Hannah Appel

Oct 16, 2024 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Hannah Appel

The following is a transcript of the video above, from our webinar “Remaking the Economy: Escaping Corporate Capture.” View the full webinar here. Hannah Appel: I’m going to talk about corporate capture in our work at the Debt Collective in two areas: one, around student debt and how we fund higher education and actually all public education in this country; and two, around housing. And I’m going to link them through pension funds.

Aug 7, 2024 | nonprofitquarterly.org | Astra Taylor |Hannah Appel |Meredith Klenkel |Elin Zurbrigg

Editors’ note: This piece is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine’s summer 2024 issue, “Escaping Corporate Capture.” For tens of millions of people, the American dream is no longer owning a house with a white picket fence; it is getting out of crushing debt.1 Our economic system leaves many if not most of us no choice but to borrow for healthcare, housing, education, and other basic needs.2 Starting in the 1970s, the United States (and much of the rest of the world) moved from a tax-funded...

Jul 23, 2024 | popularresistance.org | Hannah Appel |Astra Taylor

Above photo: Illustration by Howard Barry. Debtors’ unions, in solidarity with labor unions and tenants unions, are the organizing formations we need to dismantle genocidal racial capitalism.

Jul 23, 2024 | inthesetimes.com | Hannah Appel |Astra Taylor

A dozen members of Debt Collective were arrested at a Capitol Hill protest in May demanding that President Joe Biden ​“fund education, not genocide.” Before they were taken away by police, the protesters unfurled banners reading ​“You Are Not A Loan” and “$1,700,000,000,000” (the current amount of outstanding student debt).

Jul 7, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Hannah Appel |Alexander Ferrer |Terra Graziani

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