles in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision on student loan cancellation on Friday, I urge you strongly to see this in-depth interview we did with Fox News shortly after the decision, this interview we did with the conservative Newsnation news channel shortly before the decision, and our press release. Going into the Lion's Den is where this battle will be won, folks. It is going to be a very tough fight, but this bad decision only makes us stronger. We're going to need you fighting with us going forward, more than ever. I hope that is starting to sink in. This coming week, we need 100 people to donate $10 or more. Will you please help? Don't forget, folks: This battle started with us. This group. In particular, our petition. It will end with us too. Mark my words. -Alan 6/30/2023 For Immediate Release In light of Supreme Court's ruling, Student Loan Justice urges Congress, the President to return bankruptcy rights to student loans. We strongly disagree with the Supreme Court's decision today to strike down President Biden's order to cancel federal student loans. Given that President Trump first broadly cancelled student loans by executive order before the pandemic, and then again cancelled debt by enacting the student loan repayment pause in early 2020- all without objection (much less lawsuits)- it is clear that politics overrode precedent in this case. Most importantly: This case only considered whether the 2003 HEROES Act- a very ill-fitting law- legally justified the cancellation proposal. The 1965 Higher Education Act- which gives the Secretary of Education full, broad, unambiguous authority to waive, compromise, and release the federal interest in federally owned student loans- was never ruled on. That the President chose to use the HEROES Act rather than the HEA to justify cancellation is, in itself, proof that he was never serious about actually cancelling loans by executive order. Regardless of what future loan cancellations the President might undertake (probably to be drawn out through the next Presidential election), this case only brings into sharp relief the urgent need to return standard, constitutional bankruptcy rights to student loans. In the absence of the same bankruptcy rights that all other loans for all other borrowers enjoy, student loans have become predatory instruments of the state, the universities, and the lending industry to abuse the borrowers, hyper-inflate loans, and extract vast sums of unearned wealth from the citizenry. This predatory, abusive lending system is precisely what the Founders wished to avoid when they called for uniform bankruptcy laws (and thus, rights) in the Constitution, ahead of the power to raise an army and declare war. These weaponized loans are unconstitutional, unconscionable, and illegitimate until this fundamental right is restored. Repayment on these loans will resume at the end of Summer. To leave 38 million distressed federal student loan borrowers at the mercy of the student loan industry without at least the same bankruptcy rights that all other borrowers enjoy would be catastrophic for these individuals and the national economy. These borrowers- who represent the largest, politically untethered voting bloc in modern US History- have been extremely patient and tolerant to this point, but that patience is now ended.
Contact: Alan Collinge (202) 594-1120 [email protected] StudentLoanJustice.Org is the first, oldest, and largest grassroots group of citizens in the nation fighting for student loan borrowers. 6/23/2023 Many Interview Requests…Good Morning Everyone:
We made the front page of the Guardian on Wednesday. Good piece. Many more coming in national, mainstream media. Very good… Today's action: Interview Requests: See this and this interview request, and comment on them if you want to be interviewed. There are multiple reporters from other top newspapers looking at these comments. Fundraising: We need to raise over $800 next week. Will you please pitch-in? It will help. We’re on a roll, folks, but things are getting tough. See last night’s livestream. -Alan Everyone:
See this front page article at the Guardian. All of the people interviewed are our members. They finally broke our news about most people not paying on their loans before the pandemic. Good piece. Many more coming… Today's action is quick:
Finally: Will you please donate at this time to help keep us going? It will help- -Alan 6/20/2023 Tuesday Action, Interview Requests...Everyone-
Today's action is quick:
We need you in this fight, folks... -Alan ps. If you've never donated before, will you please pitch in $10 at this time? 6/19/2023 Monday, interviews, this week...Everyone-
Looking like a big week for us. Today's action: Good explainer here from Breaking Points yesterday that is based on our book. We also nailed in on C-span yesterday with calls like this and this. Also, see this, this, and this from Lisa in California last week, this piece from Christina/Lisa in Arizona today, and this interview Jacque and I did in Houston. We're also looking forward to a couple of big articles to come out this week. We're on a roll. This is stuff that all of us should be doing... This week, we're needing `15 people to donate $20, or 30 people to donate $10. Will you please help? Come on you all. These are your loans. This is your fight. -Alan Everyone:
Today's action is quick: TWO INTERVIEW REQUESTS: See this interview request. Also, if you won’t be resuming payments on your federal student loans September 1st, send us an email, and we will forward it along. Finally: If you’ve never donated before, please donate $10 to help keep us going. Have a good weekend- -Alan 6/15/2023 Two Interview RequestsHey Everyone-
Today's action is quick:
TWO INTERVIEW REQUESTS: See this interview request. Also, if you won’t be resuming payments on your federal student loans September 1st, send us an email, and we will forward it along. -Alan ps. We have a $20 donation challenge out this week. Still looking for, literally, 1 person to step up. Please help? Hey Everyone-
Today's action is quick:
TWO INTERVIEW REQUESTS: See this interview request. Also, if you won’t be resuming payments on your federal student loans September 1st, send us an email, and we will forward it along. -Alan ps. We have a $20 donation challenge out this week. Still looking for 3 people to step up. Please help us with this difficult fundraising? |