Taking on 'Odious Debt' Everywhere: Strike Debt Goes on Television, Radio and The Big Screen.

Almost two years ago Hannel Appel, Bay Area native and Occupy Wall Street veteran, came back to the Bay Area, came to a General Assembly of Occupy Oakland and called on people to form Strike Debt Bay Area (SDBA) in light of Strike Debt New York City’s newly announced and amazing Rolling Jubilee project.

Two years later, and in the spare time she had not fighting unjust debt with SDBA, she made ere way from a post doc position at UC Berkeley to a professorship at UCLA. With other Strike Debters, she began working on a new Strike Debt project even as she took up her professorial duties. It’s called the Debt Collective. It’s an effort to organize student debtors so that collective action against lenders is possible. It rolled out on the wave of the latest big Rolling Jubilee announcement which abolished $4M in student debt at pennies on the dollar.

A week ago Hannah found herself being interviewed about the project on the Tavis Smiley show, a nationally syndicated PBS production.

I can’t embed the interview, but it is amazing, and you must go listen to it. Here.

And here is the full article, with excerpts from the interview, and Strike Debt Bay Area’s radio show and Big Screen debut.