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This week, the Department of Education will start garnishing the wages of debtors in default on their student loans. This wave of garnishments is the first since 2020, and will impact millions of debtors with loans in or near default.
Just days after starting yet another unnecessary war abroad, billionaire Trump will start collecting pennies from some of the poorest debtors in the country. Two of the largest employers garnishing the wages of their workers? Walmart and Dollar Tree.
The Department of Education intentionally pushes debtors towards payment to get out of default, even though there are other options, like loan cancellation, for many debtors. They don’t want you to know that you have other options.
Join us to learn more about your options for getting out of default.
Dan Kovalik is a human and labor rights attorney and the author of a number of books, including “The Plot to Overthrow Venezuela: How the US Is Orchestrating a Coup for Oil” and most recently, “Syria: Anatomy of Regime Change”, co-authored with Jeremy Kuzmarov. He is currently re presenting the family of a fisherman murdered by the US in the Caribbean as well as Colombian President Gustavo Petro.
Meeting ID: 854 4920 3697
Email strike.debt.bay.area@gmail.com a few days beforehand for the online invite. All are welcome!
For our February, 2026 meeting we will be reading and discussing the first three chapters of A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit (Amazon) (Alibris). For our March meeting we will finish the book.
The most startling thing about disasters, according to award-winning author Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with joy. That joy reveals an ordinarily unmet yearning for community, purposefulness, and meaningful work that disaster often provides. A Paradise Built in Hell is an investigation of the moments of altruism, resourcefulness, and generosity that arise amid disaster’s grief and disruption and considers their implications for everyday life. It points to a new vision of what society could become-one that is less authoritarian and fearful, more collaborative and local.
Strike Debt Bay Area hosts this non-technical book group discussion monthly on new and radical economic thinking. Our first book was Doughnut Economics, and our most recent books were What’s Left – 3 Paths Through the Planetary Crisis, The Age of Insecurity and Elinor Ostrom’s Rules for Radicals. For the rest of our reading list see here.