Convergence is pleased to announce the launch of our new podcast Indebted. In this opening episode, a most unexpected first piece of mail addressed to his newborn son is the catalyst that sets host Maurice BP-Weeks off into exploring the world of debt and how it's leveraged against Black Americans. After exploring the landscape of his own debt and his experiences with it, Maurice talks with Debt Collective Co-Founder Hannah Appel, an economic anthropologist who is an associate professor and the associate director of the Institute on Inequality + Democracy at the University of California Los Angeles. Together they walk through the history of debt as leverage against minority groups and how organizations like Debt Collective are fighting back today.

Can't Pay, Won't Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition, the 2020 book co-edited by Hannah and others from Debt Collective, is available from Haymarket Books.

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