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7/14/2023 Friday Action (Important)...Good Morning All-
Today's action is important:
Finally: we still really need 12 people to donate $20 or more for this week's operating expenses. Will you please pitch-in, and make this easier on us? See last night's livestream. Please do your part. We need you- Alan
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7/12/2023 Interview RequestHey All-
Special action today:
We still need 18 people to donate $20 or more this week for our basic operating expenses. Will you pitch in for this? See our recent interviews at Newsweek, The Guardian, Fox News, and many other places. Also, hear this 2-hour interview we did last night on Coast to Coast AM. We're the only group in the country fighting this battle as it needs to be fought. We'll be exactly and only as strong as you make us- Alan 7/11/2023 VERY IMPORTANT ACTION TODAY!Everyone-
A very special action today:
I hope you’ve noticed that we are tearing it up in the media right now. See our recent interviews at Newsweek, The Guardian, Fox News, and many other places. Finally: We need 22 people to donate $20 or more this week for our basic operating expenses. Will you pitch in for this and make this fundraising easier on us? These are your loans, your problem, our fight, and it will get tough going forward. Please do your part...We got this when you do! Alan 7/10/2023 Quick Monday ActionHey All-
Today's Monday Action is quick:
Finally: We need 35 people to donate $20 or more this week for our basic operating expenses. Will you please pitch in for this? These are your loans, your problem, our fight, and it will get tough for us. Please do your part! Have a Great Week- Alan ps. Join your state chapter group. 7/8/2023 Quick Saturday Action Hey All-
Today's actions is quick:
We still need 21 people to donate $10 or more this week. 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 7/7/2023 Interview Request (The Guardian)...Happy Friday All-
Today's action is very quick:
If you're willing to be interviewed about how student loans have affected your life, and how you're dealing with repayments restarting, please let us know. Be sure to include basic information about yourself, and a paragraph or two about your situation. Finally: We still need 28 people to donate $10 or more this week. Will you please help? We have a $50 donation challenge out from a senior-citizen supporter on a fixed income. Will you please step up to match them, and make this fundraising easier on us? Big things happening with this petition next week. Stay tuned! ;-) Alan Everyone-
Check this interview we did with Fox News. I hope you understand that it's going to get rough going forward, and we really need you in this fight with us. Today's action is very quick:
Finally: We need 50 people to donate $10 or more this week. We have a $50 donation challenge out from a senior supporter on a fixed income, btw. Will step up to match them, and make this fundraising a bit easier on us? Regards, Alan ps. Join your state chapter! 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 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. |