Free online event: Lend and Rule Webinar (October)

Colleges closing. Departments and courses eliminated. Austerity driving debt and debt driving austerity. Public higher education’s future is being held hostage by financial institutions and actors.

How did it get this way? How do we organize to free public higher education from the talons of debt and create a space for liberatory education? Join the Coalition Against Campus Debt as they share insights to these questions from their book, Lend and Rule: Fighting the Shadow Financialization of Public Higher Education.

Participants will examine how institutional debt is a primary driver of university austerity, miseducation, and the deepening of societal inequality and learn about first steps of organizing the resistance.

When: Tuesday, October 29

Time: 8:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Eastern (5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Pacific).

Where: This is a free online meeting and will be held via Zoom.

This event is co-sponsored by the Debt Collective and Higher Education Labor United.

Note: the Coalition Against Campus Debt emerged from discussions within the Labor Notes Public Higher Education Workers network. To learn more about that network, contact Labor Notes Staff Organizer Barbara Madeloni at Barbara[at]labornotes[dot]org.

When you register, please share the name of your union as well as your university/college in the "Union/Organization" field. Thank you!

If you have issues registering, contact Labor Notes Communications Organizer Sindhu Sundar at sindhu[at]labornotes[dot]org.

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