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Hope & Action Episode 4: Professor Andrew Ross on Creditocracy


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We’re especially excited to be sharing our conversation with Professor Andrew Ross. Specialising in Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, Ross wrote the movement literature text ‘Creditocracy: and the Case for Debt Refusal’ which provided the main inspiration behind our feature length documentary, ‘Bank Job’ (currently in production). As a university professor, Ross was unsettled by the reality that the vast majority of students were reliant on credit to access higher education. This sparked his involvement as one of the founding members of Occupy Student Debt, the Strike Debt movement and the Rolling Jubilee campaign. The fundamental goal behind these educational movements (and this interview!) is to alter the psychology of the debtor; undoing the guilt and shame that surrounds indebtedness by elucidating the workings of the debt industries. SUBSCRIBE for more conversations with leading thinkers striving for economic change. For a more thorough insight into Ross’ instrumental ideas, here’s a link to ‘Creditocracy’: https://amzn.to/2PR4GIy And here’s the FREE Strike Debt’s Debtors’ Resistance Manual: https://strikedebt.org/The-Debt-Resistors-Operations-Manual.pdf
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